family activities

Christmas in July

June 24, 2009

It’s nearly that time of year again. Can you believe it? I can’t. Christmas in July is a bit of fun, especially here in Australia. Our Christmases are usually hot and dusty. Not the ideal time to be enjoying traditional Christmas fare, although we still give it a pretty good go 🙂 Not only is […]

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Expanda – Our New Home Away From Home

April 22, 2009

Over the weekend we were fortunate to have a kid free day. We took full advantage and headed off to the local Jayco dealer to finally order our new caravan – an Expanda. We chose the Expanda because of its versatility. We essentially get a 24′ caravan that tows as a 16′ one, because of […]

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Planning a Caravan Trip – Part 3 Keeping kids happy in the car

September 20, 2008

We have three kids – 7, 5 and 3. When we go on our holidays they sit together across the back seat of our car. After the novelty of going on holidays has worn off (as it is bound to do on a long trip), the bickering will start unless we have planned a few […]

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Planning a Caravan Holiday – Part 2

September 19, 2008

Image by The Journeyer via Flickr Today’s post is the second of three in a series on how we plan our caravan holidays (here’s Part 1). We try to get away whenever we can, whether it be a long weekend or a bigger trip over the school holidays. Here I cover how I organise what […]

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Planning a Caravan Holiday – Part 1

September 17, 2008

Soon we’ll be heading off for two weeks’ holidays in our little caravan. We have a wind up camper, which we love. It’s great to tow and store. It is surprisingly large when it’s set up; quite big enough for our family of five, especially when we have the annexe set up as well (that’s […]

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10 things to do on a day off school

July 30, 2008

Today The Engineer’s school is having a curriculum day. I completely forgot about it until dinner last night, even though I had it written on our . Cinderella will be at preschool until after lunch, but The Little Mermaid will be home as well. My plans for the day have been thrown a little into […]