Posted in Charlotte, Dan, Sarah, Sophie on August 31st, 2008 6 Comments »
It’s officially Spring – or so I read in the newspaper today. The weather was beautiful this weekend and we treasured every moment. It’s been a rough winter with news reports saying it’s been the wettest on record. After a magnificent six month’s of summer, this winter has been hard on everyone. [...]
Posted in Sarah on May 21st, 2008 No Comments »
In my first year of motherhood my bedside table was stacked high with a wide selection of parenting books. The subjects of most interest at that time were sleep, health, breastfeeding and developmental milestones. My reading of parenting and child psychology books became a little obsessive. There was a time when the [...]
Posted in Sarah on March 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
I have a little bench, outside our backdoor. It’s sheltered from the wind and rain and it’s where I like to sit and think. I look up at the changing sky, the mostly ever-green trees and watch the season’s change. Listening to the cicadas in summer and the birds cavorting with one [...]
Posted in Random Musings, Sarah on February 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Friends often ask, “Do you get much time to yourself?” And I smile contentedly and reply, “Not really, but that is fine with me.” But this answer is not strictly true. It is not that I don’t get ‘me time’, it’s just that the definition I have for it has changed and [...]
Posted in Sarah, Writing on January 4th, 2007 No Comments »
Just before New Year’s Eve I dreamed of a rose growing around the pine tree that stands tall and erect in our garden. It was the most magnificent rose I had ever seen. It’s stem encircled the tree and rose it’s heady scent to the sky. I woke up the next morning, [...]
Posted in Random Musings on November 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Ever felt like you are on the outside of a bubble looking in?
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