since we saw many of our dear relatives. Living on the other side of the world from our loved ones is especially hard at Christmas. It is a time of coming together, of love and sharing the joys of the season. They are especially close in our thoughts and hearts at this time of year. […]
Random Musings
Blogging taking a backseat as party elves get busy!
We’re counting down to Sophie’s 5th Birthday Party at home on Saturday! We’re in full party mode, making decorations, moving furniture around to make room for all the guests, including the fabulous Harry the Clown, baking, packing up goodie bags, wrapping goodies for pass the parcel, stuffing the pinata. This week is all about our […]
Been a long time since running
A few months ago I went from being tired, but calm and mellow, to wired and tense in a matter of weeks. I started running to expel the build up of tension. It felt amazing to be running again after being pregnant and then with a newborn. I felt so free, so alive, so energised. […]
You know you’re a Mum when…
you turn up at the doctor’s surgery covered in glitter and don’t blink an eye when both the receptionist and the doctor make a very obvious statement about it. ‘No,’ I replied (in a very matter of fact, this is perfectly normal tone), ‘I am not heading out for an extravagant night on the tiles […]
Celebrations – Let the countdown begin!
1 December, the first official day of summer in New Zealand and the big countdown to Christmas Day has begun! In our home we also have the special celebration of Sophie’s 5th Birthday coming up and her last day at Kindergarten. She will start school next term and is very excited! Charlotte is nervously awaiting […]
Free range Friday
It’s been a week of sunshine in Wellington. Summer officially starts on 1 December and the weather sure is hotting up in preparation. This past week we’ve been enjoying the fun of the season in the garden and at the beach. It’s also been busy with organising Christmas post to the UK and trying to […]
Full Moon ‘Tails’
Over at Cottage Tails blog something special has started. Every full moon we gather to tell our tales of the day. Over the year(s) we shall document on the full moon what we have planted, eaten, tended to in our garden. We shall record what we have done in our daily activities. It will be […]
Wardrobe Wednesday – Back to the Ball (in honour of Kate & Wills!)
It’s a historic Wardrobe Wednesday waking up to the news that Wills is finally to make an honest woman of Kate. Prince William is to marry Kate Middleton next year and I think it’s so touching that he gave her his mother’s engagement ring. “As you may have recognised it’s my mother’s engagement ring so […]
4 Seasons – Sharing the Love
I just have to share some love here! Firstly, Lou at Seaside Siblings, has started a weekly linky to celebrate the ‘4 Seasons‘. Wellington is the home of four seasons in one day, with its ever changing weather. Today I came across the following music video, ‘Wellington Love Letter‘, which was a parting gift from […]
Thankful Thursday
At 5.30pm tonight I so could have lost it when the mess outside the door from messy play earlier in the day looked like this… And the mess in the kitchen looked like this… But, with some team work and a lot of hard graft, everything eventually got put back in its rightful place and […]
Coming Up For Air: A day like any other?
Sometimes it feels good to dump down the activities of the day in words. To let everything go like a leaf at the mercy of the autumn wind or blossom raining down to carpet the ground in a spring shower. To come up for air. To appreciate the two forces at work in a strong […]
Shades of red from New Zealand: The Gallery
This week’s theme on the wonderful ‘Gallery’ is ‘The Colour Red’ (with an optional Halloween twist). It wasn’t until I started looking back on all our photographs that I realized how evocative a colour it is and how all colours hold so many different memories. I have spent so much longer than I ought to […]
Cuddly toy take-over!
After the Kindi Fair on Saturday the girls were inspired to set up their own cuddly toy raffle. They numbered over 60 toys with paper, pen and sello-tape! Then they duplicated the numbers and put them in a bowl. This was a great learning exercise for Sophie in reading bigger numbers. Dan was roped in […]
My kind of bus-stop – if only I had the time to linger there…
As I rushed from Queen Sally’s Diamond Deli with coffee in one hand, baby in the other, eyes on my four year old crossing the road to the Diary, I suddenly stopped in my tracks at the sight of this in a bus stop in Lyall Bay… How wonderful! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this idea! […]