August 2008

Sunshine Mosaic

August 30, 2008

1. Sun Kissed…, 2. Sun bathing 2, 3. Come on sunshine, 4. Cosmos in the field, 5. Cherry blossoms, 6. Tulips to the Sun, 7. Craving the sunshine, 8. Sun bathing 1, 9. Girasoli Kate at Picklebums chose a theme very close to my own heart this week: Sunshine! We are officially in the second [...]

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How Do You Discipline Children?

August 28, 2008

Image: christine cbszeto A lovely reader of Planning With Kids, “Lifewith3boyz” wrote me a great email recently and one of the questions she asked me was: “I was also wondering what sort of discipline tools you use. What happens in your house when someone does the wrong thing.” I find the subject of discipline a [...]

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Pregnancy Update – Half Way!

August 27, 2008

Having been completely focused on the 30 Day Challenge this month, I haven’t had much time to think about the pregnancy. It was wonderful then today to see our new little one during the ultrasound. The photo above is not of our little one, but is roughly what our little one looks like right about [...]

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10 Favourite Childrenâ€™s Books – Babaganouski’s Choice

August 26, 2008

During the month of August I have been making my way through my children’s favourite books, in celebration of Children’s Book Week (officially this week in Australia). So far we have had: 10 Favourite Childrenâ€™s Books – Thinker’s Choice (9.5 y.o) 10 Favourite Childrenâ€™s Books – Little Rascal’s Choice (7 y.o) 10 Favourite Childrenâ€™s Books [...]

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30 Day Challenge Update – Tired!

August 24, 2008

Image by Waffler This week has been very tiring. I was lucky enough to have the beautiful family of a close friend come and stay with us and also have some friends drop in that I hadn’t seen in months. However the 30 Day Challenge keeps going and so I had quite a few late [...]

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He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men (Part 4)

August 22, 2008

Image: Ahmed Rabea This is part 4 in a review of the wonderful book on adolescent boys “He’ll be Ok: Growing gorgeous boys into good men” by Celia Lashlie. If you would like to read the previous posts, you will find them here: He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men (Part 1) He’ll [...]

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Tea Cup Biscuits

August 21, 2008

Parties With Kids is your complete guide to planning your kids party. More info found here, or click to buy! Parties with kids includes: 38 paged ideas & planning e-book 20 paged recipes booklet 3 party plans to spread the work load 3 party menu plans with shopping lists and much more! We had a [...]

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Children’s Book Council Awards

August 20, 2008

The winners of the Children’s Book Council Awards were announced on Friday. My older two children read with anticipation the winners in Saturday’s morning’s paper. Like most Australian school children they had voted from the short list for their favourite books at school and were keen to see what the judges had selected. Thinker had [...]

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10 Favourite Childrenâ€™s Books – Possumâ€™s Choice

August 19, 2008

Image by Manchester Library During the month of August I have been making my way through my children’s favourite books, in celebration of Children’s Book Week (officially this week in Australia). So far we have had: 10 Favourite Childrenâ€™s Books – Thinker’s Choice (9.5 y.o) 10 Favourite Childrenâ€™s Books – Little Rascal’s Choice (7 y.o) [...]

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30 Day Challenge – Half Way

August 17, 2008

Image: 30 Day Challenge BEWARE: This post has some Internet Marketing jargon in it. I try to avoid it where possible, but some had to be included to explain my week this week. It was a roller coaster week for me this week on the challenge. As my lovely older sister looked after my children [...]