As a mum with 5 kids, one of the most frequent questions I get when I meet mums to be or new mums is “what is your best advice?”. To be honest …
Making Time For Friends
During July 2011, 671 women across Australia aged between 25-49 took part in a survey conducted by Ipsos Marketing. It looked at how women were spending their time and how they felt …
Balancing Motherhood with Career
Today’s guest post is from the gorgeous Tania McCartney. Tania is an author, editor, publisher and founder of well-respected children’s literature site, Kids Book Review. She is an experienced speaker, magazine and …
Motherhood
Through out September on the blog, I am going to be sharing a number of posts about motherhood. Posts that will hopefully encourage you in your role as a mother. They will …
Monthly Review, August 2011 and Saying No
I am very excited that Spring is here! Melbourne has been kind towards the end of August and given us some lovely sunshiney days – can’t wait for them to become the …
10 Myths of Motherhood
Today’s thought provoking guest post is from Dr Bron Harman. You can follow her on twitter and facebook. ****** I am a psychology lecturer and researcher. My research program is on various …
10 Sanity Savers for Single and Sole Parents
Dorothy started blogging at “Singular Insanity” in January 2009, as a way to process what was happening in her marriage break up. She is now a solo parent of two boys, aged …
Learning From Other Mums
On Thursday I spoke at a local MOPS group. I had presented at this group and a couple of other MOPS groups last year. I feel privileged that that this group and …
How To Stay Focused On Your Goals
Image used courtesy of Danimezza and Kids Business As I noted in a post earlier this week, I spoke at a Bloggers Brunch last Friday. Myself along with the other four speakers …
2011 Half Yearly Review
With the first half of 2011 behind us, it is the perfect time to review my personal goals for 2011: Reviewing my personal goals for 2011 There are couple more non completed …
Tips For Coping With Temporary Changes In Family Life
Today’s guest post comes from Deb who blogs at Science@Home and also her new blog Educating Deborah. Deb is usually an an ex-(paid)science teacher and SAHM to two girls. I love reading …
Can Women Have It All????
I originally published this post on 29 Feb 2008 – it was my second month of blogging. I have had some wonderful conversations with women around me on this issue lately, so …
Monthly Review, May 2011
The fact that I completely missed the monthly review for April and didn’t realise it until I went to write this review is indicative of the pace my life has been racing …
2011 Quarter 1 Review
Actually a month late, but the launch of the book in April combined with a trip to Hong Kong, really mixed up everything! I didn’t want to miss doing the review though …
Easier…….for the moment!
Over a year ago I wrote a post that posed the question “Does It Really Get Harder?????“. I was wondering if, once the little kids grew up a bit, things would get …
Motivation In Motherhood
Today’s post was inspired by this question from a reader: I would be very interested to know where you get the MOTIVATION to actually do what you write about. Being a mum …
Huggies MumInspired Grant Program
Image by Jeff KubinaI When I first started blogging, I had been out of the paid workforce for seven years. Blogging seemed like a great way for me to learn some new …
Monthly Review, March 2011
Image by mischiru Hello April! So is time to see how I am tracking against my goals for 2011: Review of Key Tasks For March Final preparations for the Aussie Bloggers Conference …