Every single day my Lulu goes into her room and crosses off the day that is on her calendar.
Every. Single. Day.
It's a Calendar I picked up in the bargin rack back in January for $2.
This morning she came out to the breakfast table and said "Mum I have to read you these words, they are so important" and with that she read this to me ~
Off the back of having just watched the morning news, hearing stories of such hate and terror, as she read these words to me I fought back the tears.
Despite some of the horrible things happening in our world it comforts me to know that there is a bright future ahead of us. Little people who believe every one is equal, who believe everyone is important and who believe it's important to share this message give us all hope.
Lulu was so moved by these words and their importance that shes taken her calendar today to school to share this message with her class. Even though it's not her turn for show and tell she believes her teacher will understand it's importance.
I feel pretty bloody lucky to have such a compassionate little person in my life with such a beautiful big heart.
Mandy
Listening to Babymac on my way to work this morning and she got me thinking.
Whilst she talked about what Celebrities you'd pay to email, I started to wonder and ask you, Have you ever thought you could be friends with a celebrity?
I'm talking, forget they're famous and it's probably not going to happen, but who do you think you'd get on with, two peas in a pod, all that.
Here are 3 Celebrities I'd love to hang out ~
Tori Spelling
I was not really ever a fan of Tori on 90210 but these days she is rocking on a whole other level. She has a website http://torispelling.com/ and is right onto twitter, instagram and pinterest. We'd be able to hang out and talk for hours on that alone.
Tori believes in being creative in everything she does and given my mind is constantly ticking over with ideas, I could imagine us hanging out, kids running wild around the backyard whilst we are up to our elbows in craft supplies and tools. I'm sure we'd have a hoot of a time.
Bethany Frankel
I don't ordinarily watch the housewives of whatever, but I have stumbled across Bethany a few times. I may have caught a random one or two episodes of Bethany Ever After and have seen her on Ellen as well.
I don't mind her. I have no doubt she'd be good value and a lot of fun.
Plus, she's very business savvy and that is a trait in someone that is appealing. When you have your own desires to success it's always good to align yourself with like minded people.
Gwyneth Paltrow
There's just something about Gwyneth. Maybe the fact that she stepped away from her acting career to spend time with her family. I admire this as I sit in my corporate chair and wish I was at home with my family.
Maybe it's her ability to move from one success to another with her website. Maybe it's her good will. Whatever it is all those strengths that I do admire makes me think that whilst we are worlds apart, maybe we have a few things in common.
Maybe just maybe if we hung out, no strings attached we'd be friends.
Go on, now it's your turn, who do you reckon you could be friends with?
Cheers
Mandy
I wish I could say I'm scared of nothing, but that would be a lie.
5 Things that Scare Me ~
Loneliness scares the absolute crap out of me. I like a bit of time to myself, but I like it to be a conscious choice. It's one of the reasons I had three children. I wanted to create an environment where if we had no one else at least we had each other. There's always something happening in a family of five!
I break out into a cold sweat when I see a big spider. Perhaps even when I see a medium one. I'm always worried they're going to get me. On one occasion Rod lost a huntsman in my car. I told him he had to find it and kill it or I'd never be able to drive the car again. Fair to say the frugal side of him managed to find it.
There's the obvious one, death. And I'm talking about anyone in my family. I couldn't bare to imagine what it would be like to lose one of my family members. And it scares the crap out of me to imagine my children growing up without me. Unfortunately many families are dealt these cards. Selfishly I'll say hopefully that's never me.
I'm scared of failure. When I commit to something I like to see it through, because I can't handle the thought of not succeeding. And sometimes I wonder if I don't take on challenges in life that I should because I'm afraid of failing. And deep down that's failure in itself isn't it. :(
Finally I'm scared of being surrounded by people I don't know. I push myself through this one, as scared as it makes me feel, because deep down I know it won't kill me. However, my poor husband often gets dragged along to social occasions, my someone that is there if I need, so I'm not left feeling like a scotty no friends. I hate being introverted. Once I know all those people in the room I'm OK. But until then I could almost vomit at the thought!
What are you scared of? Or do you live a fearless existence?
Mandy
