Not so much the phone but the phone call.
I was feeling pretty low this morning until I spoke to my friend, she was so happy.
She said that the sun was shining and the birds were singing and it made her feel good. So I opened my window to let the day in, and I am listening to the birds singing their little hearts out.
She has lifted my spirits.
Thank you K x
My New Year starling was so busy this afternoon.
Here is my last page for the Simple Things Project that I have been joining in with over at IACW
The girls actually finished with a word for November but I couldn’t leave it finished there. So the word I choose for December was Hope, I thought it kind of summed up the end of the year 2010 and the start of the New Year, 2011
Hope is a belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one’s life.
Hope is the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.
Hope goes with prayer in my mind
At the end of a very difficult year filled with so much change and uncertainty for us as a family, I am hoping and praying for stability in 2011
Some of the things I am praying for right now:
Always top of my list is work for Paul
The sale of the house
Ben’s three-month review with Apple will have a positive outcome for him.
I will have the motivation and will power to loose some weight, then I will have more energy for work and to walk Pepsi.
I am also praying that Gerard and Martin will be well and that as a family we will be strong for Sara & Brian as they face a difficult and uncertain future with Alec.
I have enjoyed doing this project although towards the end of the year it was more difficult to keep going.
I am pleased that I wasn’t too ambitious with it!
It was organized by a group of people whose commitment waned as the months went by making it hard sometimes to keep my enthusiasm up!
Never the less I hope that in the future it will be nice to look back on 2010 to remember that there were some good times.
My competed (hooray!) project is here
A Simple little thing that makes me happy.
Paul brought this little pin from America in 1994 and every December it comes out of it’s box looking lovely! It makes me and everyone that sees it, smile and say HoHoHo!
I liked this photo of it in the snow.
HoHoHo in the snow snow snow, Oh dear, it is the silly season;)
The grass growing between the pavers at the front of the house has been driving me nuts for weeks.
Water overflowing from the tank in the loft making a mess as it leaks out and over the porch at the door has been driving me nuts for weeks.
Freezing days and nights causing chaos to the mess as it freezes the puddle ready to catch the unsuspecting postman, yes, driving me nuts!
And then today, I hear Ben calling through the gate; “mum, come with your camera, a photo opportunity for your blog”
How special and wonderful and thoughtful is that son of mine as he turns my complaints on their head.
Grass growing where I don’t want it to grow and water dripping where it shouldn’t be dripping, the focus of my discontentment for days and weeks is now frozen into a beautiful still life, melting my heart with its beauty.
The dripping water has frozen each blade of grass that I complained about, in it’s own case of ice, glistening in the sunshine. 
The grey, and dirty pavers now a frozen lake of sparkling blue.
Nature; simply beautiful.
This has been my screen saver for a very long time,
It makes me happy
Three bobbing sailors
Living now with frogs and weed
Childhood bathtime gone
6th December 2010