These past few weeks of holiday mode have been lovely. My husband has been around almost all of the time, we got to go away a few times and we even snuck in a little mini adults only camping trip to Kai Iwi lakes! We have been lucky to say the least. Tui turned one! My god, the year has gone so fast. I found myself reflecting on ME managing to survive motherhood for almost three years now. I look at my life now and laugh about the past years of drunken debauchery and silliness (I do still have bits of this now, its all about balance- LOL). I have kind of stumbled in to the good life and I couldn't be happier. I mean, sure, we have our moments where shit doesn't generally go the way we would like- but all in all, we are doing great! I made a pact with my husband to try and do things differently this year, we are saying goodbye to sugar in our house. TV is limited (which is a massive challenge for a PLL obsessed, netflix binger so- don't shoot me if I reneg on this one). We will try to spend more time with our kids and less money. Cough* mission impossible cough*. Perhaps I'm feeling a little virtuous. Maybe I'm pushing it but I'm going to try my best. I've made a conscious effort to make changes with Noah's behaviour and after researching a bit more than usual, trying to educate myself about food more - I've found a solution that is currently working for us. Noah has become more sociable, he's listening better, he isn't as angry as he used to be and he does much better when he is with other kids. I attribute this to the cutting down of sugar (he's growing up too). JEEZ, you'd be surprised how much things have sugar in them. so say good-bye to the sugar, its outta here! Watch this film. Seriously. ThatSugarFilm Sugar, Sweetener & Additives are all going bye bye from our house! Obviously, this isn't an overnight thing because I'd probably suffer from horrible migraines and sugar withdrawl if I went cold-turkey so I'm starting slow. From now on "two kids and a mum go round the outside, round the outside, round the outside" of the supermarket. As a general rule, if it can rot then we can have it. If bacteria like it then my stomach will too! Goodbye favourite bread, I will miss you... not as much as chocolate. I will miss you more. Wait for me.. you delicious piece of heaven. Ok.. might have to renegotiate chocolate. I'll keep you posted blog, you keep me honest. LOL s xx
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Irene
25/1/2016 02:48:00 pm
YOU Rock xxx
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