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no pressure though. Let’s just see how things go, huh?

Good morning, dear reader! I had a fairly horrid sleep last night. One of those ‘I’m glad it’s over and I can get up now’ kind of nights. What with my younger two children needing me at soon after midnight, and then the dogs non-stop barking at around 2am – which Hubby finally managed to stop sometime around 4 – I kinda feel rather exhausted. Not the best way to start off a Wednesday, which is always my busiest day, work wise! (I’ll need an extra measure of patience today, Lord!)

Speaking of patience and young children, yesterday went well. Which I’m pretty happy about. Here’s hoping that today will be similar!

In 1 Samuel Chapter 7, the Ark of the Covenant returns to a place where it is treated with respect, and guarded by someone consecrated for that job. And the people return to worshipping their God again, and getting rid of the other gods that they had been worshipping and following. And then? The Israelites are freed from being oppressed by the Philistines who had been invading their lands. And how does this happen? By thunder! Miraculous, methinks 😀

I love how blessings follow when we start to do what’s right. We make the decision, and start to follow through on it, and then we notice that things start ‘going right’ for us. I love that. Perhaps it’s our attitude? Maybe it’s just that we’ve chosen to be positive, and seeing things in a new light makes up happier and more hopeful for the future – even if our circumstances haven’t changed at all, or maybe have changed only slightly? It’s as though suddenly we seem to have the ability to cope with more?!

I titled this post ‘returning to what’s right’. Not only because of what the Israelites did in 1 Samuel 7, but also because I think that having that positive attitude should be our default position in life. That we should encourage one another rather than tear each other down. That we should be a pleasure, rather than a pain, to be around. I think that we are all born kinda ‘knowing’ this. Call it conscience, or whatever. Today this is going to be my plan of action. I’m going to return (cos I fail, constantly!) to doing what’s right (treating others with love, respect; they way I’d like them to treat me) and keep checking that my attitude remains one of gratiude.

Here goes! Have a awesome day, dear reader! 🙂

— Ceridwyn

A colleague asked me yesterday how I was travelling, saying that i looked exhausted. She mentioned that I had black bags under my eyes. Funny – because I’ve actually been sleeping more over the past week or so! I’ve been dreaming HEAPS over the last couple of nights though, and that’s something that I don’t usually do. So maybe that’s it? When I dream, I don’t sleep as well? Or something 😛

Anyway, I was reading 1 Samuel chapter 4 this morning. Not too much about Samuel himself, this chapter was about the Israelites – a couple of battles, where they were defeated, and a couple of deaths of the battlefield where people died through grief-related incidents. But what was significant? That the Ark of the Covenant was captured. This is the object that was the Holiest of Holy objects for the people – and they had taken it to war and let it be captured by their enemies.  How this must have destroyed their morale! Not only to have lost thousands in the two battles, but also their spiritual leaders, and on top of that, their most holiest of objects! How devastating must this have been!

In hindsight, they shouldn’t have taken it with them, putting it in “harm’s way”. I guess that they thought that if they ‘brought out the big guns’ that they couldn’t be defeated. A foolish thought – relegating the Ark of the Covenant to a ‘trumps’ hand in a game of cards. So they gambled. And they lost.

As a former gambling addict, I understand the whole idea of betting. Betting big. Betting unwisely, something that you’re not willing to compromise. Fortunately, I stopped before I got too foolish with it all. Monetarily, anyway. But how much do I gamble with, on a daily basis, things which are just as precious? With my relationships with those around me – colleagues as well as those closest to me? Even my relationship with my God? Sure is food for thought for today!

Anyway, thanks for travelling this journey we call ‘life’ with me – for sharing a few minutes of your time here on my site. And have a great day, dear reader!!!

— C

For the record, this is my second post for this morning. I wrote a lovely, long piece, about the joys of Miss 8’s nosebleed, at 4:23 AM. Unfortunately, my iPhone decided to eat it. Hence, this post, showing my sad face.

oh well. Perhaps you wouldn’t have wanted to hear about my night time Dr duties anyway…

Miss 5 has now learned to ride her bike without training wheels. I have taken a video of same, and I wanted to share it here with you, dear readers, just as in the past I have shared videos of my youngest chreub at the Talara ECDP, and so on.

But WordPress, it would now seem, is asking $99 for a ‘Video Upgrade’ through WordPress. Or it looks like I can embed a video if it’s on YouTube on similar. The bumma is, I didn’t want to upload it to another website first! That takes time that I don’t have at the moment!

So. Not happy.

Oh well. At least I’ve blogged for BloxhamMarketing already this morning – and that’s something that I haven’t been able to do for weeks now! 🙂

have a great day, dear readers!

xx

C

Hubby and I went to see “Trance” the other day. It cost $40 (with the popcorn… and as Hubby said “If that’s a small popcorn, I’d hate to see the large!) and I must admit, I left disappointed. It was a pretty good plot idea, but in my opinion it could have been executed far batter. The twists towards the end were a little predictable and too try-hard-ish. For $40, I could have microwaved multiple bags of popcorn & saved the rest for the probably one day forthcoming Season 3 of Game of Thrones.

ho hum.

After what feels like a week of being locked out of my own blog (but was probably only 4 days or so) I’m back in!!!

It’s been a trying last fews days, truth be told. I spilt blackcurrant juice over the lower part of the keyboard on my MacBook Pro last Friday, and have been feeling pretty devastated by the results. Yes – it still seems to be working – mostly… but the trackpad often just decides to do things all by itself, making working on it a MUCH longer (and MUCH MUCH MUCH more frustrating) process than I am used to!

So I’m tossing up options of what to do. It’s been packed in rice to absorb as much as possible – but I think to get it back to anything near resembling what it was, it’ll need to go away and be looked at. And I’m not sure that it’s worth it. Thoughts, anyone?

Also on Friday, I was cooking sausages for my kids dinner, lifted the lid of the saucepan just to check they were done, and one of the sausages ‘spat’ boiling oil up at me. Most landed on my clothes (completely wrecking one of my favourites tops. Sigh) but the worst of it was that some got the upper part of my face. I now have a black eye, that’s NOT caused through lack of sleep!!! And I feel stupid. And sore. And today’s a school day, so I’m pretty certain that large numbers of children in my two Grade 2 classes and three Grade 1 classes will be asking me ‘what happened to your face?’. Double sigh.

Oh well. Here goes. I need to get into my day; because it won’t wait for me, right?! So. Up & at ’em, I guess. Here’s to today, dear readers – and I hope that you have great days too!

It’s Sunday. 10pm. Hubby & I are partway through the second episode inSeason 2 of Games of Thrones. We’re taking ‘Intermission’ while Hubby gets a milo.
It’s an enjoyable end to the weekend. A weekend full of blinding head / neck aches, feverish children, (being vomited on near-midnight last night not particularly a highlight) but also laughter, playing with my children, housework & gardening in between the showers. All in all, not too bad of a weekend. See you tomorrow, dear readers!

Not surprising, really. Hubby used to call my lifestyle ‘burning the candle at both ends’ but even *I* know that  my life is ridiculously busy. Something had to give. Sigh.

Here’s to getting better quick!!!