I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas! We had several family catch ups and most recently ‘yesterday’ we had most of my husbands side of the family over for lunch plus a lovely family visiting from Papua New Guinea. We managed to borrow what we didn’t have including this larger children’s table to cater for … More Christmas 2018- (Nature scavenger hunt and aiming for less waste)
Hi there, hope you are all well. We start the first of our multiple Christmas family get-togethers this Sunday. We will be visiting my side of the family tomorrow for lunch. My children are pretty excited to spend the day with their cousins. We also have another catch up with some of my family members, … More Happy Christmas..plus a few things
School holidays has officially started for us (last day of school was last Thursday) and we have over the past few days just spent time together, mostly just relaxing. We went for a swim, did some Christmas craft (at home and at a free children’s Christmas workshop), watched a Christmas family movie and my son … More A catch up of our week- now on Christmas school holidays break
Hi there, In latest news, after much negotiation, the offer we put in for a house we have been interested in, got accepted and we are now in the process of signing papers and organising for building and pest inspectors to come in etc. All going well, we will be moving second week of January … More A catch up of our week
This has been a lovely week for us leading up to Christmas. Yesterday my children and I finished up all the DIY presents and either wrapped or put some of those items such as the bliss balls we made into glass jars. A couple of the items, such as the Laundry powder I labelled for … More Weekend Reading- (Montessori) and Happy Holidays!
Over the last couple of days, I have been making up some simple DIY gifts for Christmas. Each person (four in total) will receive a glass jar of either cookies, bliss balls or mixed nuts. The other items I have already made up to gift is some bath salts, sugar scrub, some left over flower … More DIY Christmas presents (bath bombs, bath salts, sugar scrub and laundry powder)
Over the last couple of days my children have worked on making salt dough Christmas tree ornaments and some hand sewn felt star and tree shaped ornaments as well. We started making the salt dough during the day yesterday and painted them last night as they needed several hours to dry out. Once dried out my … More Christmas Art- DIY salt dough and felt ornaments
