I thought I would share a little about the cash envelope system, including the how and the why for you here on my blog. A little back story as to how I stumbled on this system for budgeting. I say I stumbled onto this system because it was all pre wifi and I had no idea about the Dave Ramsey system, which has helped thousands of our American cousins get out of debt across the pond!

When I had my eldest, I was in my early twenties and pretty much penny-less! We were living in social housing and receiving income support. Back then child maintenance was only £10 per week, and I had an undiagnosed Asperger’s child with sensory issues. So, making money stretch to cover

These little buns of hidden veggie goodness have been a life saver on more than one occasion. Savoury muffins came about after my eldest decided to have an aversion to pretty much all food groups except meat and cake. So I threw my hat of ingenuity on, did a little research, tweaked and practiced making these little munchables.

They are perfect for batch baking and freezing. Throw a couple of them in your child's lunchbox straight out of the freezer and they will be perfectly defrosted by lunch time. They are a great alternative to sandwiches and also help them get in a good number of veggies without realising!

If you bake these let me know how you get on over on my Instagram account, as

I have been to York a couple of times before, once with children in tow and once for a whirlwind whistle stop tour for a mental health conference. I didn’t get to see anywhere near as much as I wanted to see. So that was my birthday request, a child free, long weekend in York. And here is why I think you should visit York this year.

A little disclaimer admin here. None of the places I mention in this post have asked me to. This is all my own experience, paid for with my own pennies and I just want to big them up because they made our stay so wonderful.

We left home around midday on the Friday, so we could miss the main rush

It’s been a while since I posted on here. Life has been full on, yet again and I have pulled everything right back in order to protect my mental health. The first things to go were social media apps, which is scary when you primarily use them for sharing blog and business-related posts! To be honest it has made me super aware of how many hours I have previously lost to mindless scrolling, and well I don’t know if I want to go back.

It is always in the back of my mind to take photos, think about content, keep the algorithm happy, share every single day even if you have nothing to say. I wasn’t aware how much it had been eating at my mental

Essential Rewards (ER) is a fantastic totally customisable monthly subscription services available exclusively to Young Living Wholesale Members. I call it my monthly wellness box, because every item in there is something that supports my whole family’s wellness. It also affords me the freedom to get all my cleaning products, toiletries, make-up and of course essential oils delivered directly to my door. It also gets me access to some other amazing benefits too!

What do you need to know up front? You need to place a minimum 50 PV (Points Value0 order each month to qualify. That equates to around £45-£60 ish total. Sounds a lot but when up tot up all the products I purchase from Young Living instead of getting it from the supermarkets, its often a lot cheaper on our monthly groceries bill! So,