This is a question that I have been contemplating a bit recently. Our beautiful baby number 5 will be our last and when I have mentioned to parents of older children, how …
On Motherhood: The Juggling, The Judgement and The Loss
Just one of the benefits I have found I receive from blogging, is that I have the opportunity to read many heart felt, thought provoking, funny and sad posts on motherhood. Blogging …
Preparing For International Travel With A Baby
Image by Kent Paraiso I am heading to Singapore on the 22nd Oct for the Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blog Awards. This is the first time that I have travelled internationally with a …
Painting A Family Canvas
On the last Friday of the school holidays, I had booked the kids and myself into a session at the Box Hill Community Arts Centre to paint a Family Canvas. That was …
Make Your Own Comic Strip For Kids
I came across this fun website courtesy of Reading Rockets. Make Beliefs Comix is a free website that allows you to make your own two, three or four panel comic strip. It …
10 Resources On Children’s Literacy
Image by qwrrtyWatching a child learn to read is one of the joys of parenthood to me. Seeing the child’s excitement at being able to work out what the words on the …
Homemade Baby Food
Our beautiful baby has been eating for a couple of months now. I like to make sure the baby has homemade baby food, but with our family schedule, as he can’t eat …
10 Parenting Podcasts
One of my goals for September was to find some parenting podcasts. I aimed to find 10 quality podcasts and I actually found it harder than I thought it would be. There …
Baby Routine 6 – 9 Months (What Routine???)
Many baby books will have suggested routines for what a baby aged 6 – 9 months of age should be doing. They tend to have the routine look a little something like …
10 Reasons Why Planning Works For Me
(Image by Dilbert – one year for Christmas my lovely husband gave me a beautifully framed version of this comic strip. It makes me laugh, but I still love planning!) As a …
Balancing Family Life And Online Activities
(Image by Rae Whitlock) On a recent post, Tam from TamaraMarwood.com asked about how I manage my online life around the family. As noted in my monthly review last week, I actually …
11 Questions about Dad
Post Updated 17th August 2022 This post was originally published in 2009 – 13 years ago – the kids were so little back then, the youngest was still a baby! I read …
2009 Children’s Book Council of Australia Winners
The Children’s Book Council Of Australia’s (CBCA) Book Week starts today and runs until 28th August. The winners of this years CBCA judges awards have been announced as part of the celebrations …
You Can Tell Little Ones Live At My House
Do you know how hard it is to actually photograph finger marks on the windows??? Well this is my attempt to do so and of the finger marks on the paint work …
10 Great Australian Blogs
I have recently updated my blogroll. For those of you not familiar with that term it is the list of blogs that I frequent and is listed on the right hand side …
Managing Homework With Little Children About
On my post on Magic 100 Words or Sight Words a number of people asked how do I manage to work with my prep child on these activities with younger (and older!!) …
Introducing Solids To Baby
This week our beautiful boy turned 6 months. Up until now he has been exclusively breastfed, but this week we will begin introducing solids to our baby. Each time that we reach …
Sight Word Lists Activities
Last week I wrote about some beginner phonic activities that I have been playing with our 5 year old. As I mentioned there, the school that Possum attends uses a combination of …