Your Family Survival Coach

How are YOU going with maintaining a healthy work/life balance? It’s not an easy gig, this caper of trying to squeeze family and work commitments into time that literally seems to disappear before your eyes. Whether or not you are working outside of the home or from home; full time, part time or casually; maybe [...]

I’m not sure whereabouts you call home, but here in my neck of the woods, we have been warned that winter is well and truly on its way and I don’t think it’s too far off either. Brrrrr the last couple of days have been cold and so now there is no more procrastinating about [...]

My little family and I are in the fortunate position of living next door to my parents. It’s a truly great thing that (a) we get along well with them, (b) we can rely upon them for so much and they always give more and (c) they are the most tolerant landlords ever!!! (Hey and I’ll [...]

There’s usually a quarter of a cow’s worth of sausages in my deep freeze as I always have snags on standby for nights where cooking something more interesting is just not going to make onto the dinner agenda. My kids have wised up to me though, and let’s just say that the announcement of sausages [...]

Today at work I compiled a bunch of resources to create a program of sessions designed to develop a young person’s self-esteem. The irony wasn’t lost on me at all. Now I am all grown up (yes, I do know that some people may snigger at this!) I believe I possess a self-esteem which is [...]

How quickly do your weekends rumble by? Do you have a set weekend plan that looks something like this …. washing, washing, washing, vacuum floors, folding, folding, change bed linen, folding …. That’s pretty much a template for many of my weekends, not all, but more than enough of them. So many mums I speak [...]