tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40451138078181598552024-03-05T21:44:53.873+08:00Mushy Peas and Me.Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-75057716551015454442015-09-01T21:35:00.000+08:002015-09-01T21:35:26.092+08:00My Big Fat Rut, Bum dents and Me.<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today was the first day of spring. Hooray!!</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Its time to wake up from my hibernation and start living again. Hoo.....really?</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And when I say living, I mean more than existing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You see I've been in a dirty great big fat Rut.</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A rut. A hollow place where Lord Grumpiness ruled and Captain Lazy was too tired to get up and usurp him. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But boy was it good to be there. So goooooooooooood.</span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So Good.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s comfy here,in my Rut, on the couch. Not showering everyday. Eating loads of bad food. I even elected myself mayor of Sugar Squarf City. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Such a fun place, Squarf City. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I even managed to knock out season 1 to 4 of Dance Moms. Tragic isn't it. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tragic, but totes fun y'all.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I’m a Cancerian. We love hiding in our crabby shells, and I’ve been hiding in mine for quite some time. But </span>because<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> it's all cosy and </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span>company<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> is great its hard to get out and pop back into the real world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes being an adult really sucks balls. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Especially when sometimes you’re waiting for other people before you can move forward. Banks. Government departments. Lawyers. Dumb grown up people who get up and go to work and slowly turn the wheels of industry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, sort of while I was waiting (still waiting by the way) I started to feel sorry for myself and I started to make such a distinct bum dent in the couch I sort of just stayed there. Only doing the minimal. With two kids there isn't really a 'minimal' but I think I perfected the art.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the time has come where my, although glorious and a little bit self loathing rut, has got to go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what am I going to do, to haul myself out? </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">oh I'm so glad you asked pea bodies…. I'm. so. glad. you. asked.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got a haircut. That helps I think. Apart from the, you know hygienic grooming side of it, new hair always makes you feel shiny and new.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ahhhhh get me out of this Rut. Also, New hair.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm doing <a href="http://www.liveitdoit.com.au/p/sugar-free-september.html">sugar free September,</a> inspired by Cass from Live it. Do it. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can check her out <a href="http://www.liveitdoit.com.au/">here.</a></span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You might want to join! It's never too late.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sugar Free September Day 1 - Nourishing Breakfast.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Along with my sugar freeness I’m trying out some meditation. One with an app - I'm trying a few so I'll let you know which one I like best, and meditation through adult colouring.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m really interested in the slow movement. More on that later - I’m sure thats a blog post all on its own.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm generally just trying to be a bit more patient and happy and grateful and less of an asshole. I'm trying to be more aware of myself and those around me and focus on what really matters like trying not to yell when the kids take 10 minutes to get in the car.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I read some helpful books while I was in the pit of ruttiness.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Sometimes a pep talk is good. These books </span>were real kick starters:</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Craft for the soul - By Pip Lincolne from <a href="http://meetmeatmikes.com/">meet me at mikes</a> - <a href="http://www.bookworld.com.au/books/craft-for-the-soul-how-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-creative-life-lincolne-pip-pip-lincolne/p/9780670076598#">Buy it here</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The happiness project - By </span><a href="http://www.gretchenrubin.com/" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Gretchen Rubin</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> - </span><a href="http://gretchenrubin.com/books/the-happiness-project/buy-the-book/" style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Buy it Here</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> - </span>Incidentally<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> she </span>talks<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> about </span>September<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> being </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> new </span>January <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> on her website.... its a good read. Also I think I will get her new book too!</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I’m half way through The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up - By Marie Kondo. - <a href="http://tidyingup.com/">Get that here.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So spring, the suns out and now its time. </span></span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I need you to spring me into action so I can be awesome again!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Are you waiting to be </span>awesome<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> again?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are you in a Rut?</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jane.</span></span>Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-63157802557397107042015-02-12T18:00:00.000+08:002015-02-12T18:00:54.856+08:00Mum vs Mum<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you’ve decided not to return to work and be a "Stay at home Mum".</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations Mama. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good for you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You've made a decision that works best for you and your family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you've decided to go back to work full time and place your kids in care. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations Mama. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good for you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You've made a decision that works best for you and your family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So you've decided to work part time and do a mix of daycare and home care. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations Mama. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good for you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You've made a decision that works best for you and your family.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Ugh. Who cares? Boring isn't it?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, really? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you really care what other mothers have decided to do? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it really that much of a big deal?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong - I am interested in other mothers and their stories, their choices and how they came to a decision like that - only for my own knowledge and the potential to steal good ideas and mum hacks. But I don't care enough to judge - or think about it later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Does anyone?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Probably not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So if the above information is really boring, and nobody really cares, why is the media pushing for stigmas that just don’t exist? OK they do exist but only because they have told us so, and we have convinced ourselves that everyone else is thinking about it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When really we aren’t.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why isn't this positive message about women making the right choice for their family pushed in the media? Because its boring. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And boring doesn't generate clicks, or sell papers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do get raised eyebrows at times when I say I’m a stay at home mum. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do get some judgements and assumptions made about me that are rarely true or accurate </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(no I don’t have loads of money, no I don’t sit in a day spa all day and no my house is not perfectly clean). </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But mostly other mums just don't care, they have their own sleep deprived problems to sort out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bet Mums who go back to work get a few looks and raised eyebrows too - “oh your kids are in day care FULLTIME?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bet Dads who work part time get a few comments also - “Do you wear your apron out and about or only at home?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The truth is people who judge like that - will judge anyway. The clothes you’re wearing, the car you’re driving, where you USED to work, where you work now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sure those Mums are out there. Those Dads are out there. Those people are out there. Some people are judgemental and thats life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But mostly no one cares.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do care about other mums - as a whole person, and they care about me as a person and we are interested in the welfare of each others kids sure, and we are generally interested in each others lives and all that blah blah blah -</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> but theres no judge-fest, bitch sesh, school gate gang situation going on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sure, some school gates can be nasty. Some school communities might be this way and if you've experienced this, I feel for you, it’s nasty and juvenile and all round a bit rubbish. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come send your kid to my school and we can not care about each other in perfect harmony!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When will the current affairs, talkback radio shows, online magazines and other media outlets stop pushing this stupid mum vs mum thing?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all have a little judgment inside us. We are all human. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example: Do I think spending $1500 on your pram was a good financial investment? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mmmmmm not so much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Would I have spent that much money on a pram? No.