Life’s A Weekend!

Here are the various parts of my life:

www.lapbooking.wordpress.com - Lapbooking - presentation folders for school projects or unit studies. Also www.lapbooking.tumblr.com resources and webquests.

www.nzhomeed.wordpress.com - general homeschooling info for NZ

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MigraineHealth/ - forum for women who have migraines

My Husband’s site:

www.2restore.wordpress.com

My children’s (neglected) blogsite:

www.kiwikids.tumblr.com

I’m president of MOPS NZ:

www.mops.org.nz
mother organisation’s huge website: www.mops.org

MUM-e-Mail - free twice-a-month encouragement for mothers of under 6s and their supporters: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MUM-e-Mail/

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This is gathered with some other interesting sites I like
at Crayon “Banquet Times”  - click items down the LHS

Create your own newspaper : http://www.crayon.net/scripts/login.cgi?mode=create

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Keeping occupied!

1.

Newsletter Templates

http://www.mops.org/leaders/publicity - in pdf and doc - from MOPS International

2.

Download MOPS invitations

http://www.mops.org/page.php?pageid=1832&srctype=linklist&src=1832

This is the better of the two cos you can fill in your local group’s information:

http://www.mops.org/forms/Mom-e-invite_fall_08.pdf  (550 kb)

- then ‘print’/save as pdf (eg. through www.pdf995.com, 2 part free download).

The other: http://www.mops.org/forms/Mom-E-Invite_Jan_08.pdf (341 kb)

3.

Send a MUM-e-invite

http://www.mops.org/momeinvite/ - for an invitation for a mother to come to your MOPS group …
or just go straight to: http://www.mops.org/momeinvite/invite.php?GroupID=75612

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And that’s my Top Three pages for now !

CafeMom - MOPS International is there - and I help to make it “International”.

http://www.cafemom.com/group/49904/    ~OR~ http://www.cafemom.com/group/connectwithMOPS

Hello from New Zealand …

Handy Home-made Toys - bottles, shakers, books, shapes

Terrific Tips

Children and Chores - teaching responsibility. Start as you intend to carry on.

The MOPS Story - where it started

off the website: “What MOPS has provided for me… is a welcome break; a chance to make new friends; the opportunity to know I’m not the only mom who goes through the struggles and joys of raising young children…”

“If I had 30 minutes to do anything I liked, I’d …” - aah! Scroll down for more responses to different situations.

Resources for mothers provided by MOPS.

When stressed, women “Tend and Befriend” whereas men “Fight or Flight” - is there life after MOPS?

Is there a MOPS group near you?
Visit www.mops.org and search for a group in LHS box.
In New Zealand, check out : www.mops.org.nz/groups/.  

Last Saturday I became the 3rd president for MOPS (NZ) Inc. (Mothers of Preschoolers).

Check out this useful ever-changing mother website: www.mops.org

and our local NZ information: www.mops.org.nz 

MOPS in NZ has 19 groups with a number more lining up to sign up.

So, it’s off to the office this morning … my home educated children are getting used to packing a workday bag! (though they got distracted by the pool table last time - off the list for today)

Better Mums Make A Better World!