Evan sent his first e-card to me this mother’s day. He wrote:Don’t expect anything fancy or anything super great

I just wanted to give you something from the heart…

Happy Mother’s Day!

Evan

Mom, you are the best mom in the whole world. I know that I did choose you and dad in heaven, and I would pick you over and over and over again.
Thanks for showing me the way in motherhood. Thanks for your unconditional love. Thanks for forgiving and forgetting so many things. Thanks for loving […]

I love this practical definition of a spiritual concept:
An atmosphere of faith… an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, humanness is understood‚ communication is open, and preferences are flexible… an atmosphere of tolerance and understanding, where the frailties of the individual are overlooked while seeing the potential and the possibilities and […]

Evie is now sitting, playing with toys, and eating (with her two bottom teeth).

Ella turned six today.
Both her brothers were so sweet to her today. Evan even laid off his new habit of big-brother teasing & spent the day randomly saying sweet things like ”I love you, Ella.” Emmer suprised me with his kindness and generosity: his second-cousin, Richard, had given him two bags of little cars last night […]

I heard one or two people say that they read my blog and thought it looked like I have a perfect life. I do have a keeper of a husband who also happens to far beyond an average dad, great with the budget, to whom I am a priority, and a looker of whom someone […]

I finally met a croc I like!! (On the day I wore the wrong pair of shoes while trekking around Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo.)

It was lovely to visit with Darren’s older brother Ben, and Mel, his wife. They have a lovely home, and two beautiful, affectionate and well-behaved pugs named Elvis and Lola. (It was nice for the kids to be able to have a good experience with friendly pups.)
 
Mel is a great cook and treated us […]

We chose this beach to go to on the Sunshine Coast because it was listed as a great beach for kids. It is.
We found this quaint cafe where I immensly enjoyed this mocha latte (sooooo much better than the Starbucks variety), and we sampled their meat pies. Darren wanted me to try meat-pies because he […]