FIVETRIBE

Looking back at My Steps to Change post I am now reflecting on how different our weeks have become: 1. Downgrade of our dstv to Compact.  My house is quiet, my kids are very busy doing stuff. Hooli created a house out of clay and playing in his fort, Lulu has been painting ceramics and designing stuff and Honey has been making incense and scented candles. The kids are also calmer and less irritable. 2. I have removed facebook and push email from my cellphone. I havent even really missed it at all. Facebook is wonderful and I really enjoy the times I do pop in - from my laptop at home. The email thing I am pushing further by  upgrading spam filters and unsubscribing from ALL newsletters I had previously subscribed to. My cell phone and I even spend time apart these days. :-) 3. I will read to my kids every day. This has been great, in the beginning the kids were restless and twitchy but now they really look forward to it. If we do it in the evenings they have to ...

If you havent read yesterdays post , please go there first to read it. For those that have - this is what got me started on my little journey. I would suggest you grab a pencil and a piece of paper. Watch the clip - its roughly 8mins. Let me know what speaks to you; its a simply exercise - simplicity works for me so this was right up my alley! Please be aware that these changes I am talking about are not goals or bucket list ideals. They can more be described as Big Picture changes. Like this....I am thinking of my life in, say, 7 years time. What do I see? What do I *want* to see? For me that is the first step. Isolating what I want to see in the years ahead. And then asking myself the questions...what am I doing TODAY to ensure I see those results in the years to come. Simple hey? Let me lay out some really basic ideas: I want to still be married to the same bloke. So...how much time am I investing in my marriage? Is it my priority? How can I make it better? What d...

For some time now I have been suffering some sort of inner discord. It has presented itself rather oddly with me feeling not at peace in my skin or my soul or my head or anywhere. I havent felt *right* . Through a series of events which I will share later I have managed to isolate the stone in my shoe that is making pottering through this life mildly uncomfortable. My behaviour/ way I spend my time does not match my core values.  Just think about that statement for a moment. It is big .  I am not saying that I need to be a better wife/mother/christian/friend/daughter blah blah blah etc. It is more than all that. I have certain values/ideas/dreams that I hold to and yet my daily behaviour does not match/bring me closer to the outcomes I desire. Have you ever felt this way? I want to be more intentional about how I live. In a fun way. Not in a boring, chasing-after-the-wind way. The stuff I see in my minds-eye? I want to see it come to fruition. I have begun a process...

Blogging and facebook is a funny thing. You can project anything / anybody you want to be out there. So here is the thing; maybe some of you have some wrong perceptions so lets have a little confession session shall we? I love shoes. But I only own 14 pairs. (for guys reading this...that is VERY few for a girl who loves shoes okay?) I dont really enjoy shopping unless I am looking for something specific or am in a very frivolous frame of mind. In fact, I avoid the mall at all costs unless someone is meeting me for coffee. I can cook. I am good at it too. I choose to hate it cos it sucks the life out of me. I will avoid having to cook at all costs. I am not as frivolous as my Other Blog makes me out to be. In fact, my Other Blog is my antidote to real life. Its full of meaningless tripe. But that is okay because sometimes meaningless tripe makes me happy and takes my mind off heavy meaningful dilemmas. I think about stuff. A lot. I know some people may see me as a *froth and bubbles* ...