Materfamilias Writes

Five Feathering-the-Nest Things Friday

Five Feathering-the-Nest Things Friday

I’m gratified to see that there’s some interest in the post I’ve promised to write about this grandmother’s developing relationship with her family, and the commonalities I’ve been interested and relieved to find, on chatting…

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Home and Away and Why I Travel: Guess What?

Home and Away and Why I Travel: Guess What?

Want to play a guessing game? I’m easing gradually off my couch, away from the box of kleenexes and the packet of cough drops, moving slowly into the year. Some stock-taking is in order (I…

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Christmas Week Reflections

Christmas Week Reflections

Except for Boxing Day, which we had gloriously and entirely to ourselves, at home all day watching the snow, we’ve been enjoying lovely family time, relieved and satisfied at how well our new, smaller space…

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Here and There, Then and Now, A Christmas Link. . .

Here and There, Then and Now, A Christmas Link. . .

Just a quick Word-less Wednesday post. If you’ve been following my Advent Calendar postings on Instagram — a daily photo of festive shop windows collected on our recent travels —  you might remember that I…

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Other Places, Here. . . . Travel and Home, Paris in my mind’s eye. . .

Other Places, Here. . . . Travel and Home, Paris in my mind’s eye. . .

We have been plunged so completely and wonderfully and satisfyingly and exhaustingly back into family life in our new home that I’ve scarcely had a moment to think about my ten weeks away. Yet as…

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