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Stretched: Spreading Myself Among the Kids

12/30/10 1:00pm by katef
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Sleeping Baby

  Sometimes there just doesn’t seem to be enough of me to go around. Right from the day when I heard those fateful words, “Definitely two babies,” I knew that there would be tough times to come. Times when I just couldn’t give both children what they needed right when they needed it. Of course, since then I’ve doubled that problem, and now I am stretching my resources between four small people. Sometimes I have reinforcements, but often it is just me and them.  Read more >

The Idiot Box and Us: Decisions About TV

12/14/10 10:00am by katef
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Ella Enchanted

The nickname "idiot box" well describes how I feel TV and kids generally get along. You plonk a child in front of the TV and all you’ll get is a stagnant, vacant, dumbed down version of what was once an active, bright, spunky, individual. There are so many other, better, things kids could be doing. For a long time I’ve held the view that TV is not great for kids. I still hold that view, but lately I’ve been reassessing how TV works in our family.  Read more >

Aussies are blogging and chatting about it!

1/14/08 10:21pm by katef
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In my quest to 'get serious' about my blogging this year, not only have I shifted my blog from blogger to my own hosted word press site (www.picklebums.com) but I have also spent countless hours reading about blogging. I've been especially excited to find Aussie blogs about blogging! Getting some great tips as well as netowrking with some local bloggers has really inspired me to get my new blog up and running and to be part of the community of Aussie Bloggers.  Read more >

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PIcklebums

Blogging about life with small kids in rural Australia, with a lot of kids activities, art, imaginative play, cooking with kids, and more. As well as gardening, parenting, and the general kaos of our wonderful life!

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Full Name
kate
Member Since
March 2007
About Me: 

I'm Kate.

I blog at picklebums.com

I'm married and we have four 'picklebums'  - Zoe and Izzy (who are 7 and ID twins), Muski (who is three and no that is not his real name!) and Quatro (who is 6 months old - also not his real name!)  We live on ten acres of weeds that we jokingly call The Pickle Farm,  in ‘almost rural’ Victoria, Australia.

Before I had kids I was a preschool teacher. Now I stay home and dabble in a bit of gardening, raising chickens and ducks, trying to be a little bit self suffcient  and being a Mum. I also do a little bit of digital scrapbooking, digital design and blog design. I blog about all that as well activities for children, parenting, a few recipes and all the rest of the craziness that is our life.

We are attempting to grow our family with love and gentleness, while playing at our own version of being a little bit self sufficient and environmentally aware. Among the weeds we are growing veggies, fruit, native plants, chooks and children, learning a lot along the way and generally enjoying life.

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Near Melbourne, Australia
 

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