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From the monthly archives: November 2011

The Road to Mainstream – Part 3

By Kirsty On November 29, 2011 · 4 Comments

This is the third post in a series dedicated to following the transition of my son, Gilbert Bear from a special education setting to a mainstream classroom. Part 1 documented his education settings up to now and Part 2 went over the paperwork and administrative preparation required to enable his transition into [...]

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Sunday Session – My Must Haves

By Kirsty On November 27, 2011 · 4 Comments

It’s Sunday again and time to join Thea from Do I Really Wanna Blog? with the Sunday Session.

This week, I’m sharing my 4 must have artists. These are my all time favourites – the cream of the crop, the 4 that I will always follow. I have all their [...]

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I Must Confess…Teenage Infatuations

By Kirsty On November 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Hi again, welcome to another week of “the whole truth and nothing but the truth”, that is I Must Confess!

This week I have taken some inspiration from last week’s confession by Shelly at Tropical Mum and have decided to bare all about my teenage infatuations.

And, despite rain induced crazy hair frizz, [...]

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Grateful for Planes, Trains & Automobiles…

By Kirsty On November 25, 2011 · 8 Comments

Early Saturday morning will see us winging our way down to Sydney International Airport for an adventure.

Gilbert Bear has been offered the opportunity to fly on a jumbo jet for the very first time through the generosity of Qantas, Turramurra Rotary Club and Pathfinders.

To say he is excited is an understatement. He had [...]

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Things I Know about Time Management & Planning

By Kirsty On November 25, 2011 · 10 Comments

It’s Friday, again.

I should be relieved. I don’t work on Fridays and it means the end of the week and the start of the weekend.

However this week has been crazy busy and the weekend will be even busier so I’m eyeing this Friday with trepidation rather than joy.

So these are things I [...]

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Delightful Delilah

By Kirsty On November 22, 2011 · 4 Comments

Have I told you all lately how much of a delight my 18 month old munchkin is?

It’s times like these that I wish I could show you some real pictures of my littlest bear. She is just the cutest little person right now.

Sure, she is starting to assert her independence and show definite [...]

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Sunday Session – Bee Gees

By Kirsty On November 20, 2011 · 12 Comments

It’s Sunday Session time again with Thea over at Do I Really Wanna Blog?

This week I am taking inspiration from her Abba inspired session of last week. So, I’ll see you Abba and raise you the amazing Bee Gees!

I love their early stuff and their later stuff but [...]

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I Must Confess…Bad Habits

By Kirsty On November 19, 2011 · 2 Comments

Welcome to another edition of I Must Confess. This week, I am confessing some of my bad habits – only some, mind you, better leave some in reserve for another time (and let’s face, I can’t be the only one with more than a few, can I?)

Anyway, as is fast becoming tradition, I have [...]

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And, we reach the magic 100…

By Kirsty On November 19, 2011 · 12 Comments

Somehow (and I still don’t quite know how) this is post number 100 for me. It has taken me some time to get here but I’m proud to have reached this milestone. After all, this whole blogging adventure arose from a new year’s resolution. And we all know new year’s resolutions are not meant to [...]