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Free Range Children or Super Children?

Free Range Children or Super Children?

It’s hard to believe that we are half way through the year already, tomorrow is my birthday and another year of my life has gone by. I am not bothered about that, I look at each year as another year I have been so lucky to have amazing people in my life, watch my kiddos grow, (even though I want to shrink them back to tiny tots somedays), another year of meeting new people, carving out new…

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I want a life where I can finally breathe out

I want a life where I can finally breathe out

Sitting outside the cabin getting some fresh air, or smokey air if you count the smoke drifting off the fire, I’m under the shelter with a morning cuppa and it’s raining lightly. The dogs look more like wet muddy messes than dogs, and the cows are mooing in the distance. Quite simply I am happy.

I know life isn’t this simple though. I know my husband can not do his job from here and I would have…

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A blogging good time #96

A blogging good time #96

Welcome to the 95th edition of A Blogging Good Time, hosted by myself and Katie from Mummyinatutu.

A blogging good time runs from Thursday to Saturday and all bloggers are welcome to link up one or two posts on any topic, family posts, inspirational, informative, self help, craft, days out, cooking, book reviews, photo series, funny posts, adventurous posts, we love them all.

Please make sure you…

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To blossom is to be beautiful

To blossom is to be beautiful

  In order to have everything you desire you need to open yourself up,

you need to bloom.

To bloom is to grow.

To grow is to learn.

To learn is to live.

To live is to love.

To love is to blossom.

To blossom is to be beautiful. 

mg

  Mac xx

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do we need bad times to appreciate the good?

The sand beneath my feet is white and squeaky, my children are smiling, they are wild and free, and I can taste the freshly picked strawberries in my mouth.

I sometimes wish more days could be so simple. Would we appreciate them as much if every day was like this? I’d like to think I could. We hear things like we need to feel heartbreak to appreciate love, or we need to know sadness to feel…

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you can make a difference

you can make a difference

There are some seriously awful things happening around our world fuelled by hate, prejudice, jealously, insecurity, ignorance, and greed, and if you are anything like me, sometimes this just leaves us feeling scared, and pretty helpless. We do what we can for charities and we say our prayers, but it doesn’t feel enough. People are suffering, people are living in fear and it is so easy to feel…

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Changing our perception

We often find ourselves searching for happiness, for personal fulfilment, and that something, or someone that will lead to the illusive “happily ever after”.

As a child I though I would grow up, get married, have babies and a job I loved, and I would of course then live happily ever after. In many ways I have ticked off my check list.

Husband I adore. Tick

Children. Tick (maybe not the 6,…

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"I am not waiting for anything" #mg

“I am not waiting for anything” #mg

We are pretty impatient beings, we have learned to expect things straight away, when we want them. We want a new top and we don’t even have to wait for the shops to open we just jump online and shop, express post anyone? We want something we don’t have the money for we just pop it on the credit card (and deal with the consequences later). We want to know the weather for the next week we don’t…

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