Friday, May 6, 2016

Reasons 2B Cheerful - Happily Plodding Through Life

Still a bit deflated by the emotions of Holocaust Day yesterday, I couldn't think of any great reasons to be cheerful. Then I started to think about the little things in life that grow and evolve. Sometimes it's hard not to see life as one long continuous slog but if you focus on the small changes that make big differences in the long run, you can see that it's actually a work in progress. Slow but reassuringly sure. 

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Beautiful sunsets

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Keeping up with DD's homework (although not mine atm). She seems to be getting more as the school year enters it's penultimate month. One difficult factor is workbooks that have arrived home with instructions to finish the book. I understand that they ran out of time but then stop giving regular homework as well. Anyway, with much nagging, shouting, and bribing, We are slowly getting it done even as bedtime is necessarily getting later and later.  

Discovering that cornflakes taste just as good with oatmilk. I am trying to cut way down on consuming animal products. DD has already declared that she won't eat meat, chicken or fish and though I was ok with fish, it makes life a lot easier for me as I don't have to prepare these things. She's now decided that she's off cheese except for cottage and babybel goudas, we don't use milk except for in cereal, and she only eats mashed hard boiled eggs and eggy-bread. So now I can cut out cows milk from our shopping list and from our lives. (Btw - I still buy regular cakes and biscuits for DD as well as cottage cheese, babybels and eggs).  

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It's Friday.

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Tomorrow we are going to the Bat Mitzva of my friend's daughter, M. M, along with her twin brother, changed my life. When the twins were born I saw that being a single mother was ok. There was not a great hole in their lives because they didn't have a father. My friend and her babies were, and still are, a family. I was able to see past any lingering douts I had about doing IVF alone and I made my first appointment with the hospital. The rest, as they say, is history. I thank God everyday but I also remember that my friend and her twins had a big influence on my decision 

I particularly wanted to take part in R2BC this week as Mich at Mummy from the Heart is hosting the linky again this month. Mich started this series five years ago and it's probably the longest running meme in the blogosphere. 

6 comments:

  1. A lovely post, particularly the last paragraph about the twins. Some lovely views there too. We don't have much milk either, we drink soya it's nice and better for you just like the oat and rice milks

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    1. Thanks Hannah. I tried all the different milks before I decided that I liked the oat milk best.

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  2. So glad you choose to look for the small glimpses of joy, it must have been hard after a day of Holocaust remembrance. Lol at R2BC being the longest running, not quite! Mich x

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    1. Really, there are longer running linkies? I don't know of any. All the ones I've joined in the past have stopped except for the 100 word challenge which got so big that I stopped doing it.

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  3. Your positive outlook always inspires me Rachel. Someone once told me to lie in bed at night and mentally list the things I had achieved, rather than those I hadn't - and, like yours, it's great advice. Beautiful pics :)

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    1. Taking part in this meme sort of forces you to find some positives each week. That's why it's such a good post to do every week even if there's nothing big to celebrate.

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