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BALANCE YOUR WAY TO HAPPINESS WITH THESE TIPS
Keeping the balance in your life is essential to happiness. Try these tips to keep the balance is your busy life.
Category: Grand Parenting
FIGHT THE DEMENTIA DEMON BY DOING SOMETHING YOU LOVE
Every day I see the empty house next door and wonder what has become of the beautiful lady who lived there for so many years. Lin was a dream neighbour – not too nosey, not one to drop in, but quick to help when you needed it.
HOW TO WIN BY AVOIDING THE BIN
A GIFT FOR THE PLANET Christmas is the day after tomorrow and before we get all sweet and emotional I’m going to tell you STOP! When the gifts have been opened and the food is eaten up you’re faced with the massive clean. It’s so easy to just chuck everything in bags for
7 QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO ASK YOURSELF RIGHT NOW
HOW ARE YOU FEELING? Are you happy where you are right now? There are less than two weeks left of this year and it’s a good time to take stock and celebrate what you’ve achieved, acknowledge what you’ve learned and make a plan that incorporates unfulfilled goals and also the new ones. DON’T
CAN TOO MUCH HAPPY MAKE YOU SAD?
A loved one who was feeling depressed recently blamed me, in part, for her state. The reason? My happy, positive attitude (on Facebook – the husband who lives with me would wonder who she was talking about in real life). That and my generally busy life were making her feel like a failure. I was
BABYSITTING BATTLEGROUND – how much is too much?
HOW MUCH BABYSITTING IS TOO MUCH? When my mother was pregnant with my sister her mother said: “you know I love you more than life itself, but don’t ever ask me to babysit”. Mum never asked and Granny never babysat, even when I came along eight years later and Granny was living with
Make 5 irresistible jewellery gifts for less than $5 each.
THESE JEWELLERY CRAFTS TAKE LESS THAN 5 MINUTES EACH TO MAKE Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – making jewellery. This is the first of two Wacky Workshops projects for Christmas gift ideas as promised in my post 3 Brilliant Steps to Save Christmas Stress and Money. These very simple and inexpensive projects are great
WHY PINK IS THE NEW BLUE
PERFECTLY PINK We celebrated the birth of our fourth granddaughter less than two weeks ago. Of course, she is adorable and we are smitten. A new pink blossom on the family tree was how one of my loved ones put it. As the mother of three sons, I really appreciate the
7 PROVEN WAYS TO MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK
Friday the 13th, unlucky or not? It’s all up to you. Happy Black Friday. I hope you have a lucky day. That may sound like an oxymoron – how can one be happy or lucky on such an unlucky day? The truth is it’s only as unlucky as you choose to believe.
SAVE WITH 8 AWESOME KID ART TO GREAT GIFTS PROJECTS
Welcome to another Wacky Wednesday project – transforming children’s art. Do you have some budding little artists in your life? Do you feel like you’re drowning in their artwork? Once kids get started they can produce art at an alarmingly fast rate. Before you know it you have literally hundreds of pages of paintings and