I had a moment last week of deep, deep gratitude towards someone for their loving care, their choices that were liberating and conveyed such deep care, value and honour towards me. Boy, how lucky am I? That someone is sitting on the sofa here with me as I type! There are those things we take […] Read more...
How quick was that?
It does not seem like a year since I was busy preparing for a certain little girl’s birthday celebrations, yet here we are again (for the fourth time!) most joyfully in the throes of birthday plotting – cake making, present wrapping, party planning and working out ways to fill our beautiful girl with glee over […] Read more...
Heavy Heart
As with most of the world my heart is heavy at the thought of the human devastation in Haiti. Since I heard on Tuesday I haven’t been able to watch the pictures on the news. I have listened to the radio news instead. I feel rather lily-livered about this but I know that within seconds […] Read more...
Intention
Resolution is a funny old word, so overused and then berated at this time of year. I like the word intention. In my mind it conjures up a concentration of energy that causes inner and outer movement. It is the opposite of ‘stuckness’ (not to be confused with stability, stillness, ‘in-between-ness’) a miserable, confining state. […] Read more...
The story so far…
How has your Christmas week been so far? Ours has been a mix of the beautiful and the exhausting. Beautiful: parties, people, food, gifts, mystery, contemplation, carols, cups of tea with friends, gatherings, singing, dancing, being together, hugs, kisses, hand-holding, snuggling under fleecy blankets, candlelight, watching great films and funny programmes, talking about the future. […] Read more...
The Nativity Week 4!
Last week it was the shepherds and sheep. This week saw the arrival of wise men, cattle-a-lowing, sheep-a-baaing and angels, lots of them. They sing “Hallelujah” to the Leonard Cohen / X-factor tune in our house because Toby and Isabella love that song. Here are the latest pics of the Nativity. The star path is […] Read more...
All I want for Christmas…
This year, more than any I can remember, I am just sooooo excited about having two weeks with my lovely husband at home and all of us together, no work, no school. Just being together. I guess the first three Christmases of us being parents have been blurred by deep-boned tiredness and at last, that […] Read more...
Awe and gratitude of an immense kind
Four years, almost exactly to the day, this picture was taken by my friend Salli. I asked Salli to do this photo shoot because I wanted to cherish forever, in my heart, mind and pictures, the utter amazing-ness of having another human come to life, grow and be carried inside me. I am still in […] Read more...
A life well lived?
The mosaic making fest continues and I have popped in for lunch – one of my favourite meals of nice cheese and crackers (crumbs all over the keyboard…). Here’s one of the latest pieces. My dear husband has toddled off to Manchester this morning for his annual children’s lawyer conference – I miss him a […] Read more...
Hands that make stuff
One of the downsides of what I do is that my hands look pretty rough – tiny cuts from handling glass, skin dry from grouting. Today I was showing Isabella how to do finger knitting and it just struck me how different my fingers looked in comparison to her tender little ones. I’m not big […] Read more...