for my gorgeous family and friends who made my birthday this week extra special and relaxing.
I find at this stage in my life with all the crazy busyness in our lives that I appreciate more than ever those simple things in life that I once took for granted.
Never again will I not appreciate with all of my being such things as sleep, time to read or just sit and chat, a meal (or a special cake) cooked by another, a handmade or well-thought out gift from someone who loves and knows me well.
Scaling back to the basics you can often find the most important things of all.
When I find myself focusing a little too much on the negatives and feel all too often that I'm drowning in the mundanity and frustrations of motherhood, I look at this blog and I see that there are so very many positives in my life and those positives made up of very 'everyday' things are actually the things that I savour more than anything.
Those other things that I wistfully dream of, are but a 'flash in the pan' and fools gold.
For more gratefulness head over to Maxabella land.
13 comments:
Happy belated birthday, Emma! Know that you are not alone in the trials of motherhood. Drop by Planet Baby any time you feel like that! J x
oh yum and happy birthday x
Happy birthday... thinking of you in these tougher times. Just getting back into the blog reading so I'm catching up. I wish I lived closer and could drop over with more cake...
A really inspiring and heartwarming post, Emma. Thanks for sharing these thoughts. After a week's holiday and feeling like I need a holiday more than ever, I really needed to hear this.
Happy birthday. Hope you have a year as lovely as that cake!! x
PS - just noticed: CONGRATULATIONS on 100!! x
Happy Birthday!
Your cake looks amazing.
So many lovely things to be grateful for, what a beautiful post.
My mantra this week has been "they are only little once". One day I will get some more sleep/time to myself/ a break.
But at the end of the day, I am so grateful to be a mummy :)
happy belated birthday emma...the cake looks so good. what a beautiful way to spend your special day.
happy happy week to you in celebration of your birthday...you are so right it is so often the 'small stuff' that makes me happy like nothing else...
happy birthday emma!
That is such a gorgeous post!
Motherhood is all consuming and so easy to lose ourselves in, its so ace that you have friends around you to spoil you with the little things.
I hope the coming year offers you lots more of these moments.
Cake looks great. Hope you had a nice day while you were away. I still have your pressie for when I see you next... Lovely 'real' post as usual. Lou.
Happy Birthday. I'm glad you have lovely friends to help celebrate and make your birthday special. You're right it is the simple things we should try and savour, everyday is special. xo
What a thoughtful post. You're so right - the little, everyday things are the gold! I need to remind myself of this sometimes too.
Just read your guest post at 'Buttons' and popped in to have a look. I love your blog - so full of goodness!
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