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Could I spend your $1500 more wisely? You bet!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But why should you care what I think?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You shouldn’t. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s your pram. Your money, so as along as you don’t ram the back of my heels with said pram I really couldn't care.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heartless arent I?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve got my own sleep deprived problems going on. #sorrynotsorry</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judgement occurs whether you’re a parent or not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judgement occurs whether you’re a human or not.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judgement comes in all forms and at some time or another we all judge others and are judged ourselves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s not an exclusive mum club thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one end I feel like the grown ups are pushing the children of this generation to love, respect and crate equality for all, but at the other end glorifying stigmas (that just don’t have a big enough following to get off the ground.) to sell papers and get click rates up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But someones should tell them no one cares.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh wait…….. I can tell them!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NO ONE CARES. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So lets just get on with it and not care about each other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations Mamas. You’re doing a good job.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Peas out</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jane.</span></span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-4800234568490973872015-02-05T22:05:00.001+08:002015-02-05T22:05:28.107+08:00Are Cheezels a carb? Even on Australia Day? <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome Peabodies to part 3 of my Paleo Peas Series</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(you can read part 1 and part 2 <a href="http://www.mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/is-butter-carb-paleo-peas-week-1.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/is-kale-carb-paleo-peas-part-2.html">here</a> )</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The year is ticking away so quickly already. Schools back, most are back at work, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">peak hour traffic is back the hum of 2015 is in full key.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have been doing really well on our paleo adventure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I kept mostly to the meal plan this week which made things a bit easier in the prep for school.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were two significant things that stood out for me this week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. I’m not hungry, in fact I’m eating less overall as I'm feeling full until meal times. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The I quit sugar kids talk a little about why this is <a href="https://iquitsugar.com/quitting-sugar-stops-food-cravings/">here.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. This paleo diet uses a lot of eggs. So many eggs!! But thats ok. We don't have any allegories and the kids like egg so all goog! (see what i did there?)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So i was being a good little Pea ...That was until…….</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(its mushy confessional time...)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll let the pictures to the talking. I’m too ashamed to type it out.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">thats instant noodle - Mi Goring to be exact.</td></tr>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OMG.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Total binge fest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know what came over me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok I do know what came over me:</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a long weekend,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids were having a sleepover with their grandparents so I had some freedom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because. Cheezels.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus I'm pretty sure you can go to jail for being un-Australian and not eating Cheezels on Australia day so I didn't want to risk breaking the law.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But oh…….OH.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OOOOOOHHHHH</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hangover.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not long after - within the hour I started to feel really sick.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got the shakes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And felt anxious. And gross.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't even get the fun night out with the girls to make the suffering bare-able. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scoffing like crazy feeling like a rebellious school girl sneaking lollies into the boys dorm on school camp.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have only been clean eating for 3 or 4 weeks and already my body can feel the difference and it doesn’t like being put in the naughty corner it seems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apart from this erhum …misdemeanour….. I've actually been pretty good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've even lost weight,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whhaaaaaat? Thats right. I so skinny.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok not super skinny but I've lost 4 kilos…. which is exciting because all I've done is cut out the processed food, sugar and kept carbs to a minimum. No pasta or rice and only a potato here and there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok so our week 3 meal plan looks like this:</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday - Fakeaway slow cooked kebabs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuesday - Lamb shanks, veg, pumpkin mash</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Wednesday - Roast chicken</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday - Pork chop, coleslaw, hand made chips</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday - Chicken pie ( with left over roast Ill probably make the pie on wedensday and freeze)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday - ok i haven’t actually figured out what to have on saturday or sunday - Ill probably just make them leftover nights and cook omelette or we will have breakfast for dinner - bacon and eggs, tomatoes mushrooms!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And thats OK!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope your getting into the swing of the new year and getting down to business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jane.</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-36423499258000465432015-01-31T22:46:00.000+08:002015-01-31T22:46:27.483+08:00Raising Rangas.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Warning the post below is a bit ranty and involves some not so nice language.*</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My girls have red hair</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bright beautiful red hair.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s handy in the playground because you can spot them a mile away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But because they have red hair other citizens of this fine city think its ok to invade their (and mine) personal space.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's like being pregnant again, only I never got the break from the tummy rubbing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just the other day a woman came across from the other side of the supermarket aisle and rubbed Pipsqueaks hair - It was like she was in a trance. Eyes glazed, arm extended, she reached across me and rubbed that curly mop - blinked hard like she was no longer possessed then turned to me, clocked my face and realised what she was doing - Apologised and backed away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One touch of the magic hair can break any evil spell. Apparently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Really?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You don’t know this child and your rubbing her head? She's not a Buda. You don't get a wish. She cant grant you good luck.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( I know this because we still haven't won lotto.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It happens all the time to my girls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All. the. time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Especially in the supermarket - it must happen maybe 4 or 5 times a shopping trip.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And every time the comment of “Her hair is so beautiful” - is always, ALWAYS followed with a comment along the lines of “my sister, brother, granddaughter, godson, uncle -</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">( insert significant other here) - has hair that colour.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Really?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently redheads make up only 2% of the population.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not according to the personal space bubble poppers at my supermarket.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So if your significant other has red hair then why do you feel so compelled to change direction to come and touch it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I get it</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their hair is beautiful. It really is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But you are changing your direction and physically stopping my trolley with your body so you can make a comment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Way to give my girls a complex bubble poppers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t get me wrong, what parent hates hearing how beautiful their children are? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not One. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do like to hear it, and if you are behind me or in front of me in a queue and we aren’t moving along and we are just waiting - then please comment away. Lets have a chat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But don’t stop my trolley mid stride.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Or physically block my pram so I have to stop or risk running you over</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or go out of your way to intercept us - Don’t you have shit to do?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is sometimes though, when I don’t mind. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this happens more than I care to think about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every so often there is a lady (sometimes a gentleman) who stops me -</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and they say “My son/daughter had hair like that.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Had.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see the sadness in their eyes, even though they smile, and I know that they don’t have an emo kid at home with dyed back hair schlepping round their living room.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Had. