I’m very happy to be home again with the family after a wonderful weekend with the ladies at Patchwork of Grace. Tonight Jacob crept up...

I’ve enjoyed reading a book by Linda Dillow called Calm My Anxious Heart. In it she talks of an old translation of Psalm 42v5: “Why...

I’ve just been informed that Where Arrows Fly is on the shortlist for the Children’s books section of the CALEB Prize 2011. Exciting!...

I’m hoping you’ll read this, Jada, because today I got the most beautiful letter and pictures from you!! I want to write back but there...

I’ve just had fun looking through some old videos and photos of the children. It put a real smile on my face and in my heart. To hear...

Ellie, Milly and I have just had a fun but exhausting weekend at the Northland Performing Arts Competitions. Both of them were competing...

I can hardly believe it but today I finally finished writing Book Three of The Barn Chronicles series!! I began it on Friday, August 20th...

I read a beautiful quote yesterday from George MacDonald – a reminder for us to not worry about tomorrow. “It has been well said that no...

Two days ago, I got a tiny three day old Jersey calf for ‘my very own self’!! I’ve been wanting to get a calf that I can hand rear and...

Well, this afternoon I milked a cow for the first time all by myself! I have had the odd attempt at milking Blossom (may she rest in...

Today Sam and I worked together nailing the last hundred and fifty battens on the pool fence, while the rest of the children stained...

I’ve just dropped my sister Penny and her husband Dave off at their airport on their way to London. Pen was very excited but a bit...

Today at 11am Milly, Penny and I went up in the freezing rain to move the horses. It was bitterly cold as we rode the quad up to the...

Milly’s milking cow Blossom has been losing weight for some time now and has also had a bad hip which has stopped her from being able to...

We had fun in Tauranga last weekend. I was speaking at a women’s camp in Papamoa, so the whole family (other than Ellie who stayed behind...

We’ve had a full busy two weeks, starting with a visit from some of Chris’s family from Europe; two of his cousins – Jacqueline from...

Just have to show you this photo of Shasta sleeping by the fire. He’s been lying in the cane wood basket the last few days and several...

Sometimes it can seem like our days are overtaken with haste. We hurry here, we hurry there, we attempt to do too many things, and in our...