Having school holidays makes me appreciate my job even more, and this is my first of two weeks off for the Easter break. If I’m honest, I’m miffed the weather is not better, but I am having a great time and there is a lot to be thankful for! This week’s Small Things include… *Daffodils…
Category: Small Things
Where I reflect on the good things in the past week
Small Things
Another week has flown by, and the moments spent savouring the Small Things have remained as all-important as ever to me. Here are some of them… *Weekend pancakes and coffee. *Weekend baking. *Quiet evenings reading and watching TV. *Hanging out with my church group, who so make me laugh and always ask how I am. *Looking…
Small Things
Since I’ve been working I’ve been finding it really hard to get any quality writing time in, but I’m still here. At the moment each day is different. I’m seeing a lot of other people’s struggles and it can be hard not to be overwhelmed by that, but I’m here and I’m still trying to…
Holiday Small Things
This week has been a mini holiday for us, so it has been filled with Small Things to make us grateful. Here are a few of them: Going out for coffee with Andrew: we don’t do it nearly enough! We found a sweet little coffee shop in Dorking where they served us little bits of…
Small Things
It’s holiday time đŸ™‚ Andrew and I share the same birthday week so we often book it off work. In the past we’ve been away for a bit and last year we celebrated with a great charity event run with the help of my youth group. This year, we’re off to see my Grandma later in…
Life Lately/Small Things
This week was my first week in my new job, and has been full of other goings on too, hence the lack of posts. I hope to get back to more regular posting as I settle in, so thank you for your patience with me đŸ™‚ In the meantime, here are some of the Small…
How to Savour Winter not Suffer it
Winter is my least favourite season. I really struggle with the cold weather and the dark mornings and evenings (and quite often in England, afternoons too!). It can feel like a time to just shut down or hibernate, or just to ‘get through’. Lately though, I’ve been making lots of resolutions to be grateful and…
Life Lately/Writing in Pencil/Small Things
The last few weeks have been full of uncertainty in terms of my future, which I think, on balance, has been good for me. I’m getting stuck in to the process of exploring what I might do, taking initiative and being proactive, whilst accepting that anything could happen. I’m reading a great book at the…
Small Things
What are your Small Things this week? I’ve had a tough one, but sometimes tough times can, rather mind-bogglingly, bring a fuller experience of the joys of day to day life, and that is what has happened to me this week. In days when the darkness is strong – and globally we’ve seen a lot…
Small Things/ My week so far…
My week started badly. I was in the wrong frame of mind on Monday morning, so negativity swept across my day like a hurricane. It’s destructive, letting yourself travel down the road of despondency. My New Year’s Resolutions – things like ‘see God’s goodness’, ‘keep hopeful’, ‘be thankful’ – seemed to be slipping away as I…
Small Things
After a week of festivities, there is no better time to share a Small Things post. Here are some of the things I’m thankful for this week… *Walks in the crisp air and bright blue sky, when the frost stayed on the ground all morning and crunched under our feet. *Spotting wildlife, like deer leaping…
Small Things
The last couple of weeks for me have held a few ups and downs. When people use that phrase they are usually thinking more of the ‘downs’ than the ‘ups’, and that is the case for me: self pity often seems to be nipping at my heels lately. It is in this frame of mind…
Life Lived 