Category: LIFESTYLE

… A follow on from my blog post “Book List 2021”.Last year I started keeping track of the books I’d read and my thoughts on them in a blog post. I read 36 books in 2021 and thought I’d continue this on. JANUARY. You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry.***** 5/5 stars.I really liked […]

I’ve made these treats each year for Pablos birthday and he and his doggo friends love them! He’s a French Bulldog so has the most sensitive stomach and these treats stay down. I bought the paw and bone cookie cutters and the silicone paw mould from Amazon and the personalised cookie cutters from Etsy. Just […]

I’m a big reader, always have been and hope always will be! I read for pleasure, I love zoning out, entering the world of the book and getting lost in the pages. I read mostly fiction although I do love a memoir/autobiography and travel stories.Last year I read around 20 books and when I look […]

Theres a difference between motivation and discipline. Discipline = learned and practiced behaviour.Motivation = fleeting emotion. Discipline = to train by instruction & exercise.Motivation = desire & motivation of willingness. Discipline = something you choose to do. Verb.Motivation = can come and go. Noun. Discipline = I feel good after I get something done.Motivation = […]

[16:8 is a fast where I eat for 8 hours and don’t eat for 16 hours. I choose the 8 hour window and I’ve gone with 10.30am – 6.30pm. I don’t follow rules at the best of times so I didn’t want too many rules and restrictions so I simply start eating around 10.30am and […]

When often asked about when I’m going to have a baby, I answer it like someone has asked when I’m going to jump out of a plane. “Not too sure, probably not anytime soon”. The past few years this question has come up so many times that I’ve now grown a protective layer of an […]

I AM GRATEFUL FOR FROM 2018… Reflecting back on what could well be the biggest year in my life so far, 2018 has been nothing short of crazy! To wrap it up… lived in Wellington for 8 months, got engaged and married, trips around NZ, moved to France, done some overseas travel and are new […]

Throughout the past 5 years, getting up in the morning to do some exercise has been my favourite thing, I love the feeling of being awake before the city, it sets me up for the day, I want to fuel my body with good food afterwards and I forget I’ve even exercised by 10am! But I’ve […]

Since making the first move in 2015 from Wellington where I’d lived for 21 years to Auckland, Ihaia and I have moved another 6 times from then to now. We have moved between Auckland, Hawkes Bay and Wellington for Ihaia’s job. As much of a mission it is to pack up and move twice a […]

We are such summer lovers so getting married in windy Welly in winter was a shock to our system! However, life works that way and we were thrown a very exciting curveball of moving to France for Ihaia’s job as a professional rugby player this August and we decided we both wanted to tie the […]