Delighting....

Winter for me is my least favourite season.  Everything is asleep, dormant, and lying low.  I like to  lie low too.

Home is where I like to be, hibernating.  Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) one has to venture out at some stage even if its to the grocery store.

Winter is all about...

Mud....this is in the paddock next door to us.  Three boys + mud + oodles of energy = mountains of washing!!!  Need I say anymore!  (You can feel sorry for me if you like)

 

Cows, cows and more cows... its calving season round these parts....

 

 

 

Gumboots...winters uniform!

Essential for winter sport watching!

 

 

 

Gods abundant supply of a winter remedy!

 

I just love how God has everything all worked out, right down to the abundant supply of fruit that has all the essential goodness that we need during the winter months!

 

But to see me through these winter months I love to find things that I can delight in, small things that provide me with a smiling ray of sun (even when its crappy weather outside)

 

Delightful things like...

 

Small people and playdoh...

 

 

 

 

my three pet puddle ducks, Jasper, Jemimah and Jillian...

 

 

 

the first of springs gifts, flowers from a friend...

 

Springs first flowers for me is like a sign of hope, that winter that WILL come to an end.

 

The rare day when washing can be dried on the line in th elate winters sun.  You can almost smell summer on the clothes if you burying your nose deep into the washing and sniff....ooo this ones a goodie!

 

 

 

This one warms my heart.  Big brother Casey (11) made his wee sisters a 'Tinkerbell' house!

 

 

 

 But the thing that is delighting my soul the most at the moment is....

 

a good old pot of tea!

 

 

Tea ALWAYS tastes better out of a teapot and even better if its in a cup with a saucer!

This is relaxing and peaceful no matter when or where you drink it.

 Conversations with a friend, the early morning wake-up cuppa, the post lunch cuppa or the 4pm cuppa when you are trying to ward off the urge to raid the marshmallow or chocolate chip container!  Yes I do do that! 

 Desperate times makes for desperate measures I tell you!!

 

I have noticed that the things that warm my heart the most are the little things, each days little touches.  Moments, that if you let them, go un-noticed.

But I encourage you

NOTICE!!

 

 

 

 

Its been awhile...hasn't it.

Well hello there.

Its been awhile.  I haven't visited for a long long while. Things have been very quiet. I have to say that I haven't felt like I had anything to say.  One could say I lost my writing 'mojo'!  To be honest I felt hammered by negative words and opinions expressed.  I clearly need to toughen up.  But in order to do that I needed this time to heal and to rise above it.  

But now I feel like visiting again.

Its been three months since I last was here and I have grown (in more ways than one) and I still am.  I am 26 weeks pregnant and I am most definitely not one of those who have gorgeous pregnancy photos taken. (very jealous of those who do) But after five children and expecting another one, I feel my poor body has got its fair share of war wounds.

Its been eight months now that Jamie has been at home and without paid employment.  Who would of thought that we would still be where we are, not any worse for wear and on the journey that we are currently on. And I am praising God all the way!!  I am exciting to see where God is taking us. Don't know where that is but I am EXCITED!!!

I love having my husband around.  Someone said to me right at the beginning "How I thought I was going to stand it?"  To be honest I was quite shocked to hear someone ask that.  Don't they love their husbands???   I know the kids have also enjoyed this time with their Dad, getting to do all the 'Dad' kind of stuff that one can really only do with Dad. Like tackling on the bed!!

SO lets take a look at what we have been doing for the past three months!

We have had birthdays!

 

Chased rogue bulls from the front yard...

found extra large worms in the garden.....

I have recently learnt that holding worms in your hands is not very good for them!

hunted and captured skinks in the wood pile....

They are in there!!

constructed homemade soccer goals....

 made out of warratahs and stretchy trailer tie-downs and a couple of pegs!

The kids really embraced the Olympics....even as far as invented their own hurdles down the hallway!

Thanking God for extra big hallways!

and even inventing their own 'events'...rolling each other down the hill in a pipe!

If you look hard enough their is someone in that pipe!

 So while its been quiet around these parts, its actually been quite eventful in our house.  And of course  for 'school' there is always something happening. 

At the moment we are studying

'The Ragcoat' by Lauren Mills

Its amazing where one can go...just by reading a children's 'classic'!

From this we are looking at Coal and Coal Mining,  Quilting as art and its history,  the concept of Communities,  and the traditions behind Funerals.  All that from one book!!!

We have started off with a 'patchwork picture'

I hope to post some more doings of our 'school' as we progress through the book.

But for now as I slowly get back into writing I am using my children as a source of inspiration as they embrace the day, the moment!  I am delighting in them, delighting at the feeling of this little one growing inside of me, delighting in seeing God at work and delighting in moments.

What are you delighting in?

See you soon :)