Saturday 24 December 2011
Monday 19 December 2011
Wish it was this easy sometimes
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
Saturday 17 December 2011
Grateful for all those cakes
I have nearly finished my first ever Christmas cake! I just need to buy some ribbon to tie around it and it is done. It was a long process...cutting up fruit, soaking and stirring fruit, baking, feeding the cake with rum...feeding it with MORE rum...and EVEN MORE rum! Then there was the icing part. Lots of fun was had and I'm feeling particularly grateful now for all the Christmas cakes my dear Nana used to make every year for all the families in our big family.
Now I know what she went through (one for her and one for each of her three daughter's families) - WOW! A massive (and expensive) task for a lady of 80. Bless you Nana, you were a wonderful lady, for more reasons than lots of great cake.
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Sunday 11 December 2011
Wednesday 7 December 2011
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Sunday 4 December 2011
I'm grateful for feeling golden...
She was wearing her pjs, runners, cardi and hat. We headed into the garden, her hand in mine, tiny feet taking tiny stumbly steps - oh wow, steps by themselves! She pointed and tried to say things - flowers, trees, sky, birdy, grass and fence. She wanted to head out the gate. I wanted to take her back in and dress her properly - what will people think of me, daughter out in public and still in pjs at midday? I decided to live in her moment with her & let her lead me outside. She waved at buses (bah bah), the drivers waving back. She waved at a truck (tark, tark). The driver waved back, beaming!
We picked tiny flowers and put them in her pockets. We watched a dragonfly on a tree and her eyes lit up. The look on her face when she recognises something outside that she has seen in a book is just magical. I love watching this little person that WE created, exploring and seeing her world open up in front of her. Blissful and golden. Yes, 16 months is certainly feeling golden!
I am feeling so very grateful for feeling golden. December last year, I was a month away from seeking help for Post-natal Depression, so possibly at my worst. I felt as though I would never enjoy life again. Hip-hip-hooray for that not being the case! Today I'm linking up with Maxabella loves...I'm grateful for...
I am feeling so very grateful for feeling golden. December last year, I was a month away from seeking help for Post-natal Depression, so possibly at my worst. I felt as though I would never enjoy life again. Hip-hip-hooray for that not being the case! Today I'm linking up with Maxabella loves...I'm grateful for...
Bean's treasures from her first nature walk |
Saturday 3 December 2011
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Boo-boos galore
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams
Sunday 27 November 2011
Friday 25 November 2011
Troubles
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
- Mark Twain
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Tuesday 15 November 2011
Friendship
I think C and I can really make each other feel good because we can overlook the things that other people judge us on.
- a best friend about us, 15 years ago, such a gem and still a best friend!
Monday 14 November 2011
Saturday 12 November 2011
Exploring
Friday 11 November 2011
Saturday 5 November 2011
Hope
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
- Dalai Lama
Friday 4 November 2011
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Thursday 27 October 2011
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Anatomy
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
- Ray Charles
Thursday 13 October 2011
Don't worry
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
- Chinese Proverb
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Monday 10 October 2011
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Monday 3 October 2011
Wednesday 28 September 2011
Sunday 25 September 2011
Sending love to a very dear new family
Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
- Gloria SteinemFriday 23 September 2011
Thursday 22 September 2011
Bizarre and beautiful
She is so cute I want to rip my head off and throw it at the wall.
- a lovely friend of ours, talking about my daughter
Wednesday 21 September 2011
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