Nethercote Falls, Pambula NSW
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Showing posts with label Outdoors. Show all posts
Sunday, 11 November 2012
Monday, 24 September 2012
Weekend thoughts...
School holidays Hooray!! Our plans these holidays have already flown out the window and the weekend has flown buy in a haze of pain killers and pureed soup.
My beautiful man is home and it's been lovely although I feel guilty as I've really done nothing accept stare at the fridge and drop my lip. I've been a hermit since Thursday night and am beginning to feel blaa... I think this afternoon will be a trip to the veggie shop and then hire a dvd for tonight. Two more sleeps until Ben returns to work and it is quite normal for me to start feeling quietly anxious and regretful (Did we do enough? Did I tell Ben I love him enough? Did I put in enough effort? Are there any jobs that need doing? How will I cope when I wake and he's gone?) Yes, Yes, Yes, One and same as usual snap out of it and ENJOY it Jodes!
Tomorrow we are meeting friends at the Werribee Open Range Zoo it shall be a fun day, fresh air and smiles and hopefully undisrupted sunshine. I'm really looking forward to it lots of holding hands and kids yelling out in delight also we will hopefully have time to visit my new niece and sisters on the way home.
For now though the children are with Daddy out on the newest addition to our home, the Tyre swing!! Its creating a lot of laughter in our backyard at the moment even though when I look out there from the deck I can see the empty Chook pen...sob sob...another job for the school holidays after I accept our loss. I am such a sook, I know. Any how the tyre swing is attached to a very very long rope from a very very high tree and gets A LOT of air!! We actually had to chop another tree to allow for this massive air!!
In the cracked jaw department I've had no Pain Killers today and I managed to chew very carefully three piklets and they were amazing, overdosed in Maple Syrup and cream (I had no luck chewing strawberries) and even my husband commented on how good they were...No sugar honey, woo hoo!!
To make them the children threw in half a bowl of Wholemeal Plain flour (say 4 cups), 2 tsp Bi-Carb, 3 tblsp Chia seeds, 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 Vanilla bean, Two eggs and milk (roughly 2 1/2cups) until a nice consistency. Yummo quick and easy lemon squeezey!xx
My beautiful man is home and it's been lovely although I feel guilty as I've really done nothing accept stare at the fridge and drop my lip. I've been a hermit since Thursday night and am beginning to feel blaa... I think this afternoon will be a trip to the veggie shop and then hire a dvd for tonight. Two more sleeps until Ben returns to work and it is quite normal for me to start feeling quietly anxious and regretful (Did we do enough? Did I tell Ben I love him enough? Did I put in enough effort? Are there any jobs that need doing? How will I cope when I wake and he's gone?) Yes, Yes, Yes, One and same as usual snap out of it and ENJOY it Jodes!
Tomorrow we are meeting friends at the Werribee Open Range Zoo it shall be a fun day, fresh air and smiles and hopefully undisrupted sunshine. I'm really looking forward to it lots of holding hands and kids yelling out in delight also we will hopefully have time to visit my new niece and sisters on the way home.
For now though the children are with Daddy out on the newest addition to our home, the Tyre swing!! Its creating a lot of laughter in our backyard at the moment even though when I look out there from the deck I can see the empty Chook pen...sob sob...another job for the school holidays after I accept our loss. I am such a sook, I know. Any how the tyre swing is attached to a very very long rope from a very very high tree and gets A LOT of air!! We actually had to chop another tree to allow for this massive air!!
In the cracked jaw department I've had no Pain Killers today and I managed to chew very carefully three piklets and they were amazing, overdosed in Maple Syrup and cream (I had no luck chewing strawberries) and even my husband commented on how good they were...No sugar honey, woo hoo!!
To make them the children threw in half a bowl of Wholemeal Plain flour (say 4 cups), 2 tsp Bi-Carb, 3 tblsp Chia seeds, 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1 Vanilla bean, Two eggs and milk (roughly 2 1/2cups) until a nice consistency. Yummo quick and easy lemon squeezey!xx
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
A little dark hole....
It had been two weeks since my last workout and I was chomping at the bit!! Sunday we went for a 2km jog, the girls on bikes and Mr Spaghetti in the pusher it was a beautiful day and so nice to be getting some vitamin D...finally. Afterwards a play at the park and quick catch-up with friends while I drooled over those able to jog freely for as long as they desired.
Monday was finally the day!! The children were healthy and the car running smoothly and so of to kinder and then time to run....I was so keen and ready to improve on my time...bring it on!
