Sunday

I had a lovely day yesterday with some women - family and friends celebrating birth, and motherhood.  Each day I come closer to giving birth for the third time - a blessing I am looking forward to!

And it was good to be reminded of this clip, this morning.  I want the next little while, home, routines, children, to be to be intentionally focused on gratitude...

today is special

...because I celebrate 10 years of marriage to my best friend.  :)  I am grateful for him and the memories,experiences and dreams we share.

  

  

  

  

interests

i don't so much have "spare" time, but i do have lots of things i like doing when the odd 15 minutes or so presents itself. at the moment i am enjoying a couple of stitcheries. they are actually parts of different tote bags etc. one day when i get around to buying fabric and making the bags, i'll have the stitchery panels ready!

i have also made 31 December 2009 my goal by which to have the cross stitch blanket i started when N was a baby finished. now it will be for A, but that's ok as it is probably easier to make it girly than to make it boyish. i don't know how my eyes will fare though. cross stitch isn't kind to eyes.

and what is on my bedside shelf? my current reading is as follows: Gilead on public transport and at lunch while i'm at work. a gorgeous story written in the form of a letter by a dying man to his son. i'm keen to get it read, as there is another book by the same author i have my eye on. Ragamuffin Gospel ~ i try and read a couple of pages before bed. i'm enjoying the refreshing it is bringing to a basic Christian message. i also delve into The River when i feel like it. you can't talk to people working on the land and not be struck by the ways (good and bad) we have impacted the land around us. finally, The Red Tent hasn't been picked up in a while. although it was raved about, and the story is ok, i think i was expecting more...

speaking of books, First Tuesday Bookclub is now back. this week they discussed Grapes of Wrath. one of those American classics i have picked up a number of times and mentally shelved it on my "must read before i die" list... another of them is Farewell to Arms.

my blessings:

~ my kids (always)

~ the friendship i find in my husband, and a bit of time together last weekend

~ a new egg basket, brought back all the way from Fiji

life this week

a couple of extra books have sneaked onto my list of reading... i think that will always be the way! after Paula, I started The Red Tent, a fictional story based on the biblical story of Dinah, Jacob's daughter. a message on the telephone let me know a book i ordered a few weeks ago is in. it is called At Home in Mitford. it is the first book in a series that a colleague once told me about. she thought i'd like them. many of the books i read are a bit heavy on the "literary" side. i'm not into "chick-lit" at all (this book isn't chick-lit), but i felt like something a bit lighter than the stuff i normally read. i'll see how it goes...

speaking of critiquing books, my sister bought Ali Edwards book on 'mini-books'. one of the examples in it is scrapbooking favourite books, with quotes and reviews etc. another project to add to the list!!

this weekend we are putting up the Christmas Tree. N told me he will be "so pleased" when we decorate it. i don't know where he gets it from!! at the moment i am madly trying to finish A's Christmas stocking.

and A now has hair long enough for a ponytail! trying to get a photograph of N's bandaged hand (dog bite...) but he fancy's himself a photographer too...
my blessings:~

* always my children

* evaporated air cooler!!

* Pilate's aches and pains (it must mean something is working!)