Festival style – it’s all about glitter
We’re counting down the days until it is festival season again! We have our first family festival booked in for the first weekend of June and we cannot wait. I’ve...
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30 little goals To make you healthier and happier this year
Spring is here. After the cold, dark days of winter, we’re slowly coming out of hibernation. It’s the perfect time to set some goals, to shake off the last traces...
5 tips to turn around a ‘down day’
We all have ‘those days’ – the ones when nothing seems to go right, when you are overwhelmed and overwrought, when you wake up with a serious case of the...
Living simply, simply living
Simple life and peaceful mind are very close friends! Mehmet Murat Ildan With my word of the year, RELEASE, in mind, I’ve been letting go of what was no longer...
Winter Self Care Tips
The long, dark nights and freezing cold days of winter make me yearn to curl up in my bed and stay there until spring! If it wasn’t for the fact...
A slow January
Twenty days into the New Year, and I feel as though it should just be beginning. With the end of Mercury Retrograde, this feels like it is the real beginning...
New Year Intentions
For years I’ve set a long list of goals each new year. Unfailingly, the only consistency is that I usually fail most of them. Looking back, my goals are often...
Welcoming 2023 {and my word of the year}
2023! I have big hopes for this year. Last year was not the year that I hoped for, there were times when I felt like it would be a year...
Trusting the process
“Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible.” Mandy Hale The last couple of weeks, it is as though a...
Those tricky toddler days
Toddlers. I’m sure there are a thousand memes about toddlers, tantrums and surviving them. I’ve done these years 4 times already… though no two children are ever the same. I’m...
A lesson in letting go
After last week’s do-nothing day, I’d expected to get back to our usual hectic pace of life. We had a full calendar ahead and I was excited about days out,...
How to simplify and slow down
Last week’s ‘Do Nothing Day‘ showed me that I’ve been taking on too much, expecting too much of myself, forgetting what is really important and been neglecting self care. Having...
A ‘Do Nothing Day’
How often do you allow yourself to do nothing? When you’re ill? Or just worn out? Or do you push yourself to keep going? I’ve always been terrible at doing...
Keeping food costs down – 6 tips to help
Every time that I go to the supermarket, it seems like the prices have risen again. Everything seems to be getting more and more expensive every single week. I know...
Another year of home ed plans
I’ve had a few messages recently asking about what home ed looks like for us, what ‘lessons’ we do etc, so I thought I’d do a little update on where...