Sunday, November 27, 2011

I'm thinking...

I am not sure what photos I am going to put up today. Actually I am not sure how to say what is on my heart to say but it needs to come out.   

So sad!!
                                             
I heard a very very sad thing today. Someone said to me "well I have to get rid of the kid somehow!"
RID OF THE KID!!  Do they listen to themselves?  Clearly not! AND her precious child was right next to her.  How did he feel to hear, the person that he probably loves the most in the world, annouce that she wanted to get rid of him? 

Sadder still...is this is a norm, an everyday comment, a roll-off-the-tongue and often said in jest.  Is the world not getting it!  Our children, our precious gifts, our blessings from God (am I sounding like Whitney Houston at the moment?) are being reduced to comments like "get rid of the kid!" 

I makes me sad, it breaks my heart.

Please don't get me wrong I get sick of my kids, sick of the mess, the fighting, the yelling, cleaning up, making meals, tidying rooms, wiping bottoms, washing faces etc etc. I yell (yes I yell) I cry, occasionally slam doors ( I know real mature!)  My children can be down-right scally-wags!!


This is what happens when my girls try to tidy my linen cupboard!

BUT I love them, I love who they are, love that they are creative, their ability to stand up for themselves, their ability to make themselves heard, their ability to entertain and fend for themselves, their ability to have fun out of nothing, their ability to laugh at themselves (and at me).

Big Brothers!
Love
  

Parents, please embrace your children! Love them, spend time with them, make memories with them, read to them, inspire them, kiss them, hug them and colour their world! 





This isn't about being a stay-at-home mother vs going-out-to-work mother. Its about using and spending the time we do have.....Loving on our children!




Old men can make war, but it is children who will make history
Ray Merritt - Full of Grace 



Thursday, November 17, 2011

Going on a Egg Hunt

The trouble with free range chickens is that one may never know where they are going to lay their eggs.
No sooner that I find their 'nest' then they go and change it!   How rude!!  I have tried to train them into laying in the nesting box but at present we have a very vicious broody hen sitting and I think she is scaring them all away.  Crikey she scares me too!

Anyway while all Miss Sophies (2) siblings were occupied, we went on a EGG HUNT.

First a quick stop to say to 'Pink' the goat and Mama hen and her seven little chicks!



Oooo there they are!  Hidden away in the garden.


Oooo its warm!


One...Two...four...eighteen! 
(well she is only two)




I think thats all...



Carefully carefully...




Its the simple little things that create cherished memories!!

"We do not remember days: we remember moments. - Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

Friday, November 11, 2011

a week that was...

haven't had too much spare time this past week or so... busy but can't say what with!  strange I know!

so I thought  that I would just randomly drop some photos in and hopefully summarise
 the week that was.....

the result of being left alone in the car with the camera



 

I went away with the most fabulous Tash and left the kids at home with Jamie.


learnt about chickens in 'school'...


watched our own chicks grow...


gardened... and you most definately have to dress up for the occasion


read books....



and Poppa Peter came and opened our bee hive...and who got stung?  ...Yes I did!


and that was the week that was!

xxx

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Once upon at time....

Once upon a time in a far off land, lived a wee girl....



This little girl just loves....pink...


and her little sister (most of the time).




She also loves dancing, singing, playing tea parties, Little House on the Prairie, Little Chicks, helping in the kitchen and beating up her Daddy!

But one of her most favourite thing to do is to sing and talk to the cows.



She has great conversations with them....especially when she shows off her pink tutu!


Little sister loves to join in too...but she loves to bare it all!


Oh what the cows must see and hear!