Ramblings

Today I am Thankful - organised, arty and yoga

2012-02-02T19:45:00.000+11:00

- getting organised: having a quiet couple of days at work (phone, email and people visiting all down - the world had other things to do in back-to-school week?) meant I could clear a lot of small, non-urgent tasks like filing. It feels good to get back to empty inboxes and to do folders! - getting arty: I got home from work and was able to put in two solid hours in my creative space (not sure

Today I am Thankful - water aerobic, art and cool change

2012-01-30T17:48:00.000+11:00

- for water aerobics! Yay! I went back to class after a whole year off. I can't tell you how good it felt - like a load off my shoulders to have done that and yoga last week. Now I can get on with returning to it as a regular part of my routine and I am also intending to get to my other class on Friday. My friends were delighted to see me too :) - for art: I have two ongoing projects for the

More than just a rice cooker

2012-01-28T17:25:00.002+11:00

I just have to have a bit of a rave. I am so loving the new rice cooker I bought a few months ago. In my endless quest to eat well with maximum effort, I am finding more and more I can cook in it! As well as my winter main-stay breakfast of steel-cut oats, I discovered I can also cook the wonderful quinoa in the cooker. Then I experimented and came up with a wonderful meal base of quinoa+brown

Today I am Thankful - community, yoga and Hymn to Her

2012-01-25T18:24:00.001+11:00

- for community. I love how people I know are friends with other people I know who have met other people I know and it just turns into a wonderful circle of friends. Today my daughter hung out with a heap of my baby-wearing friends at the safe baby-wearing meet-up in Frankston. My daughter doesn't have any babies, but she believes that baby-wearing is a positive part of raising children, so she

"Fall out" from the Frankston baby sling incident

2012-01-24T16:18:00.003+11:00

Today the baby sling story I shared yesterday has hit the media and the inevitable for and against comments are appearing in the comments posted by readers. It is interesting how many people are supporting the opinion that slings-are-bad-prams-are-good. We used prams and slings equally with our three children and I am by no means anti-pram. However they, like baby slings, need to be purchased

Caution! Orlando Bloom had better stay out of Frankston!

2012-01-22T17:33:00.000+11:00

I am proud to live in Frankston but there are times when I hang my head in shame to have any association with it. Today is one of those days. You see, apparently you can now get questioned by police for the act of - male baby-wearing. Like this: My favourite elf, Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom, wearing baby Flynn A friend's partner was today stopped by police for the crime of carrying

Today I am Thankful - techies, vegies and power

2012-01-21T17:17:00.001+11:00

- for the hard-working souls who provide all of our social media AT NO COST TO US! I am loving the new Pinterest app on Facebook and I am sure the new Good Reads one will work properly soon, so there is no need for people to get so rude in the comments on their blog or FB wall - be nice, people! - for fresh food: I popped out to the produce store and the vegies were so fresh, I don't think they

Today I am Thankful - purple, lunch & art

2012-01-20T18:17:00.001+11:00

- for purple: the myotherapist exclaims: your bra matches your toe-nails! - for lentils & rice: such a yummy lunch at Aum Shanti. Note to self - make time to eat here more often. - for art: I posted my artworks for the first and third weeks of Life Book to my Facebook Wall and peole said nice things. For all that I am so public with so much of my life, I am nervous about my ventures into

Needles and Pins

2012-01-19T18:07:00.002+11:00

I have this song stuck in my head - This post is in one form a confessional, a group heads-up. You see, for this past week I have been experiencing what is most likely a flare-up of my MS. I have numbness and "pins and needles" in my hands and feet. It is trying to decide where to settle, LOL, sometimes making both my little fingers disappear and others, it decides my feet are freezing

Today I am Thankful - weekend, village tales & resting

2012-01-16T17:43:00.000+11:00

- for the most wonderful weekend at the Frankston Waterfront Festival. This annual event in our beach-side town just grows and grows! And for the first time in years, we were blessed by the weather gods. Although it was quite chilly on Saturday, Sunday was gloriously beautiful. In-between my shifts in our feed and change tent, run for mums by our local ABA group, I was able to hang out with my

Just what is normal, anyway?

