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Happy Birthday wishes to birthday girls.

And huuuge congratulations to Parsnip.

I am yet again falling behind with the chatter hopefully will catch up soon. Had a good day, long one but good. Shattered...

Craftyscholar

Love the new blog MG. Are you planning on putting recipes to go with the food pics?

thriftyscotslass

Popping on to say huge congrats to Parsnip and welcome to Charlie-Joe.

Hello to Shalva:wave:.

Have spent the day in the garden again and I cannot mmmmoooooove folks.

Am just off to check out the new blog .

Kittikins

Happy Birthday for yesterday to all lovely people.

Welcome to the world Charlie Joe, fabulous name and fabulous mummy

Love the new blog MG, the marbles are a great idea. I love my mummy-daughter days (ok, we have a lot of those) but the special ones where we go and do something, go and just BE, are awesome. Enjoy making every one of those marbles count

The school fete yesterday was sadly marred by torrential rain, but it was still great - blitz spirit, everyone running for cover under the shelters of the stalls lucky enough to have gazebos......standing out in the tipping rain still selling my wares, I couldn't leave my paying customers, even though I didn't have a coat/cardi/umbrella

Then DD, OH, my lovely friend who had come to help (she's an honorary member of the PTA now) and I went back to mine and I made chicken and quorn curries and we had lots of vino (well not DD of course, she quaffed apple juice!!), fabulous

Now I can't sleep, my body is aching from doing too much but I'm blissfully happy

MrsMoo2U

Firewalker wrote: »

Hi Cheri, I did subscribe fine - entered my e-mail address and it got me to a form and then I am in...I suspect that on mine subscribing works similarly - after that you receive an e-mail when there is a new post.

FW

Thanks MG. I managed to susbscribe to yours FW without problem and I am subscribed to others of the same type (although I dont seem to get updates for yours - only just realised that I admit I still prefer blogger as it keeps my inbox easy to manage - what can I say I am a blogaholic) Have tried again this morning after clearing my cache and it still says the same

fantasia322 wrote: »

MG's blog got me thinking, not so much about a simple life, but about Life and its Simple Pleasures, and I have discovered one that I havent done properly for about 25 years, at least until this last week. And that is the ability to breathe correctly.

Remember to breathe. As silly as it sounds, many of us don't take enough slow, deep breaths throughout the day. Taking the time to enjoy the feel of air filling your lungs and feeling of oxygen coursing through your body is a reminder of life's most basic pleasure--life itself.
I'd honestly forgotten how this felt, till the ciggies went. The sheer pleasure of filling my lungs, and today running upstairs with the dogs, 100 steps to be exact without puffing, and having to stop because of hyperventilating. Heaven, seriously xx
ETA Happy Birthday Rtandon xx

Oh how true. I used to go to a tai chi class and it was the first thing we would do to warm up, sit and breathe. I do often forget but when I remember and get back into the habit I feel fab. And I can concentrate more easily. Must start tai chi again

claudiac wrote: »

Love the marbles thing, but is that until DS is what 18? Honestly, they do stick around for a lot longer than that! Or they go off and do things, but then they come back, so don't worry too much about how little time you have with them, in my experience they don't go far or for long! And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Yes the marbles story is something I always return to. I looked for the link I posted on the old thread but couldnt find it. So pleased when I read that MG is using it. Anyway because I couldnt find the thread on the old link I went looking for it again in google to put a link on and I found this https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=438582346584 which I thought might be useful to some of you teachers/childminders out there. Here is the full story for those of you who havent heard it before
"A Little Something about Precious Time"
Written by Jeffrey Davis © 1999 All Rights Reserved
Reprinted with permission, by LandOfMarbles.com
Warning! This is one of the most touching stories you will ever read! You will finish it with a mix of tears, goose bumps, and an urgency to acquire a jar and some marbles...

"The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.
A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the basement shack with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning, turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell you about it...

