May 17, 2013
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Winners of Robomaid and MOG

I’m so excited to finally annouce the winners of both the Robomaid and MOG Winners now that I have heard back from them all and they are happy to be announced!!

So the winner of the Robomaid is Kate Rigg Fletcher!

I know she’s very excited at winning, as its going to be a huge blessing to her family of 5 cherubs as well!

Congratulations Kate!

The Winner of the $100 ticketmaster voucher and 1 month subscription to MOG is Daneal Maloney!

I’ve heard its already going towards a very special ticket for her to a concert this year!

Congratulations Daneal!

The winners of the other 9 vouchers for a 1 month subscription to MOG are:

- Cassandra Menne

- Sonia El-Sheikh

- Jamee Berryman

- Brittney Smith

- Katrina Stubbs

- Lisa Warren

- Tina Gray

- Larissa Carter

- Trish Taylor

Congratulations everyone, you would all have received an email from me with your voucher code to MOG!

Happy Listening!

May 14, 2013
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10 Things That Make Me Really Happy…

Day 14, Tuesday: Ten things that make you really happy

Sharing things that make you happy is much easier to do then things that make you sad!

Here are just some of the things (have to narrow it to 10!) that make me really happy!

In no particular order!!

Morning Conversations over breakfast

Coffee… Coffee makes me REALLY happy!!

I love Instagram – Its a visual way to keep up with what my friends are doing!

I love a clean house – Clean House, Clean Mind!

Pinterest – Its my weakness… I could get lost in Pinterest!

Coffee Dates with Hubby (and kids when they arnt at school/kindy!!)

Wicked The Musical — This makes me really happy, especially since they are coming back to Australia next year!!

Making Silly Faces with my girls, they always make me smile!

I’m really excited that Colour Run is coming to the Sunshine Coast!

Scrapbooking Makes Me Happy!

My beautiful family… They always make me Happy!

Now if you dont count how many photos I actually loaded here, you can imagine that these are some of the 10 happiest things in my life!

What makes you happy?

May 13, 2013
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Apologies!

Day 13, Monday: Issue a public apology. This can be as funny or as serious or as creative as you want it to be.

Monday’s are crazy busy in our house!

So blogging is normally the last thing on my mind!

Back to normal blogging schedule tomorrow!

And I’ll be announcing the Robomaid and MOG Winners!

May 12, 2013
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I Miss…

Day 12, Sunday: What do you miss? (a person, a thing, a place, a time of your life…)

Its hurts that you chose her over me…

It hurts that you still see my sister and not me…

It hurts that my kids dont know you….

It hurts that it wasn’t my fault, and yet you blamed me…

It hurts that you wont dont want to know me…

I Miss You…But Your Too Blind To See….

May 10, 2013
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Me in 10 Words

Day 11, Saturday: Sell yourself in 10 words or less

A short and sweet blog post today, we have to describe ourselves in 10 words….

I’m a little sleep deprived as our middle boy Nicholas has been sick the past few days!

Here are mine!

10. Learner Runner
9. Pinterest Addict
8. Pink Fan (both the singer and the colour)
7. A good listener to my friends
6. Creative Digital Scrapbooker
5. A loyal friend/daughter/sister
4. A Christian living under Grace
3. Photographer
2. Wife to an amazing man
1. Mother to 5 beautiful children

I’m Me!

Considering I can never speak in 10 words or less, I’ve made my words in bold!!

Have a great weekend!

May 10, 2013
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All it takes is one drink…

Day 10, Friday: Most embarrassing moment (s). Spill.

When I read about what the blog prompt was for today I had to sit and ponder it for a while. Sharing something embarrassing on my blog for everyone to read? Um…. not something I would normally do, thankyou very much!

I’m much more happy to share my embarrassment behind the scenes! I’ve left it all day to even write about, I was even thinking of not blogging today and just picking it up again tomorrow, but the whole point of this challenge to to blog the hard things, and man this is hard!

So I’m going to share the most recent embarrassing moment that I’ve had…

Last weekend, we were invited out to dinner with a friend of mine (who also happens to work at my children’s school)! It was the friend’s birthday that we were going out to share, has become quite a good friend to me, and we really wanted to go out and celebrate with her and her husband and friends. So I organised for my sister to watch the kids (well, more like bribed her by saying the kids had forgotten what she looked like!!) and we went out to dinner. We were meeting at a bar before hand for a drink which was something we were looking forward to, cause we dont normally go out, especially without the kids! So we arrived at the bar, and then everyone else started arriving, including the twins teacher, Dominic’s teacher and some of the other teachers from school. I felt a bit awkward (they probably didn’t care!) being there because I didn’t want them to feel weird that they were going out with “one of the parents from school!”

We had a dinner reservation at 7:30pm, at a Thai restaurant (somewhere I’ve never been before, mind you!) Some of the other teachers stayed behind at the bar as they had plans, while we all went along to the Thai restaurant, we were seated with Dominic’s teacher, who is such a beautiful lady and her husband. Surprisingly both Stuart and her husband got along so well! Being that we are all Christian, we spoke a bit about the churches that we attend and people that we know in common. Being that I’ve never eaten Thai before, I decided to go with something safe… Satay Chicken and Rice! It only had one little * next to the name, so I figured it wouldnt be too hot for my tastebuds! Stuart ended up choosing something Panang Chicken which although also had only *, came out being a lot hotter than mine!

