Thankful Thursdays

Today I am grateful that your Daddy is home from his business trip tomorrow. Today I am grateful that my first week of being 30 wasn't all that bad after all. Today I am grateful that You enjoyed your swimming class almost as much as I enjoyed taking you. Today I am grateful to have the people that matter the most to me in my life.


- love Mummy x

40's inspired bride, teepees & a tearful best man!

At just 5 and a half months old you have attended your very first Wedding, and what a Wedding it was.  Rain threatened as the bride entered the church, but when we all emerged after the beautiful ceremony, the sun shone for the picturesque walk down the little lane to the teepee marquees in the back garden of the brides family home.  You were a very good girl during the ceremony, after all you couldn't help the almighty "splat" that echoed through the congregation when you threw up over Daddy's shoulder, it had of course, been Mummy's bright idea to give you a bottle to keep you quiet.  But mayhem did not descend, instead you happily gurgled away to Daddy, whilst Mummy was on her hands and knees in her lovely dress, wiping up the sick!

The teepees were amazingly deceptive, everyone wondered how we would all fit into the funny shaped tents, but when you walked through the entrance they opened up into a vast Wedding wonderland, with a bar and chill out area in the first, then the dining area, ending with the dance floor in the far tent.  Long picnic style benches, with cosy sheepskin throws lined up in front of the top table, and place names were hand written on huge pebbles (which are now happily displayed on our decking).  Twinkly lights wound round the teepee struts, and ornate lanterns set the mood.

You fell asleep during the speeches but I'm sure the groom didn't take offence, the best man's speech was very touching as he got very emotional, so he would have probably been pleased at one less set of eyes on him.  During the groom's speech he said something that has stayed with me since, he said,

"Don't marry someone you can live with, marry someone you can't live without!"

So, little Ocean, when your older (much older), and considering getting married, I hope you remember these wise words spoken by the groom, at the very first wedding you attended.

Thankful Thursdays.

Today I am grateful for My little Ocean.


- love Mummy x

Thankful Thursdays

Today I am grateful to have the support of my family. Today i am grateful to have experienced life in a way not many people are priveledged enough to do. To have travelled the world and experienced many different cultures, and to hopefully have become a more rounded person from that. Today i am grateful to have the ability to follow my dreams, and to try and further myself. Today i am grateful to feel connected, and to feel open spiritually. Today i am grateful to have been given the gift of a little person who everyday teaches me about love and happiness. Today i am grateful to be Ocean's mummy!