Planning

What Would You Like To Read About?

May 28, 2010

As my planning nature desires, I have a post plan for the Planning With Kids blog which covers the forth coming six months. So as we approach the middle of the year and I am starting to plan for June to Dec of this year, I thought I would take the time to ask my [...]

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Monthly Review, April 2010 – Slowing Down

May 6, 2010

After start to the month of April, in the middle of the month, I decided to change the way I did things to improve my motivation, stress levels and state of the house. While not hitting 100% with the changes, the parts that I did change made a substantial difference and I am going to [...]

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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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10 Kids Lunch Box Ideas For Autumn

April 6, 2010

Back in October I posted 10 Kids Lunch Box Ideas For Spring. Now that autumn has definitely arrived I thought I would collate some lunch box ideas for the season of autumn. You can see a complete list of seasonal fruit and vegetables in Australia here. Lunch Boxes Week 1 – Based on early autumn [...]

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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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Monthly Review, February 2010 – Letting Go

March 4, 2010

February saw the kids return to school, our three year old begin preschool and our toddler begin a very slow introduction into a weekly occasional care session. I had thought that this would mean I would have a little more time on my hands, but it turned out not to be the case. February actually [...]

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Monthly Review – January 2010

February 4, 2010

In December I posted my 10 Family Goals For 2010 and there were no specific goals for January. So I will highlight my progress on some of my 2010 goals to date: Review of Key Tasks For January Revamp the blog. 90% Complete. There are still some things that I would like to add, change [...]

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Those Last Minute Things and Merry Christmas!

December 24, 2009

Today the kids and I will make some more Marshmallow Christmas Trees as the last task of our Christmas Preparation Plan. The last week has seen me finally complete some Christmas Preparations that I had planned to finish a lot earlier: Christmas Shopping – Actually only finished it on Sunday. I had only a few [...]

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Children’s Card Making Kits

October 29, 2009

With eight weeks to Christmas, according to my 10 Week Christmas Preparation Plan, my task this week is to complete making the handmade gifts that we will be giving to family and friends. Each year I am making a few more things, to add to the handmade collection, but I still do purchase the majority [...]

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Christmas Budget 2009

October 22, 2009

Image by Skpy Item 2 on my Christmas Planning Checklist is to update and review the Christmas Budget. As I have been buying materials for the home made gifts, I have been inputting all my expenditure into an excel spreadsheet, which I specifically designed to track spending on Christmas. It is very easy to spend [...]

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2009 10 Week Christmas Preparation Plan

October 15, 2009

Image by HBuzacott Seriously as corny as this will sound, when I looked at my post plan and saw that I was to start the 10 week countdown to Christmas, I could not believe that we were that close to Christmas. I actually rechecked my calculations, but it was still 10 weeks to Christmas! So [...]