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A Family Wedding on St Patricks Day
I have just finished the layout I wanted to create of the beautiful wedding of my cousin on St Patricks Day. We have a large family – lots of cousins, and this wedding was the last one of our generation (how old that makes me feel!). As their are so many of us, the bride…

Mom Monday / Mum Monday – kids say the funniest things
The lovely Genny has a weekly link up of mums sharing tips, personal stories, encouragements and ideas and this week I am joining in from Northern Ireland, sharing a few of my son’s “funnies” from the past week: On Wednesday, while eating the roast chicken dinner I had made “Mum, I prefer it when there…

Tuesday’s musings – (dis)organised chaos
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Show & Tell – Spot the difference and step back in time
This photo is a treasured family photo from my husband’s family. It is his great grandfather (born in 1850) with SOME of his EIGHTEEN children, outside the family farm in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. He had two wives, when the first one died (probably from exhaustion!) he married within months, and went on to have…

Announcing my St Patrick’s Day Blogging Carnival
The mornings are getting lighter, the evenings or longer, the frost is (almost) gone, the snowdrops are up so……..it must almost be St Patrick’s Day. Since starting blogging just before St Patrick’s Day in 1997, this will be by 4th time to celebrate St Patricks Day on my blog. Last year I hosted my first…