Right now I am knitting, ( a requested pink beret) while I alternately watch my daughter now named
( miss wholoveshulahoop!)
Happily hooping and my boy happily digging and sandy.
Adventure bay, bruny island, beautiful tranquil sheltered bay, warm sun, island vista, full belly, simple joy after a few confused and anxious days:)
So grateful the wheel keeps turning!
Blessings
Xx
Fresh morning organic produce from
Salamanca market in Hobart.
Mmm … Come over for breakfast it’s gonna be great!!!
I didn’t sleep much last night so I was happy to leave the others sleeping and dress warm and go for early shopping in the market. An unplanned, happy moment of solitude!
Hope your day has a great start
Xxx
Waking up to…
Lily quietly tidying house, making beds and making fruit salad for breakfast!!
(last night we had a talk about helping out, working together and chores as I was noticing she was playing helpless or whinging when asked to contribute)
An un expected gift in her response to the reminder yesterday!
I am always appreciative when she lifts her game and is motivated from herself to do extra tasks and notice she is always very self pleased and energized! She was proud about how spic and span the bus was and expressed when it’s tidy it feels peaceful and bigger and when it’s messy it feels like chaos. ( yep me too!)
Within five minutes of us all being up, Lily was noticing how quickly it gets messed up again after all her attentive work! Mutual gratitude went between us as she understood this process of home love.
Everyone needs to eat, everyone uses things, everyone makes a mess and everyone helps clean up!
She then volunteered to cook us pancakes! Yay!!
The children had honey and Brie or blueberry jam and the bigs had savory, mmm
The following is not edible…
After eating ( and more cleaning up)
We got into wax play, as i had got it out to make her a little ta Lily wax note and heart decoration by her plate ( see above) We use stockmar knetwachs which you can find in most Steiner inspired shops or online. We found our latest batch at Southern Swan in Cygnet southern Tasmania for $2.30 per color.
We keep the colors in one plastic box and the makings in another. It’s beautiful to feel the wax soften in your hands and become something to admire. I like it as much as the smalls do! Sometimes we’ve left the wax land on the dash and have had a sad melted occasion!! Droopy trees and mermaids melting into the sea…
And then out out out for some running and flying!
We are camped at Lagoons beach on the east coast. The sea is rumbling in with a clean right hand break, perfect tubes and offshore breeze… Why no surfers? Too cold?
I know all that because my first love story was with a gorgeous surfer in my teens…
After more snacking, i am inspired with the anniversary of our bus purchase in 2005 approaching ( valentines day) I could make a fingerknit wreath as decoration! Lily gave me a lesson and away I went. You can find great finger knitting tutorials at Flax & Twine
Well that was fun… What next?
Cedar goes to sleep, Lily plays on the trapeze so tired mama can put on a few more rows…
Beautiful handspun, nature dyed alpaca from the Salamanca markets, soothing for my fingers and mind..
What else can the day hold I wonder?
Xx
What are you
Making, cooking, eating, planning, reading these days??
Ps I can’t seem to make all that text un italic??..
Excuse me
Have you seen January?
I seem to have misplaced her
While i
Neglected the blog/boggle
Spent a lot of time in the moment
Travelled as far south as we could go
Caught the sky from the bridge
fished unsuccessfully
Fossicked for shellfish and feasted
she sang
cockles and mussels alive alive oh…
Wondered about the history of the place
Now called Cockle Creek
Abundance food and wildlife
Whispers of grand old trees
And strong people watching
Wails of whales as they where massacred in the bay
A sad sad history to learn about
From humorous informative rangers
Learnt about our magnificent giants of the sea
And how to rescue a beached one or many
{remember, call for help, keep warm, don’t breath in their blowhole, pilot whales are the most commonly beached in Tasmania, put a stick in the ground infront of live ones, keep their tails to the sea until you are ready to release them all at the same time, shade them}
felt impressed that my girl has this appreciation for whales and dolphins, experience and knowledge for the rest of her life now
felt on the right path of life
Took a classic portrait of men and bones
had a whale of a time!
Enjoyed the sea air and the shelter from it
i Got cold but
Jesse finally took the plunge
while Lily had a nature drawing session
I lounged in triggerplant bliss
My head amongst a million pink helpers
the medicine of rejuvenation and restoration
Met young old friends
And had a date up a giant tree
Lily had a lock on
Then we
Grudgingly left
Coaxed on by a berry good carrot
Drove north
While I processed a myriad of thoughts emotions and responses
And gave thanks for a time of respite
Amidst the chaos of full days
Mostly joyful
With berry/cherry stained lips
Noticed the tiredness.depression link
And went to bed
xxx
Early morning craftings
A little one joins in with big stitches
A big one guides (and bosses)
Together creating a new day of play and friendship
(and a lot of mama love and gladness)
Cedar is making his first stitches on big weave hessian with tapestry wool and a big blunt needle, held on a little wooden embroidery hoop. Everything cost less than $10 from second hand shops except the needle! Kids up to about 12 like this pleasing art of free embroidery or drawing a picture first then stitching it. Actually even I still like this craft…
We sing
up up up I sew,
then down down down I go
To the up down stitching motion, so Cedar now has added up and down to his little vocabulary!
This moment
A Friday ritual
One photograph
A moment to savour
In my day
Happy weekending to you all.
We’ve been bush all week so lots of catching up on lovely adventures to come!
Xx
On the windy northern coast of Tasmania
is found Narawntapu NP
the first NP to adopt the original indigenous name in Tasmania (previously Asbestos NP)
I couldn’t quite fathom the vast sky and vista
the golden glowing grass and wind whipped waterways
with mountains framing the blowing landscape
scrubby bush and swampy grass hillocky plains
i simply circled the sky with my eyes and mind wide
and my goodness
in the long golden sunset
the wombats!
i had made a wish on the journey over to please please
let me see a wombat, a live healthy wombat please, even just one please!
for the first time in the wild.
well lady! not one but many
including a mama and baby who waddled past our bus!
the baby comically bumped into mothers buttocks when it got surprised by our presence!
we heard from jackie french the way to approach is slowly and singing
as they are so short sighted if they can hear you they will not run in surprise
we where able to get very close to some of these lovely big land koalas
joy for us all
the birdlife and the wetlands and the tiger snake! are also stunning
Lily and I had a date with our visual diaries in the bird hide
I so enjoying drawing simple black ink water plants and landscape
an exulting multitude of wildlife
a very special sanctuary to visit
Lily is often seen whittling away at sticks with her little opinel knife
A safe mimic for Cedar is this cheap pink potato peeler! He happily spends hours peeling sticks. It’s kept in the cutlery drawer so he can get it at will.
Aside from sticks, peeling the edges of cardboard boxes amuses him…
He carefully strips the outer bark off sticks and presents them to me.
We extended the play/work this morning with a bit of sand paper to finish the wood.
Beautiful to observe his satisfaction and encouraging others to feel how smooth it is or convince them to sand the wood for him!!
I feel pleased as a peacock when I find a happy safe solution to creative play!
this moment
{a friday ritual}
a special moment from my week
i want to savour it and cherish it and paste it in the pages of my memory
a simple sweet moment to share with you
joining soulemama and many others
with this moment
please leave a link or a story of a special moment from your week
in the comments
{which you can access by opening the little
speech bubble up the top of this post}
xxx
a date with the smalls
is very important to have
leisurely and playfully
and with presence
gave me such joy
thankyou Jugiong
such a tiny highway side spot for an overnight stop
near Gundagai
RosaLindenTree 