A precious privilege

 

It has been a different morning sunrise for us over the past few weeks. 

A Minyip sunrise.

 

We have been here for several weeks now.

Mum was admitted to hospital with pneumonia and a severe infection. She is back in Minyip now and we are caring for her as long as we are needed.

It will be some time before she recovers her strength but she is happy to be home.

Her friend Olwyn made this for her.

 

 Whilst she was in hospital we received the saddest news of all.

 My older sister Dianne had passed away. She was 64. 

We are still all coming to terms with our loss.

 

 

 

 

The bravest kids of all.

 

And thrown into the mix of things, Flynn turned four.

We love this boy more than words.

 

 

 

Our beautiful leucadendron bed taken before we left home.

 

 Amy has been sending us photos......

 

Mum has a get-better-by date to strive for. She's been called up for jury duty! First time ever apparently. We think it's hilarious.

 

This morning we popped her outside to see if Dennis and Bill were making any progress on the sorting of Pa's shed.

 Apparently Bill has been a bit too zealous with the cleanup and Den has had to retrieve assorted bits and pieces from the rubbish pile!

 

 

I managed to sneak in some sewing and pretty stuff to keep my brain from over thinking.

Twenty eye pillows to send to Kiann who will pass them on to her yoga teacher.

 

 

Making stuff

 

We've all been making things.

Amy made a vegie planter box to put outside the granny flat door ( so that she doesn't forget about them).

 

 

 

 

Bill has done part two of the coffee table for the garden room but is waiting on me to decide on how to paint/stain it. ( It's my need to think about it  that's holding things up.)

I am in the process of painting these bits and bobs black.

 

 

And I've been sewing more boho bibs for Kiann's market stall and online shop called Stay Wild Gypsy Child.

These still need the fasteners attached.

 

 

She had an online competition to name this one. 

 

Indie Girl.

 Sounds perfect to me!

We've had frosts and sunrises and sunsets and interesting cloud formations.

 

 

 

 

 

Photos and letters from our littlest loves.

 

 

 

 

Around the garden path.

Pretty pink and white primulas. 

 

Malta was supposed to leave for her new home yesterday.

She started off beautifully.....

 

And that was that! She wasn't going in that truck for all the tea in China!

 

She's back in her paddock!

Not sure what happens now.

Thinking of France yet again......

 

What's so hard about that I wonder..!

If only.....

Niblings

 

Two of our 'niblings'.

They visited us for a few days during the school holidays.

We got them to pose for a final photo before they left.

 

And then Amy started doing her accents/ impersonations again.........

 

 

We took Leesa to yoga with us on the first night.

She didn't think yoga would be her thing.

She's Pink Lady.

 

 

 

Ned and Jake...."Oh cool ,we could do that!"

Mmmmm.......$&$@$

It's all about the base.

 

 

 

The kitchen table became a soccer field.

 

 And they made new friends.

 

 

While they were here it rained.

More rain than we can remember.

The frog pond became an infinity pond.

 

And our garden soaked it all up gleefully.

Around the garden path yesterday.

Winter's daphne florets looked ready to explode.

 

 

There's something so welcoming about seeing lamp light in the windows on a Winter's evening.

I love lamps.

The light they create is so much softer in the room.

 

Stay Wild Gypsy Child bibs for Kiann..... and a bit of bunting with the leftovers.

And this pretty one with only one boot so far. Still thinking about what to tie it with to stay on baby's foot. Probably the same fabric I suppose if I can't think of something else.

 

Amy is still on semester break.

I wanted to take her photo.

She won't like this one. 

But I do.

 

Thanks for the lemons Jamesy and Jacqui. Such a nice fresh colour on these bleak days.

 

 

Thinking of buying eggplant and sunflower seeds from here.....

 

....or one of everything might be good.

Bill has a new project.

No pallets this time.

We've been back to Bunnings twice to exchange/ return!

Part One.

 

And I'm going to play with these.

 

 

More shenanigans from our 'niblings'....