Can you believe that it's been a year since we left Australia for our European adventure. I can't! So much has happened in the past year it's truly incredible. A close friend made a comment about how these things have helped keep us close to God. That is so true.

The next part of the journey is for us to find a new home. The owners of our current place are wanting to move back in after abruptly leaving Kenya, and all the strife going on in that country, so we will be looking for a new home. The timing is curious to us as we had just started doing the research to buy a property and seeing if this was a possibility for our situation. There seems to be quite a lot of advantages to owning something if we were planning on hanging around longer. Well, this move has added another benefit to our list of advantages of buying! Nothing is conclusive yet, accept the fact that we will move again within the next 2 months.

Winter is quite a tough time of the year and I've been relating so much more to the 'winterblues' and burnout messages coming in the homeschooling e-newsletters that I receive ~ living in the northern hemisphere means I'm now in sinc seasonally with the American mags and newsletters. Just got to keep remembering that climate can and does have a huge impart on how we interact with our world. So with very short days and wet weather, where you only see the ocasional sun, a hibernation state of mind sets in. Which might be fine if there wasn't such an abundance of food around! And you know the sort of food I'm talking about too, don't you?!

xxx