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's grief there too deep for me to comprehend, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so YOU are welcome to stop me, and make a wish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone else can piss off.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did!</span></span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-516198845627433752015-01-27T09:22:00.002+08:002015-01-27T09:26:34.544+08:00Is Kale a carb? Paleo Peas part 2.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How did we go on our first week of official Paleo eating plan?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome Peabaodies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week I spoke about our family ( or tribe as <a href="http://peteevans.com.au/">Pete</a> loves to say) moving to a paleo way of eating. You can read all about Part one <a href="http://mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/is-butter-carb-paleo-peas-week-1.html">here.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can even find out more aout what Paleo eating is <a href="http://peteevans.com.au/the-paleo-way/">here</a> and extra meal plans and extra info <a href="http://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/nutrition/healthy+recipes/week+1+paleo+diet+meal+plan,26300">here</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I should have included some more resources last week - Sorry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well How did we go….</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well in terms of actually eating clean and healthy we did really well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In terms of sticking to my very carefully thought out menu plan. Pretty bad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But thats ok. I planned and shopped for our menu so all the ingredients we had in the house were fresh and healthy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we didn't really stick to the menu plan for a variety of reasons - the main one being the weather.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Its been really hot here in the ‘Ol West so we spent a couple of nights eating at my mums house. She has a giant sparkly bue pool. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So not only did I not feel like cooking extra in the heat for our snacks but I wasn't home for tea.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we still ate really well, mostly meat and salad or veggies</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It sounds boring and very retro but thats what my kids like.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's simple, fast to cook and doesn't look too threatening on the plate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My kids eat veggies so thats easy, But I'm still having problems getting them to eat a salad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They eat raw carrot and thats about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t get me wrong - they aren’t freaks, its not like they are chowing down on kale chips or brussels sprouts. I'm not delusional.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(While we are on the subject of <a href="http://nomnompaleo.com/post/2648091289/baked-kale-chips">kale chips</a> - does anyone else have trouble believing that these foodie peoples kids are actually eating kale chips. I mean beacuse. Kale.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But they will eat peas, corn and carrot. and a bit of pumpkin and sweet potato with some persuasion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes I can even get them to eat purple carrots and beets. It helps that its purple I think!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Overall I would give our first Paleo week a 7 out of 10. However its time for a new segment </span>within<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> this Paleo Peas series. Its.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mushy confessional time:</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did have a bit of a mental health day and got stuck into Red rooster and some coke.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But other than that I've been angelic to point of annoying everyone else around me, so I must be doing it right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But just like our cavemen and women I discovered some things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel lighter - I think this is because I'm not eating bread, rice or pasta.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cooking with ghee brings out the natural taste in food and makes your food tastier - it also makes cleaning the pan or pot you've cooked in easier. If the food isn't sticking to the pan then its definaltey not sticking to your ribs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve lost a bit of weight! YIPPEE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it doesn't have to be complicated or totally to the letter to get results.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday - Paleo burgers (where a giant mushroom is used in place of the bun)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm feeling lazy this week already, and it hasn't officially stated yet so I haven’t popped my meal plan in a pretty graphic for you. Sorry Peabodies.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might have noticed that we are still giving the kids pasta and rice, we are slowly slowly easing them into it - but no pasta or rice for the husbeast and I.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lemon water every morning. You can read about the benefits <a href="http://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/nutrition/nutrition+tips/kick+start+your+day+with+lemon+and+water,23007">here</a>. I also feel like I’m running on all cylinders when I drink this every morning,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yoga ( just in the lvivng room with a dvd - nothing too fancy pants - has anyone clocked the price of yoga in Perth at the moment? Redick!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drinking more water - I even bought myself a fancy glass water bottle to tote around with me all hipster style and s**t. *clicks fingers*</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do your kids eat Salad? I'd love any tips Peabodies on how to get them to munch on down.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wish us luck on our next paleo week!</span></span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-56534220738291854542015-01-21T22:20:00.001+08:002015-01-21T22:20:19.179+08:00AHA! Parenting pennies dropping like crazy!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I read an article to day that gave me a HUGE parental AHA! moment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Let me start this blog post by giving you a little bit of context..</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I often get told, and I mean often, several times a day actually - that my children are really well behaved.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes! Thinks me - Then I give myself and the Husbeast a little pat on the back. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">We have high expectations, of and for,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> our girls and they meet them the majority of the time. They are good girls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The very next thought however that comes into my head after the pat on the back is - they are good because I yell at them and nag them all the time. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In fact sometimes it keeps me up at night that I nag them too much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have been accused of being a tough mamma. “You're hard on your kids” I've been told by both family and friends</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And I wear that badge with pride. Don't get me wrong, I'm no 'Tiger Mom'. I'm more of a 'Lynx Mum'. Smaller than a tiger but still a wild animal - no domesticated puss here!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But I do know I yell too much. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I know I get better results when I don't yell.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">So if the girls behave even better when </span>I'm<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> not yelling - why do I yell? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I don't know why.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I couldn't tell you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of my resolutions for 2015 is to yell less at the kids and to slow down and enjoy their childhood more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then the other day this <a href="http://www.handsfreemama.com/2015/01/12/the-3-second-pause-that-can-save-a-morning-spare-some-pain/">blog post</a> from Hands Free Mama came across my facebook timeline and I took the time to read it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You too should take the time to read it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Those words really resonated with me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've read many other parenting-esque articles like this with a similar message and always I've thought " yeah yeah I yell at my kids too much ......I know....."</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm not sure why these particular words stuck a chord, but strummed they did!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm thinking of getting that tattooed somewhere……… </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps I'll just make a poster!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lately over the last 2 years or so I've been getting grumpy at the the kids and and the Husbeast for no good reason, I won't say no reason because there's always a reason</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> (lets face it ladies.....) </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But lately I've been asking myself 'is it worth getting grumpy?'</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So what if the bin is full again. I'll just take it out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So what if it takes an extra 5 minutes to put on the girls shoes?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'll enjoy that extra 5 minutes with my kids. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So what?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Does it all matter at the end of the day?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Once the end of the day </span>approaches and<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> the girls are in bed I certainly </span>don't<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> think - 'gee </span>whizz<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> I wish </span>Miss<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> L would get in the car quicker'</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Often once the girls are in bed my thoughts are of regret.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Regret<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> that I hurried her because of my own dis</span>organisation<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Regret that I yelled because she stopped to look at ….. the sky, that dog, that toy, that snail.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All of my own doing. All from my own pressure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lighter and Brighter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two mantras for me for 2015.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'll keep you updated though the year with how I am going.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you a yeller?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you a Tiger Mom?