In my previous post ‘Affirmations – Bringing About Change In 2010′ I gave a little teaser by mentioning a course I am doing that is tied in with Mind Movies.

The course is run by Natalie Ledwell. Natalie and Ryan are the dynamic Aussie duo presenting the Mind Movies
program. The 7 week course is called  ‘7 Steps To Happiness’. I’m up to lesson #2. Once again, it is all part of my desire to bring about change in the way I think about and act upon things in my life.

Monetizing My Blog

There are affirmation projects to carry out that are really quite a pleasure and I have decided to focus on money just for once in my life for the purpose of the 7 week course (and onwards to be honest) Well, to be more specific, making money from my blog. (more…)

Where to start with this post? I know a lot of  you are making changes this year either personal or business, so this product may well be worth trying in conjunction with your current regime. For instance those of you on a weight loss program will identify with Natalie’s journey to lose weight.  You’ll find out who Natalie is later in this post, but for years She tried to go from a size 14 to a 10 and found She couldn’t, then in just 7 wks She did it by
implementing the product I am using.

Not long ago I signed up for something that I had been checking out for approximately 2 weeks. I kept going back to the site, listening to the video’s, reading, listening again, reading again. I’m sure you know how it goes when you want to purchase something, but you’re not sure about it, yet you want to bring about a change in your life. With this program, there is a great FREE offer, so I finally decided to download it and put into practice all that is recommended and you guessed it before long I was signing up for pretty well EVERYTHING. (more…)

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Is it really time for 5minutesformom’s WW again? It comes around so quickly. I was hoping to do my post yesterday which was Wednesday here in Australia, but I couldn’t decide on photo’s or themes. I had a few ideas, so decided to sleep on it and now it’s Wednesday in some parts of  the world, but Thursday here. Anyway, it was worth sleeping on. This afternoon we had a wonderful storm that swept through our area, so it gave me another theme to work on.

I always put my car in the rain for a clean. With water being so precious I like to make the most of it when there is a downpour and this was really heavy and my car was super dusty. I decided to also give it a brush over whilst it was pouring  rather than letting the rain do the job on its own . It was so refreshing after a muggy 30C plus day. Now my car is sparkly clean and I feel cooler. It’s been awhile since the last deluge, so my car hasn’t been clean for awhile. If  it’s just too thick with dust I will give it a lick with a couple of  buckets of water and some elbow grease otherwise it has to wait.

And my little helper, well She swept under the carport, but everything had pretty well dried up and the overflowing drains subsided by then. Still, every bit helps.

She was certainly putting in a good effort for all of two minutes. lol.

I’m curious about how you manage the junk food situation when you are with other parents and their kids on holidays?

We just had a very pleasant couple of days away, but the junk food came thick and fast at times from the other family. My belief  is it’s probably more damaging at least psychologically, to prevent your child from having things that are not healthy when all the other children are munching away on them BUT if  it was toys, for instance and the others were being given lots of toys, I would be saying no more readily.

There  comes a point, though when I just need to say no anyway to the sweet things because they are damaging my childs body which is so precious. Bedtime is one instance where I knocked back the sweet food for Charlotte. Really, sweet junk food at bedtime? Not for my little girl.

The other Mum is pretty concious and did make comment when Charlotte was offered, nay, given a small icecream by the Dad after she’d already eaten quite a bit of  junk throughout the day. The Mum hoped it was okay that he had done that because She doesn’t like people handing out food to her kids without being consulted either. That made it okay in one sense. At least She was aware of what was taking place and hey, we’re all doing our best. (more…)

Well, this is the year that Charlotte starts Kindergarten. I’ve written a series of  posts about my journey to finding the most suitable place for my little girl, so it seems fitting to write about where I am at with it all.

In a nutshell, I’m not looking forward to the whole experience one bit. I’m making sure that I speak in an uplifting manner with Charlotte, though and She tells me She’s excited about going, so that’s good. I don’t seem to be transferring my feelings.

Routine Is Not My Forte

Reasons for not looking forward to it. Well, I really KNOW and it has become very apparent to me recently that I am not a routine kind of  gal. Having to be up and at ‘em and getting Charlotte to kinder on time is going to be a tough call. (more…)

I’ve just been notified of a couple of  recalls taking place, so thought it best to blog about them to help get the word out.

I received my alert from TwitterMoms

“Two widely used childrens products have been recalled. If you have them, stop using them and get repair kits.

First are 635,000 cribs made by Dorel Asia SLR. The drop-side hardware on the cribs can fail, causing the drop side to detach from the crib. When the side detaches, it creates a space in which an infant or toddler can become entrapped and suffocate or strangle. CPSC and Dorel Asia received a report of the death of a 6-month-old from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who became entrapped and strangled in a crib after the drop-side hardware broke. The recalled cribs also pose a serious entrapment and strangulation hazard when a slat is damaged.

Second, Graco Children’s Products is recalling 1.5 million Passage, Alano and Spree strollers. Some styles of the products have hinges on the canopy that could cut and/or amputate a child’s fingertip when the canopy is opened or closed”.

Good luck and I hope this doesn’t affect you

It was my partner’s birthday yesterday, 21st of  January, so we took a leisurely drive to a fishing village called Port  Albert where Peter and Charlotte did a bit of  fishing off the jetty. We stopped at a lovely little town on the way for lunch and whilst in Yarram we bought Charlotte a dinosaur (not for lunch!)

What a patient critter it was keeping Charlotte and Peter company, eating the fodder that Charlotte found whilst  we were waiting for the fish to bite and in turn, being bitten by March flies.

Dinosaur waiting patiently at Charlotte's feet

Now waiting at Peter's feet

Time for some dinosaur lunch. Not sure that T-Rex is into seaweed.

But, he had a nibble. Not much else for a dinosaur to do whilst patiently waiting for the fish to bite.

And by the way, the fish didn’t bite. It doesn’t matter because the day was beautiful, we made a lovely cuppa on the jetty then enjoyed our fairly regular pizza night at Peter’s brothers home with other family members after an hours drive to get there.

Time to share this with 5minutesformom

I’ve been putting off  this ‘Tackle It Tuesday’ project for….. months!  The time has come  to take the bull by the horns and just do it. I KNOW I’ll feel relieved once it is over with.  I have had a nice new file sitting behind my bedroom door for…..months! I have just now emptied the old file and turfed the ugly, ancient thing into the bin. It must be at least 20 years old. Not a bit of remorse felt.

This project became bigger than Ben Hur as I also cleared some other paperwork and there is still some left in the basket whilst I ponder where to file it. I’m focussed on its completion now, so it will be done

I can’t wait to pop my post amongst the other ‘Tackle It Tuesday’s at 5minutesformom.

Months of paperwork in the basket

One of many piles to be burnt

Just the tiniest bit of paperwork left to complete

You may, before venturing into this post, want to read the first part written about Tessa. ‘OCD In My Cat’.

After procrastinating for some time and mulling over the idea put forth in one of  the  comments, I decided that I couldn’t spend the money on a drinking fountain for my cat afterall. The outlay, if  it didn’t work would have been too much even if I could resell on Ebay.

Tessa's 'new' drinking fountain

Crude, but effective

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