Next Tuesday is Pancake Day in the UK, or Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent starts. If, like me, you only cook classic Brit-style pancakes once a year and end up trying to find a recipe while your children … Continued
Having grown up decidedly low-Anglican (not only were there no smells and bells in our parish but even candles were seen as being a little suspicious!), I don’t have a specific Lent practice in my heritage. Yes, we often gave … Continued
Well, hello again and welcome to a new month – the one where we celebrate St Valentine’s Day. I wrote a post for this over on the Families First website here on ways to teach our kids about the kind of … Continued
This Friday is Chinese New Year and Chinese friends will be celebrating the Year of the Horse. Why might we mark Chinese New Year in our families? If you read my post last week on starting 2014 with a vision then … Continued
I know I have written about keeping Christmas simple and stress-free and I try, I really do! But this week even I got buried under a mountain of Christmas cookies for Pigwig’s classmates, a stack of cinnamon tree ornaments which … Continued
I have a confession to make. I never believed in Santa. I loved Christmas and we had stockings (in fact I insisted on one till I was married when my husband took over the job!) but the Santa myth, while … Continued
It’s been so warm here until the last few days that it seems weird that Christmas is in LESS THAN A MONTH!!! I mean, there are still leaves on the trees. But the calendar doesn’t lie. Three years ago, I … Continued
Next Saturday night, two days after the official American Thanksgiving, we will once again be holding our own annual Thanksgiving dinner. credit: carbon NYC Why do we do this? We have no American relatives, although we do have a handful … Continued
I’m going to hazard a guess that, as a person of faith, you’re actually glad the Son of God came and walked amongst us. I suspect you’re OK with the whole concept of the God of the Universe humbling himself … Continued
On Saturday just past, we held our annual Christening tea at my parents’ house. Even before we baptised Pigwig, I had dreamt of an annual gathering where we could gather the Godparents to pray for our daughter (and later, our … Continued
