It’s official! Chance is a teenager. My goodness what a life this kid is living. He is funny and kind and looks after his siblings (mostly) and he loves his family so much. I said in last year’s birthday post that he would probably be taller than me by this birthday, but I think he’s…
Continue reading →I have honestly been meaning to blog about this for months and months. In fact, I started this blog post back in May this year, but for many reasons, just haven’t come back to it. At the start of this year, as had been for many years, dinner times were more often than not, a…
Continue reading →You know when you have those weeks that just keep on giving you all those little sparks of joy? Yeah. I just had one. So many of us spend our life chasing happiness, thinking that we will arrive somewhere, some day, and just be happy. I know I used to, but I now understand that…
Continue reading →Random edition. I was going to blog about something else but then I saw it was the 10th so decided to do a bit of a catch-up on all the things! This was my wonderful start to the day, and it just got better from there!
Continue reading →It’s so hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since our four nights away to Tamborine Mountain last year. I just re-read my (very long) blog post about that trip and I can honestly still take myself back there and live off the relaxation that was had, and now I get to add…
Continue reading →So up until last Sunday, I was nailing the whole “blog every day” challenge that I had set myself! Sure, they weren’t all pearlers, but I was getting back into the groove of daily writing and rather enjoying it. But my week was about to go pear-shaped. It started with a sniffle on Sunday afternoon,…
Continue reading →I found them! Okay, so you didn’t know this, but I recently went looking for my beloved Nanny’s cake tins – the ones she cooked her infamous cakes in for all those years, and for whatever reason I could not find them. I started getting really worried and sad that I may have misplaced them,…
Continue reading →My now-easy answer to the question of how old my kids are! Happy actual 6th Birthday Julius! I will post more after the little party we are having on Saturday, but in the meantime, may I just say that this kid is just such a delight! He was full of joy and happiness all day…
Continue reading →The last two Mother’s Days in particular have been kind of awesome for me. You can read about them here and here. To be honest, I didn’t want to have any expectations leading in to today, as that can often lead to disappointment, so I kept calm and hoped for the best! The morning was…
Continue reading →Let me just start by saying how sorry I am. For the past 33 years, since the age of 10, I have looked upon you over and over again in sadness and shame and frustration, seeing all the things you are not, instead of seeing you for all the good things that you are. I…
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