Space to thrive

Funny isn't it that I have a bit of an ill time , a leave the kids to get on with it time, an I need to take a step back and be on my own time, and what happens? Well what happens is our lovely oldest one decides to keep a really well produced and illustrated journal/scrapbook of her work experience at the Salon. It's fantastic , the writing is really well done bless her and isn't skimpy or short but well expressed and detailed. I love how she's illustrated it too.

People hair, smiling, talking, make-overs, art, Maths are our Moo's things , all roll together well for her Salon thing ........... a talent for making paople smile.


Pickle has decided she wants to write too and has done it completely off her own back :-) what a breakthrough, I am thrilled and what is more she is too. Pixie has also started doing more ballet lessons for RAD (Royal Academy of Dance) she is so thrilled that she has been dancing with the older ones :-) The picture above is Pickle in a show they did in December. I hear some mums talking about how they wish we knew what harm ballet does to young children but Pickle started of her own wishes and she didn't ask to do it until she was nearly 8; she asked because dancing is the thing that lights her up , the thing that she sparkles and excels, disco, tap , ballet, any music any genre she loves it all.
this pic is a few years ago , Naomi's first taste of dancing with other people, it was a belly dancing worshop - bless her.

So standing back and making me time actually is giving them space to thrive and me space to appreciate them :-)

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getting old

An old lady said :

"If my legs would let me I'd still be dancing."

and she grinned. It reminded me that my Nanna said to me when she was in her 80's

"I might be old on the outside but on the inside I still feel as if I'm 20."

I can just imagine now exactly how she felt.

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inspiring, outlook changing , smile making

Just had to share :-)

Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with chocolate.
~ Unknown~

Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened. ~ Cora Harvey Armstrong ~

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
~ Caryn Leschen ~

If you can't be a good example ~ then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
~Catherine~

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman
~Maryon Pearson~

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
~ Helen Hayes (at 73)~

And remember this motto to live by: Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, totally worn out an d screaming 'WOOO HOOOOO what a ride!'

thank you to my friend Barbara for sharing :-)

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some interesting bits :-)

 what a handsome lad :-) alfie love him

 Naomi maded him

 sylvanian families

 beautiful

  and ages ago

 spot me falling over

 pottery at Dan's thanks to Sal xx

And we haven't any pictures of it but my lovely daughter started work experience today and absolutely loved it :-) she even picked up a pen a wrote down loads of things she needs to remember and was keenly telling me all the things she needs to find out about - woooop :-)

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Northern Lights and Fire Rainbow over Yellow Knife , Yukon , Canada ..

Northern Lights and Fire Rainbow over Yellow Knife , Yukon , Canada ..




THIS NEXT PICTURE, IS A FIRE RAINBOW - THE RAREST OF ALL NATURALLY OCCURRING ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA.


THE PICTURE WAS CAPTURED THIS WEEK ON THE IDAHO / WASHINGTON BORDER. THE EVENT LASTED ABOUT 1 HOUR.

CLOUDS HAVE TO BE CIRRUS, AT LEAST 20.000 FEET IN THE AIR, WITH
JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF ICE CRYSTALS AND THE SUN HAS TO HIT
THE CLOUDS AT PRECISELY 58 DEGREES.
goodness me , the world is an amazing place , now i want to live in a teepee :)

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A challenging day

I've blogged some pics of our Bea if you'd like to go and have a look http://allaboutbea.blogspot.com/2010/01/christmas-and-snow.html
I'm so thrilled about her, Staffies can get bad press but I truly love her and she is so sensitive and intelligent, you should see her watching the tv :-) She watches anything with animals in , she gets scared of anything that is scary and she talks back when she here's any animal noises lol.
Today youngest made three Victoria sponge cakes, one in the morning , one for dinner and one for tea . . . . now wonder I'm so curvaceous , ample , plump . . . . .. ok fat *doh. In the process of doing them she's followed instructions, used kitchen scales and learnt a bit of first aid to sort out her burnt tip on her finger where she poked the tin , poor soul. She's thrilled that she can make them all on her own now.
Me and the middle one have had a bit of a challenging time, I have a lot to learn about being the mum of teenagers, I didn't make a good job of it with my very oldest who is now in uni , and i'm sure i'm not making a good job of it with my darling middle one.
By the way I've stopped using names just so I can talk more freely, what do you think about names and privacy and accountability , I just feel more guarded in the present climate, I'd like to blog as openly as i did in our first ventures into home ed but I just don't feel comfortable with it. I feel as if I need to be more accountable, wary, careful ...........

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