tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28657638196033248362024-03-14T14:26:19.411+11:00Cherished Hearts At HomeGaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06505329167788856051noreply@blogger.comBlogger1671125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865763819603324836.post-75957623496453170432019-04-09T23:59:00.004+10:002019-04-09T23:59:24.252+10:00Weaving the Tapestry<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Our Dexter Heifer</td></tr>
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I can't remember why this has become so hard.<br />
Perhaps life has created too many blocked ways for me to return here.<br />
Perhaps my time for this blog has ended here but I can't let it go in my heart.<br />
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So many treasured events have been recorded here.<br />
Certainly not all and certainly not for a long time.<br />
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But I still remember the children waiting for their birthday post and wanting to see what I would write this year, and the cherished feast days and family celebrations. The everyday activities that mattered to us and that we had shared them together.<br />
It all started with a desire to share our family life and to have a record of that life for myself and our family.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gifts of love </td></tr>
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Then I think it changed, without me even noticing - I got sucked into the world of comparison and what would make my little world of cyber space more attractive to others and have them visit here.<br />
I do think the world of blogging changed as well, the family type blogs had become a thing of the past and the more slick and fancy, information, how to type blogs became the way of the future and I felt inadequate in comparison. Blogging had changed- it wasn't personal anymore with visits back and forth leaving comments here and there, like a conversation. It was more just read and move on to another blog an,d move on again without that personal exchange, and I had not been able to keep up with those changes and so like my personality I turned inward and stopped enjoying and sharing what was close to my heart.<br />
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I still feel joy when I look at this blog and the memories shared, but I can't seem to think of anything to write. The joy and the desire are still here but the content seems to be lacking.<br />
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So in a bid to reopen dialogue I would like to share some recent events that have happened in our lives.<br />
Boring and everyday events but this is what make up the fabric of our live. This is what weaves our family tapestry and it brings joy and contentment. It is what I cherish and that is what my blog was all about CHERISHED HEARTS AT HOME!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lenten Preparation</td></tr>
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Its time for me to take a deep breath and remember my blog title and live it :)<br />
So here a few of our recent happenings in pictures-<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our first Jersey Cow- a long awaited dream come true</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making my soap for our Home business</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saxon has entered Vianney College as a Seminarian<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crazy brothers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Patrick's display this year</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grand dumpling and one of the new puppies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Grand Dumplings come for a visit at "Mama;s House"</td></tr>
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Blessings to you and your homes,
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Well Hello there,<br />
I'm not sure how it got to be so many moths since posting - again! Frankly I do as we have had so many things happening in our lives. I really do enjoy blogging but also have found that the style of blogs has changed over the years since I first started. The unique interesting family orientated blogs seem to be declining and the mega blog is more prevalent.<br />
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One of the most recent is the move we have made to a new property. No we have not sold our Tasmania house :)<br />
We were given notice after 5 years of living at the one place that they were wanting to do major renovations and we had to vacate.<br />
After much stress and praying we finally were blessed to 'find' a new for us home<br />
We have finally mostly moved in and are settling in to a new lifestyle<br />
It certainly has been an interesting time for us as we have adjusted to a smaller home with very little to none storage space. On the plus side we have more acreage for our animals and some beautiful garden areas. However I still will not plant my many fruit and nut trees and berries until we reach our own place.<br />
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Our new place which we call 'The Storybook House' as it is just like one of the houses in an Enid Blyton book or other adventure English book. The house has interesting nooks and crannies and a beautiful gardens with lots of hidey holes for children to play in. The roses are simply magnificent and I have been picking them along with other flowers to dry and add to my herbal stores for medicines and edible delights.<br />
Incredibly we have the most gigantic white mulberry tree and the mulberries are ripening now. The children have been eating them off the tree and last night I made some white mulberry and rose sugar syrup to add to my pantry stores.<br />
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Our animals are settling in and we are about to start, very late in the season, a vegetable patch. These are the activities that bring me joy and fulfillment in my vocation.<br />
We have numerous eggs as our chickens and ducks have settled in and we have hatched some Khaki Campbell chicks out. Our doe, Primrose kidded yesterday too as well as our Cocker Spaniel giving birth to her second litter of pups this year (hmmm we were not expecting her to have pups again so soon). Our sheep should be ready to lamb soon too and we are quite excited about that as well.<br />
The bran cats have also had kittens and we are really hoping they will keep down the snakes that are around here.<br />
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Within days of being here we saw a koala that had traveled up the property to be safely picked up and placed in a tree on the opposite side of the road. Some of the younger children had not seen a koala in 'the wild' and so were very excited.<br />
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The opportunities for fishing and yabbying are endless as we have both a water channel as our property boundary and the river just behind in the local reserve We have had numerous walks in the NP and some paddling in the river.<br />
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As we come to the end of November we have two birthdays and are rapidly planning our Advent Study for this year, which the children are very excited about. We have also suffered great sadness and yet more tribulation. However these are the days we are given and they again are moving quickly and we are living them to the best of our ability.<br />
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" Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how
good things are. Joy is not necessarily what happens when things unfold
according to our plans."<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/140/BE01274DCEDF5E9EE75B04FD806FF07E.png" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll transparent; border: 0pt none;" /></a>Gaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06505329167788856051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865763819603324836.post-50794406102469887112018-04-24T00:52:00.001+10:002018-04-24T00:52:38.695+10:00Anzac Day Plans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Each year we celebrate Anzac Day in our home.<br />
Not all years are the same but we do have a few themes we try to do together regardless of what else is happening.<br />
We nearly always attend the Anzac Day march in honour of the fallen who have given their life for the ideals they held dear.<br />
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'Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his
life for his friends.' John 15:13<o:p></o:p></div>
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I cannot think why anyone would not want to commemorate
these brave soldiers and others who have gone to their death to defend the defenseless
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Traditionally we make Anzac Cookies- really was there any
doubt š We have two recipes- this is our trusted and true long time recipe </div>
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ANZAC COOKIES~<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 cup of rolled oats<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 cup plain four<o:p></o:p></div>
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3/4 cup of sugar<o:p></o:p></div>
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3/4 cup dessicated coconut<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 Tablespoon Golden Syrup <o:p></o:p></div>
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1/2 cup butter<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 1/2 tsp of Bicarb Soda (Baking Soda for non Aussies)<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 Tablespoons of boiling water<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. Mix oats, sugar, coconut and flour together<o:p></o:p></div>
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2. Melt syrup and butter together<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. Mix soda with boiling water and add to melted butter and
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5. Place tablespoon of mixture on greased baking tray<o:p></o:p></div>
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6. Bake in slow oven 150-160 degrees C for 15 to 20 mins<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a <a href="http://cherishedheartsathome.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/anzac-cookies-trim-healthy-mama-version.html">THM recipe</a> š<o:p></o:p></div>
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We also make damper preferably in the camp oven if there is not fire ban.</div>
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The children have often dressed
up in their favourite military outfit
and played games of tactics and spying for hours.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Naturally we have crossword puzzles, word search and colouring pages to do while I read bits
and pieces of information for them to learn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We will probably also draw poppies using <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkSBztJ_bMQ">Art for Kids</a>- which
