Trees - I do so love them

Trees

I hate being late for anything, and this week I just so wanted to add to the Gallery topic as it was Trees as I do like taking pictures of Trees, so if it’s alright with you I’m still going to post it on my post and hopefully next time I will get my butt into gear and meet the deadline!

We have some wonderful trees in our Village, I don’t like to admit to it but I am unable to name them [mental note to oneself - will add this to my TODO list]. 

When I look at Trees they make me feel at peace with the Village, the earth and help me find my own stillness.  They enable me to take a breath and refocus my internal clock, a kind of reloading point again.

I do have pictures of the trees at different seasons, different times in the day and from different locations. but these are mostly of Winter.

If you want to see more click on the links below and if you like taking pics why not join in - but make sure you get there on time!

We are now Forever Mummy and Daddy – At Bloody Last!

1253 days or 3 years 5 months and 6 days ago apart from it being the day of my 36^th Birthday it was also the day I made a call that would change my life forever.  It was a call to our local authority expressing the great wish that my husband and I wanted to adopt.  To us it didn’t matter whether it was one, two or three children, Girls, Boys mixed or otherwise.  We just wanted to be able to give someone a better chance of a happy, sociable, caring, loving and inclusive life.

And as of Tuesday just gone we are now officially a family of FOUR [plus 3 pets!].  Although our beautiful Daughter and Son have been with us for 708 days or 1 year, 11 months and 9 days, the Judge was able to decree the Adoption Order and life for Mummyrella can now at last MOVE FORWARD.

A huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders, I do feel more secure and complete, although this completeness has been with me since D&S arrived all that time ago, it is a final completeness one of silence and no second doubting and worrying about how things could possibly change.

Of course I will not be going into all the ins and outs of why D&S arrived at a time in their little lives to us.  But it does leave me reflecting with thoughts to Birth Mothers around the world and to send a little prayer to help them be strong in order to cope with their own situations.

And in this time of reflection I can think back to how the journey has been, but more importantly how it will be – we are heading into uncharted waters like every family, new adventures, new beginnings and new lessons to learn.  At the end of the day we all only have one life here – there may well be other lives on different plains, but lets us all make the most of what we have and be thankful for our beautiful children however they come to us.

I have just found that it is National Family Week soon 30th May - 5th June 2011 http://www.nationalfamilyweek.co.uk/  Go on have some fun!

Optimism, Change and New Life

It’s been a while and lots have gone on within Village life and I realise that it is the month of March already and time to review my listograph and make 10 new ones for the next 25 days.
The listograph was an idea generated by I need curtains for the window in my head

So to start - The review

1) Delivered and viewed my entries to the photo exhibition put on by TIN this will cover N^o8 in the list as well].

2) My Voluntary Redundancy application was accepted.

3) Met with the Walpole St Peter’s Fundraisers to generate ideas to raise £100,000 for our church roof fund.

4) Made Poppy dog her doggy Birthday Cake which she and my children seemed to enjoy immensely on her birthday “Valentine’s Day”.

5) Well I exchanged Christmas Prezzies with my Cousins but “busy mummy Cousins” left theirs for us on the kitchen table! – yes Allison & Helen I have mentioned you!!!!

6) Cannot help but continue to eat sweet things of an evening.

7) I am looking forward to starting my new business venture.

9) Still sorting out my business cards ready for cybermummy11,

10) Have started on the organising of my Village Party to celebrate the forthcoming Royal Wedding Day.

So it only leads me to make my new list of 10 things for the merry month of March.

1) Chair my first Village meeting of the Village Party for the Royal Wedding Celebrations.

2) Venture out with a Wildlife Photographer on the North Norfolk Coast for the day.

3) Devil Cat is in need of her booster – [for more info on the Devil Cat follow @valentineslady aka Poppydog on her twitter page or on her own blog page Poppydogtails].

4) Read a page a day in my new book Daily Guidance from your Angels by Doreen Virtue.

5) Listen to my new self assertiveness words Instant Confidence by Paul McKenna – it is working!

6) Work with my Life Coach in taking forward my objectives, goals, aims, wishes and in helping him and supporting him in his objectives, goals aims and wishes.

7) Continue the development of my business idea – which I will tell you more about as it develops [a little clue maybe to keep you hooked!]

8) Find a new mode of transport.

9) Sort out new Nursery days for the kids

10)     On the very last day of March [31^st] I will celebrate my last day of work as I will be become a number of the uncounted who took Voluntary Redundancy because of this new Government.

It looks like a month of optimism, change and new life – wish me well.

This Review is NOT sponsored by AMAZON!

Well I ordered two books from Amazon on Sunday just gone and they arrived today - WOW! quick service, I thought as it was Super Saver and I was expecting them later in the week. 

Excitement got to me - its funny how any parcel brings a sparkle to ones eyes.  However when I came to open them up one was incomplete - BOO! I said looking again and again through all the packaging just to see if I hadn't missed it! to no avail.

So it was onto the laptop and to search through to find the Customer Services phone number, as I like to do voice to voice complaints, followed up by emails as I find this way more productive. 

Well the customer services part of the web page was excellent and although I had to select a number of choices in regards to my situation, when I pressed the button for them to call me my phone instantly rang and another amazing WOW! departed my lips.

I can say at this moment in time the problem has been solved a replacement book with CD are on their way to me as I now write this, but I'm thinking to myself, do I really now need that book & CD [believe it or not its the Instant Confidence by Paul McKenna!]