Saturday, April 2, 2011

It's The Small Things.

Right now, I am sitting in a friend's house, watching her two beautiful boys for her while she and her partner are out for the night. The boys are both sleeping, I'm curled up on the couch with an iced coffee, a block of chocolate and Season One of Gray's Anatomy. The Cats just won the football, and tomorrow is Sunday.

It's the small things that make me happy, and today has been full of small things....

Chatting to a friend I haven't spoken to in a while....

Taking the kids to watch some vintage racing cars race up Mt Ommaney...

Miya saying, as we watched the cars, "I LOVE this! This is my FAVOURITE day!"....

Nath and the girls going for a picnic in the park, giving me valuable time by myself.....

Having a wonderful four hour nap this afternoon while my girls first slept, then played happily....

Ordering our Autumn seed collection ready for planting next weekend....

Both Eden and Miya saying "I love you", unprompted, at different points of the day....

Looking at the housework and thinking, "It will wait."....

Counting four little green tomatoes growing on our tree....

Watching the girls pick herbs and salad greens from our garden to go in the scrambled eggs from our chickens....

What have your 'small things' been? I'd love to hear them, being the voyeur that I am....

7 comments:

  1. returning to my mum's house to pick up the kids and having them run up to me so excited and all give me a hug......
    listening to Lilly and her friend Cedar play imaginary games together all afternoon........
    hearing my son Max say "Molly" for the first time (his little cousin's name).......
    having breakfast on my own this morning - a quiet house..........
    printing off photos of the kids when they were smaller and putting them up in frames.......
    driving up the freeway with the music playing loud, no one else in the car and singing very loud..........
    having lunch with good friends and sitting around chatting for hours........
    It is the little things Nicole :) and this was all in one day. Great day all round :)

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  2. oh - and watching the kids with their cousins in the back alley riding their bikes and playing ball, having so much fun together and thinking this is what being a kid is all about".........
    thanks for you post Nicole -as always great read and great thoughts :)
    Chel oxo

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  3. Thanks, Chel :) sounds like you had a lovely day too :) Its nice to pay attention to the good stuff, hey? They can be so easily lost.

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  4. Finding a bargain coffee machine at the garage sale down the street today, we all sat round in the kitchen while we cleaned it, set it all up....it seemed to take forever and the kids were sooooo excited for some 'froth'. Skip to an hour later and we discovered the froth maker didnt work and we HATED the taste of the perculated coffee! haha...far from dissapointed we were all laughing, together as a family, it had been so nice having some time not worrying about housework, bills, planning for the future etc. A simple moment in time that put a smile on all our faces and we laughed about it for the rest of the afternoon! Thankyou for writing your blog it really inspires me :) - Aimee

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  5. # baby kicking
    # archer FINALLY going down the slide without holding duncs hand + look on duncs face when telling me :)
    # creamy vanilla ice cream and ice magic
    # homemade pizza
    ....these are a few of my favourite things, la la la xo

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  6. Oh yay for the baby kicking, how long now? (Colleen does tell me but I lose track - sorry)

    Aimee I laughed when I read yours... its an acquired taste i hear, but if you ever come here for a coffee, 'real coffee' is all you'll get. Nath is a massive coffee snob.

    Thanks, girls.
    xx

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  7. Watching my daughter learn how to ride a bike. First half a turn of the pedals, then one turn, then one and a half... and she was on her way.

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