Best of 2011

It is the last day of 2011 and I thought appropriate to reflect on the ‘best of’. In no particular order: Seeing our children grow in their faith – each a little differently but as I came into the living room this morning, I found Sophie having her quiet time. Each o our children are [...]

Harrison is an apple from the same tree!

Harrison wanted to turn his wee gift to Sophie into something more. Here is his video of his efforts:

Sophie Ballet Video

Thought I would post one last video of Sophie at her Parent Open Evening. The song she is dancing to is the Snowman and it just a free time of dance where they interpret the music. I love the song and love it more now that I have seen my beautiful daughter dancing to it! [...]

Christmas plans are getting interesting…

as tonight we confirmed some food arrangements. Our Iranian brother Saied will bring a sheeps head for dinner. Our friend Mark, I am asking to bring bread (he is the the original Muffin Man as his breads are top notch) and I think I will ask our Polish friend Marjenka to bring a Polish traditional [...]

Boxing Day & Hogmanay

Everyone knows about Christmas, but here in the UK & Scotland we celebrate two additional holidays. Boxing Day is the 26 December. It was the day of rest for the servants as the families they worked for gave them the day off and left over food from Christmas day in boxes – thus boxing day. [...]

Lily & Sophie performing at our church Christmas talent show

We had our first Mosaic’s Got Talent Christmas show today. It was a busy day of cleaning (me) and baking (girls) and then we went to our gathering. The girls performed first as we then went to our Neighbourhood Watch Christmas party. Here are the girls and their talents! A link to a video of [...]

Christmas Update

The tree went up on the 1st night of Christmas (if you are counting 12 days), the next day we sang the Twelve Days of Christmas with our English as a second language class and tonight Carol is putting the lights on the tree. Next cookies, the cards, and wrapping gifts. It is going to [...]

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