we love for the younger ones and perhaps from a real poppy for the older ones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We hope also make a felt poppy for decorating the table<o:p></o:p></div>
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Copy work will also be done and this is a lovely piece to
print out and have on the wall to memorise as well.</div>
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We have a few books to read that we own :<br />
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The Poppy ā Andrew Plant<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Story of the First World War for Children -John Malam<o:p></o:p></div>
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Lest we Forget ā Kerry Brown<o:p></o:p></div>
Digger - Mike Dumbleton<br />
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War Horse</div>
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Five Children and it</div>
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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe</div>
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The Sound of Music</div>
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A Little Princess</div>
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Bednobs and Broomsticks</div>
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang</div>
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The Railway Children</div>
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Battle of Britain</div>
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Gallipoli</div>
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The Lighthorseman</div>
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Here is a list of <a href="https://allaboutwarmovies.com/2010/12/21/australian-war-movies-a-list/">Australian war movies</a> ( I have not previewed any yet but simply sharing)</div>
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Naturally we will need to have a game of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma569pR2-XA">Two up </a> ( be warned the video contains in my view a couple of swear words) and this one with<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysRmbiiERHk"> live action</a> is good to see it in action<br />
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I have lots of other preparations in my notes for the school year but thought this would be a good thought provoking post for anyone interested in celebrating ANZAC Day.<br />
To finish off here is the -<span style="background-color: white; color: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-primary-text-color)); font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Blw_hbp1o">Ode and Last Post - We will remember them</a></span><br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/140/BE01274DCEDF5E9EE75B04FD806FF07E.png" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0pt none;" /></a>Gaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06505329167788856051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865763819603324836.post-79637356521573847842018-04-18T23:26:00.001+10:002018-04-18T23:26:29.999+10:00Easter in our home 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Good Evening again, after a bit of a break š<br />
I was planning on writing a lot about our lead up to Easter and especially Holy Week but frankly I think I have done this before and so it is a little like repeating it over and over.<br />
We tend to have the same traditions each year and love to redo these again and again.<br />
So here is a pictorial of some of our Holy Week and Easter activities š I hope you enjoy them.<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/140/BE01274DCEDF5E9EE75B04FD806FF07E.png" style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0pt none;" /></a>Gaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06505329167788856051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865763819603324836.post-20708994244151229532018-03-24T00:59:00.004+11:002018-03-24T00:59:42.499+11:00Surprise- It's almost Holy Week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A very Good Evening to you,<br />
Well we are almost in Holy Week and tonight I have written up with the older girls our traditional 'Holy Week Booklet.'<br />
I like to have a booklet as we have so many activities we are completing and liturgical requirements that if I don't have it all written in one place day by day I know I will forget something important š<br />
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One thing that can be guaranteed in this busy life we have is the regular activities but also those little moments when you have a 'sweetness' moment.<br />
This is Felix the Bunny. He is Arwen's special bunny gifted to her by her siblings on her birth. Felix was named after a book we are very fond of -<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Felix-Little-Rabbit-World/dp/1558598863">Letters from Felix</a> and Arwen's bunny has certainly traveled around.<br />
Since he has journeyed far and wide he was in need of a little surgery. As I was getting things prepared i left the room and came back to discover that Felix was now all ready to face this gruesome deed. Arwen had placed some eye protection on him so he could see what was happening to him. Sweet little girl, how I love this gentleness in her.<br />
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One of the activities that Trahaearn does everyday is to draw. He has a few particular types of drawings he does.<br />
Viking ships were his very first drawings from his imagination and he spends ages on them getting them perfect. Did I say perfect? Yes I did, because we have often had a little pile of paper on the floor as they did not meet his standard.<br />
I particularly like this latest Viking ship as it has the ship behind as well as the one coming up at the rear. I think he did an excellent job on making the ship looking realistic with the flags and sails.<br />
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I had a special day in town with Arwen last week. Well not really special but she came with me to run some errands, you know essentials like groceries. The really fun and exciting type of shopping.<br />
Well we did pop into K-mart to check on Winter clothing and walked past the toy section- cause I'm a really nice Mama š and because Arwen has a fascination with all things panda she could not resist this life size panda head.<br />
Now me, I think she is kinda cute but that huge head still 'weirds' me out.<br />
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Isn't he just adorable???<br />
Our grandbaby dumpling came for the day and he has just really learnt to walk most of the time. That sweet - I'm just waddling look- that I love.<br />
He also loves to be outside and runs to the door when it is open and squeals to go outside. He also loves the dogs and seeing all the animals. A very gentle and sweet little guy he is so happy.<br />
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We have been busy preserving all the stone fruit and this is our no sugar jam we made.<br />
It really is a lovely jam, but I would probably call it a very thick stewed fruit.<br />
I think it is certainly more versatile this way as it can still be used as a stewed fruit in pies or with cream but can also be use as jam on toast.<br />
I'm pretty sure we will continue to do it this way. However it does take a much longer time to cook as you are reducing the liquid as you cook.<br />
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You probably also might have guessed by now that I love long hair and all our girls have long hair as well as myself.<br />
Well, mine isn't as long as it used to be but we won't go there.<br />
As I was giving Vellvin's a brush last week I saw this beautiful ringlet at the back and just had to take a photo. Is that strange? Maybe but I love ringlets.<br />
The other interesting fact is that when Rogan saw this photo that he thought it was my hair š<br />
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Have I mentioned that the children are always offering to make me some sort of drink, mainly a coffee as that is my beverage of choice. Myffy had been offering me her special recipe drink for a few days and I had not really had the time to have it as she usually offered when I wasn't able to enjoy it.<br />
As I was doing my own study she brought me her 'famous Myffy Chocolate drink' her special and secret recipe. Of course then I was able to enjoy the gift of love. Thank you Myff!<br />
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And it is here that I say goodnight to you all again. Thank you for catching up with us and I hope you all have a blessed Holy Week.<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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Time passes quickly again and I struggle to share all we are doing.<br />
Suffice to say we are working through our Lenten journey this year with a little more success than our Advent one.<br />
With the last two weeks of Lent to go we are about to enter our very crafty stage of this time and finish up our Lenten readings as well.<br />
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As we are now into the Autumn season we are anticipating a relief to this hot summer weather that seems to still lingering. However we are starting to prepare for colder weather ahead.<br />
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One of the preparations is for our more frost susceptible plants to be placed in our greenhouse or in a home made poly tunnel we have yet to construct.<br />
We lost a few of our more rain forest Australian bush-foods last year in our frosts, it being the worst year for frost in many years. I had locals telling me that they also had lost plants that they had never had a problem with before. My scented geraniums even suffered and they are very hardy plants.<br />
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We still have not put our autumn crop of vegetables in and so I am thinking we will have to get seedlings rather than starting from seeds this season.</div>
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As this is a very changeable time of year here with weather I had anticipated that I would need to stock up on my cold and flu preparations and start our Immunity Tea so we could have more protection when the 'seasonal illness' start.<br />
True to form though I was only part way organised when a couple of the kids got a sore throat. So I responded a little slowly with some of the preparations we had on hand we had pretty good success rate but poor Moran has been much slower responding with getting her voice back. Yes, that's right she is virtually mute much to her annoyance.<br />
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On Friday night, just in time for the weekend, Stephen came home after a strenuous afternoon of strenuous activity with a cough, sore throat and feeling generally blah!! This time I was on it right away and although he isn't 100% recovered on Sunday afternoon he was quite significantly improved. The coughing which he tells me was about to settle on his chest on Saturday night has gone and I am very confident in saying it was the result of our home Herbal remedies.<br />
