Easter at the beach, chocolate eggs hidden out of reach. Driftwood adventures, hide and seek, Waking to the sound of the sea to peek – At foil wrapped eggs nestled in the dunes. We dance and sing to Ukelele tunes, play ball and tag, till our breath starts to lag. We quench our thirst with…
Author: BritMumInNZ
Things I’m Loving: This long Easter weekend…
Loving the most INCREDIBLE sunsets on the stunning Kapiti Coast. Loving that so much pleasure can be drawn from NATURAL toys – pebbles, driftwood, flowers in the sand dunes. LOVING playing in the surf, a stone’s throw (literally) from the beach house we’re staying in. Loving the CREATIVITY that springs forth when time permits. This…
Good Friday
There have been sunsets of significance, in my life, many times before. But on this Good Friday, it was more. As a child I’d grimaced, at His gruesome death. I still can’t understand the cruelty, that people can inflict. The hot cross buns, that tasted yum, did not sit well, in my tum. I knew…
The Gallery: My Blog
It’s what I do when my children sleep. It’s what I think about, whilst I wash their clothes – scrub paint off walls, and food off the floor. It makes me focus on the magic. I want my children to look back one day, in awe at the precious childhood they had. I also want…
A Perfect Birthday
Autumn sunset on the Kapiti Coast, star gazing, from the beach house, driftwood bonfire & guitar strumming, children dancing & baby (mostly!) sleeping. Mama sipping champagne, & eating Belgian chocolates, Tending to her youngest, stirring in happy dreams. Daddy ever patient, being bossed about. Master of the party, torch in hand he tries – to…
You know it’s the school holidays when the weather does this…
It’s that time of year when the weather toys with us and we flit from board games and bagels to ice-creams and boules at the speed of a flying frisbee in a southerly gale. Last night the chest of board games was dusted off, hardly touched since last winter. Charlotte and Sophie reveled in the…
Lyrical Sunday: Animals (with a focus on ‘Insects’ from Charlotte)
© Charlotte Lee (Age 7), April 2011 © Sarah Lee, April 2011 _____________________________________ We hope you’ve enjoyed reading this week’s poems. If you’d like to join in, please click on the ‘Lyrical Sunday’ badge below to find out how this began and how to be involved. The ‘Linky’ will remain open all week, so join in…
Things I’m Loving
Loving this gorgeous photo-canvas hanging on our wall, from Bags of Love: The photograph was taken by Dan one stunning evening at Princess Bay at the end of summer. We don’t get to spend many evenings watching the sunset together these days, but when we do it’s always unforgettable in the best possible way (so…
The Gallery: Tomorrow
Tomorrow is like the pages of an unwritten book. Tomorrow we choose which foot to start on – be it the left or right, good or bad. Every new day holds promise and we choose how to live it – no matter how the odds are stacked against us. Sometimes those odds seem unsurmountable and…
Snapshots from a perfect Tuesday
Autumn left its coat off and let summer take a spin on the weather chart today. After dropping Charlotte & Sophie at school, Alice and I played on the beach. I was quick to ditch my boots and tights for bare legs, so I could dip my toes in with Alice (plus she wanted to…
Weekend Highlights: from Football to a Doll House (with a car boot sale in between!)
Got to admire him… Partying till 1am (YouDo 4th Birthday), woken at 6am by his daughters jumping on him, spends the morning delivering flyers to advertise the school car boot sale, and then attempts a game of football. Twenty minutes into the game he’s injured and hobbles off the pitch. But his support crew stay…
Lyrical Sunday: Weather (Week 14)
A poem from ‘Chicken Grandma’ too 🙂 Weather Sun, rain, wind or snow All have a beauty to put on a show Warm summer sun makes our hearts glow Rain waters the garden and helps plants to grow Wind moves the trees and makes kite flying fun Snow falls so quietly upon the soft ground…
Us MAD Bloggers
I’d rather read blogs than magazines. I prefer reading about real lives than watching soap operas. The television is reserved for movie nights. My MacBook gets a lot more viewing hours. And I love writing. I’ve always loved writing. I prefer writing my thoughts to speaking them. I’m one of those people that would rather…
Things I’m Loving! Purple tights, red boots & more!
LOVE Purple tights and red boots, because sometimes a girl likes to pretend she’s a cosmopolitan chick – even if she does get very strange looks at the school gates of her local school. So after cleaning the windows (that nobody but her notices whether they’re clean or not), and being the laundry fairy to…