This Moment

{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 the comments for all to find and see. […]

This Moment

Haircut

Finally, after much debate, we decided that this past weekend was the time for Kazuo’s first haircut. He had these strangely long curls that hung over his ears and flew in any direction in the wind. They seemed at odds with much of the rest of his hair. And there were are couple of long […]

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 […]

Ten Things of Happiness

Ten things that make me happy right now: 1. Kisses – for Flat Bear, for me, for me AND Flat Bear… 2. Climbing into crisply clean sheets on a freshly made bed… 3. China Rose Petal Tea – every day!! 4. The little one getting a move on and loving the playground… 5. The incredible […]

Leaves

I am obsessed this week with the amazing leaves in our neighbourhood… can’t get enough of tromping through them when we go out for a walk, totally fascinated with the never-ending clean-up job in people’s yards, utterly intrigued by the big trucks and sucky-blowy machinery that the council uses to collect them from the big […]

Gratitude

I am inspired at the moment by the thoughts of the everyday wonder of ordinary life, and of trying to make a habit of being a little more thankful. This was also brought home to me last night as we sat and discussed the Science on Tap event that Akira took our friend Christine to […]