Place: At my mums
Poison: Homemade Bannana Muffins
Favourite Things: My husband setting up our cot!
Whilst surfing pinterest I found the following new tradition of asking children to each fill in a form like this and creating a family book but more importantly I found a kindred spirit.
Check out this blog www.thirtyhandmadedays.com
Brilliant
Enjoy
A
Place: on my couch
Poison: water
Favorite things: daytime tv
I am not bed bound very often, so daytime television is not high on my list of priorities…
I have become a daytime television junkie and it’s not something I want to continue.
I had my iPad with books sitting on my bedside table and a great new book sitting next to me, but neither got touched or even picked up.
I became a channel surfer, channel flicker, a women’s daytime television groupie.
The doctors show, the view, the circle, the morning show, dr Phil…the opportunities are endless.
Yet I somehow feel a little ripped off. A lot of pointless information, random new stories and gossip has filled my current landscape and I’m not sure I like it.
As I cruise into motherhood, spending hours watching mindless daytime tv is not a pattern I want to grow into. I want to read, write, relax and grow.
Daytime tv might not be your muse, it might be mindless surfing of YouTube or it might be an hourly fix on Facebook. Which aren’t bad in themselves, it’s just your dependency on them and the balance that they are weighed by more substantial technological brain stimulants…
I am going to have to fight the couch when Baby V arrives and find myself a routine that keeps my brain fresh and active.
But for now I can boss my husband around a little with the sympathy rating high and kick back taking it easy.
Deal or no deal?
Yes please
A
Place: bed
Poison: water
Favorite things: my husband
I’ve had a pretty rough couple of days with a kidney infection that ended up with me in hospital.
I’m trying really hard to rest up, ready to finish my last couple of weeks of work well. So with my IV drip in, fasting from food for some tests, many projectile vomits landing on my husband last night…I have a whole new level of respect for my husband and understanding of what it truly means to rest.
Rest is unpopular and so often underrated in my life, but when you don’t get a choice it forces you to heed its warning.
Deep breath in, kicking back and taking it easy.
Baby V, you are so worth it…
A
Place: home
Poison: Flat White
Favorite Things: discovering new things…
With the exploration of names for our new little one, my husband Charl has been doing research into the history of our last name Viviers. We have found an amazing French heritage to our ancestors names and links back to a little town in Southern France called Viviers.
The history of Charl’s family and how they shifted from France to South Africa is steeped in amazing and interesting stories and conflict between people regarding their faith and the application of it in their everyday.
The Viviers shifted to France, because there was major rift in their town that resulted in bloodshed between the Catholics and the Protestants in the town.
It is amazing to me, how much our ancestors endured to stand up for what they believed in. There is so much that your ancestors endured for the freedom that you and I enjoy daily.
With our western shaped reality, I think we forget what it was like to have to live by candlelight, to worry about disease especially infant disease with no doctor present in our town, to know what it’s like to trust our water is safe and healthy…there is so much more that we take for granted; like our cars, like our education, what about the Internet, phones…
Let alone the opportunity we have to express our beliefs, views and values without any concern that we will be beheaded for them…
When you think about your today, why not give thanks for those who set you up for freedom from your yesterday.
When you find today tough, research the everyday of your ancestors 1000 years ago, perspective will knock you around a bit…
Heritage is an amazing insight.
Research yours…
A
Place: church
Poison: water
Favourite things: reflection within church services…
Opportunity is awaiting. How often do we say no to a new opportunity because we are scared and we are unwilling to take the risk.
As I walk into my last few weeks of work for a while I am more aware than ever that when a door closes, a season changes, emotions rise and somehow we begin to think the change of a season means a change to potential and opportunity.
The crazy thing is, I know from every significant life change I have experienced in my life, closed doors and endings always preceded amazing beginnings and new opportunities.
They don’t come in the packages though we always expect!
What endings are occurring in your world?
What beginnings are awakening?
Are you taking the time to recognize and create a landscape for decision to embrace them?
There is a season for everything under the sun.
Embrace the new.
Be courageous and say goodbye to the old.
I am trying to embrace this new season well?
How about you?
A
