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Healthy Living Challenge: Day 32 – Jesus, my insurance

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This is a no-food post but it’s something God made clear to me through recent events. Because it’s Good Friday I thought it would be a  great time to share these thoughts with you all. Remember, I had a wee car bump a few weeks ago. Despite the fact that it was the most insignificant sort of collision you might have on the road(and the most fortunate, as no-one was injured in any way) I drove in fear for a week or so. I have always been a very careful driver, I had Emma with me when the bump happened so I was scared the same thing might happen again. In the end I prayed as driving was becoming very tiring and the fear left. Then I had to sort the scratch itself. Thankfully I had very good insurance(hubby says) and they released repair funds this week and everything will be sorted next week. Plus I will have a courtesy car for the time my car gets mended, hurray!! I was very thankful when they …

Healthy Living Challenge: Day 25 – Easter Joys

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This post will not be my typical healthy living entry as such but because Otilia, from Romanian Mum was so keen to find out :-), I will tell you about our new family tradition, an Easter tree!! I actually had seen in before, on two separate occasions but it was only last week, when we were invited for dinner with friends and I saw their own version that I thought: “Aha,  I can actually do this myself!” So last night I sent hubby to find a sturdy tree branch. Fortunately for him, there are loads literally lying around as in preparation for a new road layout and he didn’t have to look long or do anything illegal 🙂 I had bought from PoundLand a few bags of small and medium fluffy chicks, three decorative egg types and some very cute miniature nests. Emma was fully on board with this, helping me hang the eggs, decorating the hollow ones with stickers and filling them up with small treats like chocolate coins and mini-chocolate eggs.  The result …

Healthy Living Challenge: Day 23 – Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

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We are not Catholic but I believe my child benefits from being immersed into the Irish traditions since she will most likely live her childhood here. So yesterday we attended a day of fun activities at the Belfast City Hall including, as you can see above, face-painting, tattoos, arts and crafts, snake petting and traditional storytelling. Emma loved it all, especially the storytelling time, the magic of the fairy stories, the flute playing and the good craic. This morning I decided to celebrate, healthy style, the occasion myself. I made myself a lovely smoothie with pear, avocado, pineapple, fresh basil leaves, coconut milk and spirullina powder, to make it nice and green. I served it into a Murphy’s stout mug :-). Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Healthy Living Challenge: Day 19 – A New Woman on Mother’s Day

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Oh, yeah, and my weight keeps dropping!! It must have been the post-traumatic shock, the fact that the insurance company decided the car bumping on Thursday was actually my fault (hubby says it’s my crappy phrasing when relating the incident) and the fact that I didn’t sleep much since, replaying it in my head but the good news is that I am down to 68.1 kilos as from this morning!! Wow, three kilos in less than three weeks, I never imagined when I started this healthy living, wheat-free challenge that I will see results this quickly! I have started to see results in the way my jeans fit and in my face. I still have a wee pouch belly hovering over my jeans line and my arms are still chubby but my aim is to get a flat belly and beach-ready arms by the end of May. I am still nauseated every time I think of the traffic incident and for the first time since I started my healthy living challenge I had to have …

Happy love day!

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I won’t say happy Valentine’s Day due to this reminder I saw on Facebook a few minutes ago of where Valentine’s day originates from: I just wanted to say: Enjoy your relationship at whatever level it’s at.If you’re a busy mum who can hardly find time to squeeze in a couple of kind words to hubby in the evening before collapsing in bed(like I am), do just that and accept this is reality for the moment and one day things will be better. As a couple we have seen many highs and lows in our almost seven years of marriage but the most important lesson we have learnt is that sticking together is sometimes the only thing we can do to show each other we care. The lows soon end, the highs don’t last but love in its nitty gritty form of a common me and a common you is the most beautiful thing on earth.