Welcome to Your New Year – 2016!

Welcome to Your New Year – 2016!

So did you manage to take a break over Christmas? Did you take time to reflect on the past year and maybe set a goal or two the 2016? Did you return feeling somewhat refreshed and enthused about your new plans and your brand new improved life? And since then, having made it to January 7th, have you already slipped from that new exercise, food consumption or other new aspect of your life and fallen into a behaviour patterns which are the ‘old you’? Have you already caught yourself thinking old familiar negative thoughts that you wanted to leave behind? Any of this can leave us discouraged or despondent.

At Christmas Time – Presence Vs Presents?

At Christmas Time – Presence Vs Presents?

December is such an interesting time. There is a natural split – wanting to be out and about enjoying the summer weather and longer days and the lure of parties and end of year events. Yet as I speed up to complete my (mostly self-imposed) end of year projects and finalise plans, the fatigue factor creeps in and feel out of puff. Do you recognise yourself here too??

Young at Heart. Fresh in Spirit

Young at Heart. Fresh in Spirit

My 6 year old daughter has never a strong bushwalker (she seems to have blanked her memories of our family’s soggy muddy trudges to random waterfalls and equates the Blue Mountains only with burnt marshmallows.)
So imagine my delight when she happily accepted our neighbour’s invite to go orienteering last week.

Halloween Approaching! Healthy Pumpkin Pie Recipe

Halloween Approaching! Healthy Pumpkin Pie Recipe

Enjoy this Healthy Pumpkin Pie recipe – nice for Halloween.
Ahhh.this brings back childhood memories. I don’t think my mum ever knew what rice malt syrup was, but you get the idea…..