(1). Involve them in planning the meals. Planning meals ahead and avoiding a hectic lead up to meal time is important for me. It means that I am much calmer and in a more jovial mood by the time I sit down to eat with them. By allowing the kids to help me plan, they [...]

I have had some technical issues (hard drive died ) with my laptop over the last couple of weeks, so it was great to get back my laptop on Friday and to be able to use some of my planning tools again. Although I post my menu plan on a weekly basis, I actually plan [...]

I made a trip out to the Reverse Art Truck this week to replenish supplies for our useful box. This was part of the rotation of toys that I was implementing at home. For Australian readers you would be familiar with the useful box from Playschool. Basically it is a collection of items like cereal [...]

From an environmental perspective, I try to print out very few articles that I read when I am crawling the Internet. But there are some that I find and I know instantly that I need to print them out for future reference. The article Degrees of separation from The Age on 4th February, fitted swiftly [...]

Now that we are fully into the swing of term 1, I have set myself a plan of reorganising or de-cluttering, spots in the house that have been bothering me. Having the kids things organised provides a solid foundation to work from with the kids and sets an example of how I expect their belongings [...]

I have to admit that I am a summer girl. I grew up in north west country Victoria, where it is hot- really hot in summer and I love it that way. Last week was unseasonally cool for Melbourne and I was quite horrified to realise that there is less than 3 weeks until summer [...]