Tips for surviving as a busy working family with two young school children Ros from Sew Delicious and I were recently chatting about our new back to work/school routines and I thought I would share some of my survival tips. I am no expert and I strongly advise you to read blogs like The Organised […]
Category Archives: home life
Happy New Year (can I say that in February?) Hello my rather neglected blog. It is so nice to see you again. I’m very lucky with my ‘real’ job to be able to take 6 weeks off every summer holidays to look after my owlets. I always have the best intentions to do so many […]
Freezer Cooking I know everyone leads a busy life but sometimes I really struggle with managing the work life balance. I just always seem to be racing out the door, dropping kids at kinder and school, rushing to work, being intelligent all day (which I clearly am wink wink), rushing out to get to the […]
Chores for children Do your children help around the house? I’ve seen lots of different chore charts and systems but I’m not really sure what would work for our house. We have a pretty busy schedule with me working four days each weeks. Perhaps we don’t need anything more as what we are doing is […]
School holiday activity ideas: mess free painting Each school holidays, I try to do just one ‘activity’ each day. Might not seem like much but it gets my two (Master 6 and Miss 4) focused on just one thing and not expecting an endless range of entertainment. I thought I would share some of our […]
Happy Mother’s Day (for yesterday) Happy belated Mother’s Day! I had a relaxing day yesterday. I received a beautiful poem and card from my beautiful boy, Master Owlet. There is just something so special about receiving a card which he obviously had taken so much care to write neatly and draw a picture of me. […]
Surviving School Holidays I think I’ve survived. Just! My wine consumption may have increased ever so slightly (mmmm a lot!). My chocolate consumption has been insane. All in the name of helping eat the stash so the kids don’t have too much. But seriously we have had a blast. Lots of lazy days, with various […]
Happy Easter (testing the Blogger iPad app!) I hope you have enjoyed your Easter long weekend. We have had a quiet weekend. Spending time together as a family. Enjoying our traditional egg hunt. Eating lots of hot cross buns and chocolate (yum!). I’m off work for the next two weeks for school holidays and hoping […]