A warm welcome to our families daily blog. "Living The Good Life"

We are a family of four & I’m the luckiest girl I know! Married to my best friend for over 21 years, raising two wonderful children on our 3 acre farmlet in New Zealand.

I was a Bank Manager in previous life (before kids) and now a kept women - home schooling our two kids. Brent is a Service Projects Manager and brings home the bacon for the family.

We got "off the bus" ie away from continual comsumption & accumulation of material goods & find much joy in living a simple life.

I enjoy writing & sharing views on living a simple life, menu planning, living on one income in a two income world, home schooling, dyslexia, severe food allergies, raising coloured sheep, goats & hens, quilting, reading, cooking, gardening and of course cats.

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Raising Coloured Sheep

Raising Chickens

Breeding Cats

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Home Made with Love
Menu Planning
Food Allergies
Living on One Income
Quilting
Knitting
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_{Leanne's Recipes.}

_Breakfast

_{Heart Shaped fried eggs}

_Museli

_{Morning Tea}

_{Banana Sour Cream Cake}

_{Berry Slice}

_{Birthday Fudge}

_{Blueberry Muffins}

_{Boiled Fruit Cake}

_{Celery Herb Muffins}

_{Chocolate, Apricot & Coconut slice}

_{Chocolate Cake - fool proof}

_{Chocolate Cake - Allergy free}

_{Chocolate Chilli Cake}

_{Chocolate Zuchinni Cake}

_{Christmas Cake Day One & Day Two}

_{Feijoa Muffins}

_{Ginger Bread}

_{Ginger Gems}

_{Ham & Cheese Muffins}

_{Hot Cross Buns}

_{Lemon Muffins}

_{Radio Biscuits}

_Lunch

_{Bacon n egg pie}

_{Crayfish Mornay}

_Frittata

_{Ham Quiche}

_{Packed Lunches}

_{Sausage n egg pie}

_Breads

_{Basic White Bread}

_{Fruit Bread}

_{Soda Bread}

_Soups

Chicken Soup

_{Tomato Minestrone}

_Vegetable

_Dinner

_{Chicken Pie}

_{Chicken Pie (Allergy free)}

_Felafel

_{Moroccon Lamb}

_{Roast Lamb}

_{Stuffed Sausages}

_{Vegetarian Taco's}

_{Vegetables & salads}

_Coleslaw

_Rataoulle

_{Rock Melon Salsa}

_{Rosemary Potatoes}

_Puddings

_{Black Boy Peach Crumble}

_{Christmas Mince meat of Christmas Pies}

_{Pastry Pillows}

_Pavalova

_{Rhubarb & Strawberry Tart}

_Preserves

_{Apricot Jam}

_{Chicken Stock}

_{Dried Bananas}

_{Dried Tomatoes}

_{Feijoa ginger & lime Jam}

_{Ginger Beer BUG}

_{Ginger Beer - how to bottle}

_{Lemon Squash}

_{Make your own Dog Food}

_Olives

_{Pickled Onions}

_{Tomato Relish}

Critter Count

* Molly the Goat
* Rory the Roster
* Road Island Reds
* Frizzels
* Briar, Laura, Caro, Jasmine & Rosemary the Burmese Queens
* Cindy & Lordy the Mandalays
* Current Kitten count 7
* Mack the Mastiff
* Geraldine the Goose
* Roxy the Ringneck Parrot
* Doves
* Coloured Sheep
* Tadpoles Frogs

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Blogs & Webs I Enjoy Visiting

A satisfying Journey towards Simplicity

An Orchardist Quilting

Bean Sprouts

Belinda's Simple Life

Cottage Hill Herbs

Crazy Mom Quilts

Down to Earth

Earthmama

Eco Seeds

FIAR Boards

Ginny's Herbs

Grandmothers Garden

Homemaking Homestead

Hunkin Gardening Products

Incredible Edibles

Joyful Mother of 6

Koanga NZ

Little Bourne Farm

Little Jenny Wren

Mary Quilts

Moments of Whismy

Morning Ramble

My Tiny Plot

Nest with a View

New Age Hippy

Organic NZ

Our Prairie Home

Patchwork Times

Rabbits Nest

Rural Writings

Seven Stitches

Saving Money in New Zealand

Scattered Seed

Simple Things in Life

Stuff.co.nz

Susan Branch

Towards Sustainability

Movies Our Family has enjoyed

My books 2006-2008

My BLOG DNA

Meet Our Family

Brent working in his shed


Leanne, that is I


Mack the Mastiff

Caro with her litter,we always have a litter of kittens in our home!


Molly the Goat

Some of our Sheep & this years lambs; won’t tell you which are going in pot


Birds sure know where to get a free feed - Dove, chickens & mother duck with ducklings.

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