Category Archives: Family

Contact

By Naomi | Published: 03/08/2010
We’ve just returned from a week away with my extended family (me, Simon and the girls, my parents, my sister, her husband and their two children). There were things about the trip that I was looking forward to – seeing my family of course, catching up with their lives. When we lived in London I [...]
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House

By Naomi | Published: 03/07/2010
What makes us live within our means or push ourselves to our financial limit and even exceed it? I grew up with parents, well my mother in particular, for whom the thought of being in debt was horrifying. They never had much money (enough, but no more) and with that we had a holiday every [...]
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Pink

By Naomi | Published: 17/06/2010
My four year old daughter told me that I don’t like the stuff she likes. I asked her what she meant. She replied that I won’t let her have all the stuff she sees in the shops that she likes and therefore she thinks I don’t like it. I start off on some rambling explanation [...]
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Landscape

By Naomi | Published: 25/04/2010
I think that sometimes our children inhabit a different world. I remember being there myself a very long time ago. They have none of the clutter of adult life to contend with but create a very unique clutter all of their own. We share most of our time, spending it together, playing, reading, going places. [...]
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Competition

By Naomi | Published: 09/03/2010
Simple living. It has to encompass everything to work. It can’t be just about making your house nice and tidy. But there’s one aspect of life where we seem to make things anything but simple and that’s our relationships.
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