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...

 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...

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...

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...

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!!!! 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...

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...

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...

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...