Me wearing my blue "prayer shawl" while holding Jessica in PICU

Wrapping myself in love – the power of a prayer shawl

One of the outreach projects at our church under our last minister was the Prayer Shawl ministry project. Several women within the church were involved in knitting shawls. These were…

Blue waters of a lagoon with the text #366daysofgratitude

#366daysofgratitude – Week 1

Throughout 2016 I will be posting a photo on Instagram each day, sharing something that I am grateful for each day as part of my #366daysofgratitude project. Here are the…

My Sunday Photo – 10/01/16

A day out at Uppark House - Little Hearts, Big Love

A day out at Uppark House

We always spend a few days visiting my family between Christmas and New Year. This year we’d managed to catch up with everyone on Boxing Day, thanks to my sister…

Friday Fabulous Five #51

The Friday Fabulous Five is my regular feature where I share five of my favourite blog posts that I have read in the previous week – posts that have made…

The Friday Focus 08/01/16

After enjoying lots of family time together over Christmas and New Year, this week has been all about the return to normality. Jessica is back at preschool again, our usual…

New Year – a heart mummy’s perspective

A new year is like opening a book full of blank pages. Wondering what is going to be written on those pages. At the start of the new year, the…

Parenting Pep Talk #5 – Motherhood: The Real Deal

Parenting Pep Talk is an occasional series of guest posts all about encouraging other parents by sharing some of our positive parenting moments, the advice that has worked for us…

Sisterhood of the World Award

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these tags but after being nominated for a Sisterhood of the World Award recently, I thought it was time to join…

Review – Amazing Pages personalised children’s books

Both my girls love books and having stories read to them. We have a few personalised books which are amongst Jessica’s favourites – she loves seeing the cartoonised versions of…