So while we are all eating dinner, one of the other couples asked me what I thought of my dinner, to which I replied

“I’ve never had it before… I’m a Thai virgin”

(seems thats actually has a double meaning!)

Well that set him and his wife off laughing so much and thought it was hilarious!

Of course, I cottoned on to what he meant and my reply was of course

“I know, I cant believe it either, here I am with 5 children and yet I’m a Thai virgin”

So it seems it only takes one rum and coke, and a night off from the kids and my mouth starts saying the most embarrassing things!

May 9, 2013
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A Moment in Your Day…

Day 9, Thursday: A moment in your day (this can be just a photo or both a photo and words)

We spend between 10-20 minutes a day with Dominic doing his homework, number facts and readers with him.

Now with bonus glasses!

May 8, 2013
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Run Your Own Race…

Day 8, Wednesday: A piece of advice you have for others. Anything at all.

As Mums we often get sucked into the hype that we have to be the best, look the best, and act the best to be able to feel any worth in society. For us mothers who work inside the home (yes WORK!) we often get caught up looking at other people’s homes and feeling like we dont measure up or that we have to have a certain amount of money/car/house/lifestyle to be worthy of our friends.

Well today, my advice is Run Your Own Race.

It doesnt matter what car you drive, or how big your house is, as long as you are happy in your environment, why should you think about changing it to live up to the hype of someone else!

I’m very blessed that we are surrounded with friends who have never measured us up before they decide if we can be friends, however I have in the past met people who didn’t think we were good enough because we wernt in the same social circles they are in.

Their loss….

And in the words of Will Smith…

Whats one thing you do, to make sure your running your own race?

May 7, 2013
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Afraid

Day 7, Tuesday: The thing(s) you’re most afraid of

This one has been a hard blog post to write about, because it conjures up all types of images and feelings that I dont know if I’m ready to blog about!

When thinking of what I’m most afraid of my first thought is always my family. I’m blessed to married to an amazing man and together we have 5 beautiful children, who (touch wood) have never had any serious injuries/complications that could happen to anyone. I’m always afraid that I’m not being the best mother I possible can be for them, I pray daily that they realise the sacrifies we make on a daily basis to ensure we are raising them in the best possible way, and teaching them values that they will take into adulthood. I’m a mother, its our job to be afraid for our children, but I was born to do this! To be a mother, to have a positive influence in their lives and pray that I dont screw it up!

I’m constantly afraid that I can’t do it all- Mother- Photographer- School Volunteer- Church Volunteer- Scrapbooker- Blogger- Friend-Daughter/Sister- WifeBut you know what I’ve learnt in my time as being all of these. That its ok to not be able to be them all, all the time. Its ok if sometimes you just have to go with the flow and let other people help. That you need to take time for yourself to just be YOU…Even though thats something I struggle with everyday, because I like to help people, and so often I do all of these things, with no thought to how much I’m burning out and forgetting the most important person… ME! If I dont take care of myself, how and I ever going to be able to be all the above people?

May 6, 2013
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Introducing the RM-770 Robot Vacuum, otherwise known as ROBOmaid!

{Review Post with Giveaway Attached}

With 5 young children who are still learning that food actually goes in your mouth and not all over the floor, you can imagine the amount of sweeping, vacuuming and mopping that is done on a daily/weekly basis in our home.

We cant even go one morning without at least something being spilled in the kitchen or milk and cereal dropped on the floor.

Let me tell you… Weetbix.. it sets like freaking concrete if you dont clean up that mess as soon as it drops to the floor!
With winter approaching though, we normally have toast more often as its nice, quick and warms you up on the cold mornings. Plus if we are running behind on schedule for the morning, we can make toast to go!

Now if only I could get my children to clean up their messes after themselves and I would be a happy Mum! But alas, they still haven’t grasped the concept of sweeping up their mess after breakfast!

My vacuum never seems to get packed away, cause I’m always cleaning up the floors, so I know that if we were to ever win lotto the first thing I would do is hire a cleaner… even if it was just to come in and do my vacuuming!

However in the meantime, I have found a solution!

Its red, shiny, makes a wonderful purring sound as it glides along the floor picking up all the mess that the kids leave behind… and I dont have to do a thing!

Introducing my new best friend!

Robomaid… Isnt she pretty!

Now onto some of the technical details of the Robomaid… I’m not one to read a manual, thats hubby’s job!

But here is what I do know!

- All I need to do with my Robomaid when I took it out of the box was charge her for 12 hours, then press start and off she went!

- Robomaid is more efficient and affordable than other vacuum cleaners on the markets as it uses up to 20 times less energy and 20 times cheaper to run! (bonus in my book!)

- Robomaid uses sophisticated sensor technology to move its way around your home, it takes it sweet time ensuring a thorough job each time. In an hour of being on, she can cover up to 100 square metres!

- It learns the layout of your house, so that it doesn’t bump into furniture, drive itself down the steps or get stuck in the bathroom.

- Using the virtual wall accessory you can section off areas of your home, you dont want Robomaid to go into (like our playroom when Harry is sleeping!)

- Once its used up all its juice, Robomaid will take herself back to its docking station and recharge itself ready for the next use! (no finding it dead under the couch!)

- One extra bonus that the Robomaid can do is mopping… Thats right, with the microfibre cloth that comes with it, you can use it to do basic mopping, with no need for harsh chemicals.

And the exciting part….

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