Reviews & Giveaways

Adding more dairy to lunchboxes is easy… Giveaway

March 17, 2013
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Disclaimer: This is a giveaway post for Dairy Australia, I received a Tupperware Fuel Pack for my time. All opinions are my own. Research finds that only 1 out of 5 primary school kids consume enough dairy to meet their daily calcium needs, and adding milk, cheese or yogurt is an easy way to make [...]

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Visiting the Whittlesea Pool

February 9, 2013
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This is NOT a sponsored post, this is me loving a place I visited and sharing it with you. Friends of ours couldn’t make it to Heidi’s Birthday Party and invited us to come spend the day with them at this fabulous, Aussie country pool in Whittlesea. I wasn’t sure what to expect, we’ve become [...]

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Bupa Family Challenge – Giveaway

January 10, 2013
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Disclaimer: This is a Sponsored Post for Bupa Family Challenge. With another three weeks of the school holidays looming before us I thought it might be fun to mix things up a little and while I was wondering what to do I received an email about the Bupa Family Challenge…which seemed like great solution to [...]

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Bayview Bay Apartments & Marina – Review

January 8, 2013
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This is not a sponsored post, I have not received any compensation at all for this, just wanted to share our experiences after staying here on 4 different occasions. Bayview Bay Apartments has been the accomodation we keep going back to during the trips up to QLD to visit family. Things that keep us coming [...]

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Grocery Shopping while away from home – Coles Online Giveaway

December 4, 2012
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The level best thing I did when preparing for our Christmas Holiday to the Gold Coast last year was to organise a Coles Online grocery delivery to my parents house for the day we arrived. My girls are fussy about their food, shopping online means I can get the exact brands they eat and make [...]

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Make+Do= Makedo! + Giveaway

November 20, 2012
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Box work, creative construction, whatever you like to call it, is it and a bit in our house currently. My girls have been spending ages in the playroom constructing box dolls houses, santa’s sleigh, space helmets and whatever else their imagination suggests. Last Christmas HeidiĀ receivedĀ a very cool Makedo set from one of her Uncles and [...]

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What to wear while getting a Myki fine…

November 16, 2012
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Because I’m all fashion forward like, so long as black tshirts with quirky captions are still it and a bit….. dear god please never ever let black tshirts with quirky captions go out of fashion. So yesterday was a fun morning, I was trying to get out the door 30 minutes earlier than usual and [...]

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Transparent

November 5, 2012

Image Source You may have noticed an increase in sponsored posts of late, a bit more spruiking from me on social media. The bills are piling up and have to be paid, weekly psych visits, plus speech therapy, plus the meetings to plan transition for next year. They all cost money, throw Christmas and the [...]

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Popping Fun

November 3, 2012
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My girls love love love popcorn, it is an essential component of our weekend movie nights. We have an air powered popcorn maker that freaks Heidi out every.single.time. we use it due to the noise factor. Now I could use that paper bag in the microwave popcorn method that my friend S highly recommends, however [...]

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Save the Gummi Bears

October 30, 2012
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So I’ve got these two kids, one of whom will not eat food that touches and anthropomorphises all things, we can’t play Battleship anymore, Heidi hid all the ships because they would be sad getting sunk all the time… and the game Operation, Oh.My.Lord. Then there is the too cool for everything big sister who [...]

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