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Cute Holiday Activities For Kids: Call Santa, Video Santa, NORAD Tracking And More
photo credit: Chris R McFarland It’s that time of year again … Christmas is just days away and we’ve got some excited kids to keep occupied. Here’s a list of some cute online holiday activities to fill the days. – A personalized Santa video directly from the North Pole. A company in Canada has created [...]
Trailing Spouse: Is there any Uglier Name?
This is part of a series about relocating a family internationally, called What I’ve Lost, What I’ve Gained, for BlogHer’s month of blogging. What do you call a woman or a man who follows her spouse as he or she relocates for work, often sacrificing a career and identity? These spouses pack up the family, [...]
Tales from the Land of the Demented
My mother cuts through the water without a splash. She manages about 400 metres of evenly-paced freestyle before she stops and grins at me, panting behind her. Even in her demented state, Mum can out-swim her daughter. It still gives her pleasure.
Ugg-ly Winters in Australia
Winter in Sydney means getting warmly dressed before you go inside on a mild winter’s day. You don’t get undressed at bedtime, you get re-dressed.
News flash: Killer Lurks in Aussie Shopping Centres
Moving is a liberating bitch. You lose so much, you gain a lot. After 16 years of living in the USA, we moved back to Australia nearly four months ago. During Blogher’s month of blogging, I’m going to post every day on the theme, “What I’ve Lost, What I’ve Gained, ” a light-hearted account of [...]
Yes, we have no bananas
Moving is a liberating bitch. You lose so much, you gain a lot. After 16 years of living in the USA, we moved back to Australia (where we were both born, raised, educated, worked, etc.) nearly four months ago. During Blogher’s month of blogging, I’m going to try to post every day on the [...]
No more swearing at bedtime (or the benefits of sport for young boys)
Last night, I read to my kids, kissed them goodnight, turned off the light, and guess what? Miracle of miracles, they went to sleep. For the nine years of our twins’ lives, bedtime has been something that we’ve often dreaded and delayed just to put off the kids’ delaying tactics (how pathetic is that?). The [...]
Harvard Healthy Eating Plate
Earlier this year the USDA released new dietary guidelines for Americans, under an initiative called ChooseMyPlate.gov. In response to this, the Harvard School of Public Health released the Healthy Eating Plate, to make it easier for consumers to think about meal planning and not just abstract ideas about food allowances. You can download a copy [...]
Introducing @MomsToWorkJobs on Twitter
Introducing @MomsToWorkJobs on Twitter. Follow MomsToWorkJobs for information about job openings in your area and across the United States. We’ll tweet about flexible, family friendly, telecommute, virtual, remote, consulting, contract, part time, temporary, seasonal, hourly work and more. Follow @MomsToWorkJobs Follow Moms To Work on Twitter @MomsToWork.
2011 Holiday and Seasonal Hourly Jobs
photo credit: jczart Fourth Quarter 2011 is upon us and that means retailers are on their mad sprint to the end of year profitability. While seasonal hiring is weaker than in previous years, several companies have announced their Holiday 2011 hiring plans for temporary workers according to shopping deals site buxr.com. Nordstrom Seasonal Jobs Kohls [...]
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