Getting away...

There has been a lot of talk on the ol' internerd this past week or so of holidays. Must be the reappearance of the sun that has got everyone thinking of beaches and pool side loungers...

Me and the Little Man are heading up north to Windermere in 5 weeks time with the rest of the family (my parents, siblings and assorted littlies...) We are going to visit my nan (LM's great-grandma) who is in her 80's and convinced she's not going to be around much longer (her mum lived til she was 99 so we suspect she has a few years in her yet!)  We are renting a house in the town and will all be staying together for a whole week...

I am looking forward to it, obviously, but I really can't think of it as a holiday.

Busy...

Presents. I love presents. I love wrapping presents. I love giving presents. And I would be a liar if I said I didn't like receiving presents too!

My parents don't celebrate Christmas or Birthdays (religious reasons) so they kind of compensate by making a big fuss of their wedding anniversary and turning into a celebratory family day when we all get together, have a nice meal and exchange gifts - and why not? After all the day they got married was the day they began their own family and 41 (41!!!) years later, with five children and three grandchildren, they have something worth celebrating, don't you think?

Easter with Nick Jr

I love surprises, don't you?

This morning our chirpy postie delivered a lovely surprise parcel from our friends at Nick Jr...

Included was a DVD preview of brand new episodes of Dora the Explorer - Dora's Easter Adventure and the Little Man's favourite Nick Jr show, Team Umizoomi - The Umi City Egg Hunt plus two episodes of a brand new show, Tickety Toc, coming to Nick Jr in April. A cute CGI animation featuring twins Tommy and Tallulah Tockety and their friends who live 'on the other side' of the Tickety Toc Clock. Fast-paced and funny and appealing to both boys and girls I can see this show becoming a firm favourite in this house!

Wanna see what was in the beautiful box?

Of course you do....

#InnerTruth - That's not my wardrobe!

Feeling a bit uncertain what to write this week...

Haven't had chance to practise the 4/4 energising breath I mentioned last week and a lucky blog competition win of a rather large (and very scrummy) box of Lindt chocolates sent the 'healthy eating plan' (still refusing to use the 'D' word...) right out the window.

But that was last week.

Yesterday I had a bit of a tidy up and bagged up some old clothes I have been meaning to give to the charity shop for months. While the wardrobe door was open I had a proper look inside and to be perfectly honest I was utterly depressed by what I saw.  My wardrobe is packed full of clothes that aren't mine...

#SilentSunday 18/03/12

#InnerTruth - The Quest for Energy...

Following the change of tact with NewMumOnline's Monday linky I have spent far less time this week actually thinking about my weight and far more time just getting on with things. The kitchen spring clean/sort out has begun - I found £6 in loose change behind the microwave :-) - and a fair bit of time has been spent in the garden digging and tidying up ready for Spring planting.

I have been doing a lot more Yoga this week too - using the WiiFit as a prompt/reminder ( a word about this at the end of this post*) and the Little Man has been joining in. It's very sweet watching him try and hold the Warrior pose but I really do not recommend doing the Cobra with a nearly 3 stone toddler on your back!

#TheGallery - Light

It's been a while since I have taken part in The Gallery linky but when I saw this week's prompt I knew I just had to join in.

Light.

The photographer's best friend.

I love early morning light - the promise of a bright day to come...

I love light through leaves...

I love light on water...

I love explosions of light!

I love snoozes in the afternoon light...

 I love early evening light too - especially on the beach...

But most of all I love the perfect light that lets you see ALL the detail, exactly how it is, and preserve it forever in a snap shot moment...

Now - why not pop along to Tara's blog, Sticky Fingers,  and check out all the other entrants to this weeks Gallery...

#Mumentum - New directions...

OK I admit it, I have cheated a little this week - I went and read Liska's post before writing this. And I am glad I did as Liska has summed up perfectly what has been on my mind since the beginning of the year...

Like many, many other people I spend a lot of time thinking and talking (whinging) about how crap everything is - no money, bad health, a constant stream of bad luck and, more to the point for us #Mumentum ladies - no weight loss.  With all this focus on the negatives is it any wonder there is no room in our lives for positives?

 My previous job (before being a mummy kind of took over!) was managing an alternative therapies and gift shop. Whilst there I learnt a lot about so-called New Age therapies. Much of it has no scientific basis whatsoever and many people find it easier to put it down as nonsense or even go as far as to claim practitioners are little more than con artists out to rip-off gullible, vulnerable people with a load of mumbo-jumbo, and I have no doubt that this was the case on many occasions, BUT I did also see many people who were helped in a positive way by, basically, changing their thinking and allowing their inner selves to shine through and attract more positivity into their lives. By concentrating on the positive they were allowing the positive to make itself known. And while it may be true that we cannot 100% control what comes into our lives, how we DEAL with it is entirely up to us!

Focus

Liska has suggested we refocus on the positive - what we wish to be - our Inner Truth - rather than dwelling on, and therefor attracting, the negative - or what we do not wish to be.  there was a link on her post to a Kundalini Yoga lesson that has much relevance and that I read with great interest. Yoga has been a part of my life since my early 20's and the deep breathing and meditative practise carried through to my Shaolin Kung Fu training, but it has all fallen by the wayside since the Little Man came into my life. This lesson has reminded me of the power of deep breathing..





So this week I will be concentrating on rediscovering the fire in my belly

With all this in mind Liska has also proposed a new name for our Monday linky...

The beautiful thing about this is that it opens the linky up to everyone!  So if you want to embrace the positive and embark upon a journey to find your Inner Truth, why not join in? If you want to add your post, or read others, the linky is here

#SilentSunday 04/03/12