First week of the school holidays has been full on, hard work and an adjustment for all. There’s been… Three children, aged 2, 6 and 9 in each others pockets. Furniture moved around. Rounds of laundry washed, dried and put away. A play house in the garden given a post-winter make-over ready for summer play. […]
Loving & Not Loving
Loving and NOT Loving Today; from blissful naps to burnt scones
LOVING listening to my intuition. This morning I phoned my Mum in the UK on impulse and she said, ‘I was just thinking of you!’. The miles and miles between us evaporated in a moment. The strong bond between mother and daughter struck a chord of connection on the heart strings. LOVING watching baby Alice […]
Loving, Not Loving: Yo-Yo Weather
The weather, like my mind, is unpredictable at the moment. It is Spring after all. Some days we run barefoot in the waves, remembering what summer feels like and getting excited at its approach (LOVE). And I think of the daily collection of sand we’ll bring home in clothes and shoes (NOT LOVING). The need […]
Loving, Not Loving lately…
Whoop! Whoop! Spring is sooooo ready to spring (1 September officially in New Zealand). Strawberries are in the supermarket (all be it Australian ones), daffodils are blooming in the garden and filling our vases, the buds on the silver birch tree in the garden (one of our few deciduous trees, marker of the seasons and […]
Loving, not loving lately…
Loving a Daddy buying flowers for his girls, just because… Sophie’s favourite colour is yellow… And Charotte loves to experiment with colour, watching and waiting, green, purple, blue and red… Not loving cleaning up a paint trail in the laundry after Sophie’s finished painting pebbles. Loving walks in the rain on a Saturday afternoon with […]
