My Past is Dying

“There is only one courage and that is the  courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to  cling to it. We all cling to the past, and because we cling to the past we become  unavailable to the present.” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh I honestly can’t be bothered trying to explain in any fancy way all that I have been through over the last few weeks, it’s too complicated and deep within in: Being without...

Do not get up!

You know something great about parenting twin teens? They sleep in! How crazy is that, the very thing I also moan about is actually fantastic. It’s how you get the parenting respite isn’t it? When they were little they went to bed early and then we had an evening; time to chillax and hang loose. Then came the in-between years when that evening time got squished and squashed they stayed up later and so did I. I remember a dear friend telling me...

Blinking Blog

Blinking heck, how do you do this blogging thing? I feel mine is turning into a hotchpotch, no, a mess of stuff, so much for simple hu? I write whatever is in or on my mind and then have to decide what “category” to put it in, is there any point I wonder, trying to make this  FIT into anything remotely useful or sensible. I’m not sure I’m the sort of person who fits-in anyway, fits in a box, and I don’t even want to. My...

Simple Pleasures

Etna, Sicily.                                 Linking up with: Wordless Wednesday and My Little Drummer Boys You might also like:Simple Decorations for Home-Made Cakes (Feb 26, 2013) The Miracle (Feb 25, 2013) Creating A Gratitude Book (Feb 23, 2013)...

Beam Me Up Button

“I didn’t sign up for this, no-one told me it would be like this.” I threw myself on my bunk crying “I don’t want to be a mother any more, I can’t do this, why on earth did I have children” I think we should all be issued with a beam-me-up button which painlessly transports us off for parenting respite. I’d like to go somewhere where I’m bathed in healing light, given a nice hot drink and a biscuit, my shoulders are massaged and someone...

Not Another Shake

“Should I add some green stuff, have I got enough protein?” “Oh God it gives everything that funny taste?” “You need lots of protein though?” “Yes but it tastes better with avocado or banana anyway and I’ve got strawberries today” ” Do I put too much in these shakes, maybe less would suite my digestion better, oh……” The daily dilemma of breakfast. AND it’s all wrong. I...