When your preschooler feels rejected…

Rejection in preschooler friendship circles… how is this even a thing? Also how does one handle it.

When your child is young O f’s are given, no filters are installed and they tend to say and do the most cringe-worthy things, like ask you inappropriate questions within earshot of the people they are asking questions about or outright refuse to reply to people who are speaking to them.

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But what happens when your child is on the other side of this, what happens when he/she ends up on the rejected list. How do you handle this?

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Alternative gifting ideas

Gifting is a big part of Christmas, regardless of your views on the holiday, you know gifts form part of the whole thing. But let’s face it the current economic situation (well mine anyway) makes the Oprah style of giving “you’re all getting one” a little difficult.

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But you still want to share some cheer, right. I chatted to some friends about alternative gifting traditions and this is what I came up with…

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Christmas Give-away time with JustEllaBella

I’m doing a Christmas Give-Away!!! That’s right,  I have decided to channel my inner Oprah, and give away some of my favourite things.

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You know how recently I have been chatting about what I want for Christmas?

Well today is the first day of December and to mark that I’m doing a Christmas give-away featuring everything I featured and more… Basically I have this box right, and every time I feature something with that pretty bow above I will add something from that brand in to the box and then on Christmas day I will announce who gets the whole box of goodies…

So what is in the box so far?

I told you how much I love Saltz  right? well you get to try out their bath salts for yourself

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Then I told you about my love of Rain Africa products, I really do love it though, no jokes! Natural, luxe and fancy and good for you too. So I’m adding their amazing bubble bath into the Christmas give-away  box. Guys, this stuff will have you feeling like you are having a bath at a five star spa, I swear

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I then spoke about this awesome daily devotional I received from Christian Art Media. So although I don’t have one of those to give away I am throwing in another book from Christian Art Media. Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist. It is really such a good read guys (review coming soon)

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Then yesterday I told you how to make a delicious milkshake using Mastertons coffee. I also had a recipe for chocolate covered coffee beans  but then I thought I should give you some coffee and coffee beans so you can try this out for yourself…So I am 🙂 the #ECMeetup coffee goes into the box too

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Okay so I’m not done, There are three more weeks left till Christmas so it is plenty of time to add some more things…I’m feeling very festive so expect some more things off my favourite list and also a Christmas DIY kit…. how much do you love me right now?