The Adventures of Baby Bear and other stories

Now that she is starting to use the loo all by herself Nola's  new favourite game is putting baby bear on his potty for a "weeeee"  :) Poor baby bear seems to need his potty quite a lot...

"la, la, la, la, la, ooops time to go again"

"Well done little bear, go take a nap,"...

"You need to go again baby bear?"

...and again!...are you sure?

No paddling in the potty baby bear!

Now it's your turn Big Bear!

  

 :)

Letting go

 

 "Do not lust (want) for it gives way to the desire to possess and the desire to possess incites murder."   Buddhist saying

 I see the word want as meaning dissatisfaction and the word murder as referring to the frustration, envy, greed, anger etc...  a dissatisfied state of being can incite.

Life's lesson is one of letting go.



 
Journalling yesterday.....

Have no fixed plan
No expectation
Just this moment



Want nothing
But what is given
right now



"Let all go dear
              so comes love" e.e cummings

Weekending

First blossom.




Ice cold, rushing streams...



 



Small, busy girls...



Home time piggy backs...



 Quiet morning, knitting, pattern making, writing with paper and ink.

Paper doll making.

Doll dress making with Tilda, the best assistant seamstress,  pin counter and thread cutter in all the world!

Some bickering, tired girls, teething and midnight cuddles downstairs till heavy bodies fell asleep in arms ready to be carried back to bed.

Tilda saying that everything she likes is "her favourite and her best!"

Braving biting winds and slushy muddiness to play in wild open spaces.

Nola and Fina "cooking" leaf pies together.

 A pile of boots in a very soggy porch.

Happy doll photography for a friend.

Thinking about buying seeds and plans for the Spring garden.

Weekending with Amanda  @ Habit of Being

This Moment

Joining Soulemama today for {This Moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

Have a wonderful weekend :)

 

A Saturday Song

{This Moment}

Joining Soulemama today for {This Moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see.

Have a wonderful weekend :)

 

Singing along to this song with Daddy

Yarn Along - Craft On

Linking up with Ginny at Small Things and Frontier Dreams today

Nola's little vest is finished.

 I used  the owl cable panel for my littlest owl lover.

Crocheted the borders and embroidered some little stars on the garter stitch bodice on a whim. 

Here is my sweet girl with the very beautiful platinum winter sun shining brightly in our V E R Y muddy garden today. 

 I think I'm going to have to hose down everyone's boots! 

Even the snowman the girls made is muddy? 

Rather photogenic unfortunately.

The piles of sycamore leaves that seemed so heavenly - crisp,  throw-able, crunch-able and even fallrightinto but months before are now making some lovely mulch on the lawn. 

Nola of course, is delighted by all these details especially the mud, always the mud! 

Toddlers make you see life as it really is don't they? 

Full of wonder and texture and colour and curiosity...

Out in the garden watching Emmy plant out our little Christmas tree