Financial Strain on Relationships

What do one do when faced with extreme fanancial problems? While there's no doubt going to be more arguments, one needs to focus on how to get money coming in. Whatever happend to result in your current financial being the way it is now, is in the past and you should focus on the future. 

Unfortunately things like loosing your job, spending too much, falling behind on mortgage payments happen on a daily basis to alot op people. Not having money or not being able to pay your household bills could put alot of strain on your relationship with your partner. Even though there's a saying that money isn't everything in life, one has to face the fact that we all need money to survive,put a roof over our heads and put food on the table at the end of the day. When you do find yourself under great financial pressure,you have to act fast. Whatever happend to result in you being under financial strain needs to be addressed immediately. Sit down with your partner, talk about what had happened and come up with a solution to start the money coming in again. Don't loose hope, stand by your partner and don't hide the severity of the problem. Things will get better but you need to address it and do everthing possible to fix this problem.

Me Time

Make sure to take a few minutes every day for "me time" to relax. You can do anything from reading a book, drinking n cup of tea in the garden under your favourite tree, meditate or just soaking in a bubble bath. We need "me time" to collect our thoughts and draw strenght to continue our day.

Fresh produce at home

We live in a time and age where we can buy almost anything we desire from our nearest food store or supermarket. Long forgotten are the days when we had to grow the veggies at home,milk the cow 2 times a day and look for eggs in the chicken coop. Yes, life is a whole lot more convenient than it used to be but just how healthy are our supermarket options? It seems that one needs to pay more than a pretty penny just to buy organic food whereas the cheaper food is usually prossesed and really unhealthy. Why not look at our option to grow our own fresh produce at home? While it would not be possible for each and everyone of us to grow all our veggies and keep a cow at home, it certainly is a start to a more healthy lifestyle and would also safe you money. Most households could have a small veggie garden, a chicken or two for fresh eggs daily. Some of us might even be lucky enough to keep a cow for fresh milk. With a packet of yeast we could bake fresh bread daily. We could make our own cheese and butter from fresh milk. The option are endless and we would safe alot of money by producing as much of our food as possible at home. You will have fresh non processed food at you fingertips and safe money on fuel by cutting down on your daily shopping trip to the supermarket where you be temted to buy extra goodies that you really dont need.

Looking after one's parent/s

We all will reach a stage in our lifes when we are faced with the question of where our retired elderly parents would life after a lifetime of hard work and caring for us, their children. Well, I am sure that every person will have their own opinion about this matter. Should they stay on their own for as long as their health allow it? Should they be booked into an old age home where they have 24-7 care or do we hire a "nanny"  who could look after them at home? I personally think that the choice should be our parent's as long as they still have a clear and bright mind. They know best and would tell us when they need to make a change. 

My grandmother was in an old age home and constantly complained about untastefull food they were served and how long they had to wait for a nurse to come and take her for a bath. I could see that it was very frustrating for her to rely on the help of others while she was a very active and hardworking lady in her younger days. I've also volenteerd at a well known old age home in my neighborhood where I felt helpless when I saw the old needing help but not getting it. I gues the answer to where our parents should retire when they get too old to look after themselves, physically and mentally, lies in each one of us as we all are in different circumstances ,some of us work full time, others have the pleasure of staying at home. I personally will want my mother to stay with me at home so that I can make sure that she has everything that she needs, both mentally and physically. In the end the only thing that matter is that we look after our retired parent's welfare like they looked after us when we were little. No parent deserves to be growing old alone without a roof over their head and care and love and whatever their needs are.

Egg Hair Mask

We all know how important it is for healthy hair but what do we do with little time and money to put the bounch and shine back? Well, here's a home remedy that cost almost nothing and will do the trick.

Take the yellow of an egg (safe the white for later use in an omelet), mix well and apply to your hair. Leave it in for about 30 minutes and rinse. Wash and style your hair as usual and voila! you'll have instant shining and healthy hair

Chilled Cocoa Milk

Ingredients:
250 ml milk
Sugar to taste
2 Teaspoons Cocoa powder

Add Cocoa powder and suger to a little milk in a microwaveable jug. Mix well and microwave for 1 minute. Add the rest of the cold milk and mix well. Serve and enjoy

Tomato Family

The Tomato family was walking down the road when the father saw his youngest boy falling behind. What did he shout to his boy?







........  Catchup!