Life etc

Wow wow! I have just got home from a week’s holiday at the beach to discover all the wonderful comments for my last post! Thank you! Before we left I was planning to email...

Greetings from Sleep Deprivation Land! Population 3! This post is not destined to be long or terribly coherent as Lily will NOT settle at night and has been finally falling off into a completely...

Amelia has discovered how fun it is to draw. It kind of crept up on us as previously she would stop to scribble something for maybe 30 seconds or so before careening off to...

Today it was warm but it also rained a little in the morning, we had our first harvest (see above!), and I drank champagne at lunch with my parents… Big-P made pizza for dinner...

An unlikely couple! Christmas was lovely. Easy, fun, lots of laughs and enough presents yet not too many and both girls loved the dolls. Amelia spent a full minute or so cuddling her monster...

Merry Christmas! I am going to take a few days blog break as there is plenty that needs doing around here and then plenty of not doing that needs doing after Monday. I will...

A little black and white cat comes to visit us on the front deck every morning and Amelia is besotted. There is a gift wrapped (a small rubber ball for chasing) and placed under...

I think I have gone into Christmas denial. It’s probably not a bad way to be, because, honestly Christmas seems a little out of control. Too many presents, too much rushing around trying to...

Sad news about James Kim today. We have heavy hearts and our thoughts are with his family and friends.

I guess it’s the hormones – or perhaps it’s because our girls are the same age, and we move in similar worlds, but I couldn’t even tell Big-P about the Kim family without blubbing....