Tuesday 30 March 2010
At a recent trip to the nursery I spotted a plant I had been eyeing off for a while heavily marked down. Something had been nibbling on one of its large, ornamental leaves but apart from that it was fine. What I didn’t realise was that I would be bringing the very-hungry-something home with us! The next day I noticed the second of the plant’s large leaves eaten, and by the following day the plant was almost annihilated! I decided it was time for some detective work, and wasn’t really surprised to find a huge caterpillar tucked out of view down inside a stalk.
The kids...
Friday 26 March 2010 -
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You might have noticed the decrease in activity posts here at SquiggleMum this year. Now that my daughter is a big kindy girl, her world is full of indoor and outdoor activities when she is not with me. Her needs have changed. What she is desperate for at home at the moment is down time!
I have missed spending special one-on-one time with her though, so on the weekend we did a girly activity together. We had seen...
Tuesday 23 March 2010 -
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Hope. Healing. Helping. These three words are on my mind this week for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, the truly beautiful Stacey Charbachi sent me a copy of her book Climbing Mountains. Wow, what a story. Stacey first discovered the lump in her breast while pregnant with her second child. Like most of us would she assumed it to be just a blocked duct, only to be diagnosed with cancer shortly after the birth...
Monday 22 March 2010 -
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I can’t believe next week will be the last week of Term 1! I’m so proud of the way my daughter has settled in to kindy and I know she just loves it there. She does get very tired though, and the holidays will do her good. I guess these holidays will be the first of many. I want to have some fun, special times with her – but I also want to make sure she is rested and ready for Term 2. Over at...
Friday 19 March 2010 -
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Both of my kids love playing with toy phones (or old mobiles). They obviously see me on the phone a lot because they copy my stance and mimic phrases I often use in conversation! Sometimes my daughter tells me who she is “talking” to on the other end. Sometimes I pretend I’m talking to a real person too. This week though the game went to a whole new place.
We had just finished reading her kindy...
Wednesday 17 March 2010 -
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A few weeks back I posted a pic of the newly released Computer Engineer Barbie on my facebook fanpage, and it caused a little bit of a stir. I decided to share some thoughts on the Barbie debate here as a couple of readers challenged me to post about it.
I must say up front that I am not a big fan of barbie dolls. My daughter doesn’t have any, and it would take some serious convincing for me to hand over money...
Monday 15 March 2010 -
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I believe it is so important for parents to spend time together, without kids! I know it’s hard to make it happen some times. It takes effort, and organising, and going out can be costly. Would free movie tickets help? I’ve got 5 double passes to give away to My One And Only for SquiggleMum readers courtesy of Hopscotch Films.
Set in the 1950′s, the movie stars Renee Zellweger as Ann Devereaux,...
Sunday 14 March 2010 -
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I don’t know if you’ve heard, but it’s been a bit wet in Brisbane over the last week or two. Rain, rain and more rain. I’m all for letting kids have a play in their raincoats and gumboots, but you can only do that for so long before you get soggy children. So, while the weather has been like this…
We’ve been designing layouts for trains, and narrating our own adventures for the...
Wednesday 10 March 2010 -
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I love writing posts for my own blog here at SquiggleMum, but the blogosphere is a community and I also contribute elsewhere as much as I am able. Community is about giving and not just getting. Community is about belonging, supporting, encouraging, and coming along side. (The pics above are of me meeting up with many members of the online community. Still so many I’d love to meet, especially over there...
Tuesday 09 March 2010 -
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As an educator I have always had two loves: music and literacy. I majored in music, but could never bring myself to become a music specialist because I knew it would mean giving up the opportunity to help children fall in love with language! As a mother, it naturally follows that there is much music in my kids’ world. We sing as we work, we sing as we play, we sing during bath time and while we’re driving...
