Your Family Survival Coach

I love how Kirsty over at My Home Truths has challenged bloggers to confront their deepest secrets and confess all on her Monday linkup. Even though I haven’t managed to contribute a confession every week, I’ve enjoyed being accountable to my own little quirks, habits, likes and loathes. This week, the confession is shameful … and, [...]

D-D-Date Night, yeah baby! Spending ample quality time as a couple is so important when it comes to nurturing a relationship, all the good how-to books say that, don’t they? But the reality for most of us is that day-to-day drudgery of household management, parent taxi service commitments and “must-see-can’t-miss-an-episode”crap TV are all factors that [...]

Wordless Wednesday … and it’s raining again It’s been stonkering down at our place for a few days now and this lake-in-the-making is the view from my office at work. Who would have thought that the grass was crispy dry not so long ago? I do feel a bit sorry for the rain – people [...]

The molehills that become mountains I’ve just farewelled my big boys off to school and am ready to flop down in a heap. Why, oh why, can school mornings be so difficult. By the time we get to the car, my body feels as though it’s run a marathon and my brain is more than [...]

It’d be a lucky family that could agree on a playlist that pleased all of it’s members, wouldn’t it? Have you too experienced a car trip from hell, where not only the kids are fighting about what CD to slide in but the grown ups can’t agree either? It’s pretty normal, I’m thinking, for generations [...]

Stuck on Sticking with 3M {sponsored post* + giveaway} I’m not sure about you, but I’m a visual kind of girl and like to have things – important things and nice ones – right there in my face. On my walls, it’s likely that you’ll find a collection of cues – meal plans, phone numbers, to do [...]