Let’s talk about the black dog

This week, Steve – after a long social media hiatus – took to Facebook. Not to rant, post a joke, or comment on news of the day, but to access community; to reach out to friends near and far for help.

Pseudo-sisters

When my bestie and her family followed their sea change dream north a couple of years ago, it’s fair to say I had mixed emotions: super-happy for them, but (selfishly) devastated for me.

Bubbleberries and imagination

Thank goodness for Sunday.

It’s been a big week – fun, but exhausting. Work deadlines to meet, some fairly impressive tantrums to diffuse, and a couple of big days spent back in the city.

Mother’s Day: a little jar of love

 

There are worse starts to your day than having a small person grin up at you and say: “Happy Mother’s Day, my beautiful mummy!” – even if said little guy has spent much of the night with his bony elbows wedged between a couple of your ribs, periodically grumbling “make some room for me!” in a bid to expand his substantial territory further into your side of the bed.

Sweet, sweet corn: golden kernels of awesome

So the first cob of corn was finally ready on the weekend!

We’d been anxiously monitoring it, and by Saturday morning it was looking good to go. Decs wrenched it from my hands as soon as I picked it, tearing away the husk and opening wide, ready to eat it up then and there. I managed to persuade him to wait until dinner on the promise that the first cob was all his. The things we do for love… though the second cob will be mine, all mine!

Down on the (worm) farm

Don’t you just love an extra Sunday?

The long weekend couldn’t have come at a better time – it’s been a crazy week here! Starting out my copywriting business, I always expected it to be feast or famine. But so far, it’s been (happily) almost exclusively feast – the kind where there’s so much on your plate that you need a good lie down after tackling it.

Cousin love, road trips, and back to the patch

So how was your weekend?

We had a great one – we headed down to Canberra to stock up on some family time. Conveniently, both my mum and brother live down there, and it’s an easy (well, usually…) three-hour road trip. And with beautiful little Benjamin – first child for my brother and his lovely wife, Amanda – born last September, our journeys to the nation’s capital have been more frequent than ever.

In pursuit of a calmer, more connected life

Why, hello there!

Welcome to seeding the wild: a blog all about feeding and sharing in the wonder of little imaginations, and living (or at least, trying to live) a life less frantic.