6km later and a slight feeling of nausea mixed with elation and I was on cloud nine, best time ever and proud as punch.
This run however symbolized a lot more than just running better, faster. My weekend consisted of an overdrive in hormones resulting in feelings of blue and grey, that mixed with the realization that my dog is missing and that my son needed to be put to bed roughly twenty-eight times. I NEEDED this run and I new that I could climb out of that hole at the bottom of the hill and get back to the top!!! And there I was QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAIN!!! (I allow myself an enlarged ego directly after a run!)
Challenge yourself, push yourself, If your unhappy with a a part of yourself or your life CHANGE IT, It may take a couple of weeks, a year or seven attempts to get to the first step of your goal, but if you continue to remind yourself of your goals and why you want to reach them, keep inspiring yourself let others inspire you, have gentle reminders and be okay with failing, I believe its trying again that's the real test....Dont give up, GET TO THE TOP OF YOUR MOUNTAIN!!.x
Monday was finally the day!! The children were healthy and the car running smoothly and so of to kinder and then time to run....I was so keen and ready to improve on my time...bring it on!
6km later and a slight feeling of nausea mixed with elation and I was on cloud nine, best time ever and proud as punch.
This run however symbolized a lot more than just running better, faster. My weekend consisted of an overdrive in hormones resulting in feelings of blue and grey, that mixed with the realization that my dog is missing and that my son needed to be put to bed roughly twenty-eight times. I NEEDED this run and I new that I could climb out of that hole at the bottom of the hill and get back to the top!!! And there I was QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAIN!!! (I allow myself an enlarged ego directly after a run!)
Challenge yourself, push yourself, If your unhappy with a a part of yourself or your life CHANGE IT, It may take a couple of weeks, a year or seven attempts to get to the first step of your goal, but if you continue to remind yourself of your goals and why you want to reach them, keep inspiring yourself let others inspire you, have gentle reminders and be okay with failing, I believe its trying again that's the real test....Dont give up, GET TO THE TOP OF YOUR MOUNTAIN!!.x
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Spring has Sprung!
I never mean't to have such a break in between posts and I've never felt stuck for anything to say in this blog so far, until recently....I think I was just quietly content, enjoying a comfortable silence.
Ben is of course back at work and we enjoyed such a warm sunny day one of three in the past weeks, blossom on the trees, our radish seedlings are sprouting, the birds are singing every morning, the sun...oh that glorious sun I LOVE YOU! and most recently and so excitingly I have a new niece Malia!!! I'm so so excited and what a perfect time of year to be born, she is one day old today.
Love Spring and also Summer, Autumn and Winter the beginning of a new season means change to our eating, style and activities, it changes our perspectives on our surroundings, living in the bush amongst the gumtrees I love to watch the changing colours and textures around us It's so inspiring to me and definately puts a smile on my dial.
This morning the kids have played tea sets, cubby's and block cities with basket/pipe cleaner semi trailers carting the blocks around the house. I love seeing them play in this way and I'm so excited that my niece Iluka now has a best buddy to grow and play with, you just cannot beat it...joy.
This afternoon the children and I are going to get muddy in the garden, there is SOO much to do out there but rather than get frazzled I will look beyond the overgrown grass, felled trees that need stacking and sticks and bark to be raked and I will do little by little and enjoy the fresh air and beautiful surroundings. Another mission we have in the garden is to fill up the sand pit and improve the kids play area with a swing, mud kitchen and gravel pit for the trucks...we will get there. I will post photo's of before and after, am yet to improve my skills in those areas, I shall one day have beautifully shot photo's with amazing light and juxtaposed objects!
Ben is of course back at work and we enjoyed such a warm sunny day one of three in the past weeks, blossom on the trees, our radish seedlings are sprouting, the birds are singing every morning, the sun...oh that glorious sun I LOVE YOU! and most recently and so excitingly I have a new niece Malia!!! I'm so so excited and what a perfect time of year to be born, she is one day old today.
Love Spring and also Summer, Autumn and Winter the beginning of a new season means change to our eating, style and activities, it changes our perspectives on our surroundings, living in the bush amongst the gumtrees I love to watch the changing colours and textures around us It's so inspiring to me and definately puts a smile on my dial.
This morning the kids have played tea sets, cubby's and block cities with basket/pipe cleaner semi trailers carting the blocks around the house. I love seeing them play in this way and I'm so excited that my niece Iluka now has a best buddy to grow and play with, you just cannot beat it...joy.