2012-01-13T19:32:00.000+11:00

Feeling really sad about news that hit the blogosphere this week - Breastfed babies cry more and smile less not so much because of the content, the study or the outcome, but because of the glaring presumption the response is based on. Can you guess? No? Probably because we are all so inured to it that we no longer notice. Cry MORE and smile LESS - than what? Than bottle-fed babies, which

Today I am thankful - abundance, lunching and tea

2012-01-13T17:15:00.000+11:00

- for the abundance of fresh food at the shop down the road. Popping in to gather supplies for lunch, all the produce just looks so good right now, the result of the rain that seems to have everything growing at high speed! - for lunch with a friend - second Friday in a row, lunch with Julie - this time at my place so she could watch Kaitlyn's wedding DVD and see the photos. Reconnecting after

Back to Being Thankful

2012-01-12T18:43:00.000+11:00

I have just had a moment of enlightenment, as I trawled through my blog looking for something ( I really must start tagging my posts properly) - I scrapbooked HEAPS last year, only it was mostly in words, when I was doing my thankful posts! Looking back, I see that I actually had a more positive year than my reflection back would show. So I am going to start doing them again - we are less than

The Joy of Books

2012-01-11T17:54:00.000+11:00

This is the most amazing book store video I have ever seen - it is also the only one - and you really must watch it if you have ever rearranged your own bookshelves! Enjoy!

HEAL - my word for 2012

2012-01-07T13:45:00.000+11:00

Like many others out there, each year I choose a word that focuses what I want to achieve in the upcoming twelve months. Last year, it was CHANGE, the year before ENJOY and the one before that was CREATE. My word for 2012 is HEAL. I was frustrated in 2011 that many of my goals and objectives were thwarted by the one thing outside my ability to control - the fluctuations of my health. This

Breast Idea. Ever.

2012-01-03T17:49:00.002+11:00

I just have to share with you the most wonderful, simple thing which has popped up on my Facebook Wall: http://www.melscrochetedcreations.com/ Now, if you - unlike me - don't spend your time helping women overcome breastfeeding challenges, then you will have no idea what this is for. here is Mel's explanation: Do you know what a SNS is? If you do then you know how bulky and unattractive it

Decluttering 2012

2012-01-02T17:25:00.000+11:00

It is entirely too hot here today to do ANYTHING more than wait for it to cool down, so instead of using my decluttering guides, I thought I would share them instead :) (I always begin the year with the urge to clean out!) Creating Your Goddess Haven: By far, the funest (I have been around young people too much!) way to declutter and make your home into a haven is with Goddess Leonie. Now -

So what's happened to the 12 Days of Christmas?

2012-01-02T15:40:00.000+11:00

On the First Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me ... a box to pack the tree ornaments into??? Maybe it is just because we are all so connected now with Facebook et al, but it seems like lots of people are packing away Christmas just a tad earlier than they should be. The 12 days of Christmas is not just a song, but refers to the time period between Christmas day and Epithany - also

One Red Paperclip

2011-12-31T17:22:00.000+11:00

This book lived up to my expectations - even though it has sat on my To Be Read pile for ages, sent on by my patient Bookcrossing friend Skyring. I love stuff like this - random, ridiculous pursuits that grow from a silly idea. Other favourites in similar vein are Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks; Living Oprah by Robyn Okrant and Join Me! by Danny Wallace. In the spirit of the book

A Pinteresting Year

2011-12-30T16:24:00.000+11:00

How timely to realise (by browsing my Facebook Timeline) that it is a year since I joined Pinterest! So I thought I might recap some of my Pins that actually made it into my life! These made it off my Wishlist Board and into my home :) While this made it off my Inspire Me Board and onto my leg!!!! And this did inspire me to cover a table with Scrabble letters with the same technique:

Ghost of Christmas Past

2011-12-24T12:39:00.001+11:00

As families gather over food and drink, here is such a moment captured in time. May all my friends and family enjoy this glimpse of the past, enjoy the present and look forward to the future. Merry Christmas!

Connections

2011-12-23T15:57:00.000+11:00

I was at an event the other day where a woman made a disparaging remark about someone she knew who had 300 Facebook Friends, saying she never made time to see any of them so they weren't really friends. I chose not to announce I have over 1200 Friends, as I got the feeling she wouldn't understand! So - I got to thinking and wondering if I should hurriedly cull my Friends list just to people I

"Sorry, madam - turns out you can do that here" - more breastfeeding in public news

2011-12-17T17:28:00.001+11:00

They seem to come in waves, working their way through my Google Reader. Stories from the World (but mostly the US, UK and Australia) about women erroneously told they cannot breastfeed in some public space. The stories tend to come in similar installments: The mother's outrage The apology The opinions The protest For some reason, the second point rarely gets the coverage the others do and

A Tale of Two Cats and a Mouse

2011-12-14T21:23:00.000+11:00

Our household is controlled by two felines, brother and sister, Frodo and Merry, recently turned 12. Frodo Merry Frodo was bonded with Second Daughter, while Merry bonded with First Daughter. As both daughters have left the family nest, the cats have made other arrangements - Frodo substituting myself and relocating to our bedroom, while Merry maintains First Daughters bedroom, now

Year 27

2011-12-12T21:00:00.001+11:00