We have turned a corner.
Yesterday was 'hump day' for our flu, and today we're genuinely feeling a 'whole' lot better and walking down Recovery Avenue!
I want to go running around and do all those household chores that have been neglected for more than a week, but Mr E is sensibly holding me back because regaining health and strength (and some sleep would be nice) is top priority at the moment.
So what is a girl to do? More stitching?
Here are a few peeks at new designs I've been working on...
I'm also playing a bit in the kitchen again.
Raw Bliss Balls for healthy sweetness and energy...
...and Chicken & Quinoa patties for dinner last night (even though I still can't taste or smell, Mr E said they were nice).
I also bought a book to read over the weekend, but couldn't put it down last night so it was read cover to cover before my head hit the pillow!
I love Rhonda's down to earth (and that's the name of her blog) approach to living a simpler life. It's commonsense and the kind of wisdom my Nana grew up with. Her books are incredibly easy to read because it's like sitting across the table sharing a pot of tea and fresh scones with your best friend and mentor.
I read her first book (Down To Earth) back in 2012, and then again in 2013, and I'm about to re-read it once more. Each time I go through the lessons and conversations I gain new insight into life, myself, and what really matters to me.
If you read my latest issue of Elefantz : The Magazine, you would know that one of my goals for getting back to the things that matter in life - the simpler things - is to read books once more.
I was once an avid book reader, and even when my youngest children were 15 and 16 year-old I always read to them from wonderful authors for at least an hour each day. Reading for pleasure and for education was a true delight. But then stitching, designing, blogging...it all kind of invaded my reading time - well, the 'book' reading time that is, as I still read my Bible each day and do Bible studies.
Making the choice this month to pick up a book and read for 30 minutes each day 'just for pleasure' has been invigorating to my soul - I had no idea how much I'd missed this routine!
I can see a theme coming through my choice of books, too. Can you?
When I got this flu last week the first book I grabbed as I collapsed on the bed was Jane Brocket's "Gentle Art of Domesticity". I *love* that book. Mine has the original cover from it's first release, so if you went looking for it and thought you had found the wrong book because it looked different to the one in THIS blog post, don't fret. It has a new cover, but it's the same marvellous book.
I was once an avid book reader, and even when my youngest children were 15 and 16 year-old I always read to them from wonderful authors for at least an hour each day. Reading for pleasure and for education was a true delight. But then stitching, designing, blogging...it all kind of invaded my reading time - well, the 'book' reading time that is, as I still read my Bible each day and do Bible studies.
Making the choice this month to pick up a book and read for 30 minutes each day 'just for pleasure' has been invigorating to my soul - I had no idea how much I'd missed this routine!
I can see a theme coming through my choice of books, too. Can you?
When I got this flu last week the first book I grabbed as I collapsed on the bed was Jane Brocket's "Gentle Art of Domesticity". I *love* that book. Mine has the original cover from it's first release, so if you went looking for it and thought you had found the wrong book because it looked different to the one in THIS blog post