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We have also been quite busy with making more probiotic and fermented drinks to keep our immune system healthy. Sadly I have not done as much as I would like but Autumn has started to take this on as a new passion.<br />
As we reach the end of season for stone fruit we have also been cooking up apples butter, making plum jam without added sugar and dehydrating any fruit we don't want to cook. My favourites are apples and plums which I am certain the children love just as much as I do.<br />
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Warm clothing is also an item to check as we have a fairly hard to heat house and the bedrooms are extra hard. In an effort to not use as much electricity, and money this year we are not planning on heating any of the bedrooms with electric heating so we are investigating thermals for everyday use and hot water bottles to take to bed. This is a first for us as we have taken 'hot packs' in the past but I am told by a reliable source that hot water bottles last better, so we will see how we goš<br />
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Naturally we will be engaging in some firewood gathering and cutting activities in the next few weeks and it would be nice to have our firewood all prepared before the wet and cold winter arrives.<br />
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I can't wait to sit around the fire with our family snuggled up reading together with some knitting and craft projects on hand and just enjoying the season I feel brings us together.<br />
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So much more has happened in our lives the last couple of weeks and this is but a tip of what we have done and our planning but it is late and I need some sleep before the new week of learning so I will have to tell more tales of whats happening here as soon as I can.</div>
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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I had thought as the new year, yes the start of 2018, would be a wonderful time to reconnect here with this space.<br />
I had thought that somehow this year it would be different, that someway I would be able to carve out a time a few times a week to share as I have in years long past.<br />
Only this evening as I was working on my study programme for one of the online courses I have been completing that I accepted that my life is so incredible different to what it was a few years ago.<br />
In many ways it is the same and yet in many subtle ways it creates a different lifestyle that has changed who I am and what I can do - and tonight I am finally able to accept that and move on.<br />
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So what is new and what is old in my home and in my heart?<br />
Well lets begin with what is not changed- the essence of who I am and how I live my life.<br />
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Firstly I am still blessed and will be blessed all the days of my life to be married to my childhood sweetheart and the mother of our 12 beautiful children here on earth and our two precious souls who we did not get to have live with us.<br />
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I have been able to live my vocation of wife and mother at home for most of my mother hood. We have had the privilege to have our children learn from birth to 'graduation' from our Home Education programme and become better and stronger as a family because of that, it is essentially our lifestyle......our very LIFE!<br />
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Within that though there has been change. We have 'graduated' from our Home Learning 7 students to higher education and the workforce. This only leaves me 5 students at home which was a very heart wrenching experience for me as I prepared the 'new school year' supplies and I only made 5 small piles of those supplies.<br />
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In the last 5 years we have moved from our 'perfect home' on 5 acres we built 95% of with our own hands, learning many skills we had never thought we would need, to a rented home we live in, while we try to sell that outgrown (not in size but lifestyle and dreams) house so we can put down fresh roots in this place we now call home.<br />
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Here though on this rented property we have done more of the 'dream' life than we did while on our own home territory.<br />
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Which brings me to the change of circumstances we now live with.<br />
Our children are older and let me tell you that in itself means VERY LITTLE time for alone time.<br />
I think it is something that many an older parent probably has said to those with lots of little children running underfoot through the ages, and those younger parents probably believed it little.<br />
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When we had just young children, when everyone was under the age of 12- 13 we lived a much simpler life! We lived a lifestyle revolving around our family, learning and our home. We had 'control and order' in our day because, I believe we had all we needed in those simple lives.<br />
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However the wheel of time turns whether we like it or not and we all age, parents and children alike. Children leave the nest and start their own lives and some fly a long way away to the delight and sadness of those left behind.<br />
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The reality of the children becoming young adults means that there comes added changes and responsibilities for both parent and child. These change the WHOLE structure of the family, it changed the whole way of life of our family, one in which the older children do not see in the same way.<br />
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Older kids and young adults have entirely different needs and desires that take much more time from you as a parent that can not be understood until it is experienced. This of course can not be structured into the day but is often a late night event or overlapping some other crisis in life.<br />
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Now do not think for one moment that this is a whinge or a whine. I LOVE my 'big kids.' I love the relationships I have had develop with them. They are truly the people I love to spend lots of my time with. Life is different is all because of the 'time travel' of our family.<br />
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Other changes in our family have been the 'homesteading' and preparing for a more 'self sustaining' life style.<br />
We have started here in this home that is not ours, the makings of our future self sustaining lifestyle.<br />
We have been growing in many ways as we follow this long awaited dream, a dream that even now is evolving as we grow in this lifestyle.<br />
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We have been growing our homestead from our very first arrival of 2 chickens that were a gift from friends to where we are now with a very nice beginning for our future plans.<br />
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Are you interested in our little homestead and what we do here? Well I am going to share anyway. I am really proud of where we are now as well as where we are heading. Our children at home are a huge help in keeping this going and some are very active in wanting to utilize the space we have to the maximum out put of what we can have here.<br />
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So our little homestead has:<br />
<u>Poultry-</u><br />
* Chickens- we have gold lace wyndottes, buff orpingtons, an australop rooster we are crossing with Isa Browns to produce a chicken that lays 'everyday' for its life time.<br />
* We have Pilgrim Geese- 7 geese and 3 ganders (one will be our Michaelmas dinner this year)<br />
* Peking Ducks- 1 drake and 5 ducks and two Saxony ducks ( 2 little ducklings)<br />
* Turkeys- 2 Toms and 6 hens with 4 new hatched chicks<br />
* Quail<br />
* Budgies<br />
* Doves<br />
<u>Goats-</u><br />
We have Anglo Nubian goats that we breed for milk and meat if we don't sell the offspring. We have yet to actually eat one of our goats, but that's the plan if they don't sell!<br />
We started with 2 does and 2 bucks for breeding and had a successful birth of triplets from one of our does. The other one, my favourite, has yet to produce a kid yet.<br />
We plan to milk our does but we were unable to do so with our first-time mum of triplets, and plan on making cheeses and soap from our own goat milk.<br />
<u>Sheep-</u><br />
These are a new addition ( we have raised potty lambs before for meat) but these are Suffolk Sheep that we have for breeding. We will raise the lambs for meat at this stage as we don't have room to increase our herd here. We also plan on milking the sheep and making cheese from the milk.<br />
<u>Pigs- </u> We have again a breeding pair. These are Large Blacks an old heritage breed that are fairly docile and sweet.<br />
<u>Meat Rabbits </u>-<br />
<u>Dogs-</u> a cocker spaniel as a family dog and our two older boys (at home) have a border collie pup each they bought<br />
<u>Cats-</u> we have some lovely barn cats that have been very excellent at keeping snakes away this year.<br />
<u>Guinea Pigs-</u> a couple of girls and a boy<br />
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Our other main part of our homesteading is growing as much food as we can in a temporary state.<br />
We have quite a few fruit trees and 'Aussie bush foods' and I try to grow edible weeds and flowers to add to our supply.<br />
At the moment I grow these in large pots and try to establish the trees so that when we move to our own home again we can plant these straight away. We did this year have some successful fruiting from our trees and of course our various berries.<br />
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This past Spring and Summer we have attempted our first major vegetable growing season. We planted three 'trampoline gardens'- again we have had to do this in a temporary way as we cant invest in the major requirements of a permanent garden.<br />
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We have just started to re-prepare for our winter gardens :)<br />
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As we try to treat our illnesses and injuries naturally I am increasing our herbal plants to add to our dried stocks for medicinal teas and home made cleaners and body care products.<br />
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In our growing knowledge and skills of this lifestyle ( I do teach our children that REAL Learning happens your whole life not just in school or even school hours) I have been following an education programme as well, which again does not allow a lot of free time.<br />
