handmade play

In these early childhood years we have  really enjoyed creating a home environment where creativity & imagination are nurtured.  While I don’t feel that children need lots of things,  it can be helpful to have resources & play things that prompt creative play & are just lot’s of fun for children to use through out the day, in...

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holding on

  My 4 year old started pre-school this week. It’s a big change for us. It’s the first time she will spend any time out of our care. It’s only 2 days a week & she will still be with me 5 days a week, but I will enjoy those days even more knowing that...

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four

She learned to stand at 8 months old…  she was talking at 9 months old… she was walking at 11 months old…. today she turned four and…  … she’s learning to fly. Happy 4th birthday my Ava.

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Create & play

 “It is in playing, and only in playing, that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.” -Fraser Brown

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Isaac, Lucy, Claire

(more to come…)

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home made days

Here in Sydney we’re having a very rainy day for our first day of Summer. I believe rainy days at home can inspire some of the best days with children. Cosy, creative & so much fun.  

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Kaelyn Rose

I really do adore being invited to record these times in people’s lives. I can only hope that the pictures reflect even some of the beauty I’m seeing in the families we’ve been meeting… this one included… just.so.beautiful. When we arrived at their home, little Kaelyn was sleeping happily in her dad’s arms.. easy to...

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harvest

There are so many reasons I am grateful for these days. I harvest them like the most important fruit of our lives. At the beginning of the season of motherhood it seemed that there would be so many days to fill with my children, but the truth is there will never be enough & although the days...

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Heavenly days

 

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