Archive for the ‘Planning’ Category

Christmas Planning - Handmade Fabric Necklaces

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

SPOILER ALERT - To my family and friends, please do not read on as you may see your Christmas Gift for this year! In my attempt this year to be well and truly organised for Christmas and the busy period leading up to it, I have been making some handmade ...

Tips To Make Bath Time Easier

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Photo: frielp A regular reader emailed me asking what we did at bath time and for any tips that I might have making these part of the day easier. As with all topics I discuss on the blog, I can relate what has worked for us. Families are unique ...

30 Day Challenge Update - One Week Down!

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Well I am officially on to day nine for the 30 Day Challenge (runs on US Eastern time) and I am actually pretty amazed that I have managed to keep up. It has required a lot of hours, which has meant a lot of late nights! I haven't ...

Christmas Planning Checklist

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I do so love a check list. I have just put together a checklist for Christmas Planning. Naturally I have gone to my preferred application of Excel. I have also included into this spreadsheet, the next level down planning sheets, like the budget, Christmas Present Ideas and ...

Christmas Planning In July - Home Made Works Of Art

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

SPOILER ALERT - To my family and to the children's "special" friends, please do not read on as you may see your Christmas Gift for this year! Last week I showed the handmade books that I have set aside for Christmas Gifts this year. Today is a very simple ...

Guest Post: Role Reversal Experience – Mr Infrastructure

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Photo by Cayman Girl This is the first guest post on Planning With Kids and I am very proud that it comes from my gorgeous husband! Here is his experience from trading roles with me last week (completely unedited!!!). Back in 2003, Anika Sorenson (world #1 female golfer) addressed the media ...

Getting Out And About

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I had the opportunity to get out of the house a couple of nights this week and see some interesting stuff. I love having the chance to see new things and I do make an effort to book Mr Infrastructure and myself to attend some things, to make sure ...

The Role Reversal Experiment

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

This week Mr Infrastructure kindly took a week's holiday leave, so he could stay home and allow me time on projects that I needed to work on. The Role Reversal Experiment has been an interesting insight for both of us. We agreed that I would work a similar schedule to ...

Christmas Planning In July - Making Handmade Fabric Notebooks

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Earlier this month I got together with a talented and craft friend to make the first batch of hand made Christmas Presents for the year. Our first get together in July was a planning meeting. For my crafty friend, this was very kind of her to ...

Children’s Timetable Term 3, 2008

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

New term and new timetable. There were just a few minor changes that I needed to make to the Children's Timetable from Term 2. I have been creating these timetables for a couple of years now and find them to be very helpful in assisting the children to ...