Category: general
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Here’s why dogs are the best – celebrating international dog day!
Today is international dog day… a day to celebrate mans best friend. There’s something special about the bond between a human and a pooch and no matter your breed there’s a special 4 legged friend for everyone (if you’re a dog person…if you’re not then we’ll I can’t help you!) I got my first dog…
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I have an unexpected kidless night…and I’m at a loss what to do?!
Its every parents dream…a kid free night! A night to just do what ever you want to do! Yet here I find myself surprisingly at a loss for what to do! I’m sitting in the lounge, kidless… partnerless (yes they are together), and kinda scratching my head wondering what the fishizzel to do with myself?!…
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From Endo to Celiac…how the last two weeks has changed my life.
Well I didn’t see that coming! Let’s go back to the beginning. About 6 months ago I was driving my kids to playgroup and became crippled over with period pain! It was excruciating to the point that I had to pull over, stop the car and tears were streaming down my face. ‘What’s wrong mummy’…
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Talking Twins and More the podcast launches today!
YES!!! It’s finally time to reveal the little side project I have been busy working on this year!! A multiple births podcast! It was a barmy summers afternoon in Orange after I had made the decision to step down from my full time role when I contacted the lovely Naomi from Twinfo (a multiple birth…
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Mobile phones at schools are not a necessity.
Mobile phones at schools are not a necessity
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I’ve rediscovered a sweet classic winter warmer!
Rewind to mini Nix as a kid and there were very few things mumma Nix could cook (don’t worry I’m not being mean she’s the first to admit it!), however there were a few classics Mum could nail and one of them was bread and butter pudding! I remember sitting in front of the fire…
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Global Developmental Delay – an inside story on our sons developmental journey.
Yes parenting is difficult, but everyone goes through that people told me, toughen up it’s life. Yes, but for me it came down to 3 letters GDD. I had never heard of GDD (Global Developmental Delay) until that moment sitting in with our paediatrician nearly 6 months ago.
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Fiji for the family 2 – budgets, booze and bulla buses!
Waking up to the sound of the waves gently breaking, the dappled tropical sunlight peaking through the curtains and hearing the palm trees starting to stir with the morning breeze is one of the things I most treasure about the first morning of your tropical holiday. Of course our first morning in Fiji wasn’t anything…
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Breastfeeding isn’t for everyone…even if you give it your best shot!
As National breastfeeding week wraps up for another year it has made me reflect on my time breastfeeding the boys and it has reminded me that while I am totally for breastfeeding, sometimes it doesn’t work out the way you hope and that can be hard for Mums. Whether you try and it’s great, it…
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We unleashed our pre-parental selves and hit up Newcastle!
When someone says ‘weekend away’, 25 year old me says…hell yeah im in…30 something mother in me says… what the hell would I wear, what happens to the kids and should we be spending any money! So I was pretty grateful when Chris simply said we’re heading to Newcastle for the weekend you have no…
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