Planning for the Easter Holiday Car Trip post I detailed some of the activities that we pack for the children. We also make sure that we have a number of quality audio …
Menu Planner – Easter Week And Shopping List
It was a very easy to plan the family meals for this week, as we head off for our Easter Holidays on Thursday morning, which left me only three meals for to …
Planning A Green Easter
Like many families we participate in the tradition of giving chocolate eggs at Easter time. I am not sure whether it is because Christmas still seemed like only a few weeks ago, …
Child Safety – Remembering That I Am The Adult.
THE INTRODUCTION: On Fridays I review an article or book on child development and reflect on how this information may help me with my current or future parenting. This week’s post is …
Planning For The Easter Holiday Car Trip
This time next week, I will be finalising the packing for our Easter holiday. Easter this year in Victoria, also combines with school holidays, so we will are going to spend a …
10 Circuit Breakers To Prevent Those Family Melt Down Moments!
We had a pretty busy week last week and by the time Friday evening came around, I have to admit to being tired and a little on the cranky side. I looked …
Shopping List For Our Family Menu Plan
I have to firstly thank my very kind eldest sister who looked after my children (yes all 4!) from 10.30am Sunday until midday Monday. And she didn’t take it easy either and …
Some Planned Time For Mum
I have previously written about how I find it really important that I plan sometime for myself, to do the things that I want to do. With four children there is a …
Education – Key To Ending Poverty For Women.
Last week in the lead up to International Women’s Day (March 8), I looked at some current article’s surrounding the issue of women “having it all“. The discussion both online and in …
Monthly Review – February
This little task that I like to complete, does have its origins from my Performance Management days in the corporate world, whereby Monthly Reporting up the line was a key accountability of …
“Preparing Food Is An Act Of Love”
When it comes to radio, I am definitely a FM girl in the car. Mr Infrastructure on the other hand is AM (particular of the Radio National Variety). I normally like to …
Posts of the Month (Not mine!)
It has been two months since I have had this blog up and running and beside the fun and joy I have received from working on this in itself, it has also …
Planning To Shop For The Children’s Clothes.
Before I go shopping, I like to write down what the requirements for each child are. There is so much choice available, that I can get overwhelmed when I am in the …
10 Parenting Books That I Love!
I do like to read on parenting issues. Usually I head to a book when I know that there is new stage of development on the horizon. This is my way of …
Menu Plan Monday – Inspiration From The Fair
Last week I mentioned that I was making a risotto, pretty much just so that I could make the risotto balls with the left overs. Well things didn’t go according to my …
Selecting TV Programs For The Kids.
I have mentioned before that we limit the amount of television/computer time that our kids have. During the week days in school terms, I am also more selective about what it is …
Ten Things We Should Never Say To Kids.
In my Internet travels this week, I came across the above title, which I just had to investigate further. This is actually the name of an e-book written by Jim Hancock, which …