This post puts in one place the six ‘Corona Creatures’ that Tamie collected to create with our kids. While there has been a whole variety of processing activities we did with them (one, two, three, four), our eldest told a friend that the creature crafts have been the key to […]
Our boys enjoyed the original set of activities to help kids process loss during COVID-19 so much that even once they were completed they asked for a ‘corona activity’. Now that things have settled down a bit, we only do one or two a week. Here are the ‘extras’ we […]
Since we started on self-isolation, our family has been reading a Psalm each night over dinner (sort of – we’ve been on iso about 60 days, but we’re only up to Psalm 40!) Our kids have heard ancient Israel’s songs praising God and also ones crying out to God in […]
People have been asking us what life is like for us at the moment. As it happens, our boys wrote a letter to ‘the kids of the future’ to explain what it was like to live through the coronavirus and they have given us permission to share it here. It’s […]
We are entering our 6th week of self-isolation. Our children have a good basic understanding of the Coronavirus and why we are self-isolating but recently their behaviour has suggested they have some unresolved grief that needs to be processed. Some of the behaviours, like fighting with each other more might […]
8 years ago when I was studying biblical Hebrew, we read Psalm 46, famous for “Be still and know that I am God” but it was verse 2-3 that I remember so vividly: though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters […]
Once upon a time there was a little dragon called Elliot. He lived in a cave with his Mama Dragon, Dadda Dragon, and little brother Callum Dragon. Elliot was a golden dragon and Callum was a pink dragon. The family loved each other very much and most of the time […]
