A fun blast from the past with retro board games!

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Last night I got to do something I wish I could have done as a child. I was let loose in a shop with a gift card to buy whatever toys I wanted! So you know what I did? I went and bought the games I was always envious of my friends for having! Actually [...]

I’m not a fun mum

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If children are meant to bring you great joy, then mine owe me a truckload.  I am not having fun and lately there seems to be more tears than laughter. But I don’t think it’s their fault.  It’s mine.  I made the decision to stay home with them and provide a loving and stable upbringing [...]

L.A.M.E: I’ve slipped up again . . .

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Go ahead, Laugh At My Expense . . . Remember how I slipped up in a restaurant and broke my lady bits?  Well, today I came a cropper again.  And my day was going so well! I arrived at the Melbourne Museum early for a play date with a good friend who I don’t see [...]

5 school holiday activities to save your sanity

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Sponsored by Nuffnang We are well into the summer holidays now (in the Southern Hemisphere!) and I’ve heard a lot of you mourning about partners going back to work.  Surely they should be the sad ones? But for those of us left behind to wrangle the kids, it could signify the end of our own [...]

You’ve got to accentuate the positive . . .

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Beautiful CrashGirl “You’ve got to accentuate the positive Eliminate the negative Latch on to the affirmative Don’t mess with Mister In-Between” So the song says, and I’m inclined to agree.  I just need to follow through! I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve been feeling a bit blah about the start of the New [...]

Kids Activities: Tiddalik the Thirsty Frog + Giveaway

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Sponsored by Nuffnang Long ago in an Aboriginal Creation story, Tiddalik, the largest frog ever known, awoke one morning with a huge thirst. He started to drink and drank until there was no fresh water left in the world. I can identify with this frog, I felt like this when I awoke from the anaesthetic [...]

How to make salt dough Christmas tree ornaments

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Today I’m linking up with Kirsty at Coffee Drinking Mummy to Five for the first Pinterest Make Me Challenge Are you a Pinterest addict? I’m not quite there yet, but I’ve been finding some great inspiration which I have been pinning to my boards (my profile here). A couple of weeks ago I found this [...]

{Crash Results} How to make time for blogging

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These are my results from the {Crash Challenge} Beating mother guilt. Last week I was challenged by Debbie from The Edge Coaching to crash the “Guilt Wheel”.  I determined that the main source of my guilt was when I was blogging instead of spending time with my children.  I realised that the reason this was [...]

{Test Results} Upcycled Kindy Art

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These test results follow on from the {Crash Test} Cherishing the Cherubs Well, it’s Friday and we’ve completed our crash test for this week: upcycling CrashGirl’s kindy art.