Thank you for all your beautiful and honest comments on my last post. It was such a pleasure to read through your stories and learn a little bit more about you and your ‘home’. Whilst [...]
Poet on our local beach in her sweet arti pants / aztec storm scarf in ocean hues c/o scout & catalogue We live near the ocean and its palette of sea spray, salt and sand. This is, and always [...]
sage tea to help dry up the milk / sweet floral clothes from printbebe It’s raining here today, for breakfast we ate porridge with maple syrup and banana and I can’t see us getting [...]
The past week has reminded me, with such clarity, that we are nature. When Poet came down with a fever a few weeks ago she fed like a newborn. Day and night she would cuddle in and I, with all my [...]
…get better soon days. When your baby has a fever, time stands still. Since Wednesday afternoon Poet has been unwell, her eyes heavy and sad. She has had an on-again-off-again fever, [...]
“Mothers of schoolchildren can have a tense relationship with time and, in some cases, an obsessive attachment to using it efficiently. One of the greatest injuries one can commit against [...]
For the first time in a very long time we have a strict five-day-a-week routine and it’s taking us a while to adjust. Slowly, slowly we’re getting there. Routine is not a word that [...]
Daniel and Che often go for a late afternoon walk; an opportunity to explore and to talk. Sometimes Daniel takes his camera and I get a little peek into their world. My little warrior has [...]
straw, leather, string, linen, petal, leaf, stalk and wax If I lift my gaze from the floor I am met with simple vignettes in summery hues. My eyes rest here for a while before they return to [...]
“Few sights are as touching or emotionally overwhelming as that of our child releasing our hand and walking off to the classroom on the first day of school. The pre-school years are over. [...]
You know what has surprised me most about preparing Che for school? The nesting. Much like I was during pregnancy, I am sorting and organising clothes, rearranging rooms, decluttering shelves and [...]
cherished moments with che, captured by tim This week is the last of the school holidays and come Monday I’ll be a school mum. The transition has been on my mind for the past year but it [...]
