A week of gratitude, day six

Today I am grateful…

1. To have an amazing father that spent 4 hours here putting n my new lights.
2. For the rain we are having that is turning my dry brown backyard green again.
3. That i can go and have a HOT shower. 

Blessed.

A week of Gratitude, day five

Today I am grateful…

1. That on the four year anniversary of my first fur baby passing, that I have a beautiful family doggy in my life to love and cuddle.
2. For Mariachi music making my babies happy and wiggle their boom booms.
3. For a beautiful night allowing me to blog from my back porch.

A week of gratitude, day four

Today I am grateful…

1. That my girls were so well behaved at Ikea!
2. For the bargain lights that i got from Ikea
3. For my beautiful freshly organised pantry.

Week of Gratitude, Day Three

Today I am grateful…

1. To have the love, support and encouragement of family and friends with my vision for my baking blog.
2. That I got to play kick to kick with my dad in our backyard.
3. For the funny text banter I had with my darling husband today 

A Week of Gratitude, Day Two

Today I am grateful….

1. To have a strong friend in my life, her strength is beyond amazing. 
2. That I live an a small community that puts on great fireworks just to bring the locals together.
3. That Miss 3 didn't get too worked up about going in to her ballet class today, had a great time dancing once she was in there, and that she told me that she finally has a friend at ballet!

A week of Gratitude, Day One

It's not that uncommon these days to hear people talking about the universe and showing gratitude, for many years now I have lived my life like this.  I believe I have a strong connection with the universe and have been able to manifest great things and opportunities into my life by believing, trusting and being thankful, but sometimes it is hard to be fully present in my gratitude.  Life gets busy and although I always have a sense of feeling grateful, it sometime is hard to focus on what exactly I am thankful for and why.  This is why I am consciously going to think about and write down three things I am grateful for everyday this coming week and then at least once a week there after. I will once again feel totally aware of everything I have and love and am grateful for, feel free to join me in this.

1. I'm grateful to have such a helpful mum who can dash around the corner to entertain my girls while I clean vomit out of the car seat after a teething toddler choked on her silva and was sick on our way to Ikea. 
2. I am grateful that said teething toddler is not in too much pain and can have restful sleep while cutting her toothy pegs. 
3. I am grateful for the love fest the girls showed me before, when they took it in turns to shower me with big wet kisses, very blessed.

What a week!

My beautiful fresh wall

What a busy week we have had here! My lovely husbands was home on his R&R so we have been spending some nice quiet quality time as a family, we had movie nights, a family date at the chocolate
 shop and lot's of relaxing.  Once he headed back to work the real fun began, I have continued on my mission to do small make overs on the house, this week I was still focusing on study and did a feature wall all by myself, everything from masking it up to painting, and I am in love with it, so is Lala who keeps going up to it and hugging our new 'beautiful grey wall'.

Very helpful engine 'Lady'

I have also been sorting out the girls clothes, packing up what doesn't fit them, and working out what things we will need to get them to complete their winter wardrobes.  I find the clothes packing up process such a time consuming and tedious task, but it was well worth it when their draws are all beautifully organised again, and I got to post a whole heap of clothes off to friends so I know a lot of the good stuff is going to be much loved again.  We have also been busy creating a low key train costume for a Thomas the Tank party the girls are off to tomorrow, it's amazing want you can do with some paper plates, paint and a stapler, not prize winning costumes, but the girls are happy, and I'm sure the birthday boy will think they look great too.

Easter decorating

 Finally we have ended the week with decorating our yearly Easter tree, created from twigs from our backyard, a bucket and some beautiful egg decorations.
Through all this I have actually managed to fit in a bit of yoga and some low FODMAP cooking too, so look out for some new recipe posts next week, but for now I'm off o enjoy the last bit of this week by watching the footy and having a snag before the weekend party and ballet rush starts!  Go Bombers!

Very happy with our Easter tree this year!