Squeezing it in! week 2 – 2012

January 15, 2012 By minka Leave a Comment
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I have to admit I am feeling a little sorry for myself right now!  I want to write you a big long list of all the things I have achieved in the last 7 days and have to achieve in the next 3 days before I head away to the beach again. I want to have a "Poor Minka" moment!  I want to tell you how no one appreciates me, how my children barely even like me at the moment and how horrible dinner time was tonight when everyone just ended up yelling at each other!  But hey, what would be the point in that!?! It's Sunday after a massive week, and I have spent the entire day in my PJ's!  A day in … [Read more...]

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Happy Health Year! week one 2012

January 8, 2012 By minka 1 Comment
Sandy Bay

So, I've left it to the very end of the week to write my first blog post of the New Year. I promised myself (and others) that this year I was going to finally write a regular blog on transforming the lives of myself and my family from the usual busy, time poor, supermarket dependant, chemical and additive soaked lifestyles that we have just "fallen upon" into consciously healthy lives in which we are aware of what is going into our heads, our mouths, on our skin and in our environments.  I'm hoping now you can see why I have left this post until the last day of the first full week in 2012!?!  I … [Read more...]

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Work/Life balance…yeah right!

November 22, 2010 By minka 3 Comments
We can do it

It is the ever elusive "concept" as a mother is it not?  I hate to say "working mother" because you tell me one mother who is not working!  It could more aptly be called the "how to squeeze everything into one life" concept.  Or the "superwoman syndrome" that has become so catch phrasey these days.  I myself prefer to call it life.  And I don't know that there ever is any balance to the equation as there is always one area (of the many that we juggle) requiring a little more attention than others at any given time. Anyone who has the job description of a mother is being unrealistic if they … [Read more...]

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Nobody told me “parent” was a verb…

November 11, 2010 By minka Leave a Comment
Little People

When I said I wanted to be a Mother, I was thinking more in terms of the noun and had no idea how much of a verb it was. When I thought about becoming a parent, I was thinking nouns again and not of the "to parent" aspect of it all. Funny that, coz once it is here you have no choice but to accept it do you...or do you...really? I am constantly amazed at the emotional - I can't even think of the word- (it isn't rollercoaster coz that sounds fast and fun, it isn't journey, coz that implies some kind of travel and generally those moments that totally take your breath away, knock your socks off, … [Read more...]

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Day One…

October 19, 2010 By minka Leave a Comment
Look what Izzy and I won!

It's exactly a month until my birthday, so I decided today was the day to start the new "eating plan" my trainer is recommending. I am telling myself it is not a "diet" and it is all in the language I use as to whether it will be hard or not.  Actually, I am quite excited.  I have been feeling the urge for some time now (more than a year) to treat my body as the precious "vehicle" it is and to nurture it in a way it has probably never known.  (Anyone who knows me reading this now will be hooting with laughter at the years of excessive unhealthy substances my body has taken, not to mention the … [Read more...]

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