When you are in a relationship there is a tendency to just buy gifts for each other on those big, landmark days. Birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries and times like that are when we tend to treat our partners to gifts. However, you don’t need to wait until a special day to show your partner you love […]


Top Tips For Organising Your Mum Schedule
Find time for yourself This might seem like the last step in organising your busy schedule, but it ought to be the first. You’re most likely struggling to find time for all your essential tasks – but you should remember this is one of them! If you burn the candle at both ends, you’ll […]

A Second Income with a Lifestyle Business
In this day and age one source of income in the form of your primary salary just doesn’t seem to cut it anymore. Often this can be seen to apply even in the case of the household having two sources of income with both adults working and the family often finds itself having to choose […]

Life Lessons Learned from Travelling Abroad
It only really takes one proper trip to learn a whole lot more about yourself as an individual in addition to learning so much about life in general, but the more you travel you learn just how much of a never-ending learning journey this life is. Here are some life lessons I’ve learned personally from […]

Dealing with an Exceptionally Gifted Child
It’s all good and well going along and discovering quite early on that you have an exceptionally gifted child on your hands to deal with here and I’m talking about the type of exceptionalism that can be seen by people beyond those who care the most about the children. As a parent, your child is […]

Are Long Distance Relationships Worth the Effort?
By no means is the data I collected and used to compile this post of a scientific grade, but I mean I live here on earth as well and I can see for myself what’s going on. Of all the people I know, whether they’re close friends, family members, relatives, acquaintances or work colleagues or […]

Finding a Way to Live out Your Dreams
Make no mistake about it, unless you’re one of a very lucky few in the world, chances are you’re going to find yourself in a situation you never imagined yourself to be in. Life has a way of taking you and putting you somewhere you never thought you could ever find yourself, especially when it […]

Travelling with the Whole Family
I suppose the title of this post sort of suggests that travelling with the whole family is indeed quite the chore, but if you’ve had to endure a few hours in the car with family members of different generations, interests and patience-levels then you’ll know that that’s exactly what it is – a chore. Now […]

We Trust Total Strangers More than We Know
A conversation with an international traveller who operates as an Uber driver back in his native land set my mind into motion and had me thinking about quite a few things, one of which is just how much we actually trust total strangers. It’s not a matter of being naive or gullible, but we in […]

Getting the Kids to Play Outside Again
Isn’t it just scary how a mere three-year-old toddler can take your tablet PC, go online and download some games which they subsequently enjoy playing and yet they probably can’t even speak properly as yet and don’t quite fully know what the names of all the different basic shapes are? It appears as if this […]