Archive for the ‘Planning’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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