April 1-7
1/4: I baked some slow-cooked ribeye steaks. They were delicious. Two ribeyes was too much meat for our family of five. 2/4: surprising my children with their Easter bunnies 3/4: packing for Melbourne. I am getting good at packing light! 4/4: visiting the Melbourne Aquarium 5/4: Catching up with the cousins and Sarah 6/4: dinner […]
Melbourne
We have just returned from a little holiday in Melbourne! We joined family friends, the Smiths, to celebrate Jill’s birthday. Monte’s sister Sarah and her family came along too and it was a really wonderful family holiday. One of the highlights was when all of us – all 22 of us – gathered at a […]
Easter bunnies! {knitting pattern}
I like to make the children gifts for Easter. They don’t get a lot of chocolate (and even that seems like too much!), so I like to give them a little toy as well. Sometimes I get around to making them something – sometimes, like last year, I don’t. I knitted these little bunnies. I […]
Ripplealong week 5: c’est fini
I finished my ripple blanket on Good Friday. I felt sad as I tied off the last loop, kind of the way you feel after a really good book! Since finishing the blanket I have been keen to start a new one! I’m certainly not short of folks to make one for! The blanket is […]
March 27-31
The biggest thing for us over the past week was celebrating being together for 20 years! I felt so happy on 27/3, which marked 20 years to the day since we met as teenagers at a rowing party. And it makes me feel kind of old too… 27/3: we won the Easter raffle at the […]
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