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’d love to hear your parenting Aha! moments Peabodies! Share them below.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Ah Mean girls, </span>That<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> movie never gets old right?</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just before Christmas the Husbeast declared he would like our family to “Go Paleo”</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Righto! I thought. Yippee.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So for Christmas I bought him (me) the Pete Evens Paleo cook book Family Food. You can get your copy <a href="http://www.peteevans.com.au/my-books">here</a> or most bookstores.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's an awesome cookbook with recipes that I think my kids will actually eat! However I guess the the proof is literally in the pudding, so as we go through i'll learn what the kids like and not like. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span>So during 2015 I hope to track our progress with a series of blog posts - The Paleo Peas ( see what I did there?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This isn't actually a huge jump for my Pod. We have been trying to cut the sugar and processed foods from our cupboards for over 12 months so the Paleo style of eating is the next step. We are taking a gently gently </span>approach and<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> we have decided not to cut dairy. I'm really not ready to give up my coffee, and the girls don't eat enough dark leafy greens to get their calcium needs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus I love cheese. Like really love cheese. Alot. I'm practically a rat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also went along and bought Nom Nom Paleo. You can read her blog and buy her book<a href="http://nomnompaleo.com/"> here</a><a href="http://here./">.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great. sorted. So now what?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First step I decided was to create 4 weeks worth of meal plans. Meal plans are great - they help keep me organised and when I’m organised I feel less stressed. Also it takes the thinking part out at the end of the day when my brain not so worky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meal plans would mean that we would have snacks ready to go - and less likely to crack open the ‘bad stuff’</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meal planning takes a bit of practise with trial and error to get it right. And I'm certainly no expert and I’m sure there's stuff I can still improve on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just because I have created a meal plan it doesn't mean we save money at the checkout. Often I just write out the meals that I like the sound of with out thinking about the ingredients or the cost.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s important to the Husbeast and I that they understand where ‘real’ food comes from. And the best way to to that is to lead by example.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Have you made healthy New Year Resolutions? Are you going Paleo? Do you </span>write<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> out Meal Plans? Let me know Peabodies! - I’d love any tips you might have for me.</span></span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-14386036358870557272015-01-08T21:43:00.000+08:002015-01-08T21:43:28.214+08:00Run Bambi! Run toward the forest.........<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember this <a href="http://mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/how-i-aim-to-make-other-dance-mums-hate.html">post</a>? </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Im such a sucker for the New Year,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">New Years day is my favourite day of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every year I enter into the beginning of the year like a wide eyed Bambi full of resolutions and new energy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But this Bambi became road kill half way through last year and it has been a bit tricky getting up off the road and back into the forrest.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I haven't been blogging.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I haven’t been doing half the things I promised myself I would this time last year.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But guess what?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s the new year!! Hooray!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Time to start afresh. Ahhhhhhhhhh. Breathe out.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But why bother? Some people aren't into resolutions - why make goals your never going to keep right?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Well I’m all about self love ( its impossible not to love moi right?) but I'm also into improving ones self because we are all human. We all make mistakes, we all get lost, lazy lonely, lustful, languid? Ok so I ran out of L words but the point is its important to me to have goals and work towards something or in my case many things.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So this year - I think I’ll keep my resolutions private and not post onto the wide web of ours - actually Im still working out exactly what they are but hopefully Pea-bodies you will discover what they are as I conquer them all … and then the world ….(insert evil laugh here)</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-22262369184300861202014-07-23T21:20:00.000+08:002014-07-23T21:20:29.502+08:00My fangirl moment - Meeting Sarah Wilson<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A few days ago I went to listen to <a href="http://www.sarahwilson.com/">Sarah Wilson</a> speak. She came to Perth and I was really excited to see her live in the flesh. As you know quitting sugar has been revolutionary to my life ( you can read all about it <a href="http://www.mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/quitting-white-stuff-little-about.html">here</a>) and although cutting out the sugar is a bit of a roller coaster for me at the moment - I’m definitely eating less processed food and looking at my health from a whole wellness perspective.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thats what Sarah Wilson's message is really about, as she said on the night: </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I went (gulp! by myself) and rocked up to The Urban Coe op (<a href="http://www.theurbancoe-op.com.au/">check it out here</a>) its a really cool studio, industrial hipster style place, and had myself a glass of wine and milled around, checking out the large wall murals and stuff. Then I took a seat in the front row - one lonely little chair on the end - (some advantages to go going by your self.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I’m not in a corporate environment so going to swanky, cool talks like this is a real rarity for me - it was super cool.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She spoke a bit about nutritional science and where its headed, her <a href="http://iquitsugar.com/">I QUIT SUGAR</a> team and the cool stuff they are doing and she spoke a little bit about her own journey. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When you read and follow someones work or see them on book jackets - to then see them and hear them in person is really weird, but really great when they confirm your expectations. And Sarah Wilson confirmed mine!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sarah Wilson often talks about her morning routine and flow, and how that helps her set up her day - getting out of bed is real issue for me at the moment - in fact I think its the biggest blockage to really living a whole wellness lifestyle. </span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think its mainly due to the fact that I have problems going to bed on time. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">The Husbeast and I started a little project of our own - </span><a href="http://www.mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/catching-zzzzs-project-sandman.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Operation Sandman </a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">and failed miserably. You can read about that </span><a href="http://www.mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/easter-wrap-up-project-sandman-update.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">here.</a><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So very nervously with microphone in hand, I asked if she had any tips on how to go to bed early so you can get up early…….</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(She was much more friendly and eloquent than the above dots points convey but thats generally the gist.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sarah was also asked about her energy levels - which is also something I’m trying to work on - She said she gets a lot of her energy through meditation, her morning routine and she uses food to balance out. When she's feeling low on energy she has something to eat!</span></span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-6910739783141202122014-07-19T08:30:00.000+08:002014-07-19T08:30:00.383+08:00Speed bumps, Nigella and Cheesy Montages.<div style="font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was my birthday a few days ago. sigh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I haven’t been posting much, I haven’t really been around. My little pea pod of a family hit a bit of a speed bump that was unexpected and we didn't see coming. Upon reflection: on the grand scheme of things it is a small bump but incredibly stressful and we are still mopping up. This speed bump bumped all our hard work and goals back about 12 to 18 months - which is incredibly frustrating and stressful when we had our fingertips on what we were trying to achieve.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I climbed into my shell like a true Cancerian and knuckled down and sorted stuff out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I crawl into my shell and then when Im ready to come out I'm just a little bit more awesome. Thats indeed why Im so fabulous! Lol!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ive been a stay at home mum for 3.5 years. I’m still not really keen with the term ‘stay at home mum’ - it seems to suggest that mums that work don’t ever get a chance to be at home with their kids and the mum who doesn't return to her job doesn't do any work -Neither of which are true. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But I’m yet to find a better term that suits my situation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But I digress. Choosing to stay at home and not return to work was a decision that The Husbeast and I made together. We decided that this is what works best for our family. I was excited. I had visions of kicking Martha Stewarts ass and becoming an angelic domestic goddess with all the prowess of Nigella and all the thriftiness of the family circle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But none of that happened.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In fact If I was my employer I would have fired myself a long time ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Its hard with Kids” Thats what people day</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Don't be so hard on yourself” They say that too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Enjoy your time with the kids - The dishes will be there later.” Also another humdinger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I like waking up with a clean kitchen it helps my morning zen. And I don’t have a lot of zen in the morning - I’m horrible in the morning. A morning person I am not. Which really sucks when you have kids! The kids don’t care if you're a morning person. They just know its breakfast time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is hard with kids. But that doesn't make it impossible and that doesn’t mean I should throw my hands up and toss my Nigella dreams out the door.