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...

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...

This giveaway has now closed. Congratulations to the winner – Fiona C! As a RedBalloon Blogger, I have experienced some pretty cool things with my family. But when I was asked to review an experience from one of the many RedBalloon Mothers Day gift ideas, I knew exactly what I wanted to do… escape! I don’t need to tell you how hard Mums work. We...

At first I thought I was being paranoid. Maybe she just didn’t catch my eye when she passed me. Maybe the group of them didn’t see Lucy running a few steps ahead of me down the aisles. Maybe they don’t realise that today is childcare day and that I am doing my chores on the only child-free day I have. It all became a little clearer one morning when...

They say that you feel most in love with your husband at two significant points in your relationship. One is when you catch his eye as you are walking down the aisle on your wedding day, and the second is when you see him hold your baby for the very first time. And it’s true. Both for very different reasons. On the first occasion, it’s all about you....

Over the past couple of months, I have suddenly become a “working mother”. I’m not actually sure how it all came to pass – it’s all a bit of a haze really. You see for many years I have worked from home in our own business. We went through some really tough times to make it all work – especially when the babies were tiny. It often...

Before I left the workforce to have my babies, I worked as an analyst in the finance industry. Every second of my day was structured. I could predict the future, based on the historical statistics that I could print out and analyse. I could formulate an event, and almost ensure a 100% predictability rate. I was ordered, and logical and organised. I really, really...

Right now I’m teetering on the edge. I don’t do things in halves. I’m an all-in or not-in kinda gal. Which means I tend to have a lot of highs and a lot of lows. So here I am standing on a see-saw (remember them?), only there’s not one plank – there’s like 3 or 4 planks all crossing over the middle like a big super see-saw. And...

Yesterday I celebrated two years of blogging. What a ride! I started out knowing NOTHING – absolutely nothing. I knew I had things to say… I knew I wanted to write… I just didn’t know whether the whole concept of blogging would be right for me, or whether I would stick at it. Two years on, I can tell you that writing and blogging has become an...

Happy New Year!! So here we are… the first day of a new year. Can you feel it in the air? The potential… the anticipation… the promise of what’s to come? The new year always feel so fresh and alive. Like someone has wiped the slate clean, and said “Here you go – here is your future”. So accept the challenge! Make this new...