I have completed a short Homeopathy course and a Family Herbalist Course.<br />
Currently I am working on a Foraging Course, Medicine Making Course, The Art and Science of Plant Medicine Making Course, Confident Family Herbalist Course and a Permaculture Course.<br />
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So as you can see our lives have very much evolved and we have added much more to our Home Learning Lifestyle which is very much a full and rewarding life.<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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We are gradually adding to our little homestead and are actually getting to the point where we can not add many more animals where we are living now.<br />
While my last year I was able to get some beautiful Anglo Nubian Goats for my birthday and absolutely love them, some of the children have wanted to have pigs for ever so long.</div>
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Vellvin has always wanted a pet pig and take it for walks around town.</div>
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While I don't think she will be walking around town with these pigs I think we will walk them around the property. </div>
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Naming our animals is always a fun task and this time as often we had already decided on a name for our boar. Years ago we watched <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_House">Frontier House</a> and they had a pig called JoJo Pumpkin. The children always said if we got a pig we would call it that. Beatrix Potter is a loved author in our home and her Pigwig from The Tale of Pigling Bland is also a favourite.</div>
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Rogan has been chief researcher and he and I had a difference of opinion on the breed of pig we were going to get.</div>
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While we both agreed we wanted to have heritage breed pigs I wanted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloucestershire_Old_Spots">Gloucester Old Spots </a>and he wanted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Black_pig">Large Blacks</a>.</div>
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We did compromise on this with Rogan winning me over with the fact that the Large Black is protected somewhat from sunburn due to it's skin colour. However one day I would like to get a Gloucester Old Spot š</div>
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What we have found with having any sort of livestock, whether it be poultry, rabbits or goats is that it's often the housing of the animal that adds up in the setting up costs.</div>
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This time we decided to try and source pallets that are often around for free as our fencing materials.</div>
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We incorporated the fencing into the sty for the pigs and so eliminated the need for extra materials.</div>
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We didn't (Rogan and I) even try to 'square it out' much to Stephen's disgust but 'eyed it in' as we put the two separate but adjoining pens together.<br />
We will add another one next to it when we have piglets to fatten up and sell.<br />
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We used the pallets and just ran star pickets down the center and have a crude gate system of opening and closing.<br />
Now I know people say that pigs will get out easily but we are hoping that the 'docileness' of this breed will keep them in for now.<br />
One day when we have our own homestead we will free range them a bit more but till then they will have to be content with a daily walk .<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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Announcing my latest e-book 'A Cherished Hearts St Patrick's Day'<br />
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As I said in <a href="http://cherishedheartsathome.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/my-valentines-day-e-book-is-now-for-sale.html">the last e book release</a> I am hoping to do a number of these books to share with you all.<br />
I know this is on the eve of St Patrick's Day and am sorry to drop it at the last minute but life circumstance forced my hand.<br />
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Any way in this book - "A Cherished Hearts St Patrick's Day" it continues with some of the same content as <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=single&cl=321735&i=1528451">the last one</a> along with a host of new activities. <br />
'A Cherished Hearts St Patrick's Day' contains over 90 pages of content: including crafts- of which some are edible, recipes, A St Patrick Snakes and Ladders Game, mazes to solve, pictures to colour and information not only on St Patrick but some information about Ireland and it's heritage.<br />
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So it's been over two weeks since we started Lent and we are now well and truly into our Lenten sacrifices.<br />
Apart from our usual extra prayers and sacrifices this year we have undertaken to not use electric lighting at all.<br />
Let me say that not everyone was on board with this plan and it took a couple of days for everyone to get the hang of what this actually meant on an ongoing basis and that yes we were doing this all night every night, even when you need to use the bathroom.<br />
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We have been using our old fashioned oil lamps that we have a few of mainly because I love them and have collected them over the years.<br />
It took a while for us to adjust not to flicking on the light as we walked from room to room and bedtime took a little bit to work out but now it is almost second nature (well to most of us we occasionally have a dissenter in the ranks)<br />
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Next we have used the little lamps. Originally we used those little battery operated tea lights inside but for most of the time we substituted the top off a garden solar light and use that in it instead.<br />
The solar light means we can then just charge this up the next day and it is completely free of cost.<br />
These are quite effective little lights. The Solar lights give a more white glow as compared to the tea lights.<br />
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We also have a couple of camping lanterns that are charged up in the power points and these although technically are electric powered are still used by us.<br />
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I also bought two new solar lights form Bunnings and removed the top from them and they actually sit just like little lamps on top of a flat surface. They have been keeping their charge over night and I am pretty happy with the results so far.<br />
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Naturally we have been using candles and it is quite amalgamating how much light they throw when you have adjusted to not having the abundance of electric lighting we all seem to be used to.<br />
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In fact one night for some reason I don't remember we turned the over head lights on and were practically blinded by the intensity of light š<br />
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Seriously it is interesting to see how fast we have adjusted to using different lighting but also it is less over all light all round.<br />
We have all also adjusted to carrying our lights with us as we go about our evening duties.<br />
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It certainly is a different atmosphere in the home and although we have always used candles and lamps etc going completely electric light free has been quite an experience.<br />
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Hopefully we can keep it all the way through Lent.<br />
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Keep a look out for my next e-book for St Patrick's Day. It is even more packed with information and activities than my <a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?c=single&cl=321735&i=1528451">St Valentine one was</a> š<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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I spend a lot of the my time in our kitchen.</div>
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After all this is the area where a major part of our lives is directed at.</div>
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We all tend to want at least three meals a day, plus often there is a snack involved at least once a day, not to mention the various drinks etc that also tend to come out of the kitchen environment.</div>
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Of course there is a huge difference between simply eating and being presented with a atmosphere of dining pleasure.<br />
Food prepared with love and care that is presented in a way that says you are special has many more health benefits than plonking the food on the table, or sometimes not even that.<br />
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Studies show time and again that proper digestion is achieved not only with healthy food but a pleasant environment and time to actually eat without rushing and allow food to pass through the system at it's correct rate.<br />
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I am a big believer in making food from scratch.<br />
Not only does it save you money but it allows personal satisfaction in being able to provide a dish that not only gives the person preparing it joy but also the recipients who are eating it also with a sense of worth.<br />
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Naturally when preparing food from scratch you can tailor make that food to the personal preferences and desires of the family or guests.<br />
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Some of the foods we eat carry very strong childhood memories! Food that was served in a way that appealed to the senses in some way. Or perhaps at a time of year that triggers fond memories of that event - traditions that happened again and again over a number of years.<br />
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I also love the idea of providing from our own backyard the food we give to those who eat at our table. There can be nothing better than the satisfaction of providing a gift of love in a beautifully prepared meal from the time of planting or growing to the now ready to eat phase.</div>
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It is such a blessing to know that a family member requests a meal that is one that you have made as just a normal meal, nothing special in your eyes, but to the other person it is so more than that - it is special. It is a treat to have again , it is comfort food!<br />
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Over the years it has amazed me what each of the members in my family consider comfort food.<br />
