There is so much going on in our lovely city at the moment, that I thought I would collate a list of my highlights of children’s activities in Melbourne, for the month of November. We have a couple of these events booked already, which I am looking forward to and will post some photos once [...]

It is now 8 weeks until Christmas. According to my Christmas Preparation Plan this week I was going to be working on updating my Christmas Card list. The great thing about having the Christmas Plan is that I am aware of what activities I need to do and roughly in what order. This knowledge helps [...]

I have a lot of discussions with other parents on the topic of meal time and about getting smaller children to eat a healthy meal. There are a number of things that we do as a family to make meal time more enjoyable, but I think the most important from that list is having the [...]

I had three bananas turning a shade of black in the fruit basket today, which inspired me to make this fabulous banana cake recipe. It takes five bananas to make the cake as it is a very large banana cake. I had previously put some aging bananas in the freezer, so I could simply defrost [...]

The ever resourceful Problogger tweeted about this project going on in the blogosphere earlier today. It is being run at Chuck Westbrook’s Blog and is aimed at solving the problem of Blogs With Great Content and No Readers. In brief participants like myself will: 1. Join the group for the project. 2. Read a good, [...]

This post is part of my series on handmade Christmas Gifts. Instructions for the other items can be found here: Handmade Fabric Covered Notebooks Handmade Fabric Necklaces Homemade Works Of Art The countdown continues – 9 weeks until Christmas. My countdown is naturally of a planning nature and I am working through a Christmas Preparation [...]