3 "sweet" ideas with Gerry's gluten free wraps
I found Gerry's Gluten free wraps a while ago and have been eating them ever since! They are convenient, keep really well, and are super versatile. I use the large ones as pizza bases, the medium sized ones as wraps for lunches and the minis I use when having Mexican dishes, to wrap up a sausage in or for snacks :) Without going into too much detail I have trouble digesting a variety of things such as fruit, high lactose foods such as milk and wheat based foods. It is annoyin
Stuff I forgot to tell my daughter - by Michele A'Court - Review and blog
I read this book a few years ago after my friend Rachel gave it to me right after my second child was born, and I read it in a haze of tiredness, poop explosions and tantrums. And it was an entertaining funny read among the chaos. I was also convinced that I was going to teach my kids everything they needed to know about life by 5 years old! So far, my eldest Scarlett can put her shoes on 1 out of 5 times and wipe her arse on occasion by herself... that's about it. "Stuff I f
Safe essential oils for babies and the dangers of some.
Essential oils can be healing, have amazing properties and make things smell great. I use them all the time on myself, I have tea tree face wash, I use lavender oil under my pillow for my anxiety and I use orange oil in cleaning products. But I also want to put it out there that they can also be dangerous, for babies and young children. They are concentrated and for good reason should be used with a carrier oil when they are to be placed on the skin. I have seen people place
Rolling with the punchlines – by Urzila Carlson – Review and blog
No word of a lie this book took me 7 days to read! (you will probably only see the irony in that if you knew that Urzila frequents the program 7 days)…. None the less it is true. Usually if I know I am going to review a book that I am reading I will write notes scribbled down or typed on a word document saved lazily on the desktop of my computer, but with this one I accidentally just read the whole thing and forgot about all that. I did think about things to say in the shower
Anxiety.... In case of emergency... medication.
A few weeks ago I had a doctors appointment about my anxiety. You can read about it HERE. I just came back from the doctors a few hours ago, my blood work came back fine, which is a relief, although it just really means that it is all in my head (so to speak). I possibly have low grade depression (based on a questionnaire) which I am sure at least 50% of the population probably has anyway... But the anxiety is still there. I now have some "in case of emergency medication" th
Too much of a good thing... brazil nuts.
Did you know that you can have too many brazil nuts?.... My husband didn't lol. He was feeling sick one week and couldn't pin it down until I saw him reaching for a handful of brazil nuts. I asked him if he was having many of them a day... he was. ...and it was making him sick... ...He was having too much Selenium... ...Waaaaaayyyyy too much Selenuim... ...WTF!... Brazil nuts are a great source of selenium, something we lack in our NZ soil. But did you know you can have too m
Catastrophizing! 7 ways to fight the anxiety.
I had a doctors visit about anxiety and in it a word came up... "catastrophizing". It is where you create a scenario that have disastrous outcomes and it can come in two forms. The first; is making a catastrophe out of a situation, maybe you forgot to lock the gate at your home and you create scenarios about the kids escaping, getting run over... getting kidnapped. The second; is scenarios involving the future, when you look to the future and anticipate things going wrong, in
'Spilt Milk Yoga' by Cathryn Monro, review and blog
Initial thoughts after picking up the book. When I first took this book from the shelf of the 'Woman's bookshop in Ponsonby' I wondered if I had bitten off more than I could chew... I'm a mother... sure. But I'm not totally sure if what I thought might be a "Too deep and meaningful for me to grasp, self help book" would actually help me with anything in my life. I read the words on the back... "a companion guide for mothers who want to experience the happiness, peace, and pur
