This week, my youngest child graduated high school. Our years of public and secondary school are now officially behind us. For many years, when my children were small, I volunteered at the school. I helped children with fine motor skills,…
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I am very fond of my birthday. I suppose it comes from my Mother’s ability to always make us feel very special for that one fabulous day, in any small way she could. I’m not a big fan of…
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it’s nearing the end of October and skies have been very grey wet, dreary cool and windy days have kept me indoors but today the sun shines bright a lovely surprise arrives from a friend and my wings begin to flutter…
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the sweetest little sparrow sits beside me at the window quietly every so often he taps so that I will look up from my book to notice him he is sheltering from the rain just under the edge he is…
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stepping out large blue bowl of compost in hand heading to the far corner of the garden a fairly mundane task I’m looking down watching carefully as I step with two dogs and rather long grass this has become my…
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a·maz·ing əˈmāziNG/ adjective – causing great surprise or wonder; astonishing. informal – startlingly impressive. I work at a job that I am quite certain I am not entirely suited for, it is hard, physical and most unlike anything I have done…
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what if the day starts in sunshine a nice quiet sit morning coffee book and me later comes my love with coffee, the paper, and his book perfectly timed his arrival to refill my cup seems there are days, now…
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It’s much cooler this morning, I sit with my coffee and book and my feet are cold my husband seems to have found a golf course with his name on it and so today, I quietly read alone the girls…
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Reluctantly finishing a book this morning that I love, I don’t really want to leave it behind. I go to the kitchen to get a coffee, it’s not my first, actually my third cup of the morning, yet it’s not until…
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tell me what would you do with a perfectly lovely day off first you wake up with a smile as you have been able to sleep in until the sun is well and truly up in a gorgeous blue sky…
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