Like, like, LOVE!

I've been looking through some pictures and today these were on the top of my likes so I thought I would share with you..... 

Hayles... theses are for you babe! 

 These are just so freaking adorable and I normally wouldn't go for something with this print but I really, really like them! You could even call it LOVE!

And Trine... for you! 

 I am really drawn to red at the moment... I love this dress. I don't know what it is but I want to wear it.

 This one is unusual but I do like it. It's very different. I'm not quite sure where I'd wear it but I wouldn't say no to having it in my cupboard.

And back to my old faithful colour... Black! This one is my  FAVOURITE!

and back to the red faze again... I am really wanting to dye my hair back to red... I'm tossing between this colour which is a little less out there....

Or something a little more dramatic like this..... 

Decisions, decisions.... 

Okay well I hope you all have a great evening and hopefully you can help me decide what colour to go. 

Time to reflect!

It's hump day again. I'm actually liking Wednesday's because I don't have to work and it means we are just that little bit closer to the end of the week.

Okay so over the last few weeks it's been kind of crazy stressful and busy so I am taking the time out today to look back on any good that can can be found in all of it. There was some good but at the time it's hard to see when you are stuck in the middle of all these things. 

So the first good. My friend gave birth to a healthy baby girl Chelsea Emma in the early hours of Sunday morning. A very speedy delivery and both Mum and bub are doing great. It's been a rough week for her after losing her Grandmother Emma so I am glad everything went so well for her. Congrats Carla and Troy, she is just so precious. 

My best friend has had her husband in hospital undergoing crazy amounts of tests after an accident a few weeks ago and it has been a rough time for all involved. He is now home and being treated as an outpatient. I am so very grateful to have him still here and able to be with his family again. I know it's going to be a long haul but the main thing is they are together and the joy on the kids faces when they saw him come home was priceless. I would give anything to see that moment again. 

My darling cousin Samantha and my beautiful long time friend Justin got engaged! I am so glad he came into my life because if he hadn't then he would never have met Sam and they wouldn't be as happy as they are today. Congratulations guys. We are all thrilled to bits! 

I managed to catch up with my dear friend Caitlin and her two gorgeous girls. I have missed them a lot and it was nice to finally see them after quite a few months. Jay absolutely adores you Ulalei so thank you for being the amazing girl you are. 

Okay so it hasn't been all doom and gloom now has it. See, I feel so much better just reflecting over these things. Have a great hump day people and if you do manage to get that hump in.. well it will make for a great day! ;-) 

Why do you blog??

I was reading a friends blog this morning and she mentioned how her blog was her place to get things out, to vent, to be happy, to share wonderful news, to whatever she damn well wants to do with it basically. I like this about blogs.

She has the place to share and get advice from her online friends and although people may judge the things she has written like every one of us may have been judge about something we've written in the past.. nobody actually knows who these people are that you're venting about so what does it really matter?

I am fortunate to have a very supportive, close knit family but there are still things that are sometimes easier put in writing. Some things you don't want to burden your family or friends with and so you just type. Some people are like my dear friend who can't go to her family and so she types. She has an amazing support network online and I love that. I am so grateful to those people who are always there for her when others have turned their backs.

I hate that the sneaky ones who haven't had the guts to speak to her and then cowardly come online and talk trash about her in her place. She has never mentioned names when asking for advice about certain situations and yet they come on and fight like the guilty cowards they are. I am saddened but I can't change things and neither can she.

This I think is why I think blogs are both good and bad. I feel better after I have gotten whatever it may be off my chest.. good or bad but I always feel better. There are other things I write and never publish but I still feel better after it's all down.

Why can't we do that without getting the crap taken out of us, why can't she?  I think blogging is a cheap therapy. There have been times when things were doing my head in and then boom it's all gone, out in the open but the weight has lifted. 

I don't write things for people to worry or anything like that, I don't do this for attention... I do it for me. So tell me..... why do you blog and does it help you?

Have a great day people xoxo

The little things.....

Is loving the little things..... Loving the stupid games I am playing with my sister reminding me not to take life too seriously. Right now she is keeping me from crying.

This week has been a pretty stressful week with a friend in hospital dealing with what could be some serious things. His wife holds her own at home with all the kids and the stress of not knowing if he'll ever be back to how he was. I am praying he will be and I hope the doctors can find out what it is. We miss him. He's here but not.

Another friend dealing with her own health issues that seem to be worsening by the day and you wonder, will she ever catch a break. Then we get a call from our friend this morning to let us know her mother who has suffered stroke upon stroke for the last year and has been in and out of hospital ever since and last night she finally lost her battle and left this world right before her Grandaughter is due to give birth to her first child. I mean right before... She was due last week.

Another friend we bumped into today tells us she has less than a decade to live at best. She was given this time frame a few years ago now after battling breast cancer. She still has another 3 years before she can come off all the medication. She still has no hair. It won't grow back til the meds are done. She's happy. She's enjoying what is left of her life.  She knows when her clock stops and she still carries on. She's an inspiration.

Yeah, so thank you Hayley for being you and making the little things seem so nice right now. Life is too short as we all know it and it's nice to step out if the grown up world with the grown up problems for five minutes.