For as long as I can remember my Dad has suffered from back pain. In fact, Dad is 78 and even as a child, when we used to go and watch him play cricket, he would hit a six, start to run then beam when he realised he didn’t have to complete the run. His back just couldn’t take the pounding but Dad being Dad would carry on and do his bit to lead his Team to victory.
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I am on a journey. Every day I wake up with the intention of “clearing out the living room, decluttering my bedroom closet or just shifting one of the stuffed boxes from the garden shed.
If you are like me and have a house full of stuff – memories of children growing up, their art work proudly framed and displayed, images of past birthday parties tucked away, scraps of material from ideas started, discarded and put down as interest waned and the next new idea came into play; how do you begin to decide what to keep, what to recycle and give away? Read more…?

As a busy mum, you spend a lot of your time caring for your family. If you are also a working mother you have the extra responsibility of juggling the responsibilities and commitments of your job as well as looking after yourself.

In the midst of all this caring and sharing, it is very easy to lose sight of your most important job – Caring For You. When was the last time, you had a get-together with your girl-friends or treated yourself to a massage or new hair-do?

Everywhere you look you see magazines headlines promoting the importance of “Taking Time-Out.” Yet at the same time, they bombard you with 101 things you could also be doing for your family. E.g. prepare a tasty after -school snack, to have ready for your child when they come home from school,  sign up as a Parent Governor at your child’s primary school or even tips on how to set-up our own on-line business.

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