I love Christmas and I love cooking, it is a match made in heaven. I won’t be trying to make many new things this year, I am going to do some perfecting of recipes I have tried before and try for some simple bits on the side. Next year, I will go all out and try some new and more complicated things, Christmas has just snuck up on me this year… On Christmas day we will have Mr Cool’s side {Read More}

Last week my sister invited us over for our ‘last chance to get together before Christmas’ morning tea. It was lovely. I do love being with my mum and lovely sisters and I really love seeing all of the cousins playing together. My sister had bought a gingerbread house kit for the kids to decorate. It was such a lovely thing to do. With the help of an Oma and a Tante, the kids glued and assembled and licked and {Read More}

Peace. Hope. Joy. These are three words that are used a lot around Christmas time.  They encapsulate the Christmas story and also form a focus for the new year coming. But, they have always had a global kind of feeling for me. You know JOY for those imprisoned, orphaned or the lonely in far flung dry, dusty places. And PEACE for those in war torn provinces, families who scurry away from marauding lunatics and fear being blown up by land mines. {Read More}

Welcome to my new place!   Welcome to my first post from my new digs!   What do you think?   It has taken many hours to move my things across and I still haven’t finished! But, it is a work in progress – so stay tuned for more things being added and fiddled with over time.   Mwah, B

Hello all my lovely readers,bbeingcool is moving. Yep, I have packed up all the posts, blogs, pictures and .html and I am moving to my own domain.This process has not been straightforward and I have added A LOT of money to my swear jar. I have learned how to adjust coding, find hidden files and how to convert templates. These were not things I had ever thought I would be able to do!So, this will be my final bbeingcool.blogspot.com post. {Read More}

My Oma used to make ‘Cassata’ for Christmas when I was a child. I remember it being a big deal, but then having Christmas at Oma’s was a big deal. It meant a 10 hour drive and staying at grandparent’s or cousin’s houses. The days were spent visiting people, playing in lots of different back yards and kissing lots of prickly cheeks. They were halcyon days…  Anyway… back to cooking…. Cassata an Italian treat which is essentially ice-cream that has {Read More}

Christmas in 19 Words Food: turkey, rumballs & trifle. People: family, peeps & friends. Heartstrings: savouring togetherness. Remember: nativity & God’s love. Prayers: Peace, Hope & Joy. Okay, I am going for a triple bunger link-a-do thing here… Are you ready? Firstly… I love Christmas and am thankful for it. So I am linking with ‘Thankful Thursdays’ over at ‘Kate Says Stuff‘. Secondly, I am linking in with ‘5 sentence fiction‘ with ‘Lillie McFerrin Writes‘. I chose to write five {Read More}

15 years ago today, I married Mr Cool. Boy, does that make me feel O.L.D! I tell people that I was allowed to get married at 15… but this is a lie.When I think back to our wedding day, I have mixed emotions. Now, I know that probably sounds bad, but it was not the greatest time in my life. We married in December, but, in the May before our wedding, I contracted two blood borne viruses: Ross River Virus {Read More}

This year, I think my name might be showing up on a friend’s ‘Clean Out List’. I think it is coming to a time when she has moved on and will move in different circles and those circles may not include me. This year has been a SHOCKER – for both of us. Hers has been epic in the relationship side of life and mine has been epic in state of mind and a life throwing curve-balls kind of way. {Read More}