September 2009

Things To Do In School Holidays When It Rains

September 30, 2009

On Friday morning I read this tweet from the lovely Liesl at HoppoBumpo: “Looking out the window & wondering if it could really rain for the 5th consecutive day of the school holidays?” At the time of writing we have had another two more days of rain and very cold weather, since Liesl’s tweet. For [...]

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10 Children’s Activities For October 2009 In Melbourne

September 29, 2009

Have you voted today? Help Planning With Kids become the #1 parenting blog for Asia/Pacific. Just click on the Nuffnang Awards badge in the sidebar on this blog, it will take less than a minute. Thanks so much!!! Lots of festival fun this month in Melbourne assuring that there is plenty to do with the [...]

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Fabric Covered Button Bobby Pins

September 25, 2009

Earlier in September I made Self Cover Button Hair Ties. I think I could be coming addicted to these buttons!! They are really my style of craft, easy and fun to make and they look great. Since then I purchased a bulk lot of buttons from Jackobindi and I have made more hair ties with [...]

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Homemade Baby Food

September 24, 2009

Our beautiful baby has been eating for a couple of months now. I like to make sure the baby has homemade baby food, but with our family schedule, as he can’t eat all the things we do, I don’t have the time to make it fresh daily. I have had great success though with making [...]

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Krrunching my way to Uniquely Singapore

September 23, 2009

Some very exciting news!!! I’ve been shortlisted as one of the top five finalists for the Best Parenting Blog Award Category in the first Nuffnang Asia-Pacific Blog Awards! As a finalist, I get to enjoy the perks of a fully sponsored 3D2N trip to Singapore to attend the Blog Awards Ceremony on Oct 23rd. Thanks [...]

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10 Parenting Podcasts

September 22, 2009

One of my goals for September was to find some parenting podcasts. I aimed to find 10 quality podcasts and I actually found it harder than I thought it would be. There are many parenting/mummy/family podcasts out there, but many are not my style, or were outdated or poor quality. I am relatively inexperienced at [...]

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Mem Fox Reading

September 18, 2009

I love Mem Fox’s books. If I had to choose a favourite it would be a toss up between Where is the green sheep? and Hunwick’s Egg. I recently came across these fabulous videos on YouTube of Mem Fox reading aloud two of her books and thought I would share them with you. Hello Baby, [...]

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Baby Routine 6 – 9 Months (What Routine???)

September 17, 2009

Many baby books will have suggested routines for what a baby aged 6 – 9 months of age should be doing. They tend to have the routine look a little something like this: Time Activity 6.30ish Breast or bottle feed 8am Breakfast – Cereal or fruit and yoghurt etc 9ish Sleep 11.00ish Breast or bottle [...]

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10 Reasons Why Planning Works For Me

September 15, 2009

(Image by Dilbert – one year for Christmas my lovely husband gave me a beautifully framed version of this comic strip. It makes me laugh, but I still love planning!) As a mother of 5 beautiful kids, blogger, gym goer, school helper, the most frequently asked question to me is how do I manage to [...]

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