Blue Heart

This month is a busy blogging month!   

I am participating in  March Photo A Day Challenge, brought to life by Fat Mum Slim. Also, March's NaBloPoMo hosted by BlogHer.  And preparing for Blogging from A to Z Challenge April 2012 by pre-writing the blogs for next month.

 

Today's photo of the day is something you wore.

I was not planning to share an old (very old! almost 13 years!) shirt from when I was pregnant with eldest; if I am not mistaken, I bought it from Hennes & Mauritz. Yes, it was my maternal shirt.  A favourite. No, I am not pregnant again!  It's simply a nice loose shirt for sweating in when I bike, and  when I run.

The heart-shaped sweat print was cute, so I thought as I removed it to dry myself, and get a new top, I might as well use it for the photo of the day.

Blue is my favourite colour, it makes me happy, free, and liberated.  Not only because it's the colour of the sky or the ocean.  When I was little I felt that colours have their own individual personalities, and blue was I felt a friend.

Before I totally sound insane, let me bid you a good day! :D Here is hoping the rest of your week will be brightened with techni-colour happenings.

What's your favourite colour?  And how does it make you feel?

Snapshot of our 5PM

This month is a busy blogging month!   

I am participating in  March Photo A Day Challenge, brought to life by Fat Mum Slim. Also, March's NaBloPoMo hosted by BlogHer.  And preparing for Blogging from A to Z Challenge April 2012 by pre-writing the blogs for next month.

 

Today's photo of the day is  5PM.

It's a short and sweet post for today, folks. :) 

This is a day in the life picture or perhaps more accurate a 5PM in our lives.

I asked Middle Daughter to make sure the Littlest does not fall off with the bike, while I open the shed to store our bikes.  As I was doing so, my sport's wrist watch signalled that it was 5PM. I took the camera out of my jacket's side pocket, and snap this moment for posterity.

Details, details, details.  Littlest almost always fall asleep shortly before we reach home after school.  Middle Daughter almost always has that far away dreamy-eyed look. :D  And the yellow balloon is for P, he needs it for his Super Decathlon.  I forgot why, and how. 

What happened to you at 5PM today?

Start of School's Special Smiles

This month is a busy blogging month!   

I am participating in  March Photo A Day Challenge, brought to life by Fat Mum Slim. Also, March's NaBloPoMo hosted by BlogHer.  And preparing for Blogging from A to Z Challenge April 2012 by pre-writing the blogs for next month.

Today's photo of the day is a smile care of the Littlest!

She loves school, and was very excited the night before to finally go back and see her friends.

Here are her different smiles, from left to right:

- Smile at mommy smile, so she will finally stop taking pictures, that I could resume my crafts and focus!

- It's great to be back home smile after a half day at school.

- I just saw two horse-riders on their magnificent horses smile!

- We watched the beautiful white dog at the farmer's yard smile.

What made you smile today? :)

Same Time, Next Year

This month is a busy blogging month!    

I am participating in  March Photo A Day Challenge, brought to life by Fat Mum Slim. Also, March's NaBloPoMo hosted by BlogHer.  And preparing for Blogging from A to Z Challenge April 2012 by pre-writing the blogs for next month.

Today's photo of the day should be bedside, I will be recycling a photo again from last year (simplify!), which was from my project 365 self-portraits.  It's fun to revisit blogs because it gives me this sense of rhythmic seasonal cycle, that you would like to have in the country you are creating as your second home.

This image brings me back to a wonderful Sunday we had last year: simple, productive and homey.  I finished with Spring cleaning our bedroom, while P finished preparing and cooking Sunday's dinner, and the girls were pleasantly distracted, busy playing (or grooming as in the case of our oldest this year!).

All quiet chores, all familiar rituals , and something we also are doing a lot this year around this time.

Have you started with your own Spring cleaning? What are the familiar rituals you visit at this time of the year?

P.S. During the girl's Spring school break, we bought a lot of stuff we have been meaning to buy for our home since last year Spring.  The best of those stuff were sleeping pillows! Each and every member of the family is a proud owner of a new fluffy feel good pillow! :D

Three in One Blog

  This month is a busy blogging month!   

  

I am participating in  March Photo A Day Challenge, brought to life by Fat Mum Slim. Also, March's NaBloPoMo hosted by BlogHer.  And preparing for Blogging from A to Z Challenge April 2012 by pre-writing the blogs for next month.

Speaking of A to Z Challenge.  Last year, I began my first participation in this blogging event by introducing the village we are living in, A for Ankeveen.

Since today's photo of the day should be your neighbourhood, I will be recycling both photo and post from the 1st of April, 2011, my first entry for the A to Z Challenge, for today's blog.

The entrance to our village, our neighbourhood

Living in the village, for someone like me who was born in a city and almost lived her entire life in metropolises, is like walking in many scenes of various books I have read throughout my life.  It is like being transported in idyllic surroundings of Brother Grimms,  Astrid Lindgren's writings, to name a couple of my favourites.

I am very happy that our girls are growing up not only  with nature surrounding us but learning how to have appreciation of  simplicity in village life.

The badge/insignia of Ankeveen

We are born city mice, now basking in the life of country mice! Living a dream. ☺

Are you living in the place that resembles the one you dreamt of in your head while reading the books in your youth?

2. Photo A Day: Fruit

I am participating in  March Photo A Day Challenge, brought to life by Fat Mum Slim.

Today's promt from NaBloPomo: Would you rather make your own choices or have someone make them for you?

As a rule I like making my own decisions specially if it will affect my life in unalterable way.

But for those small decisions, like what to do with an old banana, when it is one single old banana, I'd rather leave another person to make the decision for me. :P

1. Photo a Day: Up

I am participating in March Photo A Day Challenge, brought to life by Fat Mum Slim.

March 1 ~ Up

P's Super Decathlon finally UP in the sky!

He bought it last year in November , practiced after that a lot on the simulator.

Today he finally, blissfully flew his yellow bird.

I wrote a haiku to celebrate P's joy:

Way up in the sky
a yellow happiness flew
Look up Spring is near