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Some have been around since before the older children can even remember a time with out them.<br />
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Some of the foods and drinks have been added over the years and not every item is loved by all. However I think there is something absolutely special to be asked to make a favourite treat, some comfort food that not only fills the senses but provides nourishment for the soul as well, by someone you love so much.<br />
Wouldn't you agree?<br />
That is a gift to be treasured every day.<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Today we are celebrating 'Carnival' in our home. Sadly this is not a very understood tradition in most homes. We have tried to add this to our yearly liturgical celebrations but usually only start now instead of after Epiphany.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Next year I hope to add many 'celebration type activities' to our home during this time to emphasise the penetential aspect of the Lenten season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">This is the frist part of our 'Shrovetide' traditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a fairly tame celebration really.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 21.3333px;">Tomorrow we will Celebrate 'Fat Tuesday" and then we will have Ash Wednesday which is the first day of lent.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 21.3333px;">These are quite busy organising days for our home. We really try to prepare our hearts by using these outward signs to direct our thoughts to our Lord and the penetential season of Lent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday are
known as "Shrovetide," from an old English word "shrive,"
meaning "to confess," a name gotten from the tradition of going to
Confession in the days before Lent started. Shrovetide is traditionally the
time for "spring cleaning," and just as we clean our houses in these
days in prepation for Lent, we also "clean our souls" through
confession so we can enter the penitential season fresh,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Shrovetide is the last two days of
"Carnival," an unofficial period that began after the Epiphany and
which takes its name from the Latin carnelevare, referring to the "taking
away of flesh" (meat) during Lent which begins on Ash Wednesday, the day
following Shrove Tuesday. Catholics want to eat while they can and get the
frivolity out of their systems in preparation for the somber Lenten spirit to
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">source -<a href="http://fisheaters.com/"> Fisheaters</a></span></div>
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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Part of our family culture is to make gifts for each other for Christmas and birthdays as well as for any other special occasion.<br />
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This tradition started really when we were first married and as is usual birthdays and Christmas came around on a regular basis. As Stephen was still a student and I worked casually we did not have a lot of money and so the cheapest way to give gifts was to make them.<br />
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It was not until some time later that I realised the worth that is in a hand made gift- the giving of your self in thinking of the person and what they like and then investing the time into creating the gift to be given.<br />
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As such we have continued on with the making of cards and gifts and I am thrilled to see our younger ones carrying on this tradition.<br />
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We happen to have a most beautiful selection of true old fashioned roses that have a truly full fragrance to them. They make the most delicious Rose Petal Jam and candied roses for special occasions.<br />
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I have also dried them for herbal teas and pot-pourri and so it was not surprising and also a little exciting and sweet to see Trahaearn collecting a basket one day and ask for his 'lefties' to go and cut some flowers to make a gift for his sister.<br />
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Once he started to collect the flowers he soon had another partner in crime to help him.<br />
I think he and Arwen spent quite a while outside enjoying the time together selecting the flowers they deemed perfect to add to the collection to be given as a token of love.<br />
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I have been using my new dehydrator quite a lot lately and while the old one does not work at all I kept the old racks for 'natural'air drying.'<br />
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These were perfect for this little project and they were able to put the racks where they could see blossoms drying and still be involved int eh creating process.<br />
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Such a quick and simple gift.<br />
A beautiful gift from nature.<br />
A gift from the heart- given with true love and from their own hands.<br />
What more can you ask for?<br />
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The book has decorating ideas to make and keep for future celebrations of St Valentine's Day.<br />
There are special foods to cook, colouring for children, a word search, crossword puzzle, card game to play and a ready made banner to cut out and put up straight away.<br />
All this plus information about St Valentine and more for only $14.99 AUD.<br />
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Clearly we have the standard 'school learning' then we have 'home learning' and within those groups we have many differing categories that we all identify with.<br />
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In fact I know I try to incorporate various 'subjects' together to cover what I am trying to present to the children. It makes it more real and enjoyable I believe in this format.<br />
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The more I have 'lived' a home education lifestyle with our family, the more I find we are really 'living this life'.<br />
So much of what we do is incorporated into daily living that it's often impossible to tell where 'home education starts and living' starts.<br />
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In the last year we have especially grown in the area of Homesteading for a better word. This is a part of our daily routine and while sometimes we can have a few complainers about the chores that come with this, there have been many educational advantages as well.<br />
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For aren't we preparing our children for the real world, where they have to go out and live. They need to be able to recognise work as a ethic to be valued-something I think that is sorely missing in many of today's youth.<br />
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What better way than to recognise that all people need food, shelter, basic sanitation and quality of life.<br />
I mean really isn't' that why people go to work, to provide those things for themselves and their families?<br />
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We have branched out in our 'Homesteading' this past year. We have focused a lot on the animals we can grow to provide food and small opportunities for selling or barter.<br />
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We also have created an orchard this year, all in pots though until we find our final homestead. I have only in the past been interested in the typical stone fruits and European fruits we are familiar with, but with our interest in foraging for food we have added quite a few native edibles that are so interesting to see and use.<br />
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The choices are probably not going to be what the older children had but the insistence of 1 hour of assigned reading per day will be.<br />
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Again reading aloud is a much loved part of our learning and to get us started this year we will be adding these books to our daily routine. Sometimes it is hard to not just choose a book because I had such fun reading it to the older ones. which also means trying to read to the younger crowd interesting. </div>
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Introducing new books to our 'home learning' while trying to share those old treasured favourites can be a difficult decision for us all - especially as the older ones try to share their favourites with the younger ones.</div>
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Self Sufficiency is essentially part of what we are trying to achieve and to that end we were extremely pleased with our efforts to finally get to eat 'bunny bits' as we called them.<br />
We have been raising meat rabbits for a good part of the year and while they can be prolific that diseases they can contract can entirely wipe out all the work you have put into it.<br />
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So again that allows us and the children real opportunities to see that hard work does not always produce the results you are looking for- life lessons that are so important in this world that expects things for nothing or even just because we have poured our hearts and souls into it.<br />
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There is something about being able to cook on the barbie that seems like a rite of passage to me. Mind you in our family there are a few who can actually cook and some who we try to keep from inflicting charcoal on us all.<br />
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Looking at this from a real life perspective though it is also about being open to allowing children to grow in skills and responsibilities that help them achieve their own goals and ambitions while still allowing them the opportunity to be children.<br />
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Therefore this year will indeed be a great year of learning not only for the children but also for the rest of us as we grow and learn along side them.<br />
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Our Wilderness School will continue to be a major part of our lives as we continue to learn about our environment and how to successfully live in it, both in being able to provide food, shelter, and other real life living for the prosperity of our family and to being able to have members of our family to contribute to the community and the good of our world.<br />
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And now a small reminder that I have my St Valentine's Day eBook ready for Sale - only $14:99 AUD and $11:83 USD<br />
Please consider buying this for your family before the coming feast day.<br />