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s my friends job to cut me some slack but If I’m not living to my own expectations how can I expect my children to??</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I just feel like I haven't been living to my full domestic goddess potential. And i didn't feel like positing - I didn't want to talk the talk if I wasn't rocking the walk.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">so why the lack of goddess mojo</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The answer is. </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I don’t know,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m not sure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But I’m doing a few things about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(If my life was a movie - cue the cheesy montage of me training, getting stronger/smarter/awesomer - all to a motivational music track. Eye of the tiger anyone?)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m moving and exercising. I started a netball team, I bought a bike trailer for the kiddies and I’m joining a bike riding club. I also bought a yoga dvd and although I find it very very hard to get out of bed before the kids to do it - its on the to do list.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve got housework schedules, lists routines and tricks - I’m getting much more organised.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Im in the early processes of starting a bit of ladies club - a sorority to go out with! Its easy to become isolated when you have little kids and its tricky to go out on the town and have a boogie and a laugh so this club is aimed at exactly achieving that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m taking more pride in the way that I look. Its the old chestnut of when you look good you feel good. Some days thats just walking out the door with out Weetbix smeared jeans on, or a bit of lippy, a fun scarf - small changes - big attitude lifters!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I’ve got this Blog. To document my journey to Goddessness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I’ve got some fun projects to share with y’all in some upcoming posts and well as regular mushy pea stuff!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Watch out Nigella! Mushypeas is coming through</span></span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-43792541915465665122014-04-22T08:00:00.000+08:002014-04-22T08:00:01.664+08:00I went to a Psychic Dinner!<div style="text-align: center;">
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I recently went to a Psychic dinner! It was something out of the box for me and heaps of fun.</div>
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I was invited by my lovely friend Ruth!</div>
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When we sat down we had three cards in front of us which told us which Psychics we were seeing.</div>
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I had a tarot reading and a sit down with two clairvoyants/mediums.</div>
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There was also a couple of ghost whisperers walking around and selecting people when the spirits wanted to talk to them.</div>
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The food was rubbish so I won't go into that but here is a recap of the predictions I received:</div>
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Theres travel in my horizon.</div>
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A new job on the way (this was predicted by two different psychics)</div>
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A celebration around my marriage,</div>
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My next baby will be a girl ( predicted by two different psychics again)</div>
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and the next baby after that will be a boy!</div>
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One of the Clairvoyants really touched on a personal issue of mine and she really managed to outline exactly what was going on - She knew all sorts of things and I didn't even say anything to her except hello. She read my energy and talked to the spirits. It was very surreal.</div>
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Also just before I was about to leave one of the ghost whisperers put his hand on my shoulder, I jumped and felt a tingle! He said there was an older gentleman with me that used to put boot polish on his bald spot - and that I should ask my Gran. Well I haven't had a chance to ask her yet but I'll keep y'all posted</div>
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I'm not sure if I'm a true believer or not it was a such a great night! Something I would love to do annually!</div>
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Have you been to a psychic?</div>
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Do you ever get your tarot done?</div>
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I wonder if the predicitions will come true?</div>
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I guess I'll have to wait and see!</div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-54722135369221270132014-04-21T21:11:00.000+08:002014-04-21T21:59:44.991+08:00Easter wrap up, Project Sandman update and Meditation.Phew.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How was your Easter? I hope you had a wonderful one. Did you spend time with family? I hope you all got a chance to relax. I love Easter time, in our house its hot cross buns, cups of tea and gearing up for winter - getting ready to snuggle under the doona. The EmuUggs are on even though its been unusually warm, I feel if I put them on then the rain is sure to follow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Usually the Mushypeas family go camping but this year was Pipsqueaks first birthday, she's all wobbly on her feet and still finding her balance so we thought a crawling baby in the bush wouldn't be much fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We had a very small get together for her birthday - our normal Easter get together with a birthday cake really. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love making birthdays magical for the kids. I feel like every year I learn a little more about putting on a good party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This year I was calm and relaxed for the first time ever and I'll put together a blog post with some great tips about kids parties soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/catching-zzzzs-project-sandman.html">Project Sandman</a> by the way was a complete bust! Failed by the second night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first night we were good boys and girls we went to bed right on time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Night two saw me crawl into bed at 11:30.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Night three was 12:30.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But by night four I gave up trying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have since then found a meditation app on my iPhone. I use a quick 15 minute one it calms me down and helps me sleep much better. Theres lots of medication apps out there - its about finding one that suits you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It definitely calms me down - gives me a better night sleep and a calmer outlook for the following day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you mediate?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My <a href="http://mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/search/label/100%20happy%20days">100 happy days</a> is still going strong. I'll post some more on that later in the week too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well I can't stay here and type when there's chocolate to be eaten!</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-9976289328867945812014-04-08T08:00:00.000+08:002014-04-08T08:00:05.442+08:00100 Happy days - Day 6 to 12<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did you head over to <a href="http://100happydays.com/">100 happy days</a>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last week I shared my first 5 days into the project 100 Happy Days - You can read about it <a href="http://mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/days-1-to-5-of-100-happy-days.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I must admit I started to find it tricky this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was struggling to find things to post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For this project I wanted to try and find things outside of my daughters - otherwise it would just the 100 pictures of my girls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to challenge myself to look at the great stuff outside of my family. Thats not to say that they won't ever be a picture of them included within in this project - I just wanted to push outside the given.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This project is really forcing me to stop and look. Think and evaluate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And even though this week, I sometimes struggled, I'm glad I have all these things that makes me happy and I truly value the reflecting time, even if it just a couple of minutes.</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-56875148963877840192014-04-07T20:49:00.002+08:002014-04-07T21:17:33.454+08:00Catching ZZZZ's - Project Sandman<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you a night owl?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you have trouble going to bed? To sleep?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Husbeast and I are so tired, but yet we don't go to bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As part of my new years resolution I resolved to go to bed earlier ( <a href="http://mushypeasandme.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/how-i-aim-to-make-other-dance-mums-hate.html" target="_blank">read more here</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But thats not happening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Miss L drags me out of bed at about 7 ( I know, I know..... thats not even early) and it takes me till about lunch and two coffees before I function.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's terrible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every night we say "tomorrow we must go to bed earlier!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then we say it again in the morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But for some reason it never happens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whats wrong with us?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are adults. Like proper grown ups, but yet getting up to going to bed is really hard!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once the kids are in bed then thats our free time - we get so little of it we try to hang onto to every second.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But we are wasting it - being a zombie in front of the telly is not effective use of free time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its no wonder that Miss L throws a tantrum every time she has to leave the park - her free time is over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Husbeast and I aren't throwing tantrums but perhaps if you think about it maybe we are silently. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We are sticking to the man! