How to make Essential Oil Bath Bombs

I love receiving homemade gifts, it always makes me feel that extra bit special that someone has gone to the effort of making something for me. Since using essential oils in our home and along with a few other staple items I now keep stocked in the cupboard I too can be creative with homemade …

Lavender Days

Take a deep breath, close your eyes and picture A beautiful warm sunny day. You hear bees buzzing, there is a slight breeze rustling the leaves in the trees above. You open your eyes and there is a field of purple flowers in front of you and the sweet earthy floral smell of Lavender fills …

Making Daisy Chains – A Poem

I recently read a book, 'How Poetry can Change your Heart' by Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley. Poetry is everywhere and like a photographer or an artist can take a photo or paint a picture to show beauty, a writer can do the same with words. We don't need to be afraid of modern poetry, …

Rockstar Hot Cross Buns!

At this time of year you will see hundreds of Hot Cross Buns recipes shared from blogs to magazines to flyers in the mail, they always seem to be a little bit daunting and time consuming. This recipe has been my go to recipe for years, I am always asked for it whenever I have …

Should the question be….. School Ready? or Life Ready!

This week my Big Boy Alex started school.  He was excited and nervous, but more excited than nervous. As I sat in the classroom with his new classmates and their parents waiting for the bell to ring I started to think about how amazing it was that he was starting school as a six-year-old. That morning …

Minimum Standards -Are they good enough?

Usually, I would write an article that I hope would be uplifting for some, today though I want you to feel enraged, I want you to feel this rage in every part of your being because it matters, it matters a lot. A few weeks ago now there was an interesting opinion piece in the …

Six months and beyond – Being five without school.

It's June (Winter) here in New Zealand and we are halfway through our year without school. I have to say it really has been the most extraordinary journey and best decision we have made for Alex and our family. It definitely wasn't without a lot of worries in the beginning, wondering if we had done …

Winter Warmer – Milo Afghan Slice

Winter has definitely arrived in this part of the country the past week.  I have had the fire roaring most days and going outside calls for winter woolies, hats, and gloves. Thinking ahead to the long weekend here in New Zealand and hoping that we will have some nice weather to get outdoors and go …

A Book Review – James and the Birthday Balloon.

Recently I was sent this beautiful book, James and the Birthday Balloon by Nicola J. Rowely to review, thank you, Nicola. I always know when we are onto a good book because Alex will ask for it to be read over and over, James and the Birthday Balloon is one of these books. James and Ruby are best …

Fruit Fingers, a Sugar Bowl and the Kitchen Table

One of my early childhood memories is sitting at the kitchen table in my Nana's house having morning tea or 'smoko' was what we called it then. We would have scones with jam, a homemade biscuit or if we were lucky, a store bought biscuit, my favourites being fruit fingers which looked like little pillows …