Save Mum's Sanity

Monday Meditation #1

January 7, 2013

Wouldn’t it be great if we could manage those self-limiting thoughts inside our head? Mine take control sometimes and make me feel ‘less than’, make me fearful and hold me back from my potential. This week, I resolve to stop letting them control me.

Product Talk by Nuffnang: An outdoor Brisbane Christmas without flies

January 5, 2013

*This is a Product Talk by Nuffnang post So, I may have mentioned pre-Christmas that we were hosting Christmas at our place for the first time ever. After years of making the pilgrimage either north or south to visit either of our parents we decided to stay in Brisbane and have our own little Christmas. [...]

Happy new year and introducing my Yoga a Day challenge

January 4, 2013

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and all that! Well here we are in 2013, feeling all shiny and new. Or perhaps not?! I always love the promise of a new year and use this time to take stock of events and dynamics in the past year and look at ways I can change the bad, [...]

Why Santa photos and facial palsy don’t mix

December 18, 2012

On Friday I had just written a post for A Little Bird about my dilemma on whether to get Santa photos taken this year. Go over and read it, I’ll wait right here, OK? So then Friday night we decided to take an impromptu trip to the city to see our friend’s cabaret troop Betty [...]

Farewelling Christmas apathy

December 13, 2012

Ho, Ho, Ho! Things have taken a decidedly festive turn here in the last week. The tree is up, there are presents lurking in cupboards ready to wrap and I’m starting to plan the Christmas feast for Christmas day. We usually travel to either side of the family at Christmas, but this year we’re having [...]

Hi I’m Belinda and I’m crap at craft

December 12, 2012

Take a peek at any number of blogs, facebook, Pinterest and Instagram and it seems everyone is just whipping up gorgeous little Christmas trinkets with their little ones. Me? I’m just struggling to instruct how to put together some ready cut out Antler ears from a Kmart craft pack! Why oh why are there no [...]

Top tips for keeping friendships alive over at A Little Bird

December 2, 2012

Well if you’ve thought I’ve gone all AWOL on you all, well I kind of have. This self-nurturing business has seen me put the brakes on a bit to try and stop myself from feeling so overwhelmed. And it’s working, kind of. I have still been blogging though, I just haven’t been letting you all [...]

Nurturing me November

November 21, 2012

This month got off to a bit of a rocky start as I felt the weight and strain of carrying too much, doing too much and as my last post mentioned I felt I was juggling too many balls. The problem, I’ve realised, is not really the doing and the juggling and the carrying but [...]

Today we made a house

November 13, 2012

In the last month since starting working again I’ve felt under pressure – all of it self-inflicted. I was feeling the neck strain of looking up to the sky as I desperately fumbled to keep all my juggling balls in the air. The predictable ones fell first – self-nurture, time out and clean floors. I [...]

The day my big boy turned 3

October 28, 2012

My first born baby turned three today. I’m sitting here feeling so full … full of cake most certainly, but my heart feels even fuller than that. All week I’d been stressing. About work, about the fact I hadn’t bought all his present yet, attempting to make cupcakes to take to kindy before realising I [...]