September 2008

10 Top Posts For September

September 30, 2008

Images by trekkyandy and A National Acrobat Over the last couple of months I have started increasing my use of social media, mainly on Twitter and StumbleUpon. Part of becoming more engaged in social media has meant that when I see a post I like, not only do I bookmark it for future reference so [...]

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Post On Aussie Bloggers

September 29, 2008

Just a quick note to let you know that I have a post up at Aussie Bloggers – Managing Blog Subscriptions. Not one child related word written there, but advice on how to manage 100s of blog subscriptions!

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Menu Plan Monday – Retro Food

September 29, 2008

Image by avlxyz Growing up as a child in the 70s and 80s, traditional dinner fare consisted of meat and three veg. The only pasta we ate was spaghetti bolognaise and there was not a risotto or stir fry in sight. This week’s menu plan could easily have been one from my own childhood. The [...]

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Junk Food Ads During Children’s Television Shows

September 26, 2008

As mentioned before, the amount of time my children watch television is limited. When they do watch it, it tends to be mainly on non commercial channels or DVDs. So I was completing amazed by the results of study discussed in the Sydney Morning Herald earlier this month. It looked at research undertaken at the [...]

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Christmas Planning – Christmas Present Tags

September 25, 2008

Each year I like to make my own tags for Christmas presents. I pick a theme based on colour or pattern and match up wrapping paper and tags. I have contemplated making my own paper (by decorating plain paper) but generally run out of time, so haven’t actually done this. This year I have decided [...]

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Family Meetings

September 24, 2008

A lovely reader included this in an email to me recently: I really liked the idea of your weekly family meeting I was wonder though what sort of topics are brought up at these meetings and if the children bring up issues in your house and if so what sort of issues are they bringing [...]

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10 School Holiday Activities In Melbourne

September 23, 2008

****** Click here for September 2011 School Holidays. ****** Image by johnpetru82 I read lots of blogs from mums in the northern hemisphere and during our winter this year, I came across the term “staycation”. It is a term many use to describe their holidays when they don’t actually leave and go anywhere. We are [...]

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Menu Plan Monday – Taking It Easy

September 22, 2008

We have two week school holidays now, which both myself and the children have been looking forward to. As such I am planning on enjoying the slower pace and will be keeping the food simple, choosing meals which require minimum effort! Monday: Baked Penne With Bacon Baking: 100s Of Biscuits Fantastic recipe which I picked [...]

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New Look Planning With Kids

September 21, 2008

1. Colours, 2. March 13, 2006: Chalk Rainbow, 3. Ok, what’s the deal?, 4. Colors, colors, colors!, 5. More from the Heidelberg Project, 6. United Colors of Legotton, 7. Water balls, 8. high in the sky, 9. i want candy. The blue theme that I had installed on Planning With Kids in May, was supposed [...]

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Upgrading WordPress Tonight

September 20, 2008

Just a quick note to let you know that in a couple of hours, I will upgrading the blog to the newest version of WordPress. During this time, the site will be briefly unavailable. Hopefully, there will be no repeat of my disastrous upgrade to 2.5 and the site will be back up and running [...]

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Toliet Training Time

September 19, 2008

My toddler (Babaganouski) is now showing all the signs of being ready for toilet training. The signs that I have picked up are: Comes and asks me to change me his nappy when it is wet or soiled. Can put his own pants on and off. Tells me he has done a wee or poo. [...]

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Honeycomb Ice Cream Cake

September 18, 2008

Over numerous years of birthdays and other occasions that require a cake as part of the celebration, I have noticed how much cake children waste. My children (mainly the younger ones), will often do no more than lick the icing and then hand the cake to me! I do love cake, but there is only [...]

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