Tuesday, 5 June 2012

loving what is

30 things you can start doing for yourself
I loved reading through this list and saying mmmhhhmmm...to so many!  It felt peaceful to remember to take care of myself.  I've been doing the "work" that Katie Byron talks about in her book "Loving What Is"  and today especially I've been having some really great breakthroughs doing what she calls the "turnarounds"  I've never been so conscious as I am now of how many "shoulds" I've been holding onto.  I really recommend this book to anyone wanting to find a way to work through the stuff in our lives that doesn't work for us.  
I love that I've found this work in my early thirties because I look forward to growing up and becoming responsible for my stuff so that I can be free and love unconditionally.  



my darling girls

 A photo montage of the last few days.  Neka just loves carrying, holding and hugging her baby sister Nora!

 After I picked Neka up from school today I took the girls out for lunch in Clayburn village.
 The girls had such a fun time checking everything out.



 Mmmm...tasty peppermint tea!

 Ohhhh... the candy:)
 And the fresh, hot current scones with devonshire cream and jam, yummy!
 The girls each got to choose one candy as we left and Nala chose one that I absolutely must go there again for, a pomegranite, clover honey lollypop, the name says it all:)

 Afterwards we headed to Goat's Pride to visit the baby goats.  This is the little store there where we buy our goat's milk and eggs.  
 A few of the little cuties.
 This little guy the owner took out for the girls to pet, he's only one week old!  Nala kept saying "he likes me mommy, he likes me!"  I had so much fun taking the girls out today and  I many more adventures awaiting us this summer.

Friday, 1 June 2012

birthing


This homebirth made me fall in love with homebirth all over again.  The sureness, the calm, the power of a woman in her finest moment, I love it all!


This story touched my heart at it's core, the strength that your partner can bring to the birthing experience is so grounding!


best proposal ever!


Thursday, 31 May 2012

the muse


the father of my children

My friend Desirae Struthers took this photo at the wedding we attended on the Sunshine Coast.  This is perhaps my most favorite photo of my husband.  
A glimpse into his soft side.

Monday, 28 May 2012

It's a, wear a cheerio on your head, day

This weekend we celebrated my mom's birthday.  The girls had so much fun making cards for her.  I had to run into the grocery store for some bandaids and since I had the girls with me I popped Nora into the pull cart, the two older girls had the mini shopping carts and I really felt like the mother duck with three little ducklings following me:)  
 Our power was out on Thursday so I took the girls to The Old Spaghetti Factory.  We had so much fun and they behaved themselves beautifully!  
 Bummer that I caught my mom with her eyes closed but this is us at the healthy living and retirement show. We had a booth for ASEA and I had so much fun!  My mom loved these shoes that you can run and bounce in and paired with the walking stick make for the perfect exercise, bought me a really cool exercise tool that I'll have to post photos of sometime.
 I forgot to take photos of these salads at the beginning but boy, where they good!  I thought this recipe was from the blog I mentioned below but I couldn't find it.  Just ask me for the recipe if you'd like it.  It has four cups of spinach and one whole bunch of cilantro, wow it's my new favorite salad!
These next two recipes are from this blog Heather's Dish I love the fresh taste of this potato salad.  
 This recipe is for brussel sprouts which aren't in season so I used asparagus and carrots instead, so yummy!
 For dessert I made banana muffins with a maple cinnamon cream cheese icing.  These totally reminded me of cinnamon buns:)  I can't remember where I got the icing recipe but it a regular cream cheese icing but you add 2 Tbsp Real maple syrup, 2 Tbsp Cinnamon, and between 1-3 Tbsp buttermilk depending on how you'd like to use it.  I used 1 Tbsp so I could spread it thickly on my muffins:)
 Nora was having fun eating her organic cheerios and I couldn't help but laugh when I turned around to see this:)  Things I'd like to do soon, made soup and homemade buns, get some dark mint Lindt chocolate (my stash is gone:)  and clean and organize some things in my house.  Have a happy day!