[flickr id=”2946059445″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”center”] 1. Gingerbread House, 2. Untitled, 3. | Feliz Navidad / Merry Christmas |, 4. merry flickrmas!, 5. Red Christmas 2006 – 236F, 6. fabric ball ornaments, 7. Untitled, …
Children’s Timetable Term 4, 2008
Regular readers of Planning With Kids will be familiar with this post. Each term I create a timetable for the children to assist them in being responsible for managing their own tasks. …
10 Week Preparation Plan Until Christmas
This Thursday it will be only 10 weeks until Christmas. Thanks to my Christmas Planning In July project this year, I do feel much better placed than I have been in previous …
Monthly Review September
September was a pretty good month in terms of achieving my goals, with the exception of course my perennial goal which I am still struggling with. REVIEW – KEY TASKS FOR SEPTEMBER: …
Christmas Planning – Christmas Present Tags
Each year I like to make my own tags for Christmas presents. I pick a theme based on colour or pattern and match up wrapping paper and tags. I have contemplated making …
What is your motivation?
I had some terrific feedback after my post on The Typical Day Of A Stay At Home Mum. Thank you to all those who left comments and sent emails. I also had …
10 Ways To Be Productive Outside
Image by placid casual In my Monthly Review at the end of August, I stated that I wanted to spend some more time outside. The trouble with this goal is that often …
30 Day Challenge – And In Conclusion
It has certainly felt weird not having to watch videos of Ed Dale and the crew from the 30 Day Challenge for the last few days. I didn’t make my first $1 …
Monthly Review July/August
Image by Florian With an intense end to July fitting in all the pre-season training for the 30 Day Challenge, the review for July just slipped from my radar. I really wanted …
My Typical Day
A reader sent in this request to me recently: “After reading your past posts i found myself wondering how on earth you find the time to do all the things you …
Tips To Make Bath Time Easier
[flickr id=”38634962″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”center”] Photo: frielp A regular reader emailed me asking what we did at bath time and for any tips that I might have making these part of the day …
30 Day Challenge Update – One Week Down!
Well I am officially on to day nine for the 30 Day Challenge (runs on US Eastern time) and I am actually pretty amazed that I have managed to keep up. It …
Christmas Planning Checklist
I do so love a check list. I have just put together a checklist for Christmas Planning. Naturally I have gone to my preferred application of Excel. I have also included into …
Guest Post: Role Reversal Experience – Mr Infrastructure
This is the first guest post on Planning With Kids and I am very proud that it comes from my gorgeous husband! Here is his experience from trading roles with me last …
Getting Out And About
I had the opportunity to get out of the house a couple of nights this week and see some interesting stuff. I love having the chance to see new things and I …
The Role Reversal Experiment
This week Mr Infrastructure kindly took a week’s holiday leave, so he could stay home and allow me time on projects that I needed to work on. The Role Reversal Experiment has …
Christmas Planning In July – Making Handmade Fabric Notebooks
Earlier this month I got together with a talented and craft friend to make the first batch of hand made Christmas Presents for the year. Our first get together in July was …
Children’s Timetable Term 3, 2008
New term and new timetable. There were just a few minor changes that I needed to make to the Children’s Timetable from Term 2. I have been creating these timetables for a …