I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the kind, he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling whoever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles".

I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say. "Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. Too bad you missed your daughter's dance recital."

He continued, "Let me tell you something Tom, something that has helped me keep a good perspective on my own priorities." And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand marbles."

"You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years." "Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900 which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime.

Now stick with me Tom, I'm getting to the important part."

"It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail", he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy."

"So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round-up 1000 marbles. I took them home and put them inside of a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear. Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away."

"I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight."

"Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a little more time."

"It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band.

73 Old Man, this is K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!" You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter. Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast."

"What brought this on?" she asked with a smile.

"Oh, nothing special, it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. Hey, can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles."


I have had my jar of marbles going for some time but I use monthly counts as I have to work some weekends so I dont want to waste any marbles on a work weekend :rotfl:

Bitsy_Beans

cherisong wrote: »

Oh how true. I used to go to a tai chi class and it was the first thing we would do to warm up, sit and breathe. I do often forget but when I remember and get back into the habit I feel fab. And I can concentrate more easily. Must start tai chi again

I used to LOVE my tai chi lessons. Always looked really easy when I went to watch but when I actually did it by the end of the session my legs were shaking, esepcially from doing the kicking sequence really sloooooooooowly :eek: Sadly class no longer runs otherwise I'd be dusting off my tai chi sword and heading back there

Love the marbles idea, has made me think about how I take for granted the time I have. The weeks flash by so fast, DD is 3 next month and I seriously don't know where the time has gone.

Weather is wet here so we are currently confined to barracks although I confess 8am is a wee bit too early to inflict my noisy kids on the neighbours Another day of pottering and a visit to my mum and dad later. I can confirm that at the grand old age of 36 I have not strayed far from my mum and if I don't see her every day at least speak to her (and live round the corner). So perhaps 18 isn't the end of days it might appear to be.

Have a great Sunday everyone.

Dorastar

Aaaaaaw (tears) - off to toy shop later for heaply big bag of marbles. Now just have to persuade kids away from scooby doo so we can enjoy a marble!

Memory_Girl

Craftyscholar wrote: »

Love the new blog MG. Are you planning on putting recipes to go with the food pics?

I got up this morning to "hunners and hunners" :rotfl: of emails asking the same thing.

"If you are dieting and cooking can we have the recipes?"

I feel a recipe book coming on:D - or maybe should compile a shopping list/ diet plan/ recipe book tutorial that people can opt into.

What do you think? Would you guys be interested? Make sure you subscribe to the bloggy blog and I can keep you in the loop.


.............. All this is dependant on me ACTUALLY losing weight on the recipes though isn't it?

MG

tenmah

Morning All

What a lovely story - bought a tear to my eye!

I so agree with you MG on the early morning alone time. I love the quiet and space and a cuppa, before starting on the day which is either full of work or chores. I like the weekends where I can have a cup of tea before I have a shower and just taking the time to enjoy it, whereas on weekdays there is a schedule to keep to.

My daughter did wake up earlier (although she has gone back to sleep) and seems to have slept badly on her shoulder causing pain to shoot up her neck and down her arm. Does anyone have any remedies for that? She is on morphine but it doesn't seem to stop things like that from hurting her, so wanted something to complement her normal cocktail of painkillers?

Memory_Girl

claudiac wrote: »

Love the marbles thing, but is that until DS is what 18? Honestly, they do stick around for a lot longer than that! Or they go off and do things, but then they come back, so don't worry too much about how little time you have with them, in my experience they don't go far or for long! And I wouldn't have it any other way.

I get that claudiac, but my heart says that at 18 or so he will no longer be my "best boy" and will have learned how to be a "great man" .................... by then I need to learn how to let go and have an "Adult" relationship with him to honour that.

................... mind you with 7 years between them will have "lovely boys" for many years to come.

I told him about the theatre and he is so excited to be having "time alone together" (without the toddler) for a little time. Loads of cuddles.:T

MG