Linking up with Kate Says Stuff for “Thankful Thursday”, this week in Haiku. (A Japanese poem with varied forms, I’ve gone with the simple “five-seven-five” syllable pattern.)   A day to myself No children to think about Now what should I do?   Maybe a massage Or I could go for a spa Hmm… Maybe do [...]

I wrote this post a few weeks ago, but then the event was postponed. It’s been waiting in draft mode for me to ‘publish’ when the event happens, but since today is International Women’s Day, I wanted to share it today even though the event still has not been rescheduled yet (I’ll share again when it is). [...]

For some people, meeting new people is exciting and easy. For people like me, its much more difficult. I’m a self-conscious introvert.   Have you ever stopped to think about how your friendships started? Sometimes its really easy to build friendships as you meet people through mutual acquaintances or based around social activities/events like work, a [...]

One of my very first posts on my blog was “I’m so tired that…“. With B2 once again/still waking up at crazy times during the night, and not getting to sleep in or many day sleeps… this trend has continued. I’m generally “tired”. So I thought it would be a good time for a “part 2″ of this [...]

I’ve been struggling a lot to keep up with the washing – I do a load nearly everyday and sometimes more. We are a family of 4, toilet training, with a 5.5kg washing machine. Hubby suggested maybe we need to get a bigger washing machine, so I started having a look around to see what [...]