The Building of The Lake House –

Once upon a time a young newly married couple scoured South East Queensland looking for a good place to settle.  As fate would have it after only a few weeks in Brisbane they both scored jobs in the same suburb!  It was a rapidly growing estate.  It was small...

To Buy or Build? – The Essential List for Homeowners

 Deciding to become a homeowner is a big and very exciting decision.  Followed very quickly by another big question.  To Buy or Build? Each comes with its own unique sets of challenges and rewards.  As homeowners we have experienced both.  Our first home we bought an established property and...

A Family Update

Hello Strangers….. It has been a long 6 months since I updated this blog.  The longest time it has sat quiet in 5 years! There is so much to catch you up on I am not quite sure to begin, so lets start at January…… I was all out...

Favourite Product – DYSON REVIEW

If you don’t want to read about someone swooning over and falling in love with a vacuum cleaner, stop reading here. We have lived in our house for ten years.  For ten years I have been searching for the perfect vacuum cleaner.  The problem being we have a big...

Organising The Family Finances

Yesterday I posted some pictures of the Cash Envelope system I have used in the past, to help keep on top of the Family Finance Budget.  This is just one small part of what we do to manage our finances and stay on budget.  It’s actually one of the...

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I LOVE this time of year.  So full of new hope, fresh starts, blank slates.  I am not one for new years resolutions and instead prescribe to the new “word” of the year.   For me to Hustle is to set goals and then busily and...

How To Make Your Home Entertainment Friendly

The festive season has well and truly begun in this house and we currently have a home full of visitors.  With Ballet concerts, speech nights, christmas parties this certainly is a busy time of year, but one I love to share with friends and family. We love to entertain...

Working 9-5

The time has come.  In 2016, after 3 years of leave from my permanent teaching position, I will be back in the classroom.  The enthusiasm and excitement can only be compared to what I felt when I took on that very first teaching position many moons ago, fresh out...

Starting THE ELF ON THE SHELF – Everything You Need to Know

Every year I am bombarded with questions on how to “do” the Elf on The Shelf.  It is such a hard question to answer as their is no “right” way to enjoy the Elf On The Shelf.  But to get you  started and get your own ideas in motion...

What I learnt the day my blog broke.

As a mum of three you think I would be use to things being broken.(remember the broken Angel?) Once the baby Hurricane entered our lives it has been an endless stream of broken phones, label makers, calculators and vacuum cleaners.  (Do you sense a pattern there?  If it has...