Thankful Thursday 30th March 2012

Today I am grateful for:

• Today I got to attend my son's Easter assembly as he had a speaking part & see his excited fact because he was operating the projector for the song words.  So much more fun for him than his speaking role.
• Sitting alone and catching up with myself at swimming lessons
• Making a kindle cover to go on holiday wiht
• Going to visit my sister in Cypress at Easter.
• So enjoying my Uplevel your Life program with Christine Kane.  She is AWESOME!
• Getting preschool jumpers and labelling them.
• Early nights.
• Early morning walks in spring sunshine on my solitary.  Wonderful headspace time
• My Beloved passing his exam to day & the end of revision/study for a while.
• Stonehenge equinox sunrise last week & meeting up with my brother there.

Me & G & his silly hat (made by himself) pastiche of horned henger

Thankful Thursday - 15th March

A bit late in finally posting this Thankful Thursday.  I spent the evening looking blankly at fabric trying to work out what would go best together to make a pencil roll for my beautiful niece & goddess daughter.

Today I am grateful for:

• Making a start on Goddess Girl's pencil roll. 
• Getting photos taken for the felting tutorial in Bushcraft Magazine.  Just need to edit & send.
• My bonus week on Christine Kane's Uplevel YOur Life course.  Starting in full next Monday.
• Some amazing learning & personal growth on my NLP course this weekend. 
• More clearing out.  Three bags taken to charity shop.  Three plus more to go out this weekend.  Hurrah for Spring Clearing!  It feels soooo good!
• Reading Dr Seuss to Roo, after hearing him 'read' it to himself so sweetly whilst not knowing it, just from the pictures.
• Menu plan sorted for the week.
• Lovely veg in the Abel & Cole box, plus a free bottle of organic olive oil.  Thanks guys!
• Catching up with friend yesterday at toddler group & our boys just loving playing together.
• My Beloved having the kids all weekend daytime so I could go off & do my thing at the NLP course.  House was a devastation zone on return which interestingly made me feel less guilty about my inability to keep a tidy house!
• Sunny afternoons this week.  And time down the allotment.  yum.

Thankful Thursday 8th March 2012

Today I am grateful for:

• Tea in the morning in bed with my Beloved.
• Running commentary from my 3yr old as he plays his games.
• Sunshine!
• Finally booking myself onto Christine Kane's Uplevel Your Life program.
• This resistant cough finally shifting & feeling alot better
• Helping my little girl work through an issue she is having with her friend, using some of my NLP tools I have been learning.   Yay, this stuff works!
• My car always starting first time.  I know its time to change her, as my kids are growing & need different seating, but I love her turquoisey goodness!
• New funky mugs at such a cheap cost.  Love my mugs!
• Enjoying my self-love altar on my window sill.
• Three bags of eliminated stuff to go to charity shop
• Such a clean clean bathroom.  The energy there just feels so sparkly.  I want my whole life to feel like that.

Wishcrafting - Spirit Wishes

What is your Spirit wishing for?  Jamie Ridler asks today on wishcrafting wednesday.

Usually I try to write my response to the prompts before looking at everyone elses.   But today, I sneeked a peek at my friend Dominees post.  If you haven't met Dominee yet, you should ( I nominated her for this award a while back).  She is Beautiful.  Her post was so very lovely about how previously she'd have said 'purpose', which was exactly what my reaction was, but now she feels that she has that with her awesome website and writing her truth out into the world as a beacon (my words not hers). 

In reading her words, and checking out another post that she referenced about body image & how we can get knocked back by ignorant words, I felt sad and glad all at once.  So very Glad for my beautiful Goddess sister that she has found this wonderous place, and sad for myself that I am still sometimes beating myself up for not having my soul purpose. 

And I realised, as I was spring cleaning the bathroom, going round the dirty edges with a toothbrush (don't worry it wasn't anyone's you know.  Seriously, t'was the cleaning one) really doing a deep clean, that what my Spirit is wishing for is EXPRESSION. 
In that moment, of whatever I am doing.  I get too hung up on some grand notion of Purpose.  Which actually stops me from expressing my spirit into the world, as I get caught up in a web of shoulds.  My spirit wishes to express the joyful shalls, & leave the shoulds at the gate.

And just expressively sparkle my spirit into the world

Am I obsessive?

OK, so a question.  Is it obsessive to have watched this at least ten times tonight?  Sheesh.  It is so totally awesome.  I kinda knew the song, but with the video.  Well, its hypnotic!  Goyte & Kimba rock!  Who knew I might like modern music.

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EDIT: Grrr!  I can't seem to embed that video here.  Its obviously too late & I have been obsessively watching/listening to this video!  Go watch it via the link.  You won't regret it.  Well, I hope not, but if you do at least its only 4 minutes long! x

Thankful Thursday - 1st March

Today I am grateful for:

• An extra leap day yesterday.  Spent on myself.  A run in the woods, tea with friend, evening with my lovely HEArters creating a shrine of love to ourselves.
• Chai
• Most delish apples in my veggie box
• Sunshine & reading in the conservatory
• Baby boy loving putting his face in the water whilst swimming
• Weekend in the Dreaming Spires (Oxford)
• Ice skating for our friends daughter's 10th birthday
• The most beautiful & unexpectedly loving hug goodbye from his son.  So touched.
• Writing in our cafe & meeting an 88 year old war veteran.  'Yes, I was blown out of a tank.  I'd just fixed it too'.
• Roo & his mate playing together at playgroup.  They just love each other!