WELL its been a while.

Rather than try and catch up from where we left off. I will just carry on from today.

I feel so inspired right now.

Spring and Summer do that to me.

But then again Autumn does too.

I think its just the long dragged out Southland winters that get me down.

Right now I am loving...

How the air smells, cut grass, spring flowers, sunshine, spring rain.

The sounds of my neighborhood seem to be clearer, or spread further. I can hear beautiful laughter and play from the school over our back fence. I can head laughter and play from all the houses with kiddos on my street.

Birds sing.

The feel of sunshine on me as I garden. It actually makes me want to garden.

The feeling of dirt under my fingernails.

The satisfaction of washing on the line. In winter here it never happens.

Windows open all over the house. And for me sleeping with a little one open in my room. I love the crisp yet not too cold night air in my room.

The colours, the sky, the flowers, the grass, the trees coming back to life.

The world is coming alive around me and me with it.

I feel like a better mother & friend when I am inspired.

I feel like a better person, a better soul when I am inspired.

Yet I sometimes let myself get uninspired. I stop doing things that make me happy. I don't know why.

When did I last own a lovely scented candle? I love candles, yet I don't own any.

When did I last draw? I know I am not good but I love the feeling anyway.

When did I last sew? scrapbook? write (beyond notes in a notebook)?

I find such satisfaction in those things. Yet I let myself stop doing them.

I am back gardening. Growing food for my family. 

I have many projects and ideas brewing.

Time to make being inspired a daily job.

Because I am a better person when I am.

On the path

Well I am pretty excited to be working on some of my goals for the year.

Ive planted more herbs in my herb garden and actually started cooking with them. Something as simple as using herbs from my garden makes me feel so much more connected to the food I cook but also to nature.

The vege garden is coming along nicely and we will have potatoes to eat very soon..

I have been using yeast (an ingredient I was a bit scared of) I am making some bread, and some amazing sweet rolls. I aim to be making hot cross buns before Easter.. mmm I can only imagine how nice that would smell in my house.

I'm working on my craft space at the moment as I have set myself a blog challenge with Tracy to do something creative daily and post a picture each day on our blogs. Gardening, baking and cooking new things, sewing, knitting, scrapbooking etc all fit into creative for me.

Anyway I feel good that I am working towards my goals.. staying on path and working towards a more natural, Eco friendly, back to basics life...

Congrats miss Ashlee on your new wee man... Keep sharing pics. I need a baby to cluck over.

Simple

That is my word of 2011... SIMPLE

Keep it simple.
Keep my belongings simple.. I dont actually need every gadget available.
Keep my lifestyle simple... take it slow and enjoy the process rather than rush.
Keep my cooking simple.. make from scratch, nothing wrong with sammies and fruit for lunch.. it doesn't need to be flash.. my kiddos actually prefer simple.
Keep my rooms simple.. less stuff means less things to tidy, less stuff means we appreciate what we have even more.. well I do anyways.

Back to basics, simple and sweet, environmentally friendly... that's the way I roll in twenty eleven.

Ive decided to give myself a new goal each month.. so that I dont pressure myself to much.. and I need to carry on all the goals after the month is over of course.

January - Only free range eggs.. its something I always mean to do but only manage half the time.. but so far in 2011 its only free range and I feel so much better for making that change.

Times are a changing

I have spent years feeling like I didn't really have any worth, like I wasn't good enough, like I didn't achieve anything with my life. Of course being a mother is the most amazing job in the world and I am blessed with the job title "Mumma" BUT I need more.... I have known this for a while but couldnt decide what to do. I over think every choice, think of a million reasons why I cannot do it and talk myself out of things because I might fail.

Yesterday I took a step, on a whim I applied for a course for next year, I applied online so there is no paperwork to wait for, to leave lying around the house uncompleted.. Its done. I also filled out studylink forms online.. no backing out (well I could but I am not going to) I am doing it. No anxiety over the choice... I just DID IT.. and bugger me it felt amazing. 2011 is going to be the year I make things happen. I am going to do things I always dreamed of and in 2012 when I step into my 30th year on this earth I will feel like I have worth, I will feel like I am good enough. THAT is my goal :)