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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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He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men (Part 2).

August 8, 2008

Last Friday saw Part 1 on my discussion of the wonderful book He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men, by Celia Lashlie. Today I will look at what Lashlie discusses in chapters 4 – 6. The Bridge of Adolescence You could kind of see this coming, but the emphasis in this chapter was [...]

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He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men (Part 1).

August 1, 2008

(Photo by DragonDrop) Back in June I posted about a talk that I went to at my children’s school on What To Expect When Expecting An Adolescent. I found the talk informative and an glimpse as to what I have coming in the next few years. A good friend then recommended me the book titled [...]

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Guest Post: Role Reversal Experience – Mr Infrastructure

July 30, 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 after her final round [...]

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The Role Reversal Experiment

July 24, 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 Mr I’s hours. We have [...]

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Mum’s Work Plan

July 10, 2008

I love my children dearly and enjoy spending lots of time with them, but I also believe that I need to plan time for myself to pursue interests of my own. I have a number of plans as to what I would like to do with this blog, but found back in May that I [...]

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Some Planned Time For Mum

March 9, 2008

I have previously written about how I find it really important that I plan sometime for myself, to do the things that I want to do. With four children there is a lot of running around making sure that everyone’s needs are being met and as odd as this might sound, it is quite easy [...]

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Monthly Review – February

March 6, 2008

This little task that I like to complete, does have its origins from my Performance Management days in the corporate world, whereby Monthly Reporting up the line was a key accountability of mine. At home even though I don’t have to report to anyone, I do like to stop and take the time to have [...]

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10 Things I Like To Keep In My Everyday Bag.

March 4, 2008

Image by monkeyc.net I use a Crumpler bag as my everyday/nappy bag and I have to say I love this bag. I have had it for about 3 years now, and after trying out all sorts of nappy bags, this one has worked the best for me and it looks good as well. My lovely [...]

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Planning Time For Mum

January 27, 2008

“Back to school” is almost here and it has started me thinking about how the pace of our leisurely “school holiday” days will change very soon. Once the school term starts there are many activities to fit in across the week for the kids, meetings to attend and general household up keep. It does become [...]