****** 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]