What if I do it wrong?
I’m a planner. I like instructions or a checklist to follow to make sure I do things correctly and don’t do it wrong. Once I’ve repeated something a few times I may start to …
Goodreads #38 – Parenting
From packed lunches to discipline and swimming to school admissions; here are my parenting goodreads. What’s on a Six Year Old’s Wish List? The dreaded nursery phone call What’s Wrong With …
Encouraging learning in the holidays
It is the start of half term in our household (at least for my daughter and husband, I’ll be working next week). Although I know children need a break from school, I worry that the break to the …
Goodreads #36 – Parenting
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m interested in reading parenting posts, so here is a list of posts I’ve enjoyed reading recently all connected to parenting. The One Where The …
Is technology convergence good or bad?
Technology advances every month offering new products and, through technology convergence we’re offered products that combine more and more features into one product. However do these advanced …
Photo scavenger hunt to teach photography tips for children
A few years ago my now five year old daughter showed an interest in taking photographs. Obviously as I love taking photographs I was keen to encourage this, but not with my camera! So Grandpa gave her …
I’ve forgotten how to be productive
Tasks, there are lots of them; ones we want to do, ones we do for other people and the ones we feel we should do. I’ve worked on improving my productivity for years and used a variety of systems …
Chicken and cashew nuts – slow cooker recipe
Chicken and cashew nuts is our favourite slow cooker recipe and it goes down well with the whole family, plus because it only needs to cook for four hours you don’t need to remember to put it on …
5 stages to collect information for school scrapbooks
With school starting this week there are going to be a lot of milestones and memories to capture. As this is our first time at school I don’t know what to expect, but don’t want to miss …
44 ideas to capture and share memories
Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to capture memories of my children. B is starting school soon, a real milestone, and I’m concerned I’m not capturing as many of M; second child …
I want to scream; I want to cry; I want a hug
I feel so annoyed I want to scream; so frustrated I want to cry and so demoralised I want a hug. I was planning on writing a post about our exciting visit to a steam rally at the weekend, but …
I’m not ready for school starting
September is fast approaching and I’m getting the impression many parents are looking forward to their children starting school. But I’m not. I know some of my issue is the unknown, but …
Discovering a doll’s personality
Within an hour of meeting Millie I knew she liked singing and gymnastics; see the video below. By bedtime I’d been told she liked horse riding and ice skating, and most strangely that most of …
Success even if I didn’t finish the cleaning process
Can you only call it a success if you complete the plan? My plan for the weekend was to clean the house using a process I’d found through Pinterest. My checklist suggests I didn’t get very …
Back to university
University is harder than I remember; although as I was an undergraduate over 15 years ago maybe it is my memory! I’ve been quiet recently because I’ve been away at University of East …
Keeping on top of repeating tasks at home
Repeating tasks are the key to achievement; either by making sure things run smoothly or by encouraging the little and often approach to completion. It is over five years since I had the revelation of …
Bank holiday weekend = 2 visits to eye casualty
Spring has finally happened in the UK and the forecast for the long weekend was sunny and warm, so we were all off to Dorset with my in-laws. Unfortunately our plans dramatically changed with me …
New Saturday routine; library, park and cake
We’ve only been in our new house for just over two months, but we are already settling into a routine for Saturday mornings, and it is has something for the whole family to enjoy. We start by …
How long will it take for me to get the internet?
I assumed in our own house we would have the power to decide what we did to it and to choose our own service providers. However this appears not to be the case with telecommunications. Someone has a …
Recognising completion block
Writer’s block is a known phenomenon and as my last post was in August 2012 it could be assumed that is what I’ve been suffering from. But it isn’t. In fact I wrote the next post …
Keeping your inbox at zero
Email has become an ongoing issue for most people and despite being able to access it just about anywhere any time the problem doesn’t appear to be reducing. It is estimated almost 300 billion …
Get on with it already
Through Pinterest I recently found a new blog that is so where I am at the moment I want to share it. Get on with it already! is written by Stacey-Lee and she describes herself as a perfectionist and …
Embedding ideas by rereading
With 2 million blog posts being published every day how do you keep on top of them? Of course you don’t. You probably have a number of favourite sites you follow, but may still struggle to keep …
Why I want to be productive
As I get older I’m more aware that I have the same 24 hours in a day as everyone else, so what I achieve comes down to how well I use that time. My initial introduction to efficiency was from my …