Sugarless

So we are at the half way mark of our 8 week sugar free adventure, to be honest it's been relatively painless, more good than bad.  The hardest thing to change has been soy milk in my coffee, so now I'm limiting this to the heart starter in the morning, one in the afternoon and drinking camomile tea instead.

The best and unexpected improvement I would have to say has been in my energy levels.  For the past year I have struggled with lethargy in both mind and body and I have spent a lot of time and money on trying to fix this with health care professionals of all kinds, but feeling no better for it.  Finally putting it down to just getting older (right I've said it) and having a young child.  But now I'm so much more driven and focused.  I feel more alive and ready to take on the world, not just the pretend energy I'd put out cover how I really felt.

When we bought this house, one of the more interesting aspects about it was that it had a detached studio.  We always imagined R working from home and to have a separate space was perfect. But we soon discovered having a young child that adored her Daddy in the mix it wasn't practicable, and the room became our sin bin.

However this is about to change, with R starting a new job and DD being a bit older, this room will now become his office.

This is my job today, to clean out this room and get it ready for decoration.

Hopefully I can turn this...

Into this...

This is our Easter project

We have been living in our house for about a year now and finally we are starting the vegie patch that I have been wanting since we moved in.  I'm not complaining mind you, we have been very busy and very poor completing all the other jobs that needed to be done to the house - you know, the ones you don't know about until you move into the house and all of a sudden the stumping, plumbing, roofing and the rest all take priority!

But needless to say we have the wood and the inspiration and have positioned the beds, now to put them together.  This is our Easter project, what is yours?

Me,me, me, meeeeeeee

As I write my about me page and desperately try to find one decent photo of myself I have discovered that I am the photographer not the subject in our family.  I hate to say that if I got hit by a bus tomorrow that there would be little photographic evidence that I was part of the the family that fill my world.  I just hope that they remember that I was always there taking the photo and letting them shine.

Four weeks before my 40th we delivered Daisy.  Thanks to her we have started a journey that at 40 has been both fantastic and incredibly daunting.   Before Daisy I was still living life as anyone does without dependents, going out to dinner, buying high heels, waxing, spraying and tweezering, staying up late, sleeping in; basically the world revolved around me.

Now it's different, and even though I love, love, love it, I do find it overwhelming at times and will do until I die I suppose.  But amongst all of this I have come to understand I have been on a journey of discovery.  We have over the last 4 years redefined what is important.  We have shifted home to be closer to family and 4 houses in 4 years later we have found the keeper.  In this house I will make a home a garden and a life for us. 

This is what this blog is about,  a new definition of success.  Our journey to simplifying our lives but without out going totally native.