being present

I have recently read a blog post that caused me a wee aha moment, the kind that makes you sit back and take a think about how you want to live.
These moments are important because they allow us to welcome change with open arms.

Honest to blog, I think too much, like wheels turning all the time, waking at 3am because I need a solution to a problem that really isn't. I sit, planning, goal setting, thinking about what to do next.
Rarely do I take the time to sit and savour. Which is the reason I am making my new goal something different, instead of the plan of where I will be next year, next month, in an hour, I am present here and now. It feels good.



In the moment you can savour the smells, tastes, sounds and feel of what is right there in front of you waiting to be enjoyed. For me, it has been the basics. My beautiful family, the fresh air when we play outside, the garden, the food we plan and cook and enjoy, and the friends who come by who I now stop every other thought to focus on. I am here, in this moment.

The week that was...

hump day nuggets (on our family hump day (saturday)).

puddle play on the driveway



truly free range eggs



avos plucked fresh from the tree



old italian recipes



hanging with friends



lunch in a giant grassy field



and a home filled with so, so much love.

♥ ashley

p.s. join in on the nuggets here, and if you do let me know, would love to see them, xx

sunshine, icy pops

our neck of the woods has been chilly and rainy lately. the kind that tingles the tips of your fingers and makes you rub the tip of your nose to make sure it is still there.
so a day of sunshine is a welcome change.
piper and i didn't miss a beat getting out in the garden with pup for a break from hanging in the home and instead dug our fingers in the sunkissed dirt and munched down some mango yogurt icy pops.



following this with a quick spin at the op shop, scoring piper two lovely additions to her wardrobe, meant a very tuckered out little lady heading off to nap time.
I have started back at work three days a week. it is so hard to leave the house in the morning, but somehow i do, and it is making the sweetness of every other moment i have with my precious family taste just that extra bit special.
i was blessed to spend a year at home. but a mortgage and monsieur still at uni externally means i need to help pull in some dollars. i thought it would be harder than it is, but we made it work. p is with a friend once a week and her daddy the other days, then me. she is happy as can be, all that matters in the end.
off to catch up on news in the blogosphere. happy weekend lovelies.
x
♥ ashley