Knowing the Plot
Friday was about bread baking and podcasts while Plum played on the kitchen floor. Plum was happy, the bread was to share with new […]
The Messy Table
A good story for the table
It rained this morning but I washed the laundry anyway. Monday brings necessity back into focus after the weekend. Midmorning, the kids and I pulled […]
Cactus Days
School here started three weeks ago now, but we’re still at home. It seems that knocking on new doors doesn’t always meant that they will […]
That Photo
A small boy washed up on a beach, his knees bent beneath him like a child in bed. But he is only cold flesh now, […]
The Change Prayer Brings
Maybe it is September in the air. Maybe it’s the sense of new beginning just around the corner. Or maybe it’s that the Spouse has […]
Wrackline
There is a time-honoured tradition that the very best weather of the summer occurs in the first week of the local school’s fall term. Which […]
Local Churches
Monday morning and we’ve finally finished the house inventory. The agency that manages our property has produced an exhaustive description of absolutely everything in the […]
New Table, New Places
The Messy Table has a new table. Heavy wood with solid legs and an extra leaf hidden away underneath, just waiting for our first expanded […]
In the Garden
It’s surely not strange to be up with worry the night before a move. But usually you aren’t worried sick about rodents. We’ve been guinea […]
Timings
We were at a wedding yesterday which felt like strange timing. Monday isn’t the predictable choice for nuptials – but we’re just recently arrived back […]
Too hot for cake
Plum turned two this week. Which puts him right smack dab in the middle of that wonderful one-to-three age range. I love this stage and […]
The Eyes of My Eyes and the Weather Report
My Blue’s day started early. He was up with the birds and headed straight out to the garden to look up at the sky. Yesterday, […]
Five beautiful facts about today
1) The lilies on my table have bloomed. Don’t they looked just like a crowd of faces, all straining and trying their best to get […]
Cupcakes and Ribbon Sticks
When I was in my last year of high school, I took a writer’s craft course. Which was amazing and enriching, encouraging and all that […]
House Hunted
It’s been a week of work, hope and holding our breath, but tonight it’s official: we’ve found a house. We made it through the application […]
New
I’m moving to a place where the national dish is melted cheese on toast. How could I not find that perfectly lovely? The Spouse has […]
Lighting Fires and Digging Ditches
Midsummer is still a couple of weeks away, but I’m thinking ahead. That’s often how it is when you are worship planning. You need to […]
Capability and the Visitation
Beangirl has started cooking. A few weeks ago, we were at the library and she rummaged around the information section, looking for something new. (Yes, […]
Searching for Rock Pools
This weekend, we went camping by the sea. It was a trip that we had been looking forward to for a long time – ever […]