This afternoon the children and I are going to get muddy in the garden, there is SOO much to do out there but rather than get frazzled I will look beyond the overgrown grass, felled trees that need stacking and sticks and bark to be raked and I will do little by little and enjoy the fresh air and beautiful surroundings. Another mission we have in the garden is to fill up the sand pit and improve the kids play area with a swing, mud kitchen and gravel pit for the trucks...we will get there. I will post photo's of before and after, am yet to improve my skills in those areas, I shall one day have beautifully shot photo's with amazing light and juxtaposed objects!
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Weekend pieces
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| Little Bears favorite thing in the world, found like this......... |
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| and like this....... A naughty puppy making her mark. |
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| Fixed by daddy with love. |
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| Secrets shared on top of the ute..... |
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| Miss S..... |
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| Where there's Heidi there's a stick... |
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| Mr Spaghetti..... |
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| Gumboots all the way.... |
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| Plum the naughty puppy and me.... |
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| Thoughtful hubby.... |
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| Good food after hard work..... |
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| Playtime.... |
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| My boys...sent me this while I was at the hairdressers... |
Saturday, 11 August 2012
CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY
I felt a little lost this weekend, It started Thursday morning my beautiful Mr Spaghetti awoke pale and with a sore stomach. Poor little thing was miserable so we cancelled kinder for the girls and a long awaited play date with a much loved little family. By lunch time Mr Spaghetti was actually sick and then seemed to pick up however I rang my brother and cancelled our 5km run together along the coast, oh I was soooo looking forward to this run....not to worry poor Mr Spaghetti cheer up little buddy. On our way home from the coast we'd planned to pick up my stepson so that he could spend the weekend with us and some family friends that were coming to stay, however you guessed it... we cancelled. I sound as though I'm feeling sorry for myself don't I? It wasn't that bad, I was more worried about Mr S although as I've mentioned before our family has spent a lot of time being ill of late, colds and flu and the dreaded gastro and now my heart just sinks, I'm beginning to feel "over it", "over" the weather, grey cold and wet, "over' the bugs and virus's and "over" being stuck inside, I was craving fresh air. So Friday afternoon, fully recovered and everyone healthy yet maybe contagious?? We rugged up and took the dogs for a walk along the road through the bush, bikes, prams, scooters, three children and two dogs. I gained my fix of fresh air, the kids shook the wiggles out, we walked up and down hills, through puddles, swapping bikes and prams and scooters and taking turns to walk the puppy. Once we arrived home warm and relaxed, calm and content the children played and I had a quick play on the computer, I came across the words "we choose to be happy" or there about ( I would of made a link although I didn't bookmark the page). There are choices I make, I choose to be positive as opposed to being negative, I choose not to be quick to judge, I choose to do the dishes before the children are in bed, I choose not to litter (major pet hate of mine), I choose not to put my fruit in a plastic bag at the fruit shop and I choose to wear pajamas all day some days sad but true. But choosing to be happy, aren't you just happy or not? I know positive thinking and exercise and being kind to others etc effect our moods, but actually choosing to be happy??
I slept well last night and awoke this morning and said to myself "I choose to be happy" it seemed to make sense "I'm going to be happy today... all day?" That's what I've done, the children were non responsive to the " please pack up the lego, get dressed and finish breakfast so we can get to swimming on time" request and three requests later I stayed happy and they eventually responded after turning of the TV and pointing out on the clock when we were leaving dressed or not. And so on and so fourth, I had this little mantra going on in my head all day and perhaps today was going to be a great day with or without me saying this to myself but it seemed to put an extra skip in my step on this cold wet day and we made it to swimming.
Right now the children are all asleep, the house is cosy and warm, i'm enjoying a glass of wine while watching the football and writing this and tomorrow while enjoying breakfast with my lovelies I'll tell them that its only three sleeps until Daddy's home.
Sometimes there's no choosing. x
I slept well last night and awoke this morning and said to myself "I choose to be happy" it seemed to make sense "I'm going to be happy today... all day?" That's what I've done, the children were non responsive to the " please pack up the lego, get dressed and finish breakfast so we can get to swimming on time" request and three requests later I stayed happy and they eventually responded after turning of the TV and pointing out on the clock when we were leaving dressed or not. And so on and so fourth, I had this little mantra going on in my head all day and perhaps today was going to be a great day with or without me saying this to myself but it seemed to put an extra skip in my step on this cold wet day and we made it to swimming.
Right now the children are all asleep, the house is cosy and warm, i'm enjoying a glass of wine while watching the football and writing this and tomorrow while enjoying breakfast with my lovelies I'll tell them that its only three sleeps until Daddy's home.
Sometimes there's no choosing. x
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