New Beginnings – Maintaining the Positive

August 9, 2012 By minka 1 Comment
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It's been two months I know.  What a two months.  We decided around May, well I decided and talked my husband into it, that we would not replace our Au Pair when she went home in July.  Since August 2007, when the babes were 6, 4, 2 and 8 months, I have had almost full time support with our home and children.  This started because my lucky man (MLM) worked in Auckland all week and I was home alone. He can still be working away most of the week, so after returning to work three years ago, we continued the habit.   It has been fantastic, it has gotten us through, it has kept me sane and I would … [Read more...]

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Welcome to the big swell…finally!

May 11, 2012 By minka 2 Comments
Ubuntu

I am so excited!  It is Mothers Day 2012 on Sunday - 6 years to the day Mothers Online went live with a flurry of activity and a very different online world!  It was before Facebook, it was before any other Mother dedicated website in NZ and it was certainly before "social media", twitter, linkedin, reddit, diggit and ALL the other manners in which we can connect online now! I had a dream that new Mums would be able to sit at home in their pjs if they wanted, without makeup, without judgment, without a need to be anyone or anything other than themselves AND meet likeminded Mums who felt the … [Read more...]

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What a joke! Mid week 14, 2012!

April 3, 2012 By minka Leave a Comment
Relax

I read my last blog with a sense of amazement, that the New Year with it's excitement, newness and holiday mode must have addled my brain a little!  I mean, how was I thinking I would manage to get self sufficient, write a blog every week, continue being the best Lawyer I can be and most importantly, continue to be available to my Babes and there whenever possible to share in their journey, their school events, their sports games and their school trips!  Not to mention the odd 40th birthday and a family wedding in Sydney!?! I look back and know now why I haven't written my blog for so long! … [Read more...]

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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
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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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