I love buying gifts, I buy them all year round and then keep them in a very important place – my gift drawer. It isn’t about the value of the gift for me, but rather about the sentiment, and the…
Tag: Thankful
Fabulous means being the absolute best version of yourself. It means tapping into yourself and understanding exactly who you are and them adding a bit of oomph! A dictionary defines fabulous as being extraordinary – it is a superlative,…
I have always loved celebrating my birthday. I guess it is really just a great excuse to get together with family and friends and celebrate life. As I get older (and I will be 52 in a few days time),…
This is a little story about a yellow handbag, but really it is a story about human kindness. I was visiting London just after Christmas and was delighted to receive a beautiful yellow handbag as a gift from my…
I am privileged to have had many woman in my life who have guided me and shaped me and made me who I am. Today I would like to acknowledge the life lessons taught by my maternal grandmother – Olive Hanson….
It doesn’t cost anything to be kind. November 13 is World Kindness Day. I first came across the idea of random acts of kindness when I read Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde. Although this is a novel, the concept…
I didn’t grow up with Halloween. It was only something that started to impact in my life when my son was born. When he started to go to nursery he came home with Halloween costume requests and that started me thinking…
….. there are many people who have been very nice, and none that have been naughty. I have a lot to be thankful for. Over the last couple of months I have been through a bit. I have moved home…
Our home is so important to our happiness. When I started house hunting six weeks ago I was honestly dreading it. I put on my brave face and logged onto Daft.ie. Where would I find a house that was going…
We really do live at a hectic pace. From when we get up in the morning it is go go go. We try to keep as productive as possible and pack as much as we can into the 24 hours that…