Here are a collection of posts that I came across in my travels across the blogosphere, that I enjoyed during the month of May. SOCIETY I fear for our young people written …
Monthly Review for April/May
At the start of May I changed to my own server and it took me a while to sort out some problems and settle in. As such the Monthly Review for April …
Planning For Life Learning
Before I had kids, I didn’t have that many views on what I would be like as a parent. One of the few things that I did have a view on was …
Planning Our Trips To The Library
In Victoria (and many other states in Australia) the Premier of our State holds a Reading Challenge each year. The aim of the challenge is “to promote a love of reading. It …
Do You Iron?
We do iron our clothes in our house. I am lucky that my husband will iron and is quite good at it. I do though have friends who don’t iron any clothes …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Birthday Party Planning – Guest and Food Lists
This is part 3 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 …
Monthly Review – March
Time to take a look what I have achieved during March and then take a peek forward and see what is on the horizon for April. My monthly review does not go …
Planning for the End of Daylight Savings.
It is the time of the year, where we move to days that start to grow shorter and cooler. In Victoria (Australia) on Sunday 6th April (tomorrow morning) we move our clocks …
Planning Children’s Birthday Parties – Strategy, Themes and Invitations.
When I first started organising children’s birthday parties, I would get a little overwhelmed and not know where to begin. It took me a couple of parties to work out, that I …
Checklist – To Do Before Leaving On Holidays.
I have created for my family a checklist of activities that we need to complete before leaving home on holidays. At the bottom of this post, you will find attached a word …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …