Operation Christmas Child
It’s that time of year again… time to dig out your shoeboxes and fill ‘em up with TOYS. I LOVE DOING THIS! This year we have three shoeboxes left over from buying start-of-school-year shoes, and...
View ArticleUn-Paving Paradise
A Nifty Thrifty, Eco-friendly, Ethical Christmas? As regular readers know, I’m currently studying International Development. This has included a module on the Environment. I have been genuinely shocked...
View ArticleGetting Christmassy and Avoiding Being Driven Up the Wall
One thing about being poorly is that, sooner or later, children realise you’re not joking when you say you’re too tired. Fluff, the middle child, today made Christmas biscuits, all on her own. I...
View ArticleReblog: Advent Activities
Originally posted on My Make Do and Mend Year:As Christmas of My Make Do and Mend Year approached a couple of years ago, I had a rant about advent calendars, and blogged about my idea for doing an...
View ArticleLovely New Christmas Songs!
Shaun Groves’ new Christmas album has just been released and I have to say, I love it! You can buy it from Amazon, as I did, iTunes, or from Shaun’s website. I love Shaun’s blog, too.Filed under:...
View ArticleWaiting
We’re waiting for Christmas in this season of advent, waiting for Christ the Redeemer, the Rescuer. As for me, I’m still waiting for EMDR therapy. It’s been nearly two years since I was first assessed...
View ArticleThe End of Advent
Advent when you are a child is a time of great expectancy. It is a time of tinsel and lights and parties and nativity plays and fun. On the final day, Father Christmas brings you a sack full of goodies...
View ArticleEMDR Diary 2: ‘My Troubles’
According to some Christian traditions, we’re still in the Christmas season, which lasts not 12 but 40 days. I’ve been thinking about the exhausted young mother with her new baby in those early weeks....
View ArticleGratitude
Hello, blogland! How’s things? Happy Advent. Here I am listening to Shaun Groves’ Christmas album while my girls are colouring a Christmas scroll. I’ve tidied and cleaned and done the laundry and put...
View ArticleHappy
So it’s just us this year, which is fine by me. Frank cooked the dinner, a wonderful roast duck with cranberry & orange stuffing, accompanied by roast parsnips, roast baby potatoes, broccoli,...
View ArticleThe Goose is Getting Fat
Shameless bit of self-promotion here but I have ‘relaunched’ my blog The Unpaving Paradise Project, where I plan to blog about homemaking, frugality, environmental issues and the process of...
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