Interruptions OR Not Interruptions?

August 30 - Interruptions

"It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil".

Anne Wilson Schaef writes:  How difficult it is to mesh the process of our life and the process of our work.  Yet, how sweet it is when that happens!

I've been feeling really impatient lately as it seems that I have lots of little things that are waiting on finalisation and I'm just not getting anywhere *sigh*- too many 'interruptions / road blocks.  Things like; becoming a citizen, university funding and application, court (whether my step-daughter is coming to live with us full-time or not), my health (my tonsils removed) and something else really big but again I need to wait PATIENTLY!

Patience is really not a strong point of mine.  Maybe that's why all this is happening...maybe!  

Everything happens for a reason whether we planned for it or not....trust the process of life and all the processes will fall into place.

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Who were you before the world told you who you should be?

WOW! That is such a powerful question!

A few months back I had my little boy Jazz who is 11, come home from school upset because its all so hard for him (he has Global Development Delay) and he had noticed that he doesn't always do the same work as the other kids. 

He asked me, 'Why am I different Mum'?

I could of gone into the 'clinical' reasons behind it but instead I reminded him of how amazing he is and all the things that he can do that I can't; like riding a skateboard for instance. I have tried several times but decided that broken bones were not worth it lol...I totally suck and can't even stand on it without both of my boys holding me up, one on each side. But I digressed, where was I? I was telling him how amazing he is.... 

Anyway that seemed to appease him somewhat and the conversation ended.

Recently when having a conversation about what my boys want to be when they are older, my baby boy paused, thought about it for a little while, then comes out with 'I just want to be myself'.

What a perfect answer! 

All I can ever ask for my boys is that they be happy with who they are and what they choose to do in life. Provided of course they always remember the morals and values I have raised them with.

Do not allow yourself to be labeled....you are so much more than a title, a condition, a descriptive word. You are YOU and there is only one of you out here in the big wide world.

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Impression Management

August 29 - Impression Management

"Women's virtue, is man's greatest invention" - Cornelia Otis Skinner

"A virtuous woman is someone who is herself"

How much of what we do is to please others?

How much of who we are is defined by how others see us?

How easy it is to lose ourselves in the opinions of others!

I think this quote says it all!

I'm not in anyway saying to be rude and obnoxious or not to listen to constructive criticism as it can help us grow.  However, I am saying to stand firm in what you believe and most importantly to believe in who you are!

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Creative time with my boys....

Monday 29th August 2016

Yesterday afternoon my boys came home from their Dads and got straight into making their Book Week parade costumes for this morning.

Firstly, they looked through their books and after a few mind changes decided on Steve and The Creeper from Minecraft (which is also a household favourite xbox game - I love how it unleashes so much creativity and with the help of the instruction books it also gets them reading).

Then we had to figure out how to make a costume.  

The boys decided on box character heads and normal clothes to match.  We found some boxes in the shed and overcome the frustration at not having the right size boxes with a little quick thinking to rebuild them to the right size (no easy task let me tell you).

Then we wrapped the boxes in white paper so we had a clean slate to work with.  We then flicked through the books to choose our design and drew it up on the box.

  

Next job was to cut out paper shapes, stick them on and then finish them off with either paints or crayons.

Once all done, we placed them beside the heater to dry.

As you can imagine there was so much excitement getting ready this morning and it was decided that riding scooters to school with box heads was not the safest of ideas LOL.

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