Environmentally friendly gifts are fun and unique, and at the same time, they help you lessen your carbon footprint. They also help others reduce their impact on the planet. Unfortunately, green gifts often have a negative reputation for being expensive, and it’s hard to know if the recipient loves them as much as you […]
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Don’t allow a hectic career or home life to impact your personal happiness. Actively look for ways to relieve unwanted stress and tension in your body. If you are unsure how to do so, take a look at the following 12 ways to de-stress your life. Go for a 10-Minute Walk Walking can increase your […]
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Buying a new home can be both exhilarating and scary, especially if you have been living in rentals. Here are some useful fall maintenance tips: Check the Weather Stripping Unless you are moving into a new house with new weather stripping, your house could benefit from new weather stripping. An entire year of closing and […]
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Depending on where you live, you might have a hard time finding an affordable home. The definition of cheap is relative, but you need some guidance to find an inexpensive house in your dream location. Here are some tips that will come in handy when you are looking for the perfect family home: Go for […]
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That’s right. You read it correctly. This gin loving, wine appreciating mum is off the booze. I started properly yesterday. I know visiting family and not having my usual Gin & Tonic, and refusing a glass of wine over lunch, this past weekend/New Year’s Day caused raised eyebrows. I am sure there are rumors that […]
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At the rate I am going, I will be changing the name of this blog to “the ramblings of a middle aged insomniac”. Basically the day that I stop writing about sleep, will probably be the day I hang up my blogging hat… Chronic insomnia sucks. It’s miserable. It’s also annoying to deal with now, […]
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I am here to make the world my own… I think this expression sums up how I feel. I was bored, recently, one evening, waiting for a small child to settle to sleep, doing my usual cruise through social media to see what was happening beyond the four walls of my life, and I came […]
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To my beautiful girl, Today you are eleven. Well, at 11:32pm tonight you will officially be eleven, but we celebrate today, all day. I can’t believe you are growing up so fast, and are now what we fondly call a “tweenager”. You make us smile, and laugh, and you are amazing. If I could say […]
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*we were kindly sent Pottery Cool Studio to review, all opinions are our own* My kids’ LOVE making things, and creative crafts. They love it when I organize for them to go to our local pottery cafe to make and create things with clay, but sometimes that’s not easy to squeeze into our diaries and […]
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As I write this, I wonder if we will ever have a time when we are not talking about sleep, or how to make it happen. We are very grateful for the sleep we are now getting, and that our boy is sleeping through the night (please read our other posts on sleep if you […]
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