by Anna Heydenrych | Jun 3, 2021 | Our story
If you have small children and a busy life, you probably long to find the time and money to create meaningful experiences for your family. While our children are little, we have the opportunity to fill their childhoods with stand out memories. Recollections of...
by Anna Heydenrych | Oct 27, 2020 | Our story
Here we are. We can be nowhere else but here and so we are busy discovering the value of here. Here are our boundaries, here are our restrictions, here are our disappointments and here isn’t going to be there until it’s not. And that seems like an...
by Anna Heydenrych | Aug 24, 2020 | Life lessons
I’ve known for a while that doing isn’t the thing. It’s not the thing that will transform my life. Yet, I can’t help doing. I am like Martha in the kitchen. Compassionately, Jesus said to her, “You are worried and upset about many...
by Anna Heydenrych | Apr 17, 2020 | Lock Down Journal
Every day between day 15 and day 21 (that I have not recorded here) has been filled with it’s ups and downs and the children have kept us busy. We enjoyed a happy Easter weekend together and then it was back to work and school on Tuesday. I no longer have to...
by Anna Heydenrych | Apr 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Here is something that I wrote a few weeks ago when the world was still normal. I didn’t share this post until now because shortly after I wrote it, everything changed. It changed for me and it changed for you and it changed the weight of my words. If you...
We want to live a slow life. A life of connection and simplicity. A life that allows us the space to assess what we really want to be spending our time and resources on. And so here we are, the Slow Down Family, working on slowing down more. We are figuring out how to apply this to all areas of our life, and how to do it while raising small children and pursing our dreams.
Follow our journey here as we share our experiences and tips on how to minimise and create space in our lives for the things that we really want to keep.