Showing posts with label photoblog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photoblog. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2011

The Comforts of PMS


One of the many reasons for the 365 is my struggle with PMS. It has affected the quality of life in many ways that I can't describe in only one blog; it's only this year that things have improved since I begun having my cycles at the tender age of 10 y.o.

I have been planning for a long while to change my gynecologist for very personal reason but everything else took priority over it.  I know, I know, nothing should be more important than health but again, that is the reason for the 365,  to aid my family and I adjust our priority carefully and focus on them.

Yesterday was the first time, I simply did not think of being on time with posting the blog, I gave up being anal, and went to bed to rest my mind, my body.  So, you would notice that this once again is a backdated blog (meant for yesterday - Friday but posted  today, Saturday).

 I will be posting more backdated blogs from the time we went to Germany and the first two weeks of the girls going back to school. It's a lot of work but I have to do it to keep me motivated with the 365 of blogging.

This decision is partly influenced after watching Julie & Julia with the family on our Friday Movie night.

This blog, the blogs I created are personal projects to aid me with the transitions of living a new life here in the Netherlands, and although I care very much for my family and friends, who are supporting me, and are grateful to them and all the readers I have thus far connected since I created this blog, I was reminded by the film, that this journey is ultimately my journey, and I can take any path, or do anything to continue that path I chose, as I began the blog.

It's always a challenge to think straight before and during PMS but it's a relief once the cycle is finish and one can think clearly again. With 365, I realise with much clarity, that I am not crazy all the time, but only most of the time. In between, I am rational, and I contribute positively to the lives of my family, my community and the world at large. I am not only the one, who is comforted but I comfort a lot of important people in my life, too.

On those crazy days, meanwhile, I take solace where I can, usually with the simple comforts of  pizza, cola, and brownies.


What are your  comforts for PMS (or you partner's) ?



Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Mother's Day On the Beach

The eldest found the shell and took a picture of it while we were walking down towards the beach

A short and what I hope will be a sweet greeting post:

Happy Mother's Day, and greetings from the lovely beach of  Zandvoort, the Netherlands!

How was the Mother's Day weekend, and how did you spend it? 

Another shell that the eldest found hanging in one of my ear hoops - I was asked by eldest not to forget to mention that detail!

Blognote:
I feel much lighter, now that the girls are at home again.  I have missed them terribly, and I think that was one of those little triggers that made the weekend a tad emotional, and turned me a bit of a melodramatic blogger!

Monday, April 25, 2011

U ~ Unforgettable Day!

Please click on collage for better view!

The family and I spent Easter Monday in Efteling!

This was the family's first visit together (P was there previously before we met, once or twice), and after the day of fun we all agreed we will come back for a long weekend the next time around and stay at the theme park's hotel or the holiday appartments in the theme village!

School is back tomorrow and I have to get up very early, this will be another short and sweet post.  I will definitely write in detail next time over our long weekend.  Also a contest and a give away this week, so watch out for that.

Wishing you all a lovely start in the new week!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Vrolijke Paasdagen!

please click on image for better view

A short and what I hope will be a sweet greeting post:

Happy Easter, and greetings from the lovely beach of  Zandvoort, the Netherlands!

Where have you been spending this long Easter weekend? 

Blognote: The final post of the series The ABC of Me will be posted in May, due to the family's busy schedule.



Thursday, March 31, 2011

Egg-cited!



Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! The 365~self-portraits for the month of March is accomplished, and simultaneously the NaBloPoMo Month (In A Word) challenge aced!!!

Monday, March 28, 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

Paradise

please click on image to have a better view ☺

With today's 365 photo, I affirm what I have been feeling since we started living here in the Netherlands: I am grateful for, and love our new home!

postscript to this blog:
Littlest took the image on the upper left corner of the collage.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Sunny & Spontaneous

please click on collage if you would like a better view ☺

Took a break from Spring cleaning and had brunch at the  Natuurmonument in 's-Graveland, with P & the littlest after the latter got her check-up (she is developing wonderfully!).

The sunny weather was fantabulous! Hoping it will stay much, MUCH longer. ☺


How is Spring treating you?

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Spring!

please click on image for bigger & better view  ☺

What a lovely Spring Tuesday, we all had!

Monday, March 21, 2011

Family

please click on image for better view :)
I cherish moments with my family. A lot.

Wishing everyone a good week!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Friday, March 18, 2011

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Picnic!

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Short, simple and sweet summary of our day today: it was awesome! :)

Weather was great, quality time spent together with P in the morning, and finally a visit to 's Graveland Natuurmonumenten (English) with the girls for a spontaneous lunch picnic after school, which was lovely after a half day spent indoors to eat and play outdoors.

Truly can't wait for the Spring to come in all it's glory! Lots of picnic in nature for our family!

please click image for better view : )


To round up the day, quotes for positive affirmation:
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
Alice Walker

What do you look forward to doing a lot in Spring?

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Onwards


A Saturday of positive affirmations:

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Have a bias toward action – let’s see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
Indira Gandhi
Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.
Rumi

Take the first small step to wherever your heart whispers you to, and before you know it you are there where your happiness lies. Have a great weekend!


Thursday, March 10, 2011

Aberration


That time of the month....

Meditating on these words to overcome what for me are always challenging times:
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
ust as liJght brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do
Deepak Chopra
 I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Serenity


A self-potrait to meditate on, and affirm thoughts behind the selected quotes for the day:
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.
Jonathan Haidt

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Resilience


Affirming the day...the past weeks, and the future.
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.
Shirley MacLaine
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
Never, never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill

Friday, March 4, 2011

Bare


I feel MUCH better today, that I summoned a bit of courage to "show" myself on the self-potraits without much "effects". No more coughing incessantly and my stomach is finally peaceful.  

Three special quotations to affirm at the end of the day and start the weekend:
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
Corrie ten Boom
Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls.
Melody Beattie
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron 

 Have a rejuvenating weekend, y'all!