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Thunder, abnormal back growths and judging parents

Alexandra — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:28:57 +0000

So here we are in the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Muggy and sticky and thundering. We needed a holiday. This isn’t a holiday. It has been flat out and baby is exhausted! As is mummy. We left home at 5am yesterday, caught 2 flights here, got picked up from the airport by the lovely...

SYL12 Week 4: Wheel of life

Alexandra — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:46:46 +0000

So that’s my ‘wheel of life’. That’s where my life is at at the moment. I like this weeks challenge! It was easy and I’m slowly catching up (supposed to be up to week 6 at the time of posting this!) Great idea to do this – I like to see a visual representation. For...

SYL12 Week 3: Mission Statement

Alexandra — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:50:36 +0000

Image source We have a mission statement at work which we re-examine and update about twice a year, as well as whenever we have a new staff member so that it can reflect all of our team’s personality and ideas. We are only a small business (6 people) but it has been really useful for...

Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Alexandra — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:18:59 +0000

Yesterday I turned into SuperMum. I cooked dinner AND dessert in the same afternoon! Sure, the house was still a mess… but we had food. Dinner was your standard healthy meal. Meat and veg. Tasty yet simple. Dessert on the other hand. Well, dessert was weird. We had some beetroot that needed to be used,...

Blogging 101 for the real people

Alexandra — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:48:09 +0000

Image source There are some people I know IRL (see that? I already dropped a ‘blogging’ word) who know that I blog. There are some that don’t. And there are some who I actually have no idea about. Part of me prefers not to know, I like the freedom. But another part of me realises...

Just being nosy!

Alexandra — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:47:52 +0000

Last night Patrick and I sat down for some dinner in a real restaurant (wow!) and in between responding to requests from Evie, putting more food on her plate, conversing with her in 1 syllable words and doing the ocassional animated expression, we discussed things. We discussed the practice, we decided that we work with...

Kung Hei Fat Choy

Alexandra — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:54:54 +0000

Welcome to the year of the dragon! Image source I love Chinese New Year. And I love that Patrick is Asian for no reason other than Chinese New Year. It’s basically the only reason I’m with him. Just so I can celebrate it with his family with such authenticity. Well, maybe I like him for...

I dream of playing mums and dads

Alexandra — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:32:25 +0000

Image source As you may (or may not!) have read in my goals for 2012, I’m ready to finish working and be a mum. I thought I could do it all. But all it has brought with it is stress and what seems like bad mothering! This is the year. This year I’ll be playing...

SYL12 – Week 2: Define your values

Alexandra — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:54:56 +0000

I’ve always thought values were really quite useful in understanding what’s important to me and what is important to others. It has always helped me to accept people just as they are much more easily and helped me to see things from their point of view. Image source I remember having a conversation once with...

Healthy birthday cake

Alexandra — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:42:42 +0000

A few people have asked me for more information about the birthday cake I made for Evie’s first birthday. So here goes… It was pretty simple. As you can probably see in photos! The cost came to about $60 (AUD) for the fruit, skewers and candle. But I bought all organic fruit so perhaps...

Birthday cake for a 1 year old. Yay or nay?

Alexandra — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:31:09 +0000

Evie recently had her first birthday and I went searching online for a healthy option for a birthday cake but didn’t find much. Even on paleo-diet sites I couldn’t find a recipe that suited us. So I made up my own. My main concern was Evie. She had never had cake of any sort of...