End of July already can you believe it! One of the things that this blog is showing me is how time
flies. Every time I write a new post I double-check the date of the last one
because I cannot believe where the time has gone.
List of things that have happened since my last post - I started
Pilates, went to my first Mothers & Teachers Dinner, took the boys to their
first beach music festival, attended a wedding with the boys, bought a horse,
bought a motorbike, read a parenting book, watched a parenting DVD series, almost
finished converting the garage into a play/wreck room for the boys, kept up
with shop admin and wages, did our home and personal filing for the year (Had
done no filing this year at all) and a few other bits and pieces in between. Oh
Yes - There were 3 weeks of school holidays and a busy 3 weeks those were!
These days I am trying to fit less into my days. I am trying to
simplify and live in the moment. I
am so tired of rushing everywhere.
Less is SOOOO more – I totally get it!
I have instituted a couple new things in my life like Sunday Solitude Day. We had a lovely family breakfast
together and then Rog took the boys and went up to the farm… and …. I had the
house to myself for the WHOLE day!
It was such BLISS and I love my Rog and I love my boys but what I treat!
I did so many things I had wanted to do for ages. For a compulsive list ticker
off person this is like therapy. I
need one of these a month so SSD is here to stay.
I have also started to turn my phone off for short periods of the
day so that I can isolate myself from the world around me and be present – it
is awesome and quiet addictive, I am building up to Technology
Free Fridays where computer and phone goes off for the whole day – THE
WHOLE DAY. Rog recently left his
phone at home on a family weekend away and it was amazing – I loved it!
So SSD and TFF here we come – yeeeha!
The biggest things to happen this month are by far my new Horse –
Maverick and Tom’s new motorbike – YAM A HA. I have wanted Maverick for 30 years and Tom had wanted YAM A
HA for “His whole life” he tells us. He is 4. He definitely has his Dad to thank for this one. Rog took such joy in scouring the
countryside for a good little bike for his big boy and Tom is completely and utterly
obsessed with it. My quiet
disapproval melted away when I saw his little face – well done Rog!
Max has one foot in both camps for now, he rides his “Motorbike”
in his horse-riding helmet and yells “Giddyup” and “hhhhhimmmmhhhimmmm” in the
same sentence? Lucky Maverick is
very forgiving else we might have a problem on our hands.
Happy Days!
Love you Rog
