For lunch on Thursday we had some spinach and strawberry salad. I don’t know about you, but I always find using up a whole bag of spinach really hard. I like it in juices and in green leaf salads, but partnered with sliced strawberries and drizzled with a strawberry dressing is by far my favourite.……
Category: Homeschooling
Precious Moments
I am having lots of fun at the moment, going through the entirety of my blog and filling up the header categories with any relevant posts. I have completed 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017. It has been so interesting, not to mention joyful, to look back on these years. What has struck me the……
Menu Planning with Allergies {Home-Making}
I don’t know about you, but our food bill has got completely out of hand over the past twelve months. What with everyone being at home all the time and needing to be fed multiple times a day, the food allergies (Charlotte is both dairy and gluten free, whilst Abigail is dairy free), feeding four……
Seasons of Joy
Sometimes I have such a lovely week that I just sit in the quiet of my room and I thank God for all He has given me. This week has been like that. I have thoroughly enjoyed alternating home making tasks with watching short videos on YouTube. One such home making task was to try……
Clueless with Claire
I keep nudging Gary in bed and telling him that secretly I think I have green fingers. He smiles at me condescendingly lovingly, as if to say, ‘bless her poor deluded heart…green fingers? Claire? Must be the best kept secret…ever!’. I am fearless! I guess fearless doesn’t necessarily mean good. But I think I have……
Precious Moments
We’ve had a lovely relaxing time over this half term week. The weather has been fabulous and we have managed to cook outside twice. It is pouring with rain right now though, so I’m glad we managed to enjoy the sun whilst it lasted. Charlotte continues to do well. She and Ads went up to……
Making Banana Skin Fertiliser
I had an enormous amount of fun using some old banana skins to make some banana skin fertiliser for my gardening endeavours. Gardening is my new passion. I think I have the potential to be quite green fingered… although right now they are more of a mouldy grey/green on account of the lichen branches I……
Clueless with Claire
Oh, I’ve had so so so much fun this week, I hardly know where to start. The weather has improved somewhat and Gary and I have taken to having evening chats about the garden. We even took a few strolls around his work to take photos and get ideas of plants I’d like in my……
Seasons of Joy
If I close my eyes to the heated rays of the sun, I can hear a lawn mower in the far distance. Birds and insects chirp in equal measure. There’s the odd bang or clatter from nearby gardens, the sound of feet walking on shingle next door. It is a cacophony of auditory pleasures, life……
Precious Moments
It has been a very busy but relaxing week. As the Covid restrictions lift, we are all running into the arms of those friends we have missed. The littles are thoroughly enjoying their times spent with their favourite friend, Evie Mae, and are loving the fact that she is now allowed in our house. The……
Choosing Love {From My Heart to Yours}
This is my second letter to you, my precious daughters. It comes straight from my heart to yours and is all about choosing love. To my gorgeous girls, When your granny found out she was pregnant with me, she was not overwhelmed with joy. Granny and grandad had never wanted children. Mum was a career……
Battle of Ypres {World War I}
The Second Battle of Ypres was a defining moment in the First World War. The Germans, who were forging their way through Belgium, were fighting for control of the city of Ypres. Of course, the Belgiums wanted to stop them. The British Empire and the French came to their aide, to thwart the Germans’ advance……
Seasons of Joy
The one thing Charlotte has never asked me, whilst in this perfect storm of ill health, is ‘Where is God?’. Yes, she has felt the Charlotte we all knew and love be shattered into a million tiny pieces. She has felt the hopelessness of not being able to plan more than one day in advance,……
Clueless with Claire
Hello, hello! Welcome to my new blogging series. No one is more surprised than me to find out that I enjoy gardening as much as I do. I love everything about it. I love being on my own with God, in the tiny, precious fraction of His creation Gary and I get to call our……
Precious Moments
Having been away for a couple of weeks, I am now needing to hit the floor running…only, I’ve been relaxing for ten days and done very little apart from look after Charlotte. I have discovered I rather like doing nothing and would like to extend my holiday to another few weeks… Unfortunately, that is not……