Showing posts with label bloom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bloom. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

It's a wonderful life!

Yay, yay, yay - what a wonderful life it is!
The sun shines and shows her best features, my family blooms in many ways and I feel especially good.

In spite of lice (yeah, once or twice a year they show up like a plague infection at school) attacking us (which they never have done before...) I feel like a spring flower in bloom. I feel light on my feet, sunny in my mind.
I keep thinking "go figure" 'cuz hubs still hasn't gotten any money after being unemployed (having trouble getting his unemployment-insurance money because of having been an entrepreneur) and my money sure isn't enough and hubs is a bit blue lately, and all.
Still.
Springtime, baby, and all is well that's sunny. And sun is here today and hopefully tomorrow.

Intriguing that it can be like that - that I can be happy in spite of some issues that, of course, worry me.


Nowadays the little mamas up there are making up their nests, real good... 
There will be babies any day now, I suspect.


The weekend offered a breakfast opportunity outside!


The Boy geared up in brand new clothes. 
About time, everything is too short, all of a sudden.


The new and fast shoes!


The life guard guards the premises.


And begs for a cookie in between...









The Boy got to buy new spring shoes, pants and socks Saturday and he's ecstatic about it. He bought the kind of sneakers his idol wears (Nike, honey) and didn't want to take them off at all, all night.
So while hubs and I dug in order to saw new grass, BBQ:ed and planted flowers The Boy kept running around in his brand new shoes, stating that they can run fast!
Bless his little heart.






I'm so glad - and so proud - that I adopted this sweet wonderful little
lovable spanish street dog. I love him dearly. He loves us.


He loves the sun!






Yeah, they're showing themselves.












Looks like someone's writing.



Life, the way I see it
I get energy from meeting people, spending time with them and talking to them. I especially enjoy meeting other leaders, as I do when ever I take a course, via work.
Yesterday I started a course, that continues today. Of course I learn the subject but even more - I learn from listening to and talking to the other leaders. That is something I love!
I respect all their different experiences and all their new/other takes on issues. It fascinates me, this leading work, and it never ends surprising and offering new challenges.
I wouldn't have in any other way, even though I'm almost always way out of my comfort zone.







The garden is improving.




Good honey xoxo.




Some folks work hard. Some folks do pedicure...










So, that's how we roll these days. Hubs looking grim, thinking and thinking, I'm jumping around, foolishly smirking, the dog closing his eyes in the wonderful sunshine and The Boy hopping in Nikes.
Good stuff, good times but with a serious twist.

It is a little weird that a man can be too old to get a job at the age of 43, I think.

Yes, he's starting his own business again but not with a whole lot of money.
So - again - I'll keep you posted and things will work out. That, I know for sure.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

"The sunny side of the street"

Metamorphoses
Changing, evolving, developing - call it what you will but it keeps happening, whether you like it or not. The last couple of weeks, or maybe months, I've been feeling it clearly: I'm changing. Ever so softly, warmly and gracefully (at least I'd like to tell myself that!). I'm turning into this Me 4.0 I joked about in december.
It's not the age-thing it's something else.

Turning 30 I was in another phase: I was finally gathering some confidence up to start feeling like maybe I was competent, maybe I did well at work and maybe I could have a career.
Six years later I got my first position as a leader.

At 39 I got my second position as a leader and funnily somehow now the private me wants to get some attention again. Go figure!
I'm cherishing some other things these days.

I love my work and I feel good knowing I take it to the max every day - couldn't ever have it any other way - but more stuff are starting to spin up in this 40 year old mind...


Spinning on end: the love in my boy's eyes <3


Spinning for sure: The Boy and the dog: hectic, intense and energetic folks..!


These flowers are april bloomers i.e. early bloomers. I, myself, must be ranked something of a late bloomer.


As you plainly see - this IS the sunny side of the street.



Sunny side.



The finishing line
Who knows what will be at the finishing line? You get more confidence for each year, making all sorts of mistakes and making all sorts of goals.
If my 20-30 was about staying alive, giving my absolute everything keeping my son as safe as I possibly could and 30-40 was about career and mending a trashed confidence, then what will my 40-50 consist of?
And my 50-60?

Isn't life exciting?!

Who'd have thought being 40 would also mean walking on the sunny side of the street?



People in my country in full bloom in the fantastic weather.



This one has been blooming since day 1.



And I much rather bloom late than never, taking a well deserved stroll on the sunny side of the street.

"Grab your coat and snatch your hat, leave your worries on the doorstep.
Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.
Can't you hear that pitter pat and that happy tune in your step.
Life can be so sweet on the sunny side of the street".