organisation

Revisiting Areas Of Household Organisation

February 7, 2012

With the kids making their way back to school / kinder, I have been revisiting the organisation of different elements of our household. I find that the organisational processes we use need to develop with us as our family develops. They are pretty much a constant work in progress. I am currently taking stock, to [...]

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Organisation and Kids

July 8, 2010

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 the post, I also received many topics via email from readers as well. This made my task of planning out the next six [...]

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Change Of Season – Children’s Clothes Reorganisation

May 13, 2010

This is an update of a post I wrote back in the first couple of months of blogging, but it is still such a handy tip that I thought I would talk about it again as I have been doing the change of season reorganisiation. We are now deeply entrenched in autumn here in Melbourne, [...]

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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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Being Organised For School

February 11, 2010

When this post goes live, our children will have been back at school two weeks. We are starting to find our legs again with our school term routine. The first few weeks back at the start of a school year are always so busy, here are a couple of things that we do, to make [...]

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Organise Your Life Seminar – Wed Feb 3rd

February 2, 2010

A reminder that as part of the 7 Essentials for Guilt-Free Living for Business Mothers Series, the Organise Your Life Seminar is on Wednesday February 3rd. Here is a precis of the info that the teleseminar will cover: 7 mistakes commonly made by many of us trying to be more organise – how to avoid [...]

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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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10 Tips For Organised School Mornings

July 15, 2008

The children headed back to school and preschool today after two weeks of holidays. We thoroughly enjoyed rising at any time (me with the first child of the day, which was at least 45 minutes later than usual ), but it did mean that it was an effort being organised and out of the house [...]

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Rotating The Children’s Toys

June 19, 2008

Back in February I reorganised the children’s toy shelf that we have in the family living area. I had noticed how over the last week or so, the majority of the toys were remaining untouched and the preschooler and toddler were looking for other things to play with. I try to rotate the toys on [...]