Well my daughter is enjoying playgroup so much we have decided to trial her in a half-day day care to get her used to being with mum or dad and helping her improve the all important social skills.  She has never been 5 hours away from either parent so it will be interesting to see how she goes.

So I will be doing the all important task of sending her off with her packed lunch tomorrow ...

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder but to be honest I really don’t like being away from my partner too much!  We have recently spent about six weeks apart, when I was pregnant we faced a month apart and after the birth of our baby, a horrific three months apart.

I like my lifestyle and our ability to cope with long stints apart but finding myself a single mum for these periods is so ...

I took my daughter to playgroup for the second time today and she just loves it.  I was worried she would have display some social challenges seeing that for the last 12 months she has not come into contact with many children but she is interacting with the other kids like she has been doing it all her life!

I am thinking of putting her in daycare for half a day just to see how she ...

I have been fortunate that I have managed to stumble upon a distributorship opportunity from abroad and I am very excited.  I am just looking into everything at the moment but it is certainly something that I have mulled over once or twice before.

But now that the time is ripe and luckily for me, in the right place at the right time, I now have to gather up the information so I know where I ...

It certainly sounds good to me but my two year old has recently learnt this word (yes I tried to avoid it as long as possible) and when I offer breakfast - chocolate immediately comes to her mind and to her mouth.  It doesn’t take her long to forget about once a piece of toast or a bowl of cornflakes is thrust upon her but I find it amazing how quick they associate a word ...

Well after having lived in China for the last 12 months, I am out of the habit of people popping round for a coffee!

This morning my phone rang and it was my uncle coming around for a coffee and I had only just gotten out of bed.  So we had a coffee and shared the gossip while I was sitting in my pyjamas.  My daughter just loves my uncle even though she has only seen ...

…Anne from Diva Days fror my Bloggers Choice Award nomination.  Well it may not be the Oscars but seeing as this is about as close as I am going to get to winning one then I’d like to make the most of it!

Yes Tonic Gifts has been given a mention for Best Shopping Blog, Best Blog About Stuff and Best Blog of All Time.  I won’t prepare my speech just yet as ...