My Home

I am grateful for our home.

I love playing with the baby guinea pigs, jumping on the tramp, picking vegies from the garden, cooking in the kitchen, making endless hot drinks, watching movies on our soft couch with the double ottaman, the baby birds wandering around our backyard, the rabbits which hop around on our front lawn at night. I love watching our plants growing and lazing on our leather couches. I love that our back door opens as wide as I want it to and that I can block off the different parts of my deck with the cafe blinds. There are just so many things I love about our house...I am so grateful to have a home as so many people in the world will never have that luxury and so I want to be especially grateful for it.

To nap or not to nap...

My grat is for a change in schedule...you see my 3 year old had started waking up extremely grumpy from her day time nap and was finding it really hard to get to sleep before 8:30pmish.

Since there is a lot of crying and whinging in our house between the hours of 3pm and 5pm ...adding 2 children just waking from naps in, well it was getting unbearable!

SO my change in schedule has been putting my 1 year old to bed by 11am. This has worked so well since I started... I have an hour and a half to do a special activity with my eldest then a chance to do a quiet job (e.g sewing or paperwork) while she plays quietly next to me with her playdough, or jewels etc. She goes down for a rest (not a sleep) by 12:30pm and then I have about half an hour to tidy up make some lunch before the little one wakes. Then I get about an hour with her where I can give her as many cuddles as she needs after waking up, before my toddler is up again and raring to go. O.k so yes it makes for a long afternoon however at least they are somewhat refreshed and not both crying for my attention. Actually this new schedule has even seen them playing happily with each other for short periods of time!

So my grat is for this change of schedule...like anything it will work for a time and then I'll need to reevaluate again, but for now I am just thankful it is making life more peaceful and harmonious! Plus the extra grat for the things I have managed to accomplish in that time alone with just my 3 year old.

The smell of roses!

This is a photo of one of the beautiful roses outside my in-law's house (where we are living at the moment). There is a row of about ten rose bushes of all different colours.

For the past couple of weeks I have had a cough/cold thing and I've had no sense of smell but my grat today is for the delightful aroma I was able to enjoy last night as I stepped out the front door. It was incredible. Each rose has a different scent and put together was the most amazing combination.

I must admit, I haven't minded having no smell during the times of changing dirty nappies LOL but it was so refreshing to be able to enjoy "smelling" once again!

A few....

Been awhile but..

I'm grateful for finishing classes for my first year of Masters, its gone faster than anything!

Also grateful for the support of my partners mum in a few wedding organisation things - she is being quite supportive and being really great about not putting too much of her own 'stuff' into things.

Grateful for Christian and his kind heart! He knew I was having a really rough day so he went out of his way to completely clean and sort my study (which has gone into increasing disarray as paperwork and wedding related stuff piled up) and also cooked me dinner and sat down for a chat when I got home - just felt so kind and comforting to know he would put in all that effort just to cheer me up and make things feel nicer for me to come home to.

Finally, I am grateful for the sunshine and warmth of spring - I feel like sometimes I am able to actually draw the warmth of the sun into my body and I just love it!

Flowers and friendship

A kind word

A knowing smile

The smell of the flowers bought to brighten my day

A soft hug

Dinner cooked

A walk in the park, all my cares far away

My shiny floors

A cosy sleep in

The warmth of the sun on my shoulders today

Friends who care

Family who love

Humble gratitude... is all that's left to say.

Melxx

So very grateful!

I am so thankful for this little boy. My youngest son just turned one this week. A year ago I was just meeting him for the first time and now it feels like he's been with us for ever. I am so grateful for the sense of "fun" my son brings to our family, for his funny ways and loads of giggles. I am so glad he made his way in to my life and 'completed' our family. He is a wonderful little treasure that brings me so much joy ahhhhh.....

soothing lullaby

I am grateful for a soothing song by Nickle Creek. It's very beautiful and it makes me feel like I sitting by a trickling riverbed. I have particularly appreciated this tonight as my computer has really played up and made about double the work of what it should have been! It has really helped to keep me calm (sigh) and for this I am extremely grateful.

Mel