I loved being able to publish this guest post on my blog today. It is written by Anne Vize, a Melbourne writer. It is inspiring to read about the difference one family can …
Helping Others In Our Community and PaperMate InkJoy Pens
As blogging has become more mainstream, many brands are looking to partner with bloggers as a way to promote their products and services. You can read more about this in my disclosure …
IKEA Soft Toys for Education + Give Away
The winners were: Sandra If I were lucky enough to win this prize I would put them under the Christmas Giving Tree at Kmart. My three daughters and I have recently completed …
Helping Variety Help Kids In Need
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. Variety is a not for profit organisation that has been actively helping kids in Australia since 1975. Variety assists Aussie kids who are sick, disadvantaged or …
Community Initiatives
Being a blogger, I spend a fair bit of time online. While it is not all peaches and cream on the interwebs, I am constantly amazed and impressed at the initiatives that …
Opportunities To Support and Contribute to Help Other Mums
I recognise that while far from perfect, I have a great life – a loving family, amazing friends, my health and the opportunity to work from home to help suport my family. …
Community Blogging Christmas Event
Over the last month I have worked pretty furiously with a lovely group of Melbourne Bloggers – Kathy, Kate, Marita, Amanda and Shae on a Community Blogging Christmas Event. The idea behind …
Spirit Of Community
I had the most inspiring morning today. I spent a couple of hours working with a lovely team of women at Apples and Jam (this is a truly gorgeous place and I …
Donating at Christmas
Each year before Christmas comes, I like to go through the house with the kids and sort out what we no longer need, but still works and would be useful to others. …
Red Nose Day 2011
I am old enough to remember the very first Red Nose Day all the way back in 1988. How fantastic is it that this event has been going for over 20 years …
Westfield Give Ability Day – Doncaster
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. As I noted in my post last week, on the week end I went to Westfield Doncaster to support and see in action the inaugural Westfield …
Westfield Give Ability Day
This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. I can remember being pregnant with our fifth child and wondering had we pushed our luck too far? We already had 4 healthy and fully able …
A Different Gift For Mother’s Day This Year
As the blog has grown, so too has the requests for me to promote products and campaigns. I reject way more than I take on, but every so often one will come …
Food Action Network
I love how having a plan can allow you to keep moving things along, even if it is out of order. 🙂 This week I was going to be talking about Christmas …
Drawtism – Play Pictionary and Help Those With Autism Spectrum Disorder
I was asked if I could help appealing to parents to help promote Drawtism, a national fundraiser that invites people to play Pictionary for Autism, which affects one in 119 children. Drawtism …
Field Of Women – Friday May 7, 2010
When I was contacted and asked if I could help promote the Pink Bun Fundraising campaign, having known a number of people who have been affected by breast cancer, I was happy …
Tear Down The Great Fire Wall Of China
This post is my contribution to Bloggers Unite For Human Rights. As an Australian I can openly express my political views on this blog, on a chat room or in an email …
From Little Things…….
This is a little bit off tangent from my standard posts on planning and all things kid related, but I think they are really important so wanted to share them with you. …