Thinking Thursdays: Activities for autumn

We've been in quite a limbo lately, and I've been feeling like I'm running around like a headless chicken. Perhaps its the cabin fever, since big boy is still coughing and it's cold out. Or maybe its because baby J has decided that he would drop his morning nap, but has been rather...

Thinking Thursdays: Chestnut alphabets

We've amassed a pretty huge collection of horse chestnuts from our walks around the area. Junior J cannot resist picking these up each time he sees them, which is almost every time we go for a walk, as we've at least 3 of these trees near our house. These can't be eaten, unlike the...

Thinking Thursdays: Books about autumn

Hello! We've been reading about autumn, since we can't really go out to play (Junior J is still coughing!). Here are some of our favourite reads on this beautiful season, which are mainly on two very famous characteristics of fall: apples and leaves! :: Apple Farmer Annie, by...

Wordless Wednesdays: Streets of gold

Autumn has transformed all our paths into streets of gold. Fluttering, rustling streets that move. And I am amazed how trees can make dying look so beautiful.Linking up w...

Thankful Tuesdays: Angels in disguise

This is the kind of face he gives you, when you ask him to smile.We've been blessed by many strangers since the time we moved to Germany. The market stall-holders who always give Junior J a cookie, or a slice of ham ("fur die Kinder", they say, with a smile). Or a carrot or a flower....

Monday Made: Leaf heart

We had loads of these leaves lying about the house, thanks to Junior J's squirrelly habit of always picking up something on our walks and bringing them back home. Some went into the leaf book. However, with autumn and its sea of fluttery golden pavements, they were starting...

Weekend Wonderings: Cabin fever

The mercury took a plunge over the past few days, and we had a weekend of sub-zero temperatures! It didn't snow though. Since the boys' both had coughs that got worse with the cold, we had to stay home most of the time. They have been getting rather restless though, and I can't wait...

Saturday Scrapping: More milestones

It was one of those rare nights where I couldn't sleep. In the end, mummy guilt got the better of me and I tried to catch up on baby J's album (you can see some of the completed pages here). So here's the pages for him at 10 months... This was done using mainly the "Children...

Foodie Fridays: Mussels, not

Our family's love for mussels more or less started in France, where we discovered that Junior J loved his mussels and could eat a whole load of them. For some strange reason, he'd only eat the female ones, which were orange-pink in colour, leaving the lighter-coloured males for us.When...

Thinking Thursdays: Flipping for Joy!

Hello! Remember how we were trying to teach the boy Chinese? Thus far, its still been restricted to reading Chinese books and speaking to him in Chinese, and I'm glad he's slowly picking it up. Unlike English kid lit, which I find is relatively easy to source for, choosing good Chinese...

Wordless Wednesdays: A full basket

Life with sick kids means the laundry is never ever done.The baby has puked on us at least once a day for the past few days. The dirty clothes, the soiled onesies, the sleeves sticky with food, they pile up faster than our very small washing machine can spit out. Then they lie...

Thankful Tuesdays: Fall

Autumn has been flighty and rather indecisive, but yet beautiful in its own lovely way. There are gloomy days, where it rains and we are stuck indoors. The air is cold and fingers go numb. Those days are the ones we stay in bed, and it takes all our willpower to crawl out from under...