:: full moon blessings ::

a couple of years ago I was blessed in the Mid-Winter to have a magnificent glowing orb preside over my 40th birthday celebrations, held a few days after the actual day. With Mother Moon floating overhead, I felt 'held' more than usual.
+, this Saturday gone, I marked another birthday...under a full moon...firelight flickering, marshmallows melting, conversations flowing, happy faces glowing...times passes...the partial lunar eclipse slides across as we glance moonwards...snuggling child, softly snoring, contentedly shrouded in possum merino coverlet...thank you...our life is amazing and we are truly blessed.

"I'm 5!" - Phoebe

Recently, we had a totally enjoyable and very special day at home for Phoebe, who is now FIVE!

Much of the day was taken up with the preparations for her tea party in the afternoon, which was fun in itself and lent to a gradual building of excitement - Phoebe is a really great helper + does so many things so ably.

By 3pm we had red and white balloons all over the place, a little bit of pink and white gingham, which you must have for a tea-party, glitter and flowers everywhere - because the birthday fairies had been.

[I must remind everyone out there who may have forgotten about the birthday fairies...they always leave Phoebe a fabulous trail of glitter, flowers, sequins, confetti, shells - always beautiful - and it goes all the way from her bed to the birthday table with the presents on it. This year they were very impish - they made the trail go to the bathroom first - right up to the toilet - they must have known that Phoebe always needs to sort that out first thing - especially being all birthday-excited and all.]

Anyway, it was a lovely birthday, complete with a fairy walk to hunt for fairies (cos we know they were around, since there was the fairy trail for Phoebe) - in the end we took our watering cans and picked flowers and filled up and decorated the fairies' bath and left them some snacks - and when we all came back from afternoon tea - they'd left all the children a tiny gift - I love those fairies!

And at dinnertime, we had our neighbour, Pete, over to celebrate - Phoebe really enjoys him - she chose tacos for her dinner and it was really fun.

Lulu and Lucas Visit Possum Bend

We have been graced by the presence of our friends recently, who made an amazing journey to come and see us and to whom we are especially thankful - we know it was a major - THANK YOU!

Firstly, we had the little girl convalescing from a protracted illness - whom we thought had just come right - who hadn't quite. Then, her Mum who'd also managed to catch the last bug Miss Lulu had passed on - the day before leaving. As well, there was Jenny, who was 6 and 1/2 months pregnant! And, lastly, but not least of all...Lucas, who really wasn't keen on leaving the Rock to sit in a car for HOURS and HOURS simply to see his friend Phoebe who now lives in the WOP-WOPS!

As you can see from the pics, a wonderful time was had by all - very merry and even fancy dress and running races.

We felt privileged to host Lulu's 5th Birthday and it was special to make her the sponge cake she really wanted to celebrate her birthday with. As you see, I even squeezed in a little bit of pink gingham, for the occasion - I felt rather pleased about that!

Jenny thought it a great idea to give the kids very loud whistles - they fully experienced these new toys everywhere they could - jungly gyms included - they became OUTSIDE toys immediately.