Pink Saturday #1 and New Years Resolutions!

Linking up to ....Pink Saturday

Happy New Year..! Well last night I managed to keep 2 of my girls awake to see in the new year and today we have just spend a nice lazy day in our pj's kinda watching TV, talking and laying around dont nothing!! This year I dont really have a New Years Resolution this year but I do have a list of things I would like to try and do - all in different areas of my life, like work, school, my well-being , beauty, kids and things I would like to acquire. So-o Aaliayh and I (my 15 year old) have been working together on our Beauty Resolutions for 2011....and I vow to try and ....

• Wear Sunscreen...mmm okay, see now I was born on the African continent and lived under the blazing Southern African sun for 29 years and have never, ever used sunscreen, so I have no idea where, what or how, but I soon will!
• Update my skin care regime...to include taking care of my neck and not just my face, I kinda always tend to moisturise and exfoliate just my face, my neck is crying out for so TLC too!
• Be kind to my hair...I vow to use less direct heat on my hair and wear more protective styles alongside weekly hot oil treatments.
• Drink more water...plain good old water, not flavoured water, not vitamin water and not diet water either - just plain, pure water .
• Floss my teeth...a little more than I already do! I of all people should know this, a typically day at work for me involves giving oral hygiene instructions to patients so now howz about me practising what I preach!!
• Green my beauty products...where possible, kinda like using virgin coconut oil in my hair and as a body moisturiser, using sugar as a body exfoliate. Though I do already occasionally shop at The Body Shop and Lush I want to buy more products that support Fair Trade and Third World populations.
• Shop for fruit and vegetables at Farmers Markets...being the daughter of a farmer I love, love fresh fruit and vegetable and dont really care if my leeks have a lil sand in them when I buy them or the lettuce has a few brown spots - organic is what I am trying to say -more skin friendly food which contain alot of anti-oxidants which I am told are good for slowing down aging and repair damaged cells -  "organic" labeled stuff in the food stores is just too expensive, so Farmers Market here I come!
• Use Positive Talk and Mantras...trying to banish all negative talk and thoughts. Positive thoughts=healthy soul=healthy body=BEAUTY
• Loose some weight...my thinking is if I try and keep on track with my eating healthier and drinking more water I may loose some weight without much effort!!

So here to a wealth of health and beauty in 2011..!

Hello 2011...

Watery & Wordless Wednesday #1....



My Sister's Keeper...


Linking to ...Watery Wednesday

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Favorite Things....

I am so-o into the Febreze Apple Spice scents and since the packaging has "Limited Edition" on it, I have be hoarding!!! (ssshhhhh...dont tell the man of the house)

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Motivational Monday....

So today is the last Monday of 2010 and my thoughts for today are "SMILE" even if you are an ortho patient "SMILE"!

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Looking to the New Year..

Well, its already 2 whole days after Christmas and all the presents have been opened and our recycling bin is full to the top with wrapping paper and empty boxes, the Christmas dinner, which took many hours to plan and prepare, was eaten in a matter of minutes! The 2 younger girls are all playing with their new Barbies, games and toys and the oldest is figuring out her new Ipod and I am just sat here watching and listening to their happy voices, sipping on homemade Irish Cream Latte and every now and then casting my eye to the front window...keeping my eye on the snow. Its so beautiful outside....

It has also just crossed my mind that the year is rapidly coming to an end and looking back what a year it has been - filled with highs and lows, dreams shattered and dreams fulfilled. In life I always choose to focus on the positive so I wont talk much about my shattered dreams but I will say I am so-o happy to have been accepted into Dental Nursing school and also be offered a job as an Orthodontic (Trainee) Nurse, having worked for 10 years + in the  general Dentristy field as an assistant and receptionist it was about time I stepped up and took  a qualification, my youngest lil one started full time school and there was no better time for me to also embark on getting some school done myself..!
I will spend the next few days thinking about what I want to achieve in 2011 and how I am going to achieve it...Will also be coming  up with a wish list of things I would life to buy (or be gifted!) and I already know top of my list is a camera...will do some research on this and soon start my list!!

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Where do I start..?

Okay, so I started up this blog a good while ago and was not really sure what kind of activity I was going to have on here, so-o today I have decided to just blog, blog about e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g and a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g that goes on in my life, which at the moment is full of emotions and chaos.
Okay, so its the day after Christmas and the girls and I decided we were going to make Upside Down Pineapple cake, girls ate it nice and warm with lots of homemade custard and ...they so loved it!

Between 3 girls this is all that was left.....!

Next on our list of kitchen creations is Lemon Drizzle cake..it was so nice being snuggled up in the warm kitchen with the warm smell of baking cake while outside looked like this...

I have a love hate relationship with winter, I love the snow for as long as I am on the inside looking out, ...dont ask me to go out in the snow...nah, thats just too much to ask of me!!