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The only problem with that is we ARE the Man in this situation and the only person we are hurting is ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Enough is enough Peabodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Enter project sandman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. This project goes for 1 week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2. At 9.30pm the TV gets turned off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3. We have 30 mins of reading time (no screens before you go to sleep is said to increase the quality of your sleep)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4. At 10 its lights out,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5. The only exception from these rules is to include 'business time'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(for more clarification on 'business time' visit The Flight of the Conchords <a href="http://flightoftheconchords.co.nz/chords-lyrics/the-distant-future/" target="_blank">here</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've got big expectations for this project,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I want to get better quality sleep - (quitting sugar has helped me with this)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I want to get out of bed earlier and happier - I've got fantasies of drinking a HOT coffee without any interruptions while the kids are still asleep! Imagine that!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I want to read more and value my tv shows more!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So tonight marks night 1 so I had better go and get some zzzzz!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Goodnight </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Peas Out!</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-66912615105171159762014-03-31T08:00:00.000+08:002014-03-31T08:00:05.160+08:00days 1 to 5 of 100 happy days!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its been a long time between posts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve been in a bit of a funky head space dealing with some proper grown up stuff and I feel this year is slipping away super fast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes this wacky earth points you in the right direction and you think wowzers this is for me!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I stumbled upon a great project called 100 happy days and i thought Wowzers!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Head on over to<a href="http://www.100happydays.co/" target="_blank"> <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">100happydays.com</span></a> and have a look. 71% who undertake this project don't finish! I think that's a sad reflection of this crazy fast paced world we live in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Already its the end of March! I thought that by doing 100 happy days it would encourage me to slow down and take stock every day! To be grateful, thankful and take the time just to be in the moment one day at a time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm 5 days in and already I can feel the difference. I'm thinking of what I'm doing, I'm more aware of myself and its pushing happiness into my conscious thoughts….’what photo could i post today?’ </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m fortunate that sometimes I can choose between more than one. Its encouraging in that even when you've had a bad day or your in a funk it helps to put things in perspective,</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Below are my first 5 days of happiness.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Day 3 - Getting back on the netball court.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Are you in a funk? Is your year going by at the speed of light? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Do you think 100 happy days would help you? </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Give it a try and let me know how you go!</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Peas out, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Jane.</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0Australasia-34.885930940753148 116.3671875-60.449140440753148 75.0585935 -9.32272144075315 157.6757815tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-52121490314801701292014-02-15T21:54:00.001+08:002014-02-15T21:54:18.661+08:00Taking Stock February 2014<div style="color: #323333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I haven’t been around much lately. I've been in a bit of a funky headspace. I’m feeling overwhelmed and low. This year feels like it is slipping away too fast, and I feel I haven’t got a tread on the ground or leeway into my resolutions. Some are coming along but mostly I feel like the days are whizzing past which creates overwhelming feelings of blah.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But lucky for me ( and maybe you) I do have some exciting projects in the pipeline and light at the end of the tunnel.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A good exercise to do when your feeling blah is taking stock. Pip Lincolne does this, You can read her latest taking stock <a href="http://meetmeatmikes.com/2014/02/taking-stock-005/" target="_blank">here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pip has encouraged me to do my own taking stock so here it is,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Looking: at my two beautiful girls</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Playing: Not candy crush</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Deciding: where to live</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Wishing: for a bigger garden</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Enjoying: freedom of sewing costumes</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Waiting: internet purchases to arrive</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Liking: One handed Cooks magazine</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Wondering: where this year is going</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Loving: Pinterest</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Pondering: politicians decisions.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Considering: a new haircut</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Watching: Grimm season 3</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Hoping:for change </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Marvelling: at the olympic athletes</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Needing: a massage</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Smelling: Dolche and Gabana</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Wearing: tinkerbell Pjs</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Following: <a href="http://meetmeatmikes.com/" target="_blank">Pip Lincolne</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Noticing: the weather getting cooler</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Knowing: theres hope in them hills</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thinking: too much</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Feeling: overwhelmed</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Admiring: seamstresses on Pinterest</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Sorting: my craft hoard</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Buying: groceries ( boring!)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Getting: some cupcake patty pans and other party goodies</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Bookmarking: sewing tutorials heres just one of many here</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Disliking: the shark cull</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Opening: a new jar of vegemite</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Giggling: at my two daughters laughing together</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Feeling: blessed</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Snacking: on savoury shapes</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Coveting: a brown leather jacket</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Wishing: for brighter days</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Helping: my daughters</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Hearing: my own voices going round and round in my head!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is a good reflection to do often I think.</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-54382338198704137782014-01-06T20:51:00.001+08:002014-01-06T20:51:46.405+08:00Evil sucky vortex's - You you might know them as Supermarkets.<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’ve even given myself two days to calm down before writing this, but my blood is still boiling! I don’t even know where to start! I’m flabbergasted, disgusted, conflicted! It’s an emotional turmoil in my mushy pea brain!!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Perhaps I’ll start with a disclaimer.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">When I started Mushy Peas and Me I said to myself I was not going to use it as a platform to get up on my soapbox and rant and rant! I’ve got my own personal Facebook account for that ;)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I wanted it to be a happy place about domestic-y things with a but of life thrown in here and there, So don’t panic that most of my posts will be rants. Just this one.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Ohmygodican’tbeliveititotallywentshoppingatthesupermarketandtheyhadeastereggsupontheshelffourdaysafternewyearsevethosecorporategreedyshits!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So I went to do my grocery shopping and they had Easter eggs on the shelf. Easter Eggs.Four days after new years eve. Thats only a week and half after Christmas. As if they aren’t going to make enough money in January selling Australian flag gear thats all made in Bangladesh sweat shops and actually has nothing to do with Australia at all.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Easter Eggs. Four days after New Year Eve.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Easter is in April this year so even for the most organised of folk thats still 3 months too early.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I resent you giant supermarket corporation.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I resent that you use my children as marketing tools so you can make money.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I resent that you make your own labels and and have your brand and one other brand (whoever can pay higher) on the shelf. Two brands of oats is really not good enough.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I resent that you try and tell me your supporting local farmers when Lamb is $24.00 a kilo even though there is a glutton of lamb on the market due to the banning of Live Exports ( thats a whole separate post I think.)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I resent that you advertise that most of your fruit and veg comes from Australia like you deserve a gold star for it. It should be a no brainer that your doing that, why should you get a star for something you should already be doing - Isn't your giant profit enough?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So no more Mr and Mrs Supermarket.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">You are deleted from my life</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Unfriended!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I will get my produce from the farmers market (something I should be doing all the time but only do sometimes)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I will source my flour and stevia form somewhere else and I will protest with my dollar.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I will choose who gets my money. