After taking so much time off over summer to go to Europe, I’ve no holidays left in the kitty at work. So I’m working through these hols. Bart is taking a couple of days each week to keep the kids occupied, and they have been to friends’ places and activity camps and the like. They…
Weekend Rewind | School holiday blues
We are almost half-way through the school hols already and I don’t know how I feel about it. It’s been a bit of a struggle to readjust to being a working mum and billeting out the children to make the holidays work. Holidays are not happy times for working mums. Unless we happen to be on…
10 ways to make the most of the school holidays
I’ve seen a lot of articles around about ‘staying sane in the school holidays’ and I get it, I really, truly do. The school holidays are hard work because they force us away from the everyday family routine that makes life easier for us and holidays then have the added stress of demanding to be fun and interesting and sunny…
The six stages of the school holidays
This bee backpack has been smiling at me all holidays. Hello, says the bee, I’m a useful backpack and I’m ridiculously happy. Life doesn’t get much better than a bee backpack. The bee is summing up how I feel about the school break. It’s a constant reminder that the school hols are fleeting. I’ve blinked and pretty much…
Screen freedom| 125 (not even remotely boring) things to do at home
It’s the hooooolidays. Hello holidays! I work from home which is a holiday blessing and a curse. A blessing because hello kids and a curse because hello kids. I can’t afford to pop three kids into holiday ‘camp’ (when did a day doing a drawing class become a ‘camp’ and why does it cost $130?),…
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:: A portrait of my children each week, every week in 2014 :: Maxi: My beautiful boy (a bit Lord of the Flies, but no matter). Badoo: This one does…
School holiday activities in Sydney – June 2014
The school hols are about a week away, eeek! I don’t know how they creep up on me like that every single time. Back when I worked in the city I started planning the June school holidays in around February, such was the strategical precision required to organise three kids and a corporate life. Nowadays I…
Weekend Rewind XXXIII: Baiting hooks
I baited a hook. I stuck that little long-dead white bait right on there like a pro. It flung straight off the hook when the line was cast. I’m sure it was the bait, not the baiting. Sure of it. Is it wrong that I love getting away from my real life so much? I…
School holiday activities in Sydney – April 2014
Hello and welcome to Planning with Kids: The (Completely Unauthorised) Maxabella edition. Last year (okay, it was more like three years ago, but I am slow) I whinged to Nicole that I wished she lived in Sydney so she could do one of her cool ‘what do to in the school holidays in Melbourne’ posts about…
25 quieter pursuits for busy kids
I love it when kids get together and are a whirl of busy, noisy, humdinging energy, but one thing that I have learned about myself as a mother over the past 9 1/2 years is that the noise of children will surely kill me in the end. I just like quiet. Not one of my…