[flickr id=”2114683166″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”center”] (Photo uploaded to Flickr by HVargas) When planning activities for the younger children, I endeavour to have a variety of activities and some which are construction based. This …
Christmas Planning In July – Presents
I have traditionally not been one of those organised people who buy up presents at the sales in June or July, but have tended to leave my shopping until November or December. …
9 Tips For Organised School Mornings
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 …
Menu Plan Monday – Better Late Than Never!
From Wednesday of last week, we were lucky enough to have two young pilgrims stay with us on their way to World Youth Day in Sydney. They were from Cannon Falls, Minnesota …
Baby Smiles Addictive
I love it when research proves something as a mother you have always known: “These are areas that have been activated in other experiments associated with drug addiction [so] it may be …
Mum’s Work Plan
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 …
School Holiday Activity – Animation
Today myself and all four children plus a friend of the Thinker’s, caught the train into the city to Federation Square. Our first activity was to see the free kids flicks. They …
10 Tips For Getting Children To Solve Their Own Problems
I strongly encourage my children to make attempts to solve their own problems, as are appropriate for their ages. I want them to know that they can come to me for help, …
Seasonal Vegetables For July
It is the start of a new month, so time to receive some inspiration for meals by which vegetables and fruit are in season. The following fruits and vegetables listed below are …
Tuesdays With Morrie
I was lucky enough to be given Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom from a friend for my birthday. I have to …
Monthly Review – June
REVIEW – KEY TASKS FOR JUNE: Not being too busy. June although not perfect has been my best month so far, for getting to bed before 11pm. I actually wrote myself a …
School Holiday Activity – Baking Biscuits
100s of Biscuits Recipe Ingredients: 500g butter 1 tin condensed milk 1 cup sugar 5 cups self-raising flour Optional Ingredients: Hundreds and Thousands Choc Chips Coconut Strawberry Jam Instructions: These are very …
10 Top Posts For June
This post comes to you a little later than usual. My techno troubles have continued unfortunately and my notebook is very broken and will probably not be fixed until Friday. In the …
Menu Plan Monday – School Holidays Week 1
School holidays finally start this Monday which I have been looking forward to. School holidays tends to make planning the weekly menu easier if anything, as I don’t have the after school …
Are You Turning Your Child Into A Wimp?
This is the title of an interview by Andrea Sachs in Time magazine with the author of a new book called A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting. Hara …
Planning Time For The Park
When Thinker (now 9.5 y.o) and Little Rascal (now 7) were toddlers/preschoolers we spent a lot of time at parks and playgrounds. As we have had more children and the number of …
Six Word Memoir
All the way back in April the delightful PreSchool Mama tagged me for this meme. The aim of which is to obviously write your life memoir in six words. I filed it …
10 Reasons To Look Forward To School Holidays
I genuinely look forward to school holidays. I think with this long term, I have been counting down the days as much as the children have been! Sometimes it can get a …