I am not going to mention that the last month went ridiculously fast and I can’t believe it is time for me to be writing this again! 🙂 Here are some posts …
Planning Children’s Birthday Parties – Emergency Plan and Thank You Notes
This is Part 6, the final post in the Planning Children’s Birthday Series. Part 1 was a 10 Point Birthday Party Plan Check List. Part 2 focused on family strategy for birthday …
Upgrade Issues
Just a quick note to state the obvious: if you have tried to look at the Planning With Kids blog over the last couple of hours (wee hours of Wed morning), you …
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. …
10 Indicators of School Readiness
School readiness is a widely discussed topic and it is something I am reviewing myself at the moment just to make sure that Possum will be indeed ready for school next year. …
Menu Plan Monday – Short Week
We leave Friday morning for Mildura to attend a family wedding, so I escape cooking for a few nights which will be fun! It will hopefully give me a little more time …
More On The Purpose of Preschool
On Saturday I posted about thoughts of mine and some leading educators on the purpose of preschool. One of things I love so much about blogging, is the sharing of information and …
The Fix, The Mix and The Free
THE FIX Those of you who have subscribed to my email updates would be aware that they have been broken for over a week now. Those of you who have subscribed to …
The Purpose Of Preschool
I have been giving preschool and its purpose significant consideration over the last month or so, for a number of different reasons. I have my third child attending four year old kinder …
Planning Children’s Birthday Parties – Party Week and Party Day Timetables.
This is Part 5 in the Planning Children’s Birthday Series. Part 1 was a 10 Point Birthday Party Plan Check List. Part 2 focused on family strategy for birthday parties, party themes …
10 Quick Ways to Feed Unexpected Lovely Visitors
As you may have noticed, I do love to plan and have things very much ordered and organised. However too much of this can make life a little dull , so I …
Menu Planner – Input From The Husband
I have written previously about how I try to get the children’s input into the family menu planning process, but I have not yet mentioned Mr Infrastructure’s contributions to this. To be …
Food Porn Meme
Guera at A Roaming Aussie Kitchen tagged me for a meme on food porn, which started at Smoky Mountain Breakdown. For those of you (like me), who are new to blogging terminology …
ANZAC Day – Talking About War With Children.
As most Australians and New Zealanders would know, next Friday 25th April is ANZAC DAY. It commemorates the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli, Turkey on 25 April 1915. …
Planning Children’s Birthday Parties – Activities and Accessories.
Welcome to Part 4 in the Planning Children’s Birthday Series. Part 1 was a 10 Point Birthday Party Plan Check List. Part 2 focused on family strategy for birthday parties, party themes …
10 Strategies To Gain Co-Operation From A Toddler
My beautiful Babaganouski turns two at the end of this month. As such trying to gain his co-operation sometimes can be quite a challenge. I have had to give my memory a …
Menu Planning – Back to Basics
Last week we tried out two great new recipes Roast Chicken and Vegetables and Picklebum’s Easy Beef and Veggie Triangles. Both were easy to make, incredibly tasty and most importantly very popular …
Children’s Timetable Term 2, 2008
Week one down of a long (twelve week) school term for the kids. This term there are changes with sporting activities, so I have revised the children’s timetable created at the start …