Dark maroon

My fav colour for the season... normally I wear this in winter but not this year...

Summer = tomatoes

 

Tomatoes, drizzled with balsamic & olive oil and sprinkled with salt. Done.

Our christmas

 

 

Hope you had a blessed, jolly Christmas!

In our kitchen

 

my kitchen door got festive

 

my fav place in the morning - coffee & my cheery mug



Breakfast

This was my breakfast... even my bowl of fruit and yoghurt looks christmassy!!

 

 

Followed by a mince pie and coffee... love the holidays!

 

Christmas devotional

 

 

19 December  ~  a short extract is whispered...

 

There are Christmas trees that have no blossoms. 

There are a thousand ways you can suffer brave.

And no one knows.

No one knows that, your heart quakes a bit inside.  At how headlines hit too close, how in a blink on an ordinary day...

You could just bow your head in the quiet and weep...

 

As the cold can move you deeper toward the fire, struggling can move you deeper toward God, who warms you with joy.

'Fear not! For behold!'   The solution to fear is the gift of Christmas.

Though the fig tree does not blossom, His love always does.

 

Ann Voskamp  ~ The Greatest Gift

View from our breakfast table yesterday

 

Cape Town is brilliant in the summer.

At Natasha's table

 

This is her festive table!!

 

She is my oldest friend and is as faithful, creative and generous as can be!!

 

12 days to go...

 

 

Do we look bored?

duh... we are so done with Primary School!  My baby girl is going to High School #timeflies

 

Lately...

 

Christmas time... when you can have a nibble of chocolate every morning!

 

Cherry picking... cherries are the most addictive fruit - yum!

 

Pip ejecting competition!

 

The happy gang.

in His Son

 

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son

~  1 John 5.11

Cookies and wrapping

 

Wayne bought Rebecca this cool biscuit kit for decorating a Cookie Christmas Tree...

 

and it was pretty and delicious!!

 

and we have begun the fun task of gift wrapping...

For unto us...

 

Our advent calender

 

My sister's kitchen chalk board

Christmas cheer

Our home is festive!

The best piggy-backer

 

This guy is beyond awesome!

My favourite thing at the moment

 

 

Leather pants... love it!

Let the countdown begin...

It is one month to Christmas!!!!!

Study break

 

At the movies

Radish

In my garden at the moment... these bright little things are summer...

My funny girl

This girl is the best... even when she takes my hat!

For the tea lovers

I love tea and cute tea infusers, as I sometimes like to use loose tea.  These two are just the best and would be perfect on any Christmas list...

Weekend

The weekend was this...

 

Wayne arrived home from Spain at the start of the weekend!! Yah!! 

 

Rebecca studied all weekend... poor baby!

 

Wayne made Apple & Peach Crumble, which was amazing! Yah! We finished it so fast!!

All in all, a good one... just counting down the exam days, 

then its summer break and we will jingle all the way!

Grandma's apples

Stewed Apples are what my darling great-grandmother made often for us when I was a child and making it always reminds me of her. Soft and sweet, just like her.

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In the November garden...

 

Radish

Tomatoes



And I left a piece of old sweetpotato in this pot by mistake and now it is growing -

I will need to move it.