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10 Children’s Activities For June 2010 In Melbourne

May 25, 2010

Almost winter! Readers of the blog are probably aware that winter is my least favourite season, I am not a fan of cold weather. But at least there is still lots of fun things to do in Melbourne even if it is cold! NB. All images are from their respective sources. 1. Winter Solstice Bonfire [...]

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Doing Things Differently – An Update!

April 28, 2010

Last week I wrote about how I was struggling to stay on top of everything around the house and lacking in motivation. To try and remedy this I listed 10 things that I was going to do differently last week. I had such a lovely response to this post. It was comforting to hear that [...]

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10 Things To Do Before You Go To Bed

April 13, 2010

I am a morning person. I love the potential the early morning brings and the clean slate you have to start with. Over the years we have developed some routines that we at night before we go tot bed, which have made mornings with 5 children enjoyable and a form of “organised chaos”. Taking about [...]

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Getting Organised At Home

April 8, 2010

Planning With Kids is about productivity for families. Getting organised at home so you can spend more time on the good and fun bits of family life. I have put together this list of posts to give you a quick guide through just some of the key tips, templates and processes that we have used [...]

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2010 Quarter 1 Review

April 1, 2010

Back in December I set myself 10 goals for 2010. So instead of just reviewing my monthly goals for March, I am going to review the first quarter of this year and see how I am tracking! 1. Revamp the blog. First phase is complete. I have a second set of changes that I am [...]

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Keeping Family Harmony

March 11, 2010

Today I had the absolute pleasure to present a talk on Keeping Family Harmony at a local MOPS group. It was the first time for me to see a MOPS gathering in action and I was impressed with the warmth of the group, the smooth running of the morning and what a wonderful opportunity that [...]

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Join me tomorrow for a real time conversation?

March 9, 2010

This week’s is the sixth part of the 7 Essentials for Guilt-Free Living for Business Mothers Series and it is about simplifying your daily family life and presented by ME! As you know, planning has helped keep life for us—and the 5 kids—harmonious and fun. Through this blog I’ve shared ideas on what has worked [...]

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What’s Going On?

March 6, 2010

I haven’t been spending as much time online recently. Family life has been very busy as I noted in my monthly review and March is going to an incredibly hectic month for us with lots of commitments. So I apologise if I haven’t responded to your comment or email yet. I will get to them [...]

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A Collection Of Parenting Posts

March 2, 2010

Parenting is one job that always has you on a learning curve! Here are some posts that I found to inform or inspire me as a parent over the last month. 1. When marketers take over parenting The Corporate Baby Sitter shares a presentation (power point) from a marketing specialist “Youth marketing – A guide [...]

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Yearly Review – Family Goals For 2009

December 31, 2009

Today is the last day of 2009. As I said when I posted my family goals for 2010, this year has been a busy but fantastic year for us. As you will see from the review below, I didn’t achieve everything I set out to this year, but I have also added at the bottom [...]

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10 Family Goals For 2010

December 22, 2009

2009 has been a truly fabulous year for us as a family and as such I will farewell with it with fondness. It was an incredibly busy year (probably a little too busy) but one which exceeded my expectations in so many ways. This doesn’t mean that I achieved everything that I had planned and [...]