Lighting up the night sky

I am grateful that I feel much more like myself these days - my spark is returning! I am thankful for the loving people in my life who have each in big and little ways made this process a lot quicker than I had ever imagined possible. I am also thankful for Christmas lights and those precious people who decorate their houses...yes I love you...you who embrace the Spirit of Christmas. May your sack be full this year LOL

Vaccines!

Over the past few weeks, in preparation for our move to Thailand, our family has had a LOT of injections. My little one-year-old had seven in one go and then another two in the following couple of weeks with two still to go.

The other children have had lots too as well as my husband and I.

I am grateful that even though this has been one of the more traumatic experiences pre-travel, it has been made easier by having caring family members like my father-in-law and mother come with me to the Royal Children's Hospital to help out with the children on these days. It's a big trip in to the city and a pretty stressful situation so I am so glad to have not had to go it alone. I am also grateful for the clever people who create these vaccines and make them available to us to help make traveling to a foreign country with children a little less worrisome.

Seeing Clearly Grat

A couple of weeks ago I had laser eye surgery done on my eyes. It's an amazing procedure that's for sure. I'd heard the testimonies of many others who had had it done but until experiencing it first hand, I couldn't fully understand.

I am grateful to be able to watch my children's swimming lessons without my glasses fogging up.

I am grateful to not have to wear glasses while driving.

I am grateful to be able to wear ANY sunglasses that I want- not just prescription.

I am grateful that one of my eyes has above 20/20 vision (the other eye has been slower to reach its full potential)

I am grateful that I can see my children across the room when they want to hold up what they're doing and show me something...

AMAZING STUFF!

Snow flake

It was 39 degrees yesterday and we finally have air con...need I say more?!

Moooove over...here come my grats!

So many grats...so little time!!!

Where to start? Hmmm Grateful for my amazing group of playgroup mums who I have come to love and tresure over the past year especially. We all spent the day at Myuna Farm for our breakup and it was absolutely FANTASTIC!!

For the act that my eldest daughter has shown a dramatic increase in confidence in the past 48 hours and although a bit annoying that she is now wandering off without me (!) lovely to see her self confidence growing. Today she rode a pony without any involvement from me and didn't even look to see if I was watching - too involved in enjoying herself!

For the successful delivery of my handmade christmas presents...everyone seemed to really appreciate the extra effort which always makes me feel warm and fuzzy and makes the sleep deprived headache well worth it.

And finally I am grateful for a number of things in our business which are falling into place as we tie up the first 12 months of our business. What an incredible journey this year has been and how exciting next year looks. I am truly thankful that we will launch into next year with such focus, direction and gusto!

Mel xxoo

Thanksgiving in USA

A few weeks ago Ash and I joined an American family for a Thanksgiving celebration!

It was FANTASTIC! We met some very interesting people ate, had a drive in a Chevy 55 and ate, played card games and ate met a Swedish girl, a native American and a plastic surgeon and ate and ate......

We had the biggest turkey I have ever seen in my life and drank a peculiar drink called glogg!

We all gave thanks for the blessing of the native Americans and the help they provided to the pilgrims in their hour of need and to God for everything that he has blessed us with!

It was a truly amazing time!

Dancing the night away

On Friday night I had such a lovely surprise. My thoughtful husband took me out Salsa Dancing!!! We have been saying for nearly 10 years know, how we would love to take some lessons...well finally we have had our first Salsa experience!!! The way they did it was really clever, they split us into 3 groups...those who have never Salsa danced before (us) those who don't know much and those who know a lot! Then they taught us our first dance ... Eeeeek!!!! It was realllly fun, with about 200 people all dancing at the same time! After our dance lesson they put on some great music and it was free dance .... what a blast it was! It was so cool actually being able to dance what we had been taught!Plus it was really affordable and just such a great night hanging out together. Now I am really excited because we are planning on going to the Salsa Ball for some more fun! Yay...I am grateful for a fantastic night of dancing and hysterical laughter... just some of the things great memories are made of! (Mel)