Wednesday 30 September 2009
Ok, so I’m just sneaking in my Real Aussie Mum for September. (Thanks to the reader who noticed I hadn’t featured a “Miss September” yet! LOL) Christie Burnett is an experienced Early Childhood Teacher and a Mum who has worked with hundreds of families with young children. Even though we’ve never met in real life I’d call her a friend. She blogs at Childhood 101 about growing memorable, healthy childhoods, with lots of ideas, tips and information for families. Here are her five faves and her biggest struggle as she raises her daughter, Immy.
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Tuesday 29 September 2009 -
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Have you seen these awesome sandwiches? They are so deserving of the name Funky Lunch. I’ve never eaten anything as funky as this!
I’ve also never made sandwiches with this amount of pizazz. But they do inspire me to try a little harder with lunches. Maybe not all the time, but every now and then it’s nice to make lunch time fun. I sometimes forget that using a biscuit cutter to cut a shape...
Sunday 27 September 2009 -
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Congratulations to the winners of Small Fry: Inspiration For Cooking With Kids! The random winning numbers were 11 (Ros) and 1 (Nat). Next week I’ll be giving away Small Fry: Outdoors with another two chances to win a gorgeous book.
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In case you haven’t come across the Small Fry books yet, let me introduce you to authors Susie Cameron and Katrina Cook. Their beautifully...
Thursday 24 September 2009 -
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I know, it’s still only September, but the countdown to Christmas is on. Blogging-mamas have started sharing their plans, shopping mamas have started eyeing off Christmas displays, and crafty mamas have started creating gifts. Personally I love Christmas and I love gift giving. But when it comes to gift getting? I have enough stuff. Really I do.
I don’t know when I got so grown up. I look around...
Wednesday 23 September 2009 -
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It’s been a few days since I’ve been able to spend quality one-on-one time with my daughter, just the two of us. Now that my little man is a big one year old he is into everything, all the time, and that means his big sister often misses out on mummy time. Today he slept late and long, so we made the most of some girl time and made fairy boats.
Last week, while playing in the yard with a bucket of water...
Tuesday 22 September 2009 -
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We wanted to keep our first pregnancy to ourselves until the “safe” twelve week mark, and keeping the secret was exciting! (Well, nauseating and exciting all wrapped up together). With my uncertain second pregnancy things were different. We needed people to know because we needed support. You can read my story at Parenting Australia, but here’s a snippet…
There were no guarantees that this...
Sunday 20 September 2009 -
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We’ve all done a pretty good job in recent years of being sun smart when it comes to our kids. New research is showing that perhaps we’ve gone too far the other way though as increasing numbers of babies are being diagnosed with a vitamin D deficiency due to lack of exposure to the sun!
You can read more about the importance of vitamin D in this article on the Raising Children Network. The bottom line...
Friday 18 September 2009 -
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The floor was mopped last night. It was sparkling clean. And this morning I swept this much up off it, after only breakfast. *sigh*
Cleaning up gets me down. I feel really good about our home (and about myself actually) when it’s clean and tidy, and I don’t mind hard work. It’s just that it needs doing over, and over, and over again. It’s relentless. I mop the floor, the kids spill...
Thursday 17 September 2009 -
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On this day, one year ago, I woke up early even though the house was unusually quiet. I knew my two year old daughter would be wide awake at her Nan and Pa’s place. I imagined her pulling on my Dad’s arm saying, “Feed the birds, Pa? Feed the birds?” I missed her a little already, and wondered when I’d see her next. One day? Two…?
On this day, one year ago, my husband and...
Wednesday 16 September 2009 -
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"Very Hungry Caterpillar" stones
Mumblers launched this week! It’s a melting pot of great online content relevant to Aussie mums. I’m a regular blogger on the team, so I’d love you to follow me over there once a month or so. Here’s a snippet from my post about story stones. My daughter and I have had a wonderful time in the garden with these simple stones, so I hope you give them...
