Short and sweat...I mean sweet!!!

okay...it's late-ish....i have just got back from hip hop dance class, and I am FINISHED! I usually post to my blog when I've had time to mull over something profound or significant that I feel is worth sharing or recording, but tonight, sitting here in the dark I think I was more in search of peace and the stillness that usually comes with bedtime...which I love, love, love, but I still have a way to go before that, so I find myself here...just sitting...... Every single night without fail, as I lay down my head, I say the same thing, either silently, or aloud, "...hmmm....i LOVE my bed", and if I don't say it aloud, my dh has once or twice said it for me. I'm a busy Bee, so for me, my bed is my rightful passage to the happy world of nod, free of guilt, free of noise, when little people are in dreamland...absolute bliss....and most nights I don't even dream.....(probably because I dream all day long I guess- LOL!!)

So my intention was not to post, but here I am. And if you live a charmed life, there's ALWAYS something worth sharing, so here it is, but tonight's will be short and sweet.....

Some will relate I'm sure when I talk about having conversations with God at different times and places, and as I've said before, mine certainly aren't your conventional, IN A CHURCH - kind of way. We find each other in the strangest places, but mainly in nature, when I sit and marvel at the beauty of it, and how it all came to be. I have a friend who often finds her answers in the shower...never happened to me before, maybe because I don't shower I bathe!!!!! and maybe because this is the time when I'm concentrating on the best way to shave confortably ...STANDING UP!!!! Well yesterday was a first for me, because whilst washing hair (in the shower), my mind went back to Friday's storm and how blessed I was to not have experienced some of the devastation felt by so many who were affected......and the more I thought about it, the more I realised how lucky we were, especially considering my husband and 11 eight year old children were out in the forest playing paintball(yes, yes I KNOW!!..last time it SNOWED!!!!) At one point I actually asked.."Why is it that I was so lucky not to have anything taken from me??"....and blow me down with a feather, if the answer didn't come right back to me!!!!..."because you were chosen to give"...and I could swear I heard a "gf" at the end...

I know this sounds crazy, but those of you who know me well, will know, it's really not that crazy for me. It was such a direct answer that within 20 mins. I was in Checkers FILLING THAT TROLLEY!!! I am such a firm believer that if we really listen, so many of our answers are available to us if we look within, or really pay attention to whoever we believe provides the answers....I've often thought about abundance, and been grateful for the blessings we have experienced as a family, which are tenfold, and yesterday was like a revelation for me, not because I was prompted to give - we always have, but because I now believe that possibly, I was chosen to give, because I can, and I have to, and that is my part and responsibility.

These crazy pics were taken last Friday night (Gateway) at our squash get together tenpin night!! I told you lumo colours were coming back!!