Summary Sunday!

It's been a while since I've taken the time to stop and think about what I have to be thankful for this past week - I randomly do of course but to really think and look back on my week in a positive light is what is needed today!

A few close encounters of the non-patient/non-tolerant and inappropriate kind this week from myself - something to keep in check this next week going forward. It's all about lifes' lesson's isn't it???

In no particular order:

I am grateful for my beloved camera. This is like another child to me and I take it just about anywhere... I'm such a lucky girl ... a good camera enables you to take lots of lovely pics... and the wonder of digital photography allows you to take 563 thousand photos before you get one decent one.. without running up exorbitant processing bills.

Finally my very OWN photo of a dandelion on my Blog!



I am thankful that I have my health,  a roof over my head, clothes on my back and people who love me surrounding me. So many others less fortunate than ourselves out there. I  really am blessed. I have a LOT to smile about.

It made my heart melt when my 2 babies were sick together this week ~ they gave each other "huggles" and shared blankets, tissues and water bottles. I love that they are still so full of love even with high temps and sore tummies. I love that they can still smile - even when feeling really rotten.

I am thankful for some sunshine after all the rain and grey-ness we've had lately - great for a day trip out to a park with bubbles and Ice-cream ! The kids had their first ever ( soft serve) "Mr Whippy" van ice cream... I think the photos speak for themselves!

I was thinking this week how very lucky I am to have a bit of an artistic "eye" - and how that allows me to be a bit creative and to do things on a budget ( which pleases the Big Cheese ) . I found a gorgeous little magnet that had "Welcome - family faith & friends" on it - and knew straight away what I wanted to do with it. Found the perfect frame ( which coincidentally matches my little clock) and voila! another piece to add to my vignette on the foyer/entrance dresser/bookcase/junk storage thingy!

This week had some trying moment but also some wonderful laughs and conversations with people very dear to me. I am very blessed with the friends in my life.I love that they "get" me and know what makes me tick ... and what gives me the giggles.... I love that a quick phone conversation can put so many things back into perspective when feeling a little lost ( for example a text message from a very dear ( and very loopy) friend of mine asking me if I'd ever noticed that the cartoon character Miffy's Mum had a moustache.. and if I had noticed.... was I as concerned about this issue as she was?And did I want to join the crusade in saving Miffy's Mum from looking just like her Dad, but with a pearl necklace????? ) ( please remember that I DID preface the description of this friend as loopy!!! But oh how I love her loopy-ness!)

I wish that I could take away my friend's pain and sorrow sometimes and replace it with rainbows and happiness. I hate feeling helpless when friends are struggling with difficult times.I have learnt ( finally ) not to take other's issues on board, but I still hurt when they hurt and want to make it all go away for them. I wish I knew the right things to say.  I can't take it all away - but I'll Close my eyes, make a wish and blow.



Love

Danni xx

P.S: It's just a little after midnight Sunday.... I think this can still count as Summary Sunday! The Photos took too long to ... oh well doesn't matter! Talk soon xx



Summary Sunday

My beautiful 4.5 yr old niece made me laugh and smile so so much! Finn asked her if she would marry him - she very seriously replied that cousins can't marry - and that she is already going to marry someone else from kindy because she loves him... ( let's call him Jake). So I asked her about Jake.. her reply: " Oh.. I am obsessed with Jake, Danni. I love him and he loves me and we're going to get married. He is soooo kind. He is sooo caring ... and I just ... LOVE him " - all said with her head on the side and a gooey love struck look on her face. Priceless... absolutely priceless. Thank you darling girl for reminding me of the innocence and purity of children.

Tidying up after the kids, it made me smile ( and laugh)

to find that Shrek had commandeered Barbie's

car to run away with a ballet dancer

I makes me smile that Ruby would much prefer to sit on her brothers

lounge each morning with him than on her own

I loved that Ruby wanted our neighbour to come and watch her dancing concert- he's 6 months older than her and she just loves him. I love it even more that he did come and watch and said she was a good dancer!

(This photo makes me smile too)

An old photo but probably the most recent of us together

I am grateful for the Big Cheese. He has been travelling a lot for work these last couple of weeks and he came home one night with a book for me that he saw at the airport. The Big Cheese is not a reader, but I love that he encourages my hobby and he remembers which authors I like . He used to surprise me quite often with a book. He hadn't done it for a long time. It made me smile.

Finishing a batch of "Toy Story" cookies for a friends little one's 1st Birthday

made me very happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the fact that there were only a couple of casualties

when Finn knocked one of the 2 trays on the floor

made me happy too

( although not so at the time!)

I love that although my day started with this:

It ended with the tiling being started - who couldn't be happy about that?

I have a lot to be thankful this week, hope you did too

Danni xx

Summary Sunday

I need to be more mindful of  a lot of things

but especially patience and self control ~

they weren't strengths this week - at all.

However....

Flowers from Finn made me smile and melted my heart

Finn telling me there was a " Big leg Daddy" behind the chase made me laugh!

A "besh you mummy" from Ruby when you have a head cold, can't help but make you feel better

I love that Finn's preschool is teaching Environmental Health this week - and that the message is getting through. I was putting old cards out for recycling and Finn picked them up and said : " I got a good idea Mum... let's make a "cycling" picture out of these" 

It made me grateful in the powers of the universe that I happened to bump into one of

 my dearest friends at a tile shop in a suburb neither of us live in nor frequent very often ~ nor did either of us know we would be there! Made my day!

Thankful for the fresh air and sunshine to dry all my washing!!!!

Loving the little things - like watching your kids play Mummy's

and Daddy's together!


Tell me about your highs this week... I'd love to hear them

Danni xx