Do your kids like to cook? My kids have always loved to cook. When they were very little they helped me make things and did simple cooking tasks, but now they are all getting older they love the independence of grabbing a cookbook and making something on their own. We have a small collection of […]
A New Kind of Normal
“It’s just new. Lots of things are difficult when they are new.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that in the past nine weeks. Change can be hard. Especially when you are expected to cope with a whole raft of new stuff all at once. Especially when you have to just jump […]
I Might Not be Such a Bad Parent After All.
I hear a noise. I hear a noise when all should be quiet so I got to investigate. I creep down the hallway expecting to catch someone in the act. Someone who should be quiet. Someone who should be asleep. I see a light and my eyes roll and my forehead wrinkles and I think […]
I won’t feel guilty for using my phone while my kids play.
They are sitting at a picnic table drinking their coffee when I plonk myself down on a seat near by. They look over when my boys race up and asked me to push them on the swing. I tell the boys ‘in a minute’ and they race off screeching. I notice one of them frown, […]
A Place to Come Home to.
There are some big changes happening for our family this year. The biggest is the huge step my girls will take from our small primary school, into a huge high school. The leap from grade six to year seven seems like a huge one. Six weeks summer holidays doesn’t seem like nearly enough time to […]
Zucchini and Pineapple Bread
We have a zucchini problem. A big zucchini problem. We have more zucchinis growing in the garden than we know what to do with. But we know how to handle it, we bake. We bake zucchini and pineapple Bread! This year we grew some Italian Zucchini which are a pale green, as well as the […]
Three simple ways to notice the good things.
It’s 2017. How weird does it feel to write or say two thousand and seventeen? I wonder how long it will take me to stop saying ‘next year’ and start saying ‘this year’? And I wonder how long it will take me to feel overwhelmed by all the goals and ‘words’ and intentions I feel […]
Printable Christmas Wrapping Paper
There are a couple of dream jobs I’d really love to have… I’d love to run story time activities at the library – printable puppets for every book! I’d love to be a window dresser and create amazingly cool and creative window displays for funky shops. And I’d love to be a wrapping paper designer. […]
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