THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED! Congratulations to tiffanyninness! Keep reading to find out how you can win a Vicks prize pack valued at $140. I’ve always used a digital thermometer on the kids when we’ve thought that they might have a fever but when you’re flustered and the kids are sick, it can be hard to remember what temperature is a “fever” and what’s ... Read More

When Madeline (now 14)  was younger, she used to wake up in the middle of the night complaining that her legs were hurting her. We took her to the doctor to see what was wrong, only to be told that it was ‘growing pains’. We wanted to make sure that it wasn’t  joint pain she was suffering from. I remember her saying that she wished she would finish ... Read More

  *shock* I was just told that I nag! I’m in disbelief! I don’t nag. I just….care ;) It’s not my fault that I have to remind my children to make their beds in the morning use their acne treatment every day feed the dogs do their homework Of course I don’t have to ... Read More

So I’ve kicked off on another weight loss mission and instead of blogging about it here, I have started a new blog , Shrinking Tina. I’m not going to promote it because it’s just a place for me to record my progress and rants and raves. It’s going to be a long journey so along the way I might review some of the methods or products I ... Read More

A box of Biggest Loser meal replacements. A half box of Celebrity Slim. And a few sachets of KicStart. That is what I found in my pantry and so I’m starting today on a “liquid diet”. I had one of the KicStart ones this morning for breakfast and thanks to a fellow blogger, I have a list of “free food” that I can eat while on the ... Read More

We’ve seen the ad for the ab circle pro on tv a few hundred times and each time we discussed whether it would be any good for us. We both have bad backs – Bill more so than me – so doing sit ups and crunches is too painful of an option so we needed to find something that would still work but be a little more kinder on ... Read More

Starting…again! One of these days I will get rid of this excess weight and keep it off! Bill and I bought one of those ab circle pro things and have both been using it daily. I’ll be blogging my thoughts about it soon :) In the mean time, I’m scrapping my weight loss journey – a page a month, me thinks. Had some free time yesterday so (instead of ... Read More

That is the number of years Bill and I have been married…almost….our anniversary is on Friday. Why so close to Valentine’s Day, you ask? Is it because Bill is such a romantic and wanted to get married on Valentine’s Day but it happened to fall on a weekday that year? Nope! Is it because with all the hype of Valentine’s Day, it would remind him each year of our ... Read More

Anyone who knows me would know that I occasionally sleepwalk and sleep talk. Definitely not as funny as the Sleep Talking Man (is he for real or is it just a clever marketing idea?), but apparently I have been quite entertaining especially when I saw glow in the dark spiders on my wall, or the time I was waiting for the Queen because she was coming over to buy ... Read More

If you have been reading Mummified Times Five for a while, you’d know that I’ve been taking happy pills (anti-depressants) for a few years now. I hadn’t realised that I had no repeats left and I took my last pill a couple of days ago. Not being able to get in to see my doctor for a new script, I dropped into the local medical centre. It ... Read More