a catch-up day

Just as I know that winter will bring the cold, I’ve come to expect a seasonal lull around this time each year. Word on the street is that some of us (most of us?) are feeling a little [...]

fabrik | winter style

We’re half-way through winter and I’m already looking towards spring. Granted, our winter isn’t exactly freezing – it’s cold enough for a scarf and a knit – [...]

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Photo above: Poet looking so grown up of late (photo by our beautiful friend, Luisa) “A portrait of my youngest children, once a week, every week, in 2016.” Percy: my only brown-eyed baby.

grommets, again

A few weeks ago Daniel and I noticed, at almost exactly the same moment, that Poet couldn’t hear us very well. We’d been at her specialist only a few weeks previous and at that [...]

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“A portrait of my youngest children, once a week, every week, in 2016.” Poet: We are most definitely in the ‘dress-up’ stage (outfit found at the op-shop, doctor’s [...]

it’s all wintry here

Che and Poet have just come home from a mini-break with my parents. Once a year they visit a little seaside town a few hours north and stay in the very same holiday park I visited as a kid. It [...]

create a pantry stockpile

One of the things our new house has in abundance is storage – even in the kitchen. My pantry is a room unto itself with floor to ceiling shelves and a sliding door. It’s a great place [...]

blog refresh

As this blog celebrates its eighth birthday I’ve succumbed to the fact that I really need to make it a bit more practical. I’ve come this fair without concerning myself too much with [...]

we love our apple corer

When Che first started Montessori in 2010, we were introduced to the magic that is an apple corer. Who knew that a rather medieval looking kitchen appliance could spark such interest! Years later [...]

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“A portrait of my youngest children, once a week, every week, in 2016.” Poet: dressing up whenever she can (ISO400, f2.8, 1/400)   Percy: he has the saddest “sad” face [...]