Our house has been blessed with rather compact bedrooms. So when we tried to put a desk into my eldest daughter’s room, it just wasn’t going to work. I spent weeks looking at different loft bed options, and heard lots of feedback from the Mummy Smiles Facebook community. The pros of having a loft bed were that we could then easily fit in a desk...

A few months ago, we took the family to dinner at our local Sizzlers restaurant. For those of you who don’t have Sizzlers near you, it’s basically a restaurant that has a great big buffet and salad bar in the middle of the room. It’s a firm favourite for kids, because what child doesn’t love the idea of being able to pick and choose whatever...

So I told you about why we decided to begin our Additive Free journey in Part 1 HERE. But then suddenly we were faced with the question,  ”Where on earth do we start?”. There is just so much information out there, and when you start looking at “numbers” in foods, it can become a little overwhelming. We decided that it was a one-in, all-in...

When my son was born, there seemed to be one issue after another. Nothing big, just lots of little things. As a c-section baby, he’d had a build up of birth fluids in his stomach which made him feel sick for the first few days, and he was constantly throwing up lots of muck, choking on it in his sleep (he is my only baby that the midwives insisted he sleep on his...

Sponsored by Hill’s Pet Nutrition Sometimes I am asked to write about topics that really touch my heart. This is one of them. We have two dogs – both Border Collies. I adopted Jazz, my first dog, in 1997 – so she’s no spring chicken. She was in fact the catalyst for change in a very unhappy time of my life.  When I bought Jazz, I had already decided to...

Yesterday we celebrated Mother’s Day. It has, in recent years, become one of my favourite days of the year. I love al the planning that the children put into their handmade gifts. It makes me laugh when I innocently walk into their rooms to put away washing and suddenly have children flinging themselves in front of me, and body-blocking the cupboard so that I...

You may remember that a few weeks ago, I attended a Personal Style Session with Westfield Carindale Stylist, Cidonie Richards. I was so thrilled with just how much I learned in my time with Cidonie, and I invited you to ask some questions of your own. And boy did you ask some great questions! Cidonie was only too happy to help, and I must say that I have learned even...