Memories jar Summer 2014

Over the weekend our middle kid turned 13 – eeeeek!  We calculated that there will be about 6 weeks in 5 years time when we will have THREE teens!!! So, what does a 13 year old want for her party? chocolate fountain (thanks Tom and Sheila – we borrow theirs every year during “party season”)…

In all the busy-ness of Christmas it is easy to crowd out time for Jesus. In our city a number of churches have come together to create and support a Prayer Space. It has been set up in a prominent vacant shop on our main shopping street for 2 weeks before Christmas. There were lots…

I learned the following this week 1. As a dedicated blogger and photographer of everyday moments, don’t make pancakes for breakfast on Pancake Day and then forget to photograph the aforementioned pancakes before they are all eaten! 2. Enjoy the simple things with your kids – my 4 year old and I walked home from…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

I am back with another review of 2015 – this time I am collecting all the various ways I decorated our home this year – often just a few wee seasonal touches, sometimes makeovers involving chalk paint and more …. read on …. Vintage sewing machine (it still works!) and twinkly lights Decorating with candles…

This piano is the one I learned to play on, and now my children (and husband!) are playing and practicing on it now too.When my parents were moving house about 20 years ago, they decided they did not really have room for it, and proposed getting rid of it. I protested, and asked they keep…