Archive for the ‘family’ Category
TweetNow I know this was all a while ago – in a couple of weeks it will be two months – my goodness! But there are so many more beautiful photos of Abby’s Alice in Wonderland Birthday Party that this weekend, I just have to share … Above, is the tea party table. Oh, it [...]
TweetPresents for the girlie have become a bit trickier these last few years. Those considered standard for the modern teenager include clothes, money, clothes, money, expensive electronic equipment, money … hmmm! Well, to be honest, we are very blessed with electronic equipment (courtesy of husband-father who works in IT) so simply don’t need any. Clothes [...]
Tweet Oh there has been so much goodness today. Here I sit, my white shirt sleeves speckled with red, the kitchen floor sticky with juice, sour cherry jam at a rambunctious boil, and the garden full of shrieks and laughter as three fourteen year olds – also bespeckled with cherry red – race round and [...]
TweetGoodness … that time simply vanished! Hoping your Christmas was merry and love-filled. Ours was chaotic – moments of great cheer and love, moments of “oh-my-god-we-will-never-forget-this-Christmas” and lots of letting go. Mmmm … it was a season of letting go … with which comes the essential reminder that nothing experienced is ever wasted. No, even [...]
TweetI had grand notions of calling into every thrift store and second hand aladdin’s cave we passed on our 3 day journey. Alas, this did not happen :-) Even I can see that it was a rather unrealistic notion. Especially given the boot was already filled with orchids, hydrangeas (well-intentioned farewell gifts!), a sewing machine [...]
TweetOh my goodness! I’ve been away so much longer than I intended … the bandwidth issues did indeed resolve themselves just as Julian predicted, but I’ve allowed myself to become so caught up with Abby’s birthday and end of year busyness that time has flown by. And yet, as I sit here now writing, I [...]
TweetThis afternoon was at last deemed the right time – warm, sunny and dry – to start work on our raised garden beds. I’ve been collecting unwanted pallets for the last couples of weeks (any locals who watch me must think I’ve finally hit rock bottom, lugging these heavy, dirty things into our car!) and [...]
TweetFirst exam today … research methods in healthcare … such a good subject, makes me dream about designing my own research project in an honours year … I’m definitely a qualitative girl … phenomonology … listening to and understanding how people experience different events in their lives. But right now, I’m just relieved one exam [...]
Tweet … and we had such fun! It’s a bit of a hit and miss affair here in Melbourne. Friends a few suburbs over say for the last few years they’ve had no trick or treaters – but this year they had 30 visits – and their streets were full of joyful, costume-clad children. Last [...]
Tweet For thirteen years, as my girl has stretched and grown, the beginning of each new season has brought with it the need for new night clothes. Yet another way of marking that “Goodness me, yes! How you’ve grown!” I’ve made countless pairs of pyjama pants – flannel, cotton, short, long. In the early days, [...]
Tweet Such a different day today. Dark, grey, cool and drizzly. The house is silent. The girlie’s at school. The husband’s at work. It’s just the dog and I, peering out into the gloom. Thank goodness for my radiating sideboard huh! So I tackled chores … including the “onerous” task of trawling through Eden Seed’s [...]
TweetAfter an exhausting and wet Saturday taking a year’s worth of prunings to the green recycling centre (in a hired flat bed truck) it was soooo good today to soak up the sun. Firstly at the Mt. Eliza farmers’ market (an early start, after returning the truck) then working, cooking, eating, playing and planting in [...]
