A teeny update.

Every week Echo and I go to Japanese class together. Started last year after she stopped going to the drama classes as that were on the same day.

My blogging trend

I've just noticed today that I seem to be putting a new post on my blog every other month. So I'm thinking of the possibility of setting myself a goal to try to put a new post once a month...

I've been pretty good about updating my goodreads list so maybe that's more the direction I could take with this blog.

Later.

Minibeasts...

We now have an ant farm thanks to kind friends (Diolch!). The farm has been moved around the kitchen for a few weeks now but with no ants still as of yet. So many other happenings keep happening. Since the last post we have had 2 caterpillars in the house in a small tank for awhile and now there are some old stick insect eggs too(from the freezer-I'm trying to clear it out so I can defrost it again).
We are still planning to have the ants it just hasn't been part of our happenings yet. Hopefully soon though.

Ants

Macalla has decided she might like to have an ant farm. She has decided that she doesn't want any of the bitey ones though. :)

I am so very lucky

While dd and I were sharing one of our wonderful hugs, I said something like "How did I get so lucky to have you in my life?" and she often has a lovely reply. This time was a new one and sweet as ever. She said "you were lucky when you found dad".

Been awhile...

I've decided to use this blog in a different way than I'd originally intended. At least for now. I had hoped to keep a sort of journal online as I know others do wonderfully. I've realized I don't feel totally comfortable doing that. Not totally sure why that is. Maybe that'll change as I am writing more just not online. When I am online though I find these great sites, quotes, or whatever that I want to get back to later but never do. So this is now what my blog will be for. A place to put the items I come across online that I find especially interesting that day or week and would possibly like to learn more about.

Is it that I'm feeling unbalanced or just changing?

The other day I thought I was feeling unbalanced in some way. I found a book in a charity shop called Timeless Simplicity. It was just what I needed to read. Like most things everything about the book isn't perfect but it helped me to feel more balanced just reading about how I can change some things around here for me. There's definitely more though that I want to do for us as a family not just me. I know that I've realized over the last few months that our family doesn't do negative emotions very well. By that I mean we try to avoid them or stuff them down in some way to get back to the Joy as quickly as possible. I don't want to wallow in negative feelings but some wonderful people online have helped me to realize that all our emotions and feelings can be good things too. I think our society in general though teaches us that only the positive emotions are worth anything. The negative ones though can really help us to learn much more about ourselves and certainly trying not to deal with them isn't helpful. I can see that now. I know it starts with me and then things will just start to fall into place. When I post it's often someone else's post that inspired me in some way. Thank You for my inspiration for posting today Maisha. http://7freespirits.blogspot.com/2009/08/learning-to-let-it-flow.html

What loving action can I take right now?

just thinking about this makes one feel better and happier imo. Each and every day this question can be asked again and again and be so different and sometimes very much the same. Right now my loving action is watching one of the Harry Potter films with the family. Dh is a big fan of listening to the books and then seeing the films. Another action I took this evening was to join a wow yahoo list group. Back to watching the movie!