I made a trip out to the Reverse Art Truck this week to replenish supplies for our useful box. This was part of the rotation of toys that I was implementing at …
Planning My Role For The Future.
From an environmental perspective, I try to print out very few articles that I read when I am crawling the Internet. But there are some that I find and I know instantly …
Reorganising The Toy Shelf
Now that we are fully into the swing of term 1, I have set myself a plan of reorganising or de-cluttering, spots in the house that have been bothering me. Having the …
10 Things To Do Before Summer Ends!
I have to admit that I am a summer girl. I grew up in north west country Victoria, where it is hot- really hot in summer and I love it that way. …
Menu Planning – Easy and Quick Version
A pretty basic plan this week, but one that only took me a few minutes to whip up courtesy of the suggestions from the kids. When I sought the children’s input, between …
Aside – Scavenger Hunt
ickle kids is participating in the Business Mums Network Scavenger Hunt. The hunt is “To celebrate Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Month 2008”. Laine, who runs ickle kids is a great friend …
Children’s Timetable Term 1 2008
In a previous post I spoke about some of the things that I like to do , to make school mornings easier. One thing that I like to do, but didn’t include …
Planning To Let Go, One Step At A Time
I have been thinking a lot recently about what age should I let my eldest walk to and from school on his own. He is in grade four now and we have …
Pocket Money For Kids
EDIT: If you would like to see how we track the money we give the kids and download a free excel spreadsheet template, you can do so here – How to keep track …
Aside – Mixtape Zine Launch Friday
If you are in Melbourne Friday 8th February, you should check out the launch of issue no. 3 of the Mixtape Zine at Sticky Institute. Mixtape is a zine about making time …
10 Preschooler Early Learning Activities You Can Plan Into Your Day
My preschooler Possum, has started showing lots of interest in the early steps of numeracy and literacy. That is, she wants to know lots about numbers and is constantly “writing” letters to …
Menu Plan Monday – Back To School
This will be the first full week back at school for us and all the extra curricular activities are starting this week. When putting the menu plan together during the school terms, …
Planning the Term 1 Week
I have just started to put together a picture of what of the average Term 1 week is going to look like. I often spend time wondering about what is the right …
When Is A Tantrum, Not A Tantrum?
I went back to a favourite parenting guide book this week Children are People too by Louise Porter. I wanted some reminders on how to deal with tantrums. My nearly two year …
Children’s Jobs And Our Family Meetings
Last week I noted in the Letting children do it for themselves post, that I was going to work at banishing the “clean up fairy” in my house. I am pleased to …
Menu Plan Monday – Inspiration From Other Menu Planners
This week I am trying a couple of new recipes that I found from checking out other folk’s meal plans at I’m an Organizing Junkie. Each week Laura hosts Menu Plan Monday …
Planning Time For Mum
“Back to school” is almost here and it has started me thinking about how the pace of our leisurely “school holiday” days will change very soon. Once the school term starts there …
Our Own Animation
NB. I have tried numerous times through out the day to upload the photos and video of our outing and have not been successful, I think blogger/my PC is having an issue. …