It has some lovely traditions to start with your family. Also decorating, colouring pages, recipes and activities to do together to bring more meaning to your St Valentine's Day<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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One of the benefits of trying to create and make produce at home is the sheer joy it gives as I am preparing it.<br />
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I have seriously always preferred to prepare things by hand. I have a few electrical appliances but I rarely use them. Probably the only one I use regularly is my blender. We love making smoothies and they are a regular part of our meals,<br />
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But I guess I just have something for good old fashioned manual labour š<br />
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For years, well all my life really, I have dreamt of a herd of Jersey cows and the joy of milking them and drinking the milk, churning butter and making cheese.<br />
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Along with that I have always wanted an old fashioned butter churn, You know those ones you see, the beautiful wooden ones I read about in books.<br />
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So finally after giving up that dream of churning in that beautiful churn I decided I would rather have the opportunity to hand churn with this lovely churn rather than not churn at all.<br />
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So we have enjoyed making butter with our little butter churn, the children all line up and keep begging for a turn. It's like when I bring out our hand grain mill or oat roller, I have everyone wanting to have a turn and not always very patiently.<br />
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So now this little gadget is another item in our homesteading adventure. One I am sure we will get great pleasure from for many years.<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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It's been quite a while since I have shared a birthday and I am reminded often by the children why Have I not done 'My Birthday Post'<br />
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So here is our Miss Arwen's 8th Birthday<br />
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The most decorated part of a birthday in our home is the breakfast table.<br />
After the birthday child has gone to bed we all 'whizz' around decorating the breakfast table, wrapping presents, decorating the seasons table and putting out the stars for the birthday child to walk down stairs to the seasons table in the morning.<br />
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A very excited birthday girl was up early to get a good start on the day.<br />
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It is all ready and waiting for Miss Arwen to arrive<br />
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After the hand-made cards are given it is time for the Birthday bag to be opened.<br />
Each child is allowed to make a list of what they would like for their birthday and we try to provide gifts from the list.<br />
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Breakfast is always the birthday child's choice too and we have started to have some interesting choices for this lately.<br />
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Arwen wanted Peach and Pies with whipped cream this year.<br />
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I had to run into town for a couple of things and because of the VERY early start our birthday girl fell asleep within 5 mins of being in the car š<br />
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"The Sweet Shop Cake" is a family tradition. Each of the girls has had this except Myffwyn now. Each year the other girls try to convince Myffy and Arwen to have this cake and finally this year Arwen agreed.<br />
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It is incredibly hard to stop cream from melting on a cake in an Australian summer and this day was very hot and humid. So although I had planned on making this cake earlier in the day, I a glad I didn't because it would have been a complete disaster by dinner time.<br />
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After a long day it is time to blow out the candles and have a sleepover with her special friend who had spent the day at our house.<br />
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And now a small reminder that I have my St Valentine's Day eBook ready for Sale - only $14:99 AUD and $11:83 USD<br />
Please consider buying this for your family.<br />
It has some lovely traditions to start with your family. Also colouring pages, recipes and activities to do together to bring more meaning to your St Valentine's Day<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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Sooooooo<br />
Finally I have done it!<br />
With the help of my family I have managed to put together my first e-book.<br />
Hopefully this e-book will be the first in a continuing series - well that is our plan anyway.<br />
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This book - "A Cherished Hearts Valentine's Day" contains over 50 pages of content: including crafts to make, games to play, pictures to colour and information all for only $14.99 AUD.<br />
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I wish to thank all those friends who over the years who have encouraged me to do this as well and I hope you will consider purchasing this labour of love š<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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<br />Gaehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06505329167788856051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2865763819603324836.post-11451984042871426702017-02-05T23:45:00.001+11:002017-02-05T23:45:50.596+11:00Welcome back and some Feast Day Celebrations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well.... Hello long lost blog Readers,<br />
No, I know you weren't lost, it was me š<br />
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The times they have been a-changing in our home. Nothing drastic (well some of it has been) but really its just the fact that life moves on, people grow, interests develop and our family life tends to reflect that. The end results have meant not much energy to invest here. Hopefully that will all be water under the bridge and we can become good friends again.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Maybe now that we are starting back to our 'scheduled' learning for the year I may be able to be more in this space and share what is happening in our lives.</span><br />
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The first week of a learning year is always an easy start with three feast days in a row.<br />
St Brigid, Candlemas and St Blaise.<br />
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Naturally we celebrated in regular style for us with good food, good reading and activities as well as sharing St Brigid with a special guest.<br />
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We really do go all out for St Brigid- after all she is an Irish Saint and well we are of Irish ancestry. What else can we say!<br />
Oh we did this year after reading more about her take St Brigid as our patron saint of our Homestead as she is patron saint of many farm activities š<br />
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This year we even churned some butter in the hand butter churner I received for Christmas. The kids loved taking turns at it and with that help it was done in no time.<br />
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Next up is Candlemas and although not as big as St Brigid it certainly does get due attention.<br />
those amazing cupcakes in the first picture. They are actually meant to look like old fashioned candle holder with candle in it. You know the ones you carry up to bed with you. I think they are pretty darn cute.<br />
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Each year we have our floating candles and doves and have them lit while we do our reading and colouring.<br />
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This year on all three days we had a very, very involved little boy. He was quite pedantic about his colouring pages and towards the end of the week was a little testy about his ability. Not Mr Perfect - oh no!!<br />
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St Blaise was our final Feast day and the only edible activity we had were these licorice covered chocolate, which were supposed to represent the crossed candles of St Blaise.<br />
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Finally after these very 'light' filled liturgical days I think the children will be quite ready for some very 'boring regular' lessons on Monday.<br />
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Thank you for dropping by and visiting with us again.<br />
We hope to be better company this year š<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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I just love adding new health products to our families diet.</div>
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I have wanted to make 'Jun Tea' for so long.</div>
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I wan't sure how I would get an authentic Jun scoby though and so I waited and waited and waited......</div>
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Finally I was able to purchase one and we have really enjoyed this lovely probiotic drink.</div>
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How do I make it?</div>
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First I put 4 green tea bags in 2 cups of boiling water and let brew for a few minutes.</div>
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Then I add 1/2 cup of raw honey to the tea and then add 6 more cups of filtered water.</div>
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Next is to put the jun scoby and it's at least 1/2 cup of 'tea' from the last batch in too.</div>
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Let sit for three days and then take out the scoby and some of the tea for the next batch.</div>
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You can then leave another three days as is or add a second ferment.<br />
We love to add a herbal tea of strawberry, Raspberry and Loganberry and leave for another three days.<br />
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Now we are all ready to enjoy another probiotic drink through out the day.<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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Do you have anything in your home that represent a part of your life that seems to fulfill a longing in your soul?<br />
A longing doesn't seem to represent it really but a completion of your life expressed in outward possessions.<br />
The kettle is such humble representation of what I am talking about but it truly is a significant part of HOME and what this means to me.<br />
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"Would you like a cuppa?" is a term used often in our home.<br />
