A lovely reader included this in an email to me recently: I really liked the idea of your weekly family meeting I was wonder though what sort of topics are brought …
10 School Holiday Activities In Melbourne
****** Click here for September 2011 School Holidays. ****** [flickr id=”2149327309″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”center”] Image by johnpetru82 I read lots of blogs from mums in the northern hemisphere and during our winter this …
Toilet Training Boys
My toddler (Babaganouski) is now showing all the signs of being ready for toilet training. The signs that I have picked up are: Comes and asks me to change me his nappy …
Ice Cream Cake Recipe – Honeycomb Flavour
Over numerous years of birthdays and other occasions that require a cake as part of the celebration, I have noticed how much cake children waste. My children (mainly the younger ones), will …
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 …
10 Things To Do Before Christmas
Image by tanakawho As I mentioned in my last monthly review in order to achieve everything I want to before Christmas, I needed to create a short term plan. Below is the …
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 …
10 Top Posts For August
[flickr id=”509812109″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”center”] Image: Jared Goodbye August, Hello September! This month’s collection of posts have been split between craft and family organisation 50:50. There is always so much great stuff to …
Children’s Book Council Awards
The winners of the Children’s Book Council Awards were announced on Friday. My older two children read with anticipation the winners in Saturday’s morning’s paper. Like most Australian school children they had …
10 Favourite Children’s Books – Preschooler’s Choice
Image by Manchester Library During the month of August I have been making my way through my children’s favourite books, in celebration of Children’s Book Week (officially this week in Australia). So …
Christmas Planning – Handmade Fabric Necklaces
SPOILER ALERT – To my family and friends, please do not read on as you may see your Christmas Gift for this year! In my attempt this year to be well and …
He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men (Part 3)
This is part 3 in a review of the wonderful book on adolescent boys “He’ll be Ok: Growing gorgeous boys into good men” by Celia Lashlie. If you would like to read …
Menu Plan Monday – Is It Still Winter????
Photo: avlxyz It happens every year at about this time. I start to fret that winter will go on forever and that the cold and wet weather is never leaving. I know …
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 …
The Olympic Ideal???
[flickr id=”1715454728″ thumbnail=”medium” align=”center”] Photo Credit – Losmininos I usually do not give the Olympic Games much thought. On the whole I am not a great fan of the concept, but it …
Christmas Planning In July – Home Made Works Of Art
SPOILER ALERT – To my family and to the children’s “special” friends, please do not read on as you may see your Christmas Gift for this year! Last week I showed the …