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The Joy of Parenting Young Adults
I love where we are in life with the kids, but occassionally guiding big kids can be so incredibly hard and frustrating at times. I am convinced young adults don’t mean to be challenging, I have come to realise that it’s not so much about them trying to be difficult, but more about their limited life experience. Their limited life experience and world view butts heads with our life experience and much larger world view. Sometimes it is just about learning to communicate better with them, and sometimes it’s about finding a better way to communicate when they report back we are not hearing them or frustrating them. Sometimes, depending…
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Shaking out the Cobwebs
One of my favourite things to do is look at properties for sale. Especially when I feel overwhelmed by my own home and clutter! It turns out that I have expensive taste, the types of homes I love aren’t your usual little suburban homes, but the ones with character, and the ones with character are usually the ones with big juicy price tags. I find that I look at homes for sale because it helps inspire me to clean up my own home, and often helps me find solutions to our decorating issues. I find it difficult keeping up with both the cleaning and the decorating of our home. Of…
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Our Big Gold Coast Adventure
Hope you are doing well? It has been a few weeks since I last wrote. Lots of different occasions and events happening in our world as the year heads into full gear towards the end of the year. I must say I am looking forward to the Christmas holidays. Although, I would love it if the holiday season (the 30th November onwards) slows right down so that we can really enjoy the summer holidays. I want to enjoy every single day of Summer. I realise the kids will still need feeding and dropping off places to hang out with friends and play, but it is my intention to be super…
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Shows That Will Change You
Once in a while certain channels will put on a series or an individual show that will really move you to either think differently about a subject, or just touch your heart in one way or another. I personally don’t watch tv, just to watch tv. Hubby and I have a couple of go to shows like together Chicago Fire or Chicago Med or S.W.A.T, but we certainly don’t watch these every week. Usually we have something to do, or even someone to pick up. I don’t tend to watch a lot of television, but when I do get a chance, I love a great story line, or the purpose…
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The Happiest Time of the Year!
Today is a magnificent day! The sun is shining and the sky is a beautiful blue. Finally, the weather feels as though we are slipping quickly into Spring. Only six days till Spring! This year Spring and Father’s day fall on the same day, so we are planning a fun day to celebrate here on the Coast. If you weren’t aware, Spring is my favourite season of the year. I look forward to our days becoming longer, and I look forward to saying goodbye to winter for another year. I know winter has its purpose, but I am a girl who loves Spring, and would love Spring to stick around…
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The Start of our 50 cent Adventures
This week we had an unexpected adventure into Brisbane. Nell had a class excursion down to GOMA – Queensland Gallery of Modern Art to see the Iris Van Herpen exhibit. Being tertiary education there was no bus taking the group of students down to the exhibit so we decided to jump on the train and take advantage of the 50 cent fairs. While Nell was off being inspired by the Iris Van Herpen exhibit, I had a look at the State Library. It is definitely somewhere I would like to explore again. I think you could spend a whole day in there wondering around. There were so many things to…
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Birthday Fun on Noosa River
Now the kids, particularly the girls, are older and have jobs, it’s not so easy to get everyone together in one place to have a family day, so when we can make a day of it, any excuse is a good excuse to get us all together. It was hubby’s birthday on Sunday, so we decided to make a day of it up at Noosa. Noosa is special place on the Sunshine Coast, we are lucky to be able to go up for the day, enjoy the beauty of Noosa and then come home absolutely happy and fulfilled. I love the idea of staying up there too, but for all…
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Daydreaming and Planning
Over the last few months I have been watching the job sites and putting in for jobs that I believe I can do. With the cost of living going up, the extra money would be incredibly helpful. The difficulty that I am having is that I have been a stay at home mum for a long time, and while yes I 100% believe our decision to have me at home with the kids was a good one overall for our family – it has come at a financial cost to our family. I wish we still lived in a world where stay at home mums were the norm rather than…
