I live with nine others and we have streams of visitors through our house but sometimes all is quiet… If I walk about I see: Evidence of school… Evidence of projects in progress… Evidence of culinary conquests… Evidence of new lands discovered… Evidence of bed time stories… Evidence of rushed chores… Footprints in the flour… [...]
Se7en’s Evidence That I Do Not Live Alone…
August 11th, 2010 · 11 Comments
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Sunday Snippet: The Cooking Club…
April 6th, 2010 · 12 Comments
What do you do when you attend a church with a wide age range of folk: Older folk, quite a few young families and heaps of students from all over Africa? The students are mostly transient, only in town for a year or two, and they are from a wide and varied background. The question [...]
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Saturday Spot: The Book Nook Updated…
April 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Saturday was International Children’s Book Day so I thought it was time to show you an update of our Book Nook. Our Book Nook needed bit of a revamp and we have been meaning to do something about these very boring cupboards just about forever!!! They were on my To Do list. So thanks to [...]
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Saturday Spot : The To-Do List…
February 8th, 2010 · 9 Comments
In the Spirit of BackRooms and Getting Things Done… I know I need to get to The Lab which has to be sorted before school begins again, into some sort of order. This is a little room off our kitchen, which no matter how hard we try always ends up as the dumping zone. It [...]
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Saturday Spot: Se7en’s “Survival of the Season” Spot…
December 27th, 2009 · 7 Comments
This is a mad time of year when folk can get caught up in all sorts of projects. It is so easy to lose perspective and go madly insane with to do lists. We can get so busy that we forget to take the time just to be, and especially just to be with the [...]
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7 Motivations to get Kids to Do Their Chores: What Works and What Doesn’t.
August 20th, 2009 · 15 Comments
For someone who didn’t think they had a lot to say about chores and could never raise the energy to even think of a chore chart, turns out I have quite a lot to say, after all. Last week I wrote a post: Se7en Things I Would Like My Kids to Learn From Doing Chores… [...]
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Saturday Spot: The Vegi-Box…
June 7th, 2009 · 8 Comments
We have had a dreadful week weather wise but this was our pick-me-up. Our vegi-box arrived with enthusiasm on Thursday… And hidden under that spinach was a whole heap of bright yumminess… Our celebrity chef climbed in as usual. Spread it all out and decided the weeks menu – really you all need a 4 [...]
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