Friday, January 28, 2011

What's important in life?

Well I can tell you without even having to think about it, its family and friends.  Its not how big your house is or how new your car is but it is the people in your life who enrich you and the way you interact with others that truly matters.
It is laying your head on your pillow at night knowing that you have done all you can to make your home a happy one, knowing that your children are well adjusted happy little people who can be kids in the way they were intended to be, running around with their friends, playing in the dirt finding dinosaur fossils, climbing trees, swimming at the local pool and playing in a mud hole at the back of the garden that you made for them with the hose.

It is about what you fill your precious days with, gardening, coffee with friends, walking through the orchard that you made with your own two hands and squashing the caterpillars that somehow found the only sweet potato plant in the district that you happen to own (I would so love to know how they can do that!)

Some of the brightest moments in my life are when I realise that those dearest to me are thinking of me, whether it be a phone call just to chat, a card in the mail, one of my little ones saying "I love you mama", or the look that my husband of 11 years has when he sees me as he walks through the door after a day at work, these are the things that make life important and meaningful for without these things what would life be?
Just this week a friend of mine gave me a bracelet that was made to 'combat stress' because I had told her that there was something happening in my life that I found stressful so she presented me with a beautiful bracelet to help ease my turmoil, what a beautiful thing to do for someone.
I feel very passionate about the fact that life is way to short and thus we need to fill it with beautiful moments with people who matter most to us and strive to make beautiful moments for those that are dear to us to make their journey through this world a nicer one.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Here we go!

Well here I go with my first blogg, I have been thinking about doing this for a long time and never up until now had the courage to actually see my thoughts in print, I have had many diaries that can be hidden under the bed but with a blogg it has always made me feel a little uneasy  possibly due to the fact that others may see my ramblings and maybe also a little indulgent in some way but what the heck here we go....

So what do I want from my blogg? well I guess it is a space to put on page the craziness that is in my head, the rantings and ravings, ideas and thoughts on everyday happenings and maybe even some verbal rays of sunshine that my little ones feed to me on a daily basis in between feeding time at the zoo and bed time stories.

I think it would be also a great tool to motivate me by maybe putting before and after photos on here of things that I want to imrpove on like rooms in my house and spaces that I need to de clutter and the desire to make this space perfect and pretty might be the drive I need to improve the corners of my world.