This I know…… *1 punnet of raspberries is never enough *They would eat fairy bread for every meal if I let them *My in laws dropping in for coffee & cupcakes on their 39th wedding anniversary is a good thing *Plasticine can be made into pretty things *I still find cicada shells fascinaitng at age...
The trampoline was a gift from their Gran & Grandpa for Christmas. They are on it every day. At first Anouk wouldn’t get on while Ava was on it, because she got bounced around too much. After a week she decided it was too hard to wait until Ava had finished her turn, so she quickly...
On Monday we had some fun making a Christmas corner at home. The girls hung the decorations on the tree and we made a paper chain to hang over the fire place. Last year we placed our Christmas books in a basket by the tree & read a Christmas story each night in December. We...
When motherhood was new, I wondered. I wondered what times waited in our future. I wondered what it would look like. The days ahead, where everything would be new through her eyes. I wrote in her baby book that what ever happened we would laugh together. I promised her laughter. I hoped we would have...
Miss 4: “mum! watch me, watch me, watch me!!!” me: *watching* miss 4: “OK are you ready mum?” me: “Yep, I’m ready” miss 4: “OK mum close your eyes” me: *eyes closed* {insert loud swishing jumping landing sound here} miss 4: “mum!! You didn’t watch!! I did my trick & you didn’t watch!” me: “but you...
Choreographer George Balanchine said ”God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it –from what I see, from what the dancers can do… ”. In making art we gather from what is already there, more than we create it. I remember the turning point for me on my journey...
We spent a week at the beach last week. We have a number of Summer photo sessions coming up, so now was the best time for a little time out together… I took lots of spontaneous pictures of the girls in their element playing in the sand & sea. Then I asked them if I...
‘Painting intimate moments of motherhood’, that is how artist Katie m. Berggren describes her work. I first discovered Katie’s artwork about this time last year & I instantly ordered some of her prints for my home. Her paintings resonated with me in the intimacy between the parents & the children in her work, the way the...
It’s a cliché to say that children teach you to ‘stop & smell the roses’. It’s also true. They stop to smell the roses. They strongly suggest I do as well. There are days when tired is not a strong enough word. There are days when coffee & sunglasses help. There are days when they...
Dirt on her feet & mud on her hands. Sunshine on her skin & pearls around her neck. Flowers in her hair & watermelon stained cheeks. Chasing birds, looking for lizards, gathering berries, hide n seek behind the trees. Happy heart. Be little a little longer & even longer than that. I do love the...
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What a gorgeous snap shot of life! Is this using Instagram?
Hi Anna, thanks for stopping by. I didn’t use instagram. Just the good old hipstamatic app.