Monday

Time to catch up.

Out and about with the family! Firstly to the Apple Festival a couple of weeks ago.  It was nice to just be outside, somewhere different.  David and I sat in the shade and had coffee and dutch pancakes while the kids played. 

And this weekend ~ Easter.  Technically it is Maggie's second, but the first time that she is able to take part in the fun.  It soon became clear that all the focus was on her and I can see she is going to be loved (spoilt) very much as she grows up.  :)

Maggie is starting to understand stopping and (kind of) smiling for the camera.  :)

 

Sisters.  She loves her big "sissy". xxo

*when these photographs were taken, Nicholas was off rounding up sheep!

Thursday

I am so proud of David.  Last night, I admit to shedding a tear as he graduated from university with a Bachelor of Education.  The past seven years have been a long journey for as all, but he worked so hard and did so well.  It was wonderful to see him graduate.

Friday

We love Autumn...

Saturday

 

A couple of weeks ago I received my final mark for the unit I was studying this past Trimester.  A Distinction!  Nobody more surprised (or happier/relieved) than me!  However I am now two weeks into trimester one for for 2015...  I remind myself, only three units to go...

Meanwhile, life is marching on in all its forms. Work.  I am back to three days per week.  Normally this, for me, is the ideal.  The balance is right. I am continuing to question whether I continue to be in the field I am.  Should I take opportunities to make changes to my work??  Changes that I know will benefit my family.

Family.  David is well into his new position, teaching.  I knew it would be demanding of his time, and he is also studying two nights per week.  

I am learning to s l o w   d o w n. To stop juggling.  Not to multi task, but to be present in this moment.  The now and what I am currently doing, not the many things that are waiting to be done. 

On Being.  My very favourite podcast. I am like a sponge soaking water.  I love it - drinking in the conversations.  One that I listened to was with Yo Yo Ma. Somewhere in his conversation he mentioned Stravinsky, which reminded me of a book my parents bought me when I was first at university.  By Joseph Brodsky. He wrote an essay on Stravinsky.  I think.  That is what came to mind.
Another I listened to this afternoon, with poet Marie Howe.  Later in the podcast she mentioned her lecturer at Columbia University - Joseph Brodsky.

What I find in listening to these conversations is that I am being brought back to the beginning.  The things that I feel I resonate with.  It does feel like home.  I remember back to 1990 when I started at university.  All my friends had left college and moved on to other things.  We had gradually drifted apart... I was on my own and life filled with so many things I came to love.  In another season of life we can forget these first things.  It is refreshing to remember them and bring them into my new life, with family.

Sunday

Nicholas had a cub camp this weekend.  I noticed how much I missed him last night.  David went to the camp as well, so it felt so quiet and lonely late last night when Audrey and Maggie were asleep.  I spent the time folding clothes and watching some television.  Earlier in the day I had looked at fabric to make library bags for the kids.  Maybe tonight I will get to make them.

Audrey and I watched the Tinkerbell movie last night.  She thought it would be nice to take our lunch to the park and take her fairies with her.  So that is what we did today. A honey sandwich, a cheese sandwich, some chocolate biscuits and milk.  And coffee for me.

Fun. And. Games.  and Maggie's strawberry blond hair :)



Maggie's Day

...she played in the cubby house, fed the chooks, smelt the lavender and collected the mail. 

 

 

 

 

It doesn't seem so long ago that it was Nicholas and Audrey.  Where does the time go?