The last four weeks has seen Samuel trying to make his own longboard, with little success. The first one he made snapped in two when...

A good frost here this morning! Happily, Chris had stoked the fire in the night, so it is warm and snug in the house. Today I fly to...

I’ve just got back from HEART (Home Educators Annual Retreat) where we were shown a great movie clip made by a homeschooling family (Team...

On Saturday we had the inaugural dinner and divvying out of the first food order of the family co-op we have set up. It was a lot of fun....

It’s Mystery Creek time again, and this year will be a special time for me! My twin sister Penny is going to be there representing the...

Years ago I saw a photo of a bird singing his little heart out on a bare bough. His song is seen as vapour coming out of his throat on a...

What a weird word! I just read it in the latest Parenting magazine. It’s a new word coined by Susan Maushart to describe the addiction to...

The other night after dinner we climbed out of Ellie’s window and set pillows and blankets out on the verandah roof and settled down to...

On Wednesday night Chris and I had an evening at home on our own while Ellie took the younger three to soccer practice and then youth...

In February I was interviewed by Peter Shaw of Radio Rhema for an hour. He talked with me about my childhood in New Guinea, how I started...

Yesterday Chris mentioned that he heard a farmer speaking about his farm at a farming conference. He told his listeners, “When things go...

Yesterday I heard a message from Ps. Alun Davies of Australia which really inspired me. God commands the Israelites, “When you are...

Last night we had visitors over for dinner, and I prepared a beef roast and roast vegetables, including some delicious maori potatoes....

This afternoon I took Ellie, Milly, Sam and Jacob out to the Adventure Forest for some high tree top challenges! I decided I needed to do...

Last night I went down into the meadow and took a photo of the house. I was trying to capture the sweet sight of smoke coming out of our...

It was really cold in Whangarei last night!  I came home at 9.30pm with the kids after an afternoon/evening of soccer and youth group. We...

Today we moved over our old cream separator from the barn to the new house and set it up ready to use again. Blossom (the house cow!)...

This morning we had fun doing Haiku poems together. Haikus must have only three lines, with five syllables in the first and third lines,...