This months magazine starts with an interview with yours truly, thank you to those who posted questions for me to answer on our Facebook page.... What is an obstacle of challenge you have face and how did you get past it? Good question... we all have obstacles in life that can nfluence our achievements! For me my current obstacle is time... I never have enough of it, as my bottom-less to do lists can attest to. At the moment I’m making a conscious effort to appreciate the moments and fighting a battle with myself to strike a balance. I don’t want to wake up some day and find that I’ve missed out on ‘ life’ because I have been so busy being ‘busy’. What is the scariest thing you have ever done? This sounds lame, but it was moving back home to New Zealand!! Although very patriotic everyone I spoke to about New Zealand painted a dark picture of poverty and despair at home. Although I realise this is the case for many families, for ours in hasn’t been further from the truth. Our moving home to New Zealand has definitely been a positive decision and one that every day I am thankful for. Describe what an average day entails... Oh gosh. Don’t ask! I normally wake up when Jellybean does and get us both ready for the day, checking my emails whilst he has his breakfast. I drop him off at day care and head to the day job, were I slave away for a full day! After work I come home, spend time with the family, doing chores, having dinner and checking emails. After Jellybean heads to bed I check my emails, work on the magazine or the blog and watch the latest episode of one of my favourite shows (Currently loving Carries Diaries!) before heading to bed for the night, only to start all over again in the morning. ‘Checking my emails’ does take up a lot of time, it feels like there is always somebody to email or to check in with! And despite the amount of time I spend on it, it never feels like I get to the bottom of the inbox! If you could spend 24 hours with anyone dead or alive, who would it be and why? My Nana ‘Hazel’, she was such an influence on us as children and I miss her dearly, there isn’t anything I wouldn’t give to spend a day baking with her in her kitchen! I would especially love to write down all of those yummy recipes that were lost with her. Huge LOTTO win, first three things you would do/buy? A house - definitely!! The one thing I am lusting after most in the world at the moment!! A holiday - preferably exotic and warm, and with a designer shopping trip in there somewhere! Before setting up the business of my dreams and going back to work! So that’s me! I hope you find the rest of the interviews in this edition just as fascinating!!! x
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