Category: Taking Stock

Making: Little Baby Girl Bloomers out of old embroidered tablecloths.

Cooking: In my slow cooker, my favourite this week was Lamb, spinach and mushroom brown rice and quinoa. Yum!

Drinking: Water, a coffee a day and all kinds of tea.

Reading: The fault in our stars by John Green. I am still reeling from the movie.

Wanting: Some Hubble and Duke moccasins and a new candle.

Looking: for any sign of Labour. Anything.

Playing: With Lego, my son has just discovered its brilliance.

Wasting: wool on little things, trying to stay busy while I wait.

Sewing: Baby Rompers. I have seen a few I like and am going to have a try for some outfits for Summer.

Wishing: My sister would come home. Her being in Amsterdam last week is too close to home for my liking after the MH17 tragedy.

Enjoying: Chicago Fire, a new TV series to help me bide my time and the new album from hill song.

Waiting: The obvious. 39 weeks.

Liking: being online less. I have made a big effort to not have my phone in bed and to do more with my hands so that I am not flicking around social media all the time.

Wondering: What is going to happen in the world at the moment with all the imminent war and conflict.

Loving: Velvet Acorn. I cannot get enough of her patterns at the moment.

Hoping: For miracles.

Needing: More inspiration to keep on going with my current book.

Smelling: New Perfume from my beau.

Wearing: My maternity clothes waiting desperately to throw them away!

Following: The free woman.

Noticing: That there is always an invincible summer in the midst of winter. Sunsets, walks on the beach, they are all a choice no matter the weather.

Knowing: That God is faithful.

Thinking: A lot about giving birth and know many women have done it before me, but it still freaks me out.

Feeling: a little scared actually, lots of tragedy around me and trying to stay brave in the face of adversity.

Bookmarking: Pinterest is a lot of fun at the moment.

Opening: Presents from friends who are visiting excited about our little girl.

Giggling: Not much, maybe that needs to change.

 

 

 

 

(I found this Taking Stock idea first from Em here)

Somedays all it takes is a little bit of time to celebrate the ordinary to feel perspective shift.

Making: 30 second orange cake with my Mums new Thermomix. I just added chocolate icing to make it Jaffa Cake.

Cooking: Soups like nobody’s business. My favourite last week was a Tomato minestrone

Drinking: Sleepy Time Tea, hoping to get lots of zzzzz’s before miss V comes to town.

Reading: I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou. So inspired!

Wanting: to slow life down and speed it up all at the same time. Slow down how fast Max is growing, speed up the pending arrival of Miss V.

Looking: At all the sales on airfares at the moment and so sad that I am grounded.

Playing: Tetris in our tiny shack trying to fit in everything we need for the new baby.

Wasting: water; showers are a 8 month pregnant Mummy’s poison.

Sewing: My nephews School Jacket, after a particularly rough game of football.

Wishing: My sister an amazing trip around the world that she is just about to embark upon.

Enjoying: Chocolate, a little too much. Fundraising chocolates are a pregnant Mumma’s worst nightmare.

Waiting: To hear back from a magazine that I have been asked to write for.

Liking: The winter sun coupled with the beach. (this time of the year is actually the best where I live.)

Wondering: Why God made monkeys with bright blue bottoms.

Loving: The network I started with two great friends Kinwomen, it is so exciting to see little things unfold.

Hoping: That the SPARC conference goes amazing this year, I can’t believe I’m missing out!

Needing: One more letter for my Yestember ‘Dear single self’ series. I have 29! yes.

Smelling: Green Thai Curry that is in my slow cooker as I write.

Wearing: A hoodie from Sevenly.

Following: The This Matters Project; a film competition in my city, which I think is brilliant.

Noticing: The larger the internet grows, the more narcissism is rife.

Knowing: That I was changed by the movie ‘The Fault with our stars’ and now how do I live it…

Thinking: About the new series and the 6 contributors who will be writing each week in the month of August for this website.

Feeling: So grateful for all the little events I have been a part of over the last couple of months and the new people I have met.

Bookmarking: Not much at the moment, I have been really focussed on keeping this little site pumping.

Opening: Cadbury’s Marvellous creations.

Giggling: This video has had me cracking up over and over. When you are dying your hair, get it on!

http://youtu.be/B2PBNVw97w8

(I found this Taking Stock idea first from Em here)

Somedays all it takes is a little bit of time to celebrate the ordinary to feel perspective shift.

 

 

Making: Beanie’s like a mad woman, for Create an event that I am speaking at in a couple of weeks.

Cooking: with my slow cooker. Autumn, pregnancy and a toddler is fuelling my current obsession.

Drinking: Coconut Water. I am slightly obsessed with this one: Coconut Essence

Reading: The time keeper. A mothers day present from my God daughter; it is brilliant.

Wanting: to replace my lost LAMY pen. I feel stuck without it.

Looking: through old photos and found the boats above, that I took in a little bay in Hua Hin, south of Bangkok and wanting to go back there.

Playing: with buttons, lace and material for my soon to be born miss v.

Wasting: time

Sewing: lace and love on crocheted goods.

Wishing: I had more time to catch up with my closest friends for coffee and just chat.

Enjoying: that Offspring is back on Tv.

Waiting: for the obvious. 60 something days till miss v comes to town.

Liking: that my herbs are growing ferociously with the autumn rains.

Wondering: why women compare and compete so much and why de-friending on facebook is a thing?

Loving: My husband and how hard he works for our family.

Hoping: for friends to have babies and sisters to find love.

Marvelling: at the massive growth spurt my Maximus is having at the moment.

Needing: to organise myself more before we have a newborn in the house.

Smelling: Black Coconut Candles by Yankee Candles. Be still my smelling heart…

Wearing: A knitted scarf, white, chunky and homey.

Following: Baby Boy Bakery. I think my heart may just fall apart if I think too much more about her story at the moment. (Instagram explains what has happened @babyboybakery)

Noticing: How important it is to keep conversations open, even when I don’t want to.

Knowing: That God loves me and is desperate to meet with me each and everyday.

Thinking: About my next book and why it is taking so long for me to find the words necessary.

Feeling: a little better, post a crazy flu and a mental hip flare up.

Bookmarking: videos about russian nesting dolls. Im kinda obsessed for a message I’m preparing

Opening: Letters from my new pen pal from Post Mark Society.

Giggling: At my sons new word for Orange. It is ‘Oh- shit.’ Yep. He didn’t learn it from me. I promise.

(I found this idea first from Em here and it was originally from here.)

Taking stock of the little moments that are in your world and suddenly everything will feel a little brighter.

Amanda