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But who am I to judge the evilness of supermarket corporations?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Didn't I just pledge to buy ethically? then go out and buy form non ethical clothing manufacturers?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I even downloaded the buy ethically App - you can get that<a href="http://www.ethical.org.au/get-involved/resources/shop-ethical-app/" target="_blank"> here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I found it really really hard!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Why is it so hard?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Its hard for me with two kids to get to a farmers market. Pushing the pram around in the dirt and getting bogged, not having enough hands to hold Mis L and my veggies- Ugh disastrous.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Where else does one buy theIr flour from? ( no really - I'm asking proper like, that question is not rhetorical.)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maybe your a working mum or dad? Who is tired! who works shifts and never gets to sleep in except on sundays - You don’t want be at the market - you want to be able to go to the supermarket to get your groceries and night and save the weekends for family time. I get it.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Maybe your a single mum or dad who doesn't have family members close by to watch your kids so you have to take them to the supermarket and bribe them with January easter eggs so they stay in the trolley. I get it. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Whatever your reason the supermarkets make it super convenient, and super tricky to go anywhere else. They are like an evil vortex sucking you in.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It’s hard out there and the Supermarkets thrive on this and it make me sick.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So whats the answer?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I don’t know.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I think its a different answer for everybody,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For me its about organisation, energy and preparation. My mantra for 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have to be organised to get a sitter for the kids, or get a trolley to hold my veggies and chuck the Pipsqueak in the baby carrier and get to the farmers market. I have to be organised to get up early to get there!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I have to be organised to bring my shopping bags, shopping list and meal plan.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So much organisation.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And being organised takes energy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So perhaps I will just stop buying stuff altogether! I have heaps of clothes and shoes I don’t even need the stuff I bought the other day. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I will try and go 6 months without buying any clothes or shoes for me or the kids. Or if I do buy it will be a thought out calm decision from an ethical company - Not a frenzied last minute regret buy. Or I’ll buy second hand (which I do quite a bit for the kids already) or I’ll get on the machine.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I will save the planet</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And the supermarkets can shove there USA oranges right up their backsides.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thank you or listening,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Are you sticking to them? I’f not cut yourself some slack - The year is still only beginning. You don't need to be in a rush like you know who…..</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-66124256092649817122013-12-31T15:08:00.000+08:002013-12-31T15:08:04.084+08:00How I aim to make the other Dance Mums hate me and other goals for 2014.<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Happy new year Pea-bodies!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A new year.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I love New years day.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I love what it brings. I love the fresh beginning. The clean start.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I love making resolutions and I get excited about the new changes I can make.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I make them every year. Some stick. Some don’t. And that's OK.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I feel that change can be progress, no matter how slow.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Some people aren’t into the resolution making thing and that's OK. But I love to make goals and resolutions every year.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I know in reality its just a day - and you can make changes and goals anytime. But there's a kind of energy that comes with New Years Day. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A clean slate. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">A new start. </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Better beginnings. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So Pea-bodies here is a list of things I want to achieve this coming new year.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">(It looks like a long list but its really not. I promise.)</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Get healthy:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cut back on my sugar: </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Although I have cut out my sugar considerably it keeps creeping creeping creeping back into my diet - so I want to quit it and have control over it and lead a healthier lifestyle.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Cut out the Kids sugar. Miss L eats heaps of sugar! Heaps! I wasn't aware how much sugar until I cut out my own. I want to keep sugar just for treats and special occasions!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Get Up and at ‘em:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I need to jump out of bed. In 2014 I want to become a morning person! I want to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier! I love being up at night - this is my free time, but I love getting good quality sleep more. And the kids make being a night owl really hard and the hard drive makes taping the TV really easy so I’m struggling to come up with reasons why not to turn in at a reasonable hour.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I want to be organised. I want to be so organised that the other Dance mums are sick with jealousy! Cakes, biscuits, clean house, washing done, places on time, gosh I'm getting dizzy just hinting about my success with this! all the other mums will hate me I’ll be that angelic! When I’m organised and in control then I'm not stressed. not stressed is happy. Stressed is not happy. simples.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I want to learn the Ukulele. I started this when I was pregnant with Pipsqueak but the morning sickness took over and I could barely get out of bed let alone play music. I love to teach my self new skills (face-painting, crochet, sewing…. I'm not always good at these new skills but I love the challenge) I think that as adults we make kids try all sorts of new things but yet we don’t push ourselves out of our comfort zone and try new things ourselves. Mastering news skills is a skill in itself i think. There needs to be something outside of work and kids. Humans are curious and clever so I think its natural to try new things, and feed that need.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Get Ethical:</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I want to make Ethical decisions starting with fashion. I will sign up with <a href="http://www.meetmeatmikes.com/" target="_blank">Pip Lincolne from Meet me at Mikes</a> <a href="http://meetmeatmikes.com/2013/12/a-year-of-ethical-fashion/" target="_blank">Here</a>. I want to start with fashion and then onto food and other things.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Lastly I want to make Mushy Peas and Me a great place for you all to come and have a cuppa and quick read whilst you're taking a break form something else. I want my bloggersphere to bring joy and smiles whilst you follow me why I try to master all the things above!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Do you make resolutions?</span></div>
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<br />Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-72818121868490656322013-12-22T21:37:00.000+08:002013-12-22T21:37:12.686+08:00Quitting the white stuff - a little about the beginning of my journey to cutting sugar.<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I quit sugar. Yep. Me. I did that. Me. The Timtam squarfing, juice drowning, chocmilk bathing, cake face planting me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I signed up with <a href="http://www.iquitsugar.com/" target="_blank">Sarah Wilson</a> and did her 8 week quitting sugar detox program.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">If I’m honest with you I didn't do the whole 8 weeks, I fell off the wagon about half way through, then just for good measure the wagon backed up and reversed over the top of me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But I got back in the wagon and I think thats a credit to Sarah Wilson's program. I’m usually more of a ‘“Oh well there goes that wagon” as I stand up and mill around while the dust clears waiting for the next wagon to come by’ sort of a girl. But I seem to be staying on this wagon and I think its because of the detox program.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The first week was easy! This is a piece of cake. Or not-cake as it turns out.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The second week became harder, and I got tired, so tired. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But although I was tired at the same time I was starting to feel more energetic, and I was sleeping better. So. Much. Better.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">In fact I didn't realise how badly I was sleeping until the quality of my sleep improved.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Then other benefits starting sneaking in, my teeth improved: no aching or sensitivity. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My skin cleared up and people started to comment on how good I looked.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I’ve lost some weight and a lot of bloating!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I’m calmer. I’m more relaxed. No nightmares. My reflexes have improved too - I’m catching stuff that Pipsqueak is dropping like some kind of a Super Mumma Ninja.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They ask “What are you doing?” and I think they are expecting responses like: </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I got myself a Himalayan guru” or ; </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“Im using mud packs from melted Fijian snow.” Or;</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I ordered a juice off the late night shopping channel that is made from the fossilised DNA from the DODO bird.”</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">They expect anything thats easier than giving up sugar, because when I tell them, I cut out my sugar. They looked surprised.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And thats because the more than half the time, we don't even realise that we are eating the sugar we are eating. Its in everything.EVERYTHING! Even Weetbix! Weetbix! I always thought it was just wheat. Silly me.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And I think thats the best way to go about it. Gently gently. Because once you start feeling the improvements, your motivated. Motivated and converted - so theres no need for the bootcamp do it or die approach.