Christmas in Santa Barbara is a wonderful place to be, with sunshine and blue sky by day, and a festive feel by nightfall at 5pm. Every tree trunk along State Street is snaked in white fairy lights, the shop windows and restaurants are decorated with class, style and an abundance of sparkles. There is nothing…
Category: Special Days
Loving: A bunch of Kiwis doing Thanks Giving USA
With our NZ neighbours visiting us in our temporary home in the USA we had the perfect reason to celebrate and feast. So we spent a relaxed day at home, preparing the table, for a Thanks Giving feast. Young Miss 3 delighted in sticking cloves into oranges, Miss 10 made up some name-places for the…
So grateful for this man!
It’s been Father’s Day in New Zealand (and a few other countries around the world) this weekend. Seeing as the man of the house is father to three New Zealand born daughters we decided to celebrate his awesomeness this Sunday, here in America. I reckon, for most parents, the best mother’s or father’s day is…
Barbie and Ken (aka Sarah and Dan) escape for dinner on their Wedding Anniversary.
Over twenty years ago they met. The past fourteen years they have spent wed, living in New Zealand. The past ten years they have been busy – with building a couple of businesses, selling them, making three babies and embarking on the never ending road of parenting responsibilities. Time together has been hard to find,…
Thank you, my daughters, for a perfect Mothers Day x
It was Mothers Day here in New Zealand on Sunday. My daughters, without knowing it, gave me one of the best Mothers Day I’ve had. More than anything, a mother wishes for happy, content children and no major scuffles to break up! Miraculously, the whole day was one of peace, sunshine, blue sky and even…
Silent Sunday
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A grand start to the last year of my thirties!
I lie awake, before the rest of the house, savouring the quiet, reflecting on the past, thankful for the love, that brought me to this world, filling my heart, with all that is good. This journey I am on, thirty nine years in, is walked with feet given the best start in life, appreciating time,…
Simply the best! Happy 3rd Birthday Alice!
She woke full of sniffles, & tired with a cold, but giggles came soon – when we sang Birthday greetings, all five of us together, in the bedroom. We had no big party to stress over, just kept it simple, and it turned out to be the most wonderful Birthday (almost) ever! It was Alice’s…
Our third born daughter turns three – what will she have in store for us?!
Today is the eve of our third daughters, third, Birthday! She’s been an absolute blessing from the moment she corkscrewed out into the world, au natural, to be caught in my hands. I got lucky third time round, with the birth of my dreams, and the beautiful experience has definitely made for a very contented…
Loving: Love Is All Around & a NOVICA Giveaway!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Regardless of whether or not you celebrate this historic day, it is a wonderful excuse to remember everyone you love in the world and remember that, even in chaos and sadness, there is always love. I was first awake in my house this morning, after a restless night of romantic dreams (lucky me!),…
Waitangi Day at the Farm & the Beach on the Kapiti Coast
Waitangi Day falls on 6 February every year in New Zealand. It’s a public holiday and fell on a Wednesday this year, making for a lovely mid-week break from weekly routines, and a nice chance to reconnect as a family after a busy start to the new school year. We drove up the beautiful Kapiti…
Things I’m Loving this Christmas Holiday Week in New Zealand
Top of the list, of things to love, has to be having the man of the house home all week – and rolling into half of next week too! It makes such a huge difference having him home and we are having so much fun (and craziness) that comes with having three highly energetic daughters!…
A scorching Christmas for Wellington, right out the box (along with melted chocolates!)
Not since 1934 had Wellington had one as hot and we spent Christmas dressed minimally, seeking shade and deciding a late avo dinner should be taken indoors, where it was a lot cooler! We enjoyed a relaxed morning of present opening (the children were good and resisted opening anything under the tree until 9am –…
Christmas Eve 2012 in Wellington, New Zealand
It’s been a great build up to Christmas here in Wellington, and this Christmas Eve we’ve had a lovely day with something for everyone in the family (even a couple of hours one-on-one time specially for hubbie and I!). This morning, whilst Mama stayed home to put away copious piles of laundry, hubbie went to…