It's the pretty much the first thing we say when guests arrive in our home as we welcome them in.<br />
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Having a cup of tea or coffee for that matter is a way of spending time tgettting to know new friends and relaxing and 'chilling out' with old ones and family too.<br />
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It's the relaxing time at the end of a day that we can wind down with a cuppa and just be at peace in the sanctuary of our own home.<br />
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I so love a kettle on the stove and it was one of my most treasured daily practices to have it on the go always on our wood stove in Tassie.<br />
Since moving though and not having my wonderful stove I found that my favourite kettle had been relegated to a back corner in the cupboard and we started using an electric kettle Frankly though it just doesn't hold the level of 'homeyness' that the kettle on the stove has.<br />
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So while rummaging around I found the old kettle and put it on this gas stove top.<br />
Sadly I'm not sure we will be able to use it often though as there just isnt the large available cooking space that wood stove had so..........<br />
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While I wait to have the same stove again I guess I will jus thave to take comfort in the fact that even without the wood stove and kettle atmosphere we can still enjoy the contentment of sharing a 'a cuppa' with family and friends with an electric kettle<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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What can I say? I guess it's the result of having a full life!<br />
Here is another catch up post on what is happening, well happened in our lives lately.<br />
You do know that a picture is worth a thousand words right?<br />
So here are a thousand pictures, well not really, but it surely will have lots of images in this post.<br />
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It's only just been cool enough lately to really enjoy the outdoors again.<br />
In the summer of which we have had a very long dry spell of, we certainly do enjoy the swimming but it really gets to a point where we are hanging out for the Autumn season.<br />
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It's really lovely when the younger ones are so keen to cook and Vellvin and Trahaearn made a beautiful Wedding Anniversary cake for us earlier this month.<br />
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Like I said the Autumn weather means lots more outdoor activity. So its time to fix up the bikes- we get lots of punctures in the tires. Naturally Daddy and I had to have a turn checking them out.<br />
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Autumn foliage is a beautiful addition to our beauty inside.<br />
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The Mud kitchen is always popular but again in ccoler weather it really gets a lot of use.<br />
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The children prepared a beautiful Anniversary Dinner for us. We had to stay away for this and they surprised us with the decorated room and a lovely dinner.<br />
They asked if we wanted to go out for dinner but frankly I always love to celebrate at home with the blessings that are our children.<br />
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I have started a new ferment for our family - Jun Tea. It is prepared almost the same as <a href="http://cherishedheartsathome.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/when-is-tea-not-tea-when-making-kombucha.html">Kombucha</a>, I need to update how we do this.<br />
Jun is made from green tea and honey.<br />
It has a lovely gentle flavour slightly less sharp.<br />
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Second ferment on the right with a fruit flavoured tea. It is really quite nece without the second ferment unlike Kombucha in my opinion<br />
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We attended the <a href="http://cherishedheartsathome.blogspot.com.au/search/label/Anzac%20Day">Anzac Day </a>parade as we do each year<br />
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We have been doing a fair bit of weeding, of the non productive gardens that are here on this rental property. The fact it is unproductive means we really don't bother much with this garden at all.<br />
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Mothers Day naturally brought Breakfast in Bed for Mummy along with some beautiful home made cards and presents that I have been eyeing off for a while<br />
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At dinner time that night the center piece was made by Rogan who used Mother Earth and some of the Root Children and Flower girls to represent each of my children.<br />
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I have been wanting to try Soap Nuts for some time now and a friend ordered some for herself so naturally I begged her for some to try.<br />
First impressions are that it is highly effective. Now I just need to work out the cost comparisons between this and home made detergent<br />
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I have been waiting for some time to add some different herbs to my collection of herbs. I have especially been looking for some herbs for Asthma and lung problems. These are not available locally so I have been researching the best price from various on line providers.<br />
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Again with the cooler weather we have been doing our reading outside for learning.<br />
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These are some of the books we have been reading lately :)<br />
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Another great spot for reading too</div>
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Our Autumn has a new cat that now lives in side. I have never been that fond of inside cats but this one is quite cute inside.</div>
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A major part of our time over the last couple of months has been preparing Vellvin for her Debutane Ball.<br />
It was a very beautiful ball and the pre organisation was amazing. They did dance practise every week that they had to travel 1 1/2 hours to and were very dedicated.<br />
Saxon was partner to one of Vellvin's friends and so the four of them spent some lovely times together.<br />
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I finally made Vellvin's dress in less than two weeks before the event. I was very blessed to have help from a very dear friend as we had to alter the pattern to achieve the look we needed.<br />
Naturally Vellvin was so very beautiful!!<br />
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We have had a couple of sleep over visits lately with our grand dumpling and after we did a major tidy up of the garage the piano was accessible again.<br />
Saxon had a lovely time getting the little one to play with him.<br />
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Arwen and I made a pumpkin cake with Emmer flour. I had found this on line when I was looking for Einkorn flour which seems impossible to find in Australia. So if you know anyone who sells it here I would love to know.<br />
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I did get this beautiful sourdough starter sponge from the Emmer Flour too. It made lovely textured and tasty sourdough bread the children 'gobbled' up very quickly.</div>
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So one day there was a fire across the road and these two ran out the front to see the fire truck at work. I love kids in trees. Don't you?<br />
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It's not often that I get to have a little cuddle in the morning with this precious girl. We had a lovely time one morning just the two of us chatting for a while beofre the other children woke and found us.<br />
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So......... the birthday season has started!!<br />
That means I get to stay up late and make felt birthday crowns and Saint Peg dolls.<br />
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We struggled for a few weeks with a lot of hay fever in the family as the weather seemed to be all over the place. Time for Home Made remedies that actually alleviate symptoms and don't harm the body in the process</div>
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The joy and learning that is expressed by our children as they dress up and create whole new worlds is always so rewarding to see.<br />
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A little help from his sister and he has played with this outfit for many days. He especially loved the feather in his helmet.<br />
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Daddy and Trahaearn on the swings for some special time together.<br />
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I loved making these water colour painted butterflies for Easter baskets this year too I really delightful and quick craft project<br />
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My companion in the morning after he gets up and makes his way down stairs to his 'kitten bed'. He snuggles up here until he is ready to completely face the day.<br />
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What do you do with the left over gingerbread cookie dough you made at Christmas time? You freeze it and bring it out on days when little ones need a distraction, and then they can bake cookies on their own. Then they can proudly distribute them to every one at home and save some special for those at work.<br />
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Finally we are at the end of this pictorial tour :)<br />
Really it is just a taste of every thing that is happening but still a taste is better than nothing right?<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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"Home is the one place in all this world where hearts
are sure of each other. It is the place
of confidence. It is the place where we
tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us
to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of
full and confiding hearts. It is the
spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of
awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule."<o:p></o:p></div>
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"Every house where love abides<o:p></o:p></div>
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And friendship is a guest,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Is surely home, and home sweet home<o:p></o:p></div>
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For there the heart can rest."<o:p></o:p></div>
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Home -<o:p></o:p></div>
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It takes a heap oā livinā in a house tā make it home,<o:p></o:p></div>
