I crave a balanced life - I hate the helter skelter of unknown -I must have a plan ( plant as the girls say ) the craziness the pushing deadlines - the gratitude for 20 minutes of watching TV and the guilt associated. I seriously don't stop some days. I don't feel sad about that - I know there are many others that are the same - that do so much more than I do and so much better but
BALANCE
I dont know where to find it.
I blog alot in my head - I scrap alot in my head I cook I read I journal I take photos I excersise and I spend time with friends and doing the things I love - alot in my head
In real life
It's a bit different - I work alot - I get frustrated at being a mother alot - I spend alot of time answering emails placing orders packing sorting choosing researching deciding I drink a lot of coffee I don't sleep much
BALANCE - desperately seeking it - Kiwi scraps - seeing frineds knowing we are all living the same kind of mad exisistance - sharing the same frustrations and joys - It makes it easier somehow.
We have been doing stuff - lots of actually
Mum and Garry celebrated their 20th wedding anniversay -so we went to Kingaroy a few weekends back -We stayed at this magical farmstay - I woke up to mist rolling across vineyards - such peace
The girls had the best time feeding cows and meet BAZZIL the turkey among other fun things :)
Last weekend we made a herb garden :) Something I have wanted for some time and since then we have had rain everyday - which is just lovely- The girls are desperate to eat something from their garden
and I have read a book- never thought i would say that - I used to read 5 or 6 a week
No not just any book - A real BOOK - March - Are you a lover of Little Women? Have you read that over and over till you know sections by heart?
Then run and get March - By Geraldine Brooks - Pulitzer Prize Winner
From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war leaving his wife and daughters to make do in mean times. To evoke him, Brooks turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa May's father, a friend and confidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.... more details here
I loved this - I cried I remembered Little Woman - I finally undertand where Jo's character comes from and more surprisingly you meet Marmee and see her in a totally different light. Fabulous read.
Collections on site tomorrow - LATE LATE LATE
Did you see the Jelly bean sneak peak? How cute is this? and how patient is Suz? Rub ons on Jelly beans
and now really finally
Any mums who 4 year olds do something that resembles music lessons can you email me some details? Iam clueless - absolutely clueless about this type of thing - Talia loves music - drives us crazy really - so I need to find her something - Ballet is not her thing - Sofia loves Ballet -Talia tolerates it.
Talia -setting up her drum kit in the kitchen - getting ready to perform .
Sofia - at ballet so focused.
Nice catching up again for a bit :)
Tamar
