{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Have a wonderful weekend. See other wonderful moments at Soule Mama.
Read More This MomentAfter Christmas came the birthday…and this year Kazuo had it all figured out. Birthdays involved a party which consisted of friends (thankfully we could finally muster up a couple of lovely ones with whom we have recently had the joy of becoming acquainted), balloons, his birthday banner and a cake with candles: I decided to […]
Read More How We Celebrated Two Great Years…{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Have a wonderful weekend. See other wonderful moments at Soule Mama.
Read More This MomentOur wee guy is two today. Two lovely long years of learning (in a very ad hoc manner at times) how to be parents…and watching him go from being a bit rubbish and gurgly and endearing and sometimes a little terrifyingly needy and so so cuddly and incredible to really quite entertaining and capable and […]
Read More Two YearsOn the weekend we had our friends Tom and Claire, who live in Manchester, come and stay. The December weather was an initial deterrent to their pre-Christmas visit plans, so it was wonderful that they could finally join us. Though of course we would love them to be able to pop in every weekend! However, […]
Read More TomandclaireA couple of years ago I began reading the marvellous Aussie children’s magazine LMNOP online. Last year they introduced Joel Henriques of MadebyJoel as their regular craft contributor and I stumbled across his blog and had a fleeting infatuation. But Kazuo was still a little small for most of his clever innovations. Then, over […]
Read More Made by Joel, the Paper City et al…New Year Happiness everyone! It seemed that once we hung the decorations on the tree, the holidays simply overwhelmed us. I am not one for spending too much time online when there is a house full of people…so I have taken a little hiatus. But here is another wonderful new year full of possibility, so […]
Read More Welcome to A New YearOur driveway – like many others in these parts – has turned into an ice rink, and so the treacherous journey to the road is perhaps the worst part of any outing at the moment. This did slow our efforts to bring Christmas to the house this year…we set out and abandoned the tree-purchasing venture […]
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Read More This MomentIt took me a couple of weeks to get around to checking if the Japanese step-down transformer Akira’s mother had sent me would work on my sewing machine after it arrived from the States last month…and then until this week for the postie to finally get through the snow to deliver the replacement transformer we […]
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50 things for 50 