Simply Giorgi

Time

Have you ever stopped and thought about time. How fast it goes by, the different ages in time and centuries. Time heals everything.

My baby and first born turned 10 years old on the 18th of January, I know everybody says "it seems like yesterday" but it really, really does. I still remember his birth vividly and that first moment that changed my life. I had waited for Joshua for a very long time and was so ready when he finally came, although it was hard being a new mum with a first child, it was all about him now, the sleeping in and the long showers had gone forever, I was lucky if I had a shower and the sleep deprevation was the worst but even through all this it was pure joy. The terrible two's was the worst and Joshua was a terrible two year old, I don't really know how I had another one so close to him.

In saying this through all this joy I'm talking about, there were some really, really hard times too and when I eventually was on my own with a two year old and a new born baby (now that was really hard!) I never really wished time away as I really loved the baby stage, prams, baby bags, difficult breast feeding and sterilizing bottles and all those wonderful toys I could buy them!

Time has really healed as ten years later here I am with two beautiful healthy boys, but if I could have one wish, just one, I would just love to track back to that baby time. It was really beautiful.

Happy Birthday Joshua, you will always be my beautiful boy.

Family

My Word

A favourite Blog of mine is Ali Edwards, not only is she a great scrapbooker, she is inspirational and has really great values which I admire. Last year Ali began a tradition of choosing one word for herself each January, a word to meditate and reflect on, a word to focus on as as she went about her daily life. Last year her word was Play and this year it is Peace.

Here is a little prayer of St. Francis from Ali's Blog, which I loved:

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; 

to be understood as to understand; 

to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive; 

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

I love and am inspired by being a Life Artist, capturing life in the form of Art, isn't that what Scrapbooking is all about, preserving life for generations to come and expressing life through creativity.

Today I start the same tradition, this year my word is FAMILY.

Family is something I am always reflecting on. What is Family? Is Family always blood related? What constitutes a Family?

I am the youngest of six girls born eight years after the fifth (my poor father, rest his soul) my mum's first born was a boy whom she lost at six month's then six girls! Do you think they were trying for a boy!!

My father passed away when I was seventeen, my sisters are much older, my mum is now 82. My family are my life long friends and their three grown children and we live in harmony (another word I thought of having! so many words to choose from). I am a sole parent of two boys.

So once again I ask "What constitues family?"

Kids Back Home

Nanna brought Josh and Dylan home today after returning the adopted puppy to the pet store. Poor little puppy's probably wondering what he did wrong, to be taken back to the pet store cage!

Well things are back to normal (depending on what you call normal!) Boys are back noisy as ever, getting stuck into their Christmas toys, talking both at once at one hundred miles an hour and expecting me to understand what they are saying, as I do!

It's funny we crave for peace and quiet and time to ourselves and when the kids are gone we feel like our right arm is missing (in my case my right and my left arm).

Well it must be that fresh new feeling of a New Year that's really got me going today, I've heard from friends, got stuck into work and starting to achieve something. Or maybe it is just the comfort of home and family that puts me at ease.

2007 A Brand New Year

Don't you love the beginning of a new year, a brand new start, a fresh new page, the first day of the rest of your life! All those resolutions.

Had a very quiet New Year's Eve, I really hate all that "what have you done this past year" and reminiscing on how fast the past year has gone by, time goes far too fast for me anyway, so I don't want to be reminded of it.

The first day of the new year however, is a very different story, it's all so brand new and full of promise. I just love the peace after the storm of the Christmas rush, and time with the kids!

Kids! Well this year my two boys just happened upon a sign in the pet store window asking for carers for the New Year holidays and as they were staying at Nanna's (who owns two dogs by the way) persuaded her to adopt a white Cavalier Poodle puppy. (He is oh so cute).

But wait there's more! As we have a Labradoodle who is a large nine month old (all black) he had to go to Nanna's too.

So here's the picture, Nanna who lives in a three bedroom villa, has Joshua, Dylan, (Julius our Labradoodle), (Ben & Zac, Nanna's Maltese Terriers) and the new puppy whom we are not allowed to name as he goes back to the pet store tomorrow, (but Dylan has named him Rupert).

Rupert is living the life of luxury for two days but is being torn apart by the two boys!

Thank God for Nanna's!!!