My house is never spotless and I am not a clean freak, but I do like things to be reasonably clean and tidy. Here are 10 of my best tips I have …
Organizing Toys Again
I always find after Christmas is the perfect time to rotate the kids’ toys again. This post is an update from one of my first posts back in early 2008. ***** Due …
10 Different Ways To Find Your Perfect Babysitter!
Today’s post is by Rebecca Ackermann founder of Speed Babysitting. Founded in late 2008 in Melbourne, Speed Babysitting was born from Rebecca’s own time consuming experience in looking for a job as …
Managing Parental Disagreement
Today I am answering a reader question from Graeme who was interested in managing parental disagreement – what to do if mum and dad don’t agree. My response to this topic is …
Book Review: The Needlecraft Book
Today’s review is written by my dearest friend Cath from Mobblegobble. Cath is very crafty and is my greatest source of inspiration for making things by hand. Dorling Kindersley’s The Needlecraft Book …
Mum’s the word: A survival guide for the modern mum
Just a quick post today, to share a fab free e-book you can download. It was put together by editor by Chantelle from Fat Mum Slim to celebrate the launch of Kleenex …
Book Review: Zombie Felties
One of the things I love about school holidays, is that it gives me more time to spend doing activities with the kids. The first week of the school hols we were …
How To Manage Curly Hair
This post is part of a series where I answer questions from my readers. If you have a question that you would like me to answer, please feel free to leave it …
Doing The Washing, The Folding, The Ironing……..
Today’s post was inspired by questions sent in by Fleur who was specifically interested in: Laundry routines, how do you get washing dry in the middle of winter, how do you keep …
How To Cope When Dad Travels For Work (A Lot!!!)
This is the second guest post from my dear friend Annie. If you missed her first post, it was fantastic and received great feedback, you can read it here Discipline Strategies – …
Spending Individual Time With The Kids
Today’s post was inspired by Polly at I was just thinking who asked how I managed to spend individual time with my children. When I was halfway through my pregnancy with my …
Organisation and Kids
At the end of May I asked readers of the blog What Would You Like To Read About? and I had such a fantastic response. On top of the fantastic comments on …
Tips For Organising and Decluttering Your Home
This month’s round up of posts from the blogosphere focuses on tips to help you organise and declutter your home. I had started decluttering at my house in May, but we have …
Moving With Kids
Today we welcome another lovely friend of mine, Catherine Sangster to Planning With Kids. Catherine has three beautiful girls, two at school and the youngest who has just turned one. I have …
Would You Like Someone To Come And Clean Your Bathroom?
Sponsored by Nuffnang Do you ever read something and think, this is too good to be true, I must have read it incorrectly? Well that’s what happened to me, when I read …
10 Things To Do Before You Go To Bed
When asked what is the key to smooth school mornings with kids, I always give the same short answer. They start the night before! I am a morning person. I love the …
Book Review – Sew Darn Cute By Jenny Ryan
Sew Darn Cute is an inspirational craft handbook from Jenny Ryan. The book contains 30 projects to sew and embellish, each of which is beautifully photographed and has step-by-step instructions to follow. …
What To Do If You Can’t Afford To Buy Organic?
1. Produce Stand, 2. Watermelon is love, 3. PAPAYA, 4. Star Fruit One of my current favourite parenting podcasts is Parenting Unplugged. They were once a weekly podcast but it is now …