Getting Out More

After illness number four of the winter, I had a little bit of a meltdown about how confined I had felt this year. Silly me. But in his inimically pragmatic fashion, Akira insisted that the answer was just for me to get out more in the evenings. Predictably, I balked. He doesn’t get out much […]

This Moment

As is so often the case…inspired by Amanda… {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. If you’re inspired to do the same, leave a link to your ‘moment’ in […]

Springing Along

Once again we have been struck down. Sigh. This is the fourth illness for me in the past three months…too too much if you ask me, but we are bearing up. This time we all have ghastly, congestive colds that are pretty much slowing us all down, one at a time. Has kept me off […]

Quick Change

How quickly it all changes…suddenly it is sunny and gorgeous outside and all I want to do is run to the garden centre and start making plans for our summer growing…what little it might be. But the first priority is to just get outside and play, stumble, fall in the garden and let the wind […]

Moving

As I mentioned on Monday, I think that our toddler did actually creep up on us, rather than instantly invade. Here is some evidence, taken over the past three months, of Kazuo’s transition from cruising the walls and furniture to using his ride-on/push toys and finally moving around on two legs in an increasingly confident […]

New Shoes

It is official. I no longer have a little baby. Our house has been invaded by a toddler! It seemed to happen overnight, though I guess it has been a while in coming. Yesterday, after Akira had spent the afternoon hauling a soft-baby-shoe-clad Kazuo out of the slush and dirt at the ice skating rink […]

Winter Sewing – Part I

Cushions are my latest obsession. I do go through phases. They are nice and easy to sew, and I can construct a couple while Kazuo is sitting at the table watching me sew if they are cut out the night before. Before Christmas, the only handmade Christmas presents I managed to construct were the two […]

Blueberry Chocolate Cake

It’s snowing outside. I’ve been inside all day with a cranky little boy who is cutting a molar and not having a very good time of it. In the fridge were blueberries that I got to tempt Kaz (who seems to cope better with fruit than veges right now) that need eating quicker than he […]

New Year

It seems a little silly to be recording my New Year’s Resolutions now, in February… But so far 2010 has kinda caught me by surprise and for a number of reasons, I have gotten off to a very slow start. So here I am, bearing in mind that it is also the start of a […]

Celebration

Things are happening rather fast around here suddenly. Two weeks ago we celebrated Kazuo’s first birthday, and as I already mentioned, we’d all been rather ill with a gastric flu, so we postponed the party for a week so he could properly recover. So the actual day was spent just with Mama and Dada and […]