1st Sunrise At Grandma's

1st Sunrise At Grandma’s

One of the positive things about jet lag, is waking to see sunrise. For the entire first week of our trip to Australia (and then some), the Girls and I woke at dawn. I had not seen the sun rise for a long while and I really enjoyed the morning light. Together we sat on […]

Christmas In Our Kitchen

Christmas In Our Kitchen

The sweet aromatic warmth from our kitchen this week means one thing: freshly baked batches of Christmas cookies! Snowballs (aka Mexican wedding cakes) and gingerbread men were on my to do list for this festive season and so Tuesday and Wednesday we were busy baking. Elle and I went to work while Maya was at […]

Snowflakes

Snowflakes

We made snowflakes this week, as is our Christmas tradition. Usually I put them up on the windows in our living space, but there was a lot of decoration happening already in the Living/dinning/kitchen rooms and so they went on the Windows of the Girls room. The Girls have four windows, and I put snowflakes […]

Instagram

Instagram

Letting you all know that I have added my instagram photo stream in the side bar…see that new big instagram heading …yes, on the right…yes, now click on the link…that’s it…now you can have sneak peaks into our world before it hits the blog. Bellow is a small selection of the hundreds of photos I […]

Trimming The Tree

Trimming The Tree

The tree is up! Feeling a great sense of accomplishment for having flown across the world on my own with two children after a month of non stop adventures…only to come home and hit the ground running. Seven large (did I say LARGE?) suitcase unpacked and put away. Loads (did I say LOADS?) of laundry […]

We're back!

We’re back!

Ooooo….it is so hard to come off a super holiday. I have to sweep out the cobwebs that have formed from the weeks of not journaling – this, and the enormity of all that I want to share from our trip to Australia makes it difficult to know where to start. So to have some […]