Position in space

Image of an open drink bottle

In a former, and much younger life, I sat in a lecture theatre with about 150 other undergrads learning about body awareness and how it develops in children. In short, body awareness is the sense of where your body parts are both in space and in relation to other objects. Children notoriously suck at it when they're little. That's why they fall over things, and get themselves jammed in things so often. Body awareness improves with age.

For most people.

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Finalist

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On Friday night I received an exciting email. I am an AusMumpreneur Award finalist. Each nominee was entered in two categories: one voted by the people and one decided by a panel of judges. I am a finalist in my judged category.

In a few weeks time I will be heading to Melbourne to present to a conference full of people and answer questions from a panel of judges. For this task, I need your help...

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Ready to start

Picture of three school bags on the stairs

The night before school starts back there's always a little pressure. I feel it incumbent upon me to give the junior recipe testers the best chance of a good start for term. So last night it began. Nutritious meal, check. This was expertly prepared by the senior recipe tester. I was in the big kitchen preparing your nutritious meals.

Next, not too late to bed. Check.

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Left with the lessor task...

Stunning scenery photographed in a car's rear vision mirror

Today we went on a road trip. It was, mercifully, uneventful. We stopped at a large country town for lunch. There is always a risk inherent in this activity: asking three young junior recipe testers who have had to sit still in the car for several hours to then sit still in a cafe for lunch. Today, however, they rose to the occasion. Our lunch stop was also uneventful.

Given the heights that we'd conquered, you would think that the purchase of a takeaway cup of coffee at the completion of the meal would be the easiest to accomplish...

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A week of ups and downs
Image of cupcakes on a wooden board

The week that's been has been one of ups and downs. We had a child in hospital (down) who was completely fine (up). The end of school for the term (up) and a redundancy, which means loads of time as a family (up), a dinner celebration to mark the occasion (up) and a small issue of income (you know).

A dear friend once told me that I unnecessarily sweat the small stuff. At the time, I disagreed. In the intervening 25 years I have come to suspect his character assessment may have been right. I will here add a caveat: I do not count buttercream amongst the small stuff.

 

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I need your vote...

I need your vote...

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I am excited and humbled to tell you that I have been nominated for an AusMumpreneur Award for 2016. These awards are about celebrating mums in business and raising awareness of the very many women engaged in this industry.

Every nominee is entered in two categories. One is decided by a panel of judges: the Rising Star Ausmumpreneur for a mum in business 2-5 years. The second is decided by you, the People's Choice category: Making a Difference (Business) Award.

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Today is a day for...

Coloured pencils in a line

Today I reflected that throughout my working life, I have been most fortunate to have jobs that have required me to write. With my Dinner on the Table hat on, it is my joy and privilege to write these posts every week about the daily juggle that we all do.

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The day got unusually hard

Street light at night

Was a bright Monday morn, I awoke with the dawn
And I looked out and into our yard.
But nevertheless, I have to confess
The day got unusually hard.

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Almost Vivid

Little boy eating ice-cream with a spoon at night by a floodlight

We are reaching a somewhat golden age of family life where evening outings are possible, as long as we're not out too late. Of course, we still have to have the altercation about whether one needs a woolly jacket when going out on a winter's night...

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World's next practice
Panel of people at a conference

 

This week I was lucky enough to spend two days in Melbourne at the Social Traders Masters Conference. I've had two days of absorbing. Two days of thinking big blue sky. Two days of hearing from some of the brightest minds in the game about how they're using the marketplace to solve some big social problems.

"We all know about world's best practice," mused the conference MC. "Social enterprise is world's next practice."

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