If you’re not really into State of Origin football, or any form of Rugby League for that matter, and find yourself having to watch a game with those you love, here are a few tips to survival.   1. Choose a team, get the gear. Don’t sit on the sideline, choose a team and follow them [...]

Today I was reading a post by Corrie at “Retro Mummy”- which is kind of along similar theme of what’s been going on in my head for the last few weeks as I’ve been relatively silent on my blog. She pretty much explains how there is so much more going on in her life than what [...]

The relative who lives with us was having surgery this afternoon. It won’t cure her. Even though it’s going to be a more painful journey before improvement, this surgery marks another beginning. It will *hopefully* make her condition more manageable, and that’s really exciting. She has been counting down, and we’ve been getting ready for the  journey of recovery. Last [...]

Do you constantly find yourself seeing someone and thinking, “wow, I don’t know how she does it?”. There must be a whole stack of us who see women and think that, as there is now a movie out about it! And the movies are always right, right?   I thought about many of the women who at [...]

This one nearly snuck by me, as I was looking at the “99 posts” on my ‘dashboard’ and didn’t realise it was 99 PUBLISHED posts. I thought it included the 20+ drafts I’ve got half-written. But nope, it doesn’t. It’s 99 published, and then the 20+ half-written drafts. Yup, that’s me… Halfway Hayley… but that’s a whole [...]