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Its been a good few weeks since I finished the detox and the sugar has crept back in at times, but overall I would consider my diet to be low sugar, and hopefully I can get it even lower.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">My next challenge is to tackle the kids, and get them off the white stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Yes. DO IT.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Its scary, but thats ok, start small and slowly cut it out, you will feel the difference and wonder why you didn't do it before. Or if your still scared sign up for Sarahs program like me - just try it and see how you go.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So don’t be scared, just give it a go. If I can. You can.</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-51457477344655709362013-12-21T21:31:00.001+08:002013-12-21T21:38:00.646+08:00Is it a Plane? Is it a bird? No.... its super Mini Peeps!!<div style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Every now and then I come across a project and I think YES! This is a great idea!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">And at the moment I have a lot of little peeps in my life so when I came across <a href="http://www.hideousdreadfulstinky.com/2012/12/reversible-cape-tutorial-for-capes-for.html"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">these</span></a> great capes by Hideous!Dreadful!Stinky! I just knew I had to make some.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So I thought about the design and got all my material sorted and thought - ok now I have plenty of time before the Mothers group xmas party.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So as usual I sewed in plenty of time and had them all ready waiting to go a week before the party!!! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I know! I know! Im clutching my sides with laughter too.....Hilarious aren't I?</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">As usual I left it to the last minute! I didn't get to bed until 2:30am the night before the party! </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But all the same I really enjoyed making them and I hope all the kids enjoy playing with them,</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">It feels like every three year old becomes obsessed with super heros - a toddler rite of passage!!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I used a combination of <a href="http://www.hideousdreadfulstinky.com/2012/12/reversible-cape-tutorial-for-capes-for.html"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">this </span></a>tutorial by Marigold from <a href="http://www.hideousdreadfulstinky.com/"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">Hideous!Dreadful!Stinky!</span></a> and <a href="http://www.howdoesshe.com/super-hero-cape/"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">this</span></a> tutorial by Lara from <a href="http://www.howdoesshe.com/"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">How Does She</span></a>. These are both great tutorials so I won't go and rewrite a new one for you.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I used satin and felt as I thought that the shininess of the stain was like a superhero suit and the felt doesn't fray so I was able to sew around without fear of the monogram fraying and falling off. Also the shiny vs the fluffy is a nice contrast and tactile for the kids!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This is the first time I had been back at the sewing machine for longer than 12 months, and I forgot how much I enjoyed creating and sewing! Even if it was very late by the time I had finished!! Its reignited my sewing bug - Which is great as I have a whole box of unfinished projects that need to be finished! And a big list of ones that need to be started!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Do you have a little peep in your life? If so you should give these capes a go!</span></div>
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Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-27677889947490506402013-12-16T23:09:00.002+08:002013-12-16T23:14:42.553+08:00The hair clip that broke the Mummy camels back!Ok. So.<br />
After my last post, it all went down hill somewhat. I went from having a great looking clip all blue and sequinny, perfect for a dance recital to 11:30pm the next night tearing my hair out and stressed beyond belief.<br />
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Im not really sure how a tiny hair clip and a dance routine less than two minutes can cause so much stress, but it comes under the bracket of what I like to call 'Mum stress.'<br />
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Mum stress is stress over the small things, although they don't feel small at the time. At the end of the day, or the next day or after your daughter performs perfectly at her dance recital you think - all that stress over nothing.....?<br />
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Mum stress is: Does you son have a warm enough jumper at the school camp and what if it gets wet? You only packed one!<br />
Mum stress is: Does your daughter have the right shoes on the right feet so they don't get blisters, cuts or burnt feet.<br />
Mum stress is: Quick quick get in the bath, its already 8:30pm and you need to be up at 5am the next day to get on a plane/train/bus.<br />
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Mum stress is all the little things that make the family function - because if Mum doesn't stress who will?<br />
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Not Dad thats for sure!<br />
They don't stress if your son doesn't have a jumper - well maybe he can borrow one.<br />
Dads dont stress if your daughter doesn't the right shoes - they can just wear bare feet, i'll scrub them in the bath tonight.<br />
Dads don't care if the kids get in the bath late and bed late - They can sleep in the car on the way.<br />
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Why is it so much simpler for Dads?<br />
Because Dads do it different.<br />
Not wrong.<br />
Just different.<br />
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And although I was stressed over a small hair clip which evens I type that it seems ridiculous - my stress levels have actually decreased since I accepted that Dads do it different!<br />
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Its a hard lesson for Mums to learn but a worthwhile one.<br />
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As it turns out my hair clip went from this:</div>
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A perfectly great looking hair clip - But a bit too heavy for dancing so it kept falling out!</div>
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Tiny bits of ribbon not really long enough to do anything with, after my two attempts at a ribbon pom pom failed miserably (insert Mum stress now)</div>
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a tulle pom pom that stayed in Miss Ls hair and didn't annoy her while she performed on stage </div>
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(very proud mum moment - with a bit of mum stress too!)</div>
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Jane.</div>
Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-61380283380320262402013-12-10T00:06:00.000+08:002013-12-16T23:14:42.555+08:00The Ribbon Retreat.Wow!<br />
I just made this hair clip for Miss L's dance recital! It took me about an hour!<br />
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I used <a href="http://www.theribbonretreat.com/blog/how-to-make-a-loopy-puff-bow.html" target="_blank">this tutorial</a> from The Ribbon Retreat!<br />
They have lots of great tutorials - so if you have a little girl in your life head over there and you will find something fun to make!<br />
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I did realise while hot glue gunning away that Miss L is 3 years old and this is the first hair clip I have made her! Which is crazy given that she wears clips in her hair all this time!<br />
I think Im about to save myself a whole lot of money!!!<br />
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Peas out.<br />
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<br />Mushy Peas and Mehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10277507649551075766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4045113807818159855.post-32713806618320984572013-12-08T23:22:00.002+08:002013-12-16T23:14:49.647+08:00Confessions of a craft hoarder.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ok.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its 20 days out from Christmas and my sewing room looks like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yep.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I heard your gasp of horror.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi. My name is Jane and I am a Craft Hoarder.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Wow feels good to get that off my chest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Seriously though I have a hoarding problem. I have stuff in there that hasn't even been used. Most of the stuff has only been used once and there is oh so much material. So. Much. Material.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have a few crafty projects in mind for the Christmas season but cannot get to my sewing machine - (If you squint you can see it in there......somewhere.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some of these projects include sewing Pipsqueaks first Christmas Stocking and altering Miss L's dance costume so that it doesn't look like she has fleas while she is dancing on stage at the end year performance!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Often I follow lovely blogs and they post about how organised they are; and how beautiful their craft space is from which they produce beautiful crafty items. I then drool over my computer and swear in a very un-lady like fashion when I get electric shocks from the keyboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I like to think that the mess is a result of me being a creative genius heavily involved in wonderful crafter-noons.......... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*insert visions of my daughters running and singing in matching dresses Sound of Music style.*</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">.....but as it turns out... Im just Lazy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Right then, Its time for Action.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Admitting you have a problem is ..... whats that saying again?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well I rolled up my sleeves and it took a few day and now my Sewing room looks like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shall I give you a moment to wipe your drool!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(If you squint you can see Labels. Labels!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So now I have to get my sew on. I'm not sure why I'm using Christmas as a countdown given the projects I want to do need to be done before Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So as the new year approaches I think perhaps including in my resolutions is to keep my sewing room tidy and not to buy any more material. I wonder if I can go a whole year without buying or acquiring any more material.... mmm something for me to think about or something my avid readers could hold me to......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">More posts on my successful sewing projects to come...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Peas out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jane.</span><br />
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