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Freezer-Friendly Family Meals
AKA Preparing for BabyGeddon We're entering that uncertain period of pregnancy where the baby could arrive ANY DAY. If I look back at my 2 previous pregnancies, I have a familiar behavioural pattern. At about 35 weeks, I'm possessed by this insane nesting instinct to...
11 Creative Ways to Entertain Kids (When You’re A Billion Weeks Pregnant)
Here are 11 creative ways to entertain the kids when pregnant and refuse to bend down to pick things up/ can't move too quickly/ want to just sit in the one spot for an extended period (aka Being A Billion Weeks Pregnant.) Okay, so I'm partial to a bit of exaggeration...
21 Ways to Prepare Your Child for School
Can you remember your first day at Big School? (I can't so I hope that means it was non-eventful. I hope it doesn't mean it was so traumatic that I've struck it from memory.) Is there anybody at your place starting Big School this year? I've done this...
12 Fail-safe Steps to Finding the Perfect Baby Name
How did you decide upon baby names? Was it a straightforward process? Tense? Did you looked deep into their eyes straight after birth and the name came to you, right there and then? With less than 10 weeks until we welcome Baby #3 Earthside, we're in the complicated...
11 Ways to Keep the Kids Entertained on Christmas Day
Image via hello, Wonderful It's Christmas Day. Lunch still has another 40 minutes to go in the oven. The kids have had way too much sugar. Tempers are fraying. Sound familiar? How do you a) avoid meltdowns from everybody? and b) keep the kids entertained until lunch...
18 Ways To Help Your Kids With Friendship Issues
Those words above were uttered to me by a very wise teacher. I often recall these words when a student asks for help with a friendship issue. As a teacher, my job is not to solve the problem for my students. My role is to guide them through the situation and...
Time Savers for Art and Craft with Kids
This post is brought to you in collaboration with JORD Wood Watches. Look, I'm just going to put it out there, but I'm a pretty avid art and crafter with my kiddies. (Have you noticed?!) Often people will marvel at this fact. Bless! (I'm just dabbling in paint and...
A Day in my Life as a Teacher
When I left high school, I went straight into a Communications degree at university. I took up a job in Advertising upon graduating. It then quickly became apparent to me that I did not want to spend my life trying to convince consumers of the benefits of one brand of...
9 Invitations to Create Before Dinner
There are so many possible titles for this post. 18 Invitations to Build and Create! Free Printable to Help You Set Up Invitations to Build and Create Ways to Keep the Kids Entertained so That You Can Focus on Not Burning Dinner (catchy, no?!) Entertain the Kids Until...
GUEST POST: 5 Afternoon Snack Hacks for Busy Parents
Simone from Play With Food was my first online friend who became an In-Real-Life Friend. The friendship was cemented by surviving Yum Cha with 4 kids under 4 upon our first meeting. I love Simone's passion for what she does. Her aim is "to delight the imagination and...
Hi! I’m Shannon
I’m a mama and a teacher celebrating our perfectly imperfect attempts at living a creative life.
AKA trying to remain sane whilst raising 3 kids under 5 and holding unrealistic life expectations thanks to Pinterest.
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