Monthly Archives: October 2010

Grateful Friday

This Friday I am grateful for all the magic in our life, for learning about Quidditch and “Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them” , For potions class, hot pumpkin juice, for owls and mandrakes and warm butterbeer, For simmering … Continue reading

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inside

We finally,finally got some autumn weather over here. It is so good to come back from a long walk full of puddle-jumping in the rain to a warm home, hot pumpkin juice, baked apples and cauldron cakes. This year it … Continue reading

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Legilimens

While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about. Angela Schwindt I have been re-writing this post about a million times now and I feel I still can’t get it … Continue reading

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Spooky Sugar Castle

We finally finished moving into this lovely little home of ours, and to celebrate we decided to build a Halloween castle. I thought it might be fun to share how we did it, so you can give it a try … Continue reading

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The …everything (?) room.

This is the room where we spend most of our inside time during the day. We do have a brilliantly large garden which I am hoping to show to you soon, but I am so happy we finally finished this … Continue reading

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Monster Bites

We’re almost done with the house, but as we recently got the lovely news that our Emily can have wheat,gluten and dairy again we took some time off this morning to make some Halloween treats. There were some arguments over … Continue reading

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A room a day: the bathroom

We took the weekend off and spent Saturday in bed together watching a family movie. (we love iTunes!) Sunday we went to Nanny & Grandpa’s house and had lots of fun, but today, well, today it was time to continue … Continue reading

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a room a day: our bedroom

In our last homes the bedroom was very much a family room. A collection of beds, mattresses and cushions for everyone. It was a room we all shared, a room we all slept in, but now that Emily and George … Continue reading

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a room a day. (hopefully!)

To get all this unpacking and sorting done quicker and be a little bit more motivated I thought I’d show you a room a day, to show our progress of moving into this much, much smaller cosier new home of … Continue reading

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