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A heap oā sun anā shadder, anā ye sometimes have tā roam<o:p></o:p></div>
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Afore ye really āpreciate the things ye lefā behind,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anā hunger fer āem somehow, with āem allus on yer mind.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It donāt make any differunce how rich ye get tā be,<o:p></o:p></div>
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How much yer chairs anā tables cost, how great yer luxury;<o:p></o:p></div>
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It aināt home tā ye, though it be the palace of a king,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Until somehow yer soul is sort oā wrapped round everything.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Home aināt a place that gold can buy or get up in a minute;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Afore itās home thereās got tā be a heap oā livinā in it;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Within the walls thereās got tā be some babies born, and
then<o:p></o:p></div>
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Right there yeāve got tā bring āem up tā women good, anā
men;<o:p></o:p></div>
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And gradjerly, as time goes on, ye find ye wouldnāt part<o:p></o:p></div>
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With anything they ever usedātheyāve grown into yer heart:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The old high chairs, the playthings, too, the little shoes
they wore<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ye hoard; anā if ye could yeād keep the thumbmarks on the
door.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeāve got tā weep tā make it home, yeāve got tā sit anā sigh<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anā watch beside a loved oneās bed, anā know that Death is
nigh;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anā in the stillness oā the night tā see Deathās angel come,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anā close the eyes oā her that smiled, anā leave her sweet
voice dumb.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fer these are scenes that grip the heart, anā when yer tears
are dried,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ye find the home is dearer than it was, anā sanctified;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anā tugginā at ye always are the pleasant memories<o:p></o:p></div>
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Oā her that was anā is no moreāye canāt escape from these.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeāve got tā sing anā dance fer years, yeāve got tā romp anā
play,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anā learn tā love the things ye have by usinā āem each day;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even the roses āround the porch must blossom year by year<o:p></o:p></div>
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Afore they ācome a part oā ye, suggestinā someone dear<o:p></o:p></div>
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Who used tā love āem long ago, anā trained āem jesā tā run<o:p></o:p></div>
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The way they do, soās they would get the early morninā sun;<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yeāve got tā love each brick anā stone from cellar up tā
dome:<o:p></o:p></div>
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It takes a heap oā livinā in a house tā make it home</div>
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(artist- Myles Birket Foster)<br />
Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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Do you ever feel like you are continuously going around one of those revolving doors, seeing where you want to make your getaway but constantly missing the exit only to go around again?</div>
That seems like our life at the moment!<br />
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Life is full. Life is exciting. We never have a dull moment in our home.<br />
Our home is constantly alive with not only our children and their lives but the friends that come over and spend time, often overnight or a day or two.<br />
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The day to day busyness is topped off with extra events that seem to constantly follow one another.<br />
We have so many things happening in our lives with various members of the family that it just seems a blur some days.<br />
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One day I will write about how I believe it is so much easier with a whole bunch of little kids than a heap or even a few older kids <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">āŗ</span></span><br />
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Of course we have been leading up to the great feast of Easter and we have many traditions and preparations for this time of year as well as the feast days prior to this (so many blog posts to share....sigh)<br />
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Naturally at this time see more Liturgical play with the children and this was so funny to see as the little ones had a combination of both the Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo Mass. We attend both and so the children were mixing it up<br />
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We actually went on a bush walk together for the first time in ages and I loved that the little ones were able to walk the whole 2 hours without being picked up and carried at all.<br />
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I have been busy myself researching Herbal Remedies and implementing various medications in our Home. I have just enrolled in Vintage Remedies - Botanical Medicine Course and I have plans to enroll in another Herbal Course as well.<br />
I have great and exciting plans for using both these and some of my other skills in developing a home based business.<br />
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One of the major factors in my lack of time has been that Vellvin is doing her Deb ball in just under two weeks and as well as that Saxon is partnering a friend of Vellvin's.</div>
So there have been many weekends of dance practise and the making of her dress, of which I am only partially through.<br />
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These are just a sprinkling ow what has been going on in our lives but a taste of what life is like in our revolving door journey at the moment.<br />
I hope you are living each moment of your own lives to the fullest even if they reflect our own!<br />
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Blessings to you and your homes,<br />
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Favourite Feast Days are important don't you think?<br />
St Patrick is a special day in our home and we love to celebrate with food, books and activities.<br />
I love to set up with our various bits and pieces for our Feast Days<br />
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Everyone loves pancakes right?<br />
So what could be better on St Patrick's Day than green tinted pancakes in a shamrock shape?<br />
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After breakfast we set up the table for our learning for the day.<br />
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I usually set out the books we are going to read for the day along with any printed out work, craft activities and painting.<br />
When we set up for Feast Day I usually sit up one end and the children work around the table and work while I read them the books.<br />
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As usual I had the various colouring pages ready to go and we love to keep them as records of what we covered.<br />
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My little workers !<br />
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Our collection of St Patrick books for the day.</div>
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The Leprechaun cake has been a bit of a tradition for a while now and the little kids are especially keen each year to be the first ones to taste it.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpdkpuVxlZGuTC4LJuHLr0DJaTs5jHE_7Qmwozwur5ir9VeMchFSmmNjTdcVHS2Oqops9zNf2VKDAo-nbUFmwAelDmd4ppaZ8AAc0-Lf6dfyngDJGwJnDRMtsSbL80v6EPkxSMPZaeGg/s1600/107.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEpdkpuVxlZGuTC4LJuHLr0DJaTs5jHE_7Qmwozwur5ir9VeMchFSmmNjTdcVHS2Oqops9zNf2VKDAo-nbUFmwAelDmd4ppaZ8AAc0-Lf6dfyngDJGwJnDRMtsSbL80v6EPkxSMPZaeGg/s640/107.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
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The fruit rainbow for lunch was gone in a flash along with the Leprechaun cake. So a little healthy along with a little sweety was a good mix. We totally forgot the shamrock cheesy muffins for lunch too so we had them the next day.</div>
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So how does that look for a lunch?<br />
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After lunch the younger ones wanted to do a 'play' and Trahaearn was the first to get dressed up and start work on his 'shoe business'<br />
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So here are our little play actors before the play.<br />
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Our<a href="http://cherishedheartsathome.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/soaked-irish-soda-bread.html"> Soaked Irish Soda Bread</a> is always a huge hit -sadly only one piece each<br />
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May the Strength of God pilot us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May the Power of God preserve us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May the Wisdom of God instruct us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May the Hand of God protect us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May the Way of God direct us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May the Shield of God defend us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May the Host of God guard us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Against the snares of the evil ones.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Against temptations of the world </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May Christ be with us!</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May Christ be before us!</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May Christ be in us,</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Christ be over all!</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">May Thy Salvation, Lord,</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Always be ours,</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.9px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This day, O Lord, and evermore. Amen.</span></span></div>
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Blessings to you and your homes<br />
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