E - Vida

Yesterday I learnt that some people are already erecting their Christmas trees. Sounds like a fantastic idea to get into the Season - if you don't have a two busy kids! For the past couple of years, I've really enjoyed having our tree decorated with (my favourite) fairy lights twinkling in the night - and sometimes day - and all the festive cheer that comes with it. We normally pack it all up 1 week later and it just feels short-lived. We've jokingly noted that this year we'll have to suspend the tree from the ceiling because of all the children around. What about a couple of wreaths hung on the wall? In my house, storing gifts as high and out of sight as they can be is probably the only way they'll survive until 25 December - safe from children and adults alike! This year, my Christmas wishlist is quite long... I'd like: 1. A relaxed morning, as we prepare for the Church service, reading the story of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem and thanking God for

I wish I knew how Moms did it in the olden days. SIDENOTE: I wish I'd pay more attention to stories of the olden days... Maybe the answer has been there all along? Or maybe not. Someone tell me how, back in the day, Moms reared kids - cooked hearty meals, cleaned everywhere (even the skirting, the kettle, the soap dish and the vegetable box in the fridge), taught life lessons and little lessons, played games, read stories, told stories, listened to stories, fixed torn clothes and scraped knees - and all while keeping the kitchen sink clean, the laundry ironed, their eyebrows perfectly shaped and their heels smooth?! I am feeling like an under-achiever of note. I enjoy my work, I value my home and I love my family dearly. Why can't they all just get along? Seems the glow of a good clean/project done/family day only lasts as long as a few short days and then we're back planning to plan to get organised about it! Unless I've got it wrong - and somewhere out

I changed my blog entry setting from ' post from mobile device ' to ' post from computer ' when I went back to my office job. I thought for sure that I'd have lots of time to write at length and add photos and video clips too using super - creative layout styles instead of just the rush job of push-button-instant-upload that is mobile blogging. It turns out - I don't have a lot of time to blog when I'm actually sitting behind the pc from 09h00 - 17h00... Strange how that worked out, right? So hopefully, the activity graph will liven up again as I share more of what's been happening in our household lately, almost instantaneously!