{Grateful} for my pit crew

By On March 16, 2012 · 8 Comments · In Family, Grateful For, Keeping it Real

Life has been hectic the last couple of weeks. I have been juggling work, various other commitments and sick kids while trying to fight off a nasty sinus infection.

On Monday my body did what it usually does when it’s had enough of me pushing it. It pushes back. This [...]

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{Grateful} Memories

By On March 9, 2012 · 11 Comments · In Grateful For, Keeping it Real, Random Ramblings

I’m big on memories. I love photos, momentos and keepsakes. I love looking over treasures from the past, whether they be mine or someone else’s.

I’ve got memory boxes for both of the boys and now have a Smilefile which will be a repository for the Wilful One’s school memorabilia. Needless to [...]

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Grateful for Shrek, raisin toast, coffee & impromptu plans

By On November 5, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Grateful For

I’ve just looked at the title of this post and it’s a bit cumbersome.  “Grateful for weekends” probably would have covered it, but here’s why it is what it is:

Grateful for Shrek:  Overall, grateful for the square babysitter really, but Bam Bam’s newfound love of Shrek is giving me some much needed respite from bloody Dora. Plus, Shrek has [...]

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Grateful for friends & bloggers & friendly bloggers

By On October 22, 2011 · 18 Comments · In Grateful For

Recently, the lovely Maxabella  posted about the friends you never have time to see. This struck such a chord with me as I’m constantly having to change or cancel plans to catch up with friends because, well frankly, life always gets in the way.

I’m grateful that most [...]

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Grateful for Luck, Love and Little Heroes

By On October 8, 2011 · 12 Comments · In Grateful For

Grateful for Luck

Late last week I was trawling through twitter while having a break at work (god bless the iPhone) and I stumbled across a tweet about a giveaway for free blog hosting.  How serendipitous since I had just made the decision to move my blog to a hosted site.  I had the [...]

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