Friday, October 26, 2012

Joy Pockets

Little gratitudes in the midst of reality...


Sugar skulls for Dia de Los Muertos - I want to make some!
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Cheese and ham toasties - with red onion and tomato - dipped in tomato chilli jam
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Designing my own bookmarks - dead proud!
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A shopping trolley laden with groceries, all the essentials, which this week included two child sized broomsticks and a bunch of flowers for myself.
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Our four-year-old on seeing her school Principal in the shop: "Look Mummy, there's the bell ringer".
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Supper cooked for me on work days
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The new BBC3 comedy drama, Cuckoo about a hippy guy - it SO reminds me of my siblings!
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Anticipating mid-term break - no early mornings, lunch boxes, fights over socks or tights and getting dirty looks when the kids walk in late, again...
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A publishing contract
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The smell of autumn
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The blog's new look
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Second book now being printed
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Snuggling with my boy who's supposed to be asleep as he tells me about space rockets and oil tankers
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Aisling, she just makes my heart sing.

Please do share yours below...

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10 comments:

  1. Lovely moments of joy! And it DOES smell like Autumn, doesn't it? My children have started the countdown to Christmas, eek!!

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    1. Haha, our 7 yo said "can you feel the Christmas spirit?" last week! Mine start the countdown to next Xmas on December 26th!!

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  2. a publishing contract!!? or tomato chilli jam?, not sure which excites me most. ;)

    come add your link girl!

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    1. Thanks Mon, done, Amy will be along too from the Daily Muttering, have shouted out on the Irish Parenting Bloggers page to my sister Revolutionaries.

      Yes. A publishing contract. It's been complicated, not the unalayed joy which you might expect. But I'm allowing myself to soak it up and celebrate now, hence the flowers!

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  3. Congrats on the contract, and the jam! :)

    We will be making sugar skulls this week -- I ordered the molds from the place you got your photo!!

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  4. How inspiring to read about your new publishing contract. I always visiting your blog to read what you are up to and thinking about. Cheers, Julie

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  5. Hmm, that was meant to be "I always enjoy visiting..."

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  6. Great to see you again, Stacy. Thanks to you, and Julie for the congrats. It is very exciting.

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  7. Ha, hadn't even noticed, Julie! I read in shorthand!!

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