How to dress the Christmas tree perfectly, when you have small children!

I have three amazing little kids, Mr8, Mr6 and Miss-almost-5! So far, every Christmas I have somehow managed to keep our tree simply dressed in silver, with a splash of colour coming from the coloured lights! A couple of years ago I bought the kids a little $5 tree for their room and about another $5 worth of little colourful decorations for it, so they’d leave ‘MY’ tree alone! ? Well, this year I decided to be a fun mum and to make Christmas about what it actually is about: family-tree-dressing, laughter, fun and love! So here are my few, simple steps to dressing your Christmas tree this year to make the kids happy, if you, too, are a control freak like me!!! 😂  Continue reading

Welcome, 2014!

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions! Not one bit. I always thought that if someone needs to wait until January 1st of the following year to be able to start doing something positive for themselves, then they are probably not determined enough to do it. Hence so many broken New Year’s resolutions out there, right? If you want to change your life, do it NOW. Not starting fresh tomorrow, not starting fresh on Monday, not starting fresh next year. NOW! Continue reading