Had a busy weekend. Dear lil cousin got married so we were busy helping out with the preparations. Pretty smooth sailing wedding, if you ask me. Food was delicious!! It was during one of my stuffing-face-with-oily-glorious-food that diL said, “Family weddings remind you of Pak Ngah kan?”. Sorta. My late uncle always did an awesome [...]
Call me an obsessive sap if you will but I’m having some serious Downton Abbey withdrawal. I’m finding myself wandering aimlessly, searching for anything remotely relating to the over-dramatized historical soap of the Crawley Family. If only I could wake up to breakfast in bed like Cora, change my attire five times a day like the ladies, [...]
It started with Roquefort; the blue – veined monster was out to get me and Peanut, who at that time was still a bump. The thing is, I love blue cheese and the more it smells like old socks the better. Yet, I convinced myself that as soon as a microscopic piece touched my mouth, [...]
We are meant to be happy, peaceful, and powerful. The way we think and feel about every little detail of our life shapes it. Come along in my journey to study how Natural Resource and Positive thinking can gift us a happy healthy life while making us Vibrantly Healthy and Radiantly Beautiful. Like this?Read more… [...]
Like please, pray tell me how do one dress like a mother. The frumpy looking attire? The haggard, unkempt look just to prove a point that you are a mother? Like this?Read more… Recommended by Love, Umi The Master Rantor
Want to know what is scary as hell? We gave away over 400 books in our free weekend promo and that means, excluding friends who bought them, there are about 400 strangers who now know my name and own one of my books!!!! Aaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!! Now lets just hope a good number of them leave reviews [...]
It’s been a week since I stopped breastfeeding Gwen. It was a last-gasp, 4.30am feed. Like a final, post-breakup fling with an old lover: you know you need to stop, but part of you really doesn’t want to. So you find an excuse to go through the motions again. It’s insubstantial, and all a bit [...]
Some things have been puzzling me for a while now… Why is it that all of my possessions are either missing, used up, or have bizarre stains on them that I have no recollection whatsoever of putting there? Here is a list of discoveries from the past week… 1. Hairspray that smells deliciously of orange [...]
Today while Ruth was sleeping, I decided to try and do some ironing. Elizabeth seemed quite happy playing with her Peppa toys so I got stuck in. Before I knew it she was asking me if she could play with a pan and some water. I think I had said yes before even registering what [...]
Nowadays you sometimes wonder if there are any generous people left on the planet. There is so much murder, self righteousness, judgement and meanness here. It is kind of sad really. And then someone does something out of the blue to help someone, or just plain make someone’s day better. I was graced with one of [...]
Adorably cute Easter Baskets to make at home using old plastic milk bottles. A great and simple recycled craft activity for the kids to enjoy this Easter. Like this?Read more… Recommended by My Little 3 and Me
Adorable Rocking Easter Chicks perfect for decorating the house or to give as gifts and would you believe they’re made from old plastic milk bottles! (Free printable template.) Like this?Read more… Recommended by My Little 3 and Me
Use our free printable template to make a beautiful bright Rainbow Mobile from upcycled plastic milk bottles. Like this?Read more… Recommended by My Little 3 and Me
Hubby and I have been married for twenty years and had shared a house long before then. Snuggling down in bed last night wearing PJs, bed socks and adding an extra couple of blankets for warmth, we decided that this was far from romantic. This started us thinking about what we used to wear in [...]
All that our parents can now recall of our own first birthday parties, is what’s shown in photos. In years to come, Gwen, what will we remember of yours? Like this?Read more… Recommended by the Pigeon Pair and Me
I did something yesterday that I hadn’t done in a long long time. I took time to myself, went to my bedroom and put a movie in my computer. A movie I wanted to see, not one the kids wanted to watch, not one the husband was watching when I went in to take a [...]
I did something yesterday that I hadn’t done in a long long time. I took time to myself, went to my bedroom and put a movie in my computer. A movie I wanted to see, not one the kids wanted to watch, not one the husband was watching when I went in to take a [...]
Feeling guilt for leaving your baby is all part of being a working mum (even if I am working 3 days a week) but the guilt doesn’t stop with just leaving him so that I can work… Nearly two weeks into being back to work and it has got surprisingly less difficult to leave the [...]
I really had no idea, I mean no idea!!!! There are so many social networking sites out there now and until I published a book on my own, I had no idea how many. I was part of facebook, twitter, tumblr and I had an unused myspace account. Now I have a linkedin, amazon book [...]
That Character I Ought to Know Best, Or Investigations into Developing My Own Characterization, Part I A few years ago little quizzes kept popping up on my Facebook home page. They all guaranteed self-discovery. What Jane Austen character are you? Emma? Elizabeth? Which Sondheim musical are you most like? A Little Night Music? Company? For [...]
