Top Ten Christmas Sanity Survival Tips

Every year I find late November & early December can be extremely busy and stressful if I let it be. Here in Australia, we have all the end-of-year social functions with school, work, sports, activities etc. Over the last few years, in the lead-up to Christmas, I find that if I implement some practices into my life, I find it easier with the stress around this time of year. This blog posts has incredibly practical tips to help you thrive, not just survive this holiday season. Continue Reading →

Top 10 Parenting tips during Lock-down with Coronavirus

An alternative title could be “Coping or thriving with kids around 24/7”. Making a conscious and lifestyle decision over eleven years ago to home school our kids means that I Continue Reading →

Advent Movie Calendar

Our family loves movies. As our children have become teenagers, we have relaxed a lot on screen time. (I use to be extremely strict when they were younger.) This has Continue Reading →

Acts of Kindness – school holiday fun

It’s school holidays here in Australia and that can raise a whole lot of emotions in both parents and kids. Now my kids are teenagers, it is a whole new Continue Reading →

Christmas Movies for the Family

Throughout December, our family love sitting down of an evening and watching a movie together. We try and choose Christmas themed movies for this time of year. Four movies in Continue Reading →

Keeping kids occupied during School Holidays

Here in Australia our children are on school holidays at the moment. When they were younger, I used to have all sorts of challenges during the school holidays for my Continue Reading →

Books about War

Our family loves reading history and learning it. The famous quote, usually attributed to writer and philosopher George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”, I believe is very significant. Continue Reading →

Book Suggestions for 11-14 year olds.

Four years ago I made a list of books that my children were reading at the time. Now that Princess is nearly 15 and Matey 12, I have made a Continue Reading →