This was a bittersweet moment. The other half of Gardenware, Esther had her last day in the office. She had been at Gardenware for four years. She arrived with three gorgeous bunches of flowers for me – sad to see Esther go but happy to see her starting a new exciting life adventure.

My boy will be starting high school! His class had a graduation dinner at a local hotel. Being a small country school, there were seven of them graduating. Most of these kids have been together since Prep and it felt like a family celebration.

I used to live by the ocean – not any more. Always is a happy time when I get the chance to spend a weekend by the ocean. The early morning coast walks are a fantastic way to start the day.

Carrots from the kid’s school veggie garden. There was a carrot growing competition between the classes,. Categories were: most biggest, most longest and most ugliest. Each kids got to take a bag of carrots home to munch on – yum-yum.

Heart shaped pizza for lunch! My girl and I made the pizza dough and I couldn’t quite roll it out like a circle – more like a heart. We decided to bake it like this. Happiness is home made delicious pizza.

Candy stripe petunias. I haven’t seen these for a while – such cheerful little flowers.

My littlest one planted dwarf sunflower seeds in the patch. Her excitement when they bloomed was happy moment for me – especially because she had sown the seeds too closely together and forgot to water them a few times…wasn’t sure if they were going to make it!

Gentle Rain….hearing rain on our roof, smelling that freshness, feeling raindrops on our skin, seeing the land perk right up …December brought rain and for that we were all very happy.