It's the time of year where we reflect on the year that's been and start planning for the coming year. When I reflect on 2020 although there's always more I could have done, I have achieved a lot. At this time of the year I often use some questions to reflect on the year that's… Continue reading Reflecting on 2020, Planning for 2021
Advent and Christmas is such a busy time of year! Yet is also a great time to talk about faith at home. This post will share some ideas about adding faith practices into the rituals & traditions you already have everyday and especially during the Advent/Christmas season. What is Advent? The season of Advent starts… Continue reading How to Add Faith Practices to Your Advent Traditions
Thanks to May from Brizzy Mays Books and Bruschetta for nominating me for this award. Despite May living in my home city we've never met in person (we'll have to change that). I first remember reading Brizzy Mays blog when she was setting up a street library in a local park, so we've been following… Continue reading Special Blog Award
Well I think I read 6 books in December? However, I can't remember what one of them was. We went away for a weekend in December and I'm sure I read 2 books but can only remember 1 of them. So anyhow, here's my Reading Log for December 2019. Think Write Grow: How to Become… Continue reading Reading Log December 2019
This Friday 17 May is National Walk Safely to School Day, here in Australia. Now in it's 20th year, this annual event encourages all primary school children to walk safely to school. Walking is one form of active travel to school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=qTRDXFfLqN4 Another program that our local council promotes is the Active School Travel program.… Continue reading Active Travel to School
This is the first time that I've done the challenge and did manage to post all 26 posts. A couple were a day late but I still got them up. Here is my A to Z Challenge Reflection. I was really excited going into the challenge. There were so many ideas and possibilities going through… Continue reading A to Z Challenge Reflection
As it's Good Friday today I'd thought I'd share a few thoughts about the question "Why is Good Friday good?". This is my 'Q' post for the A-Z Challenge. In answer to the question "Why is Good Friday good?" I think this cartoon sums it up nicely. I know that as a child I found… Continue reading Question – Why is Good Friday Good?
Since my name begins with 'J' I thought I would write an acrostic using my name for today's post for the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge. The acrostic is written below, underneath that I'll add more explanation for some of the lines. J-ellybean is not my name!I-enjoy time with family and friendsL-ove macadamia… Continue reading Jillian, not Jellybean!
As we are currently getting some renovations done in our house, we've set up a temporary kitchen in our garage. My husband moved some of the old kitchen cupboards down into the garage and we've set up a temporary kitchen. So we've got some crockery, Tupperware and a few other bits & pieces in the… Continue reading Temporary Kitchen
I'm a little late but here's what I finished reading in June. I finished 2 books: Mothers & Others - Edited by Maggie Scott, Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maya Linden and Natalie Kon-yu This is a collection of fiction & non-fiction short stories by Australian writers. Some of the women are mothers and some are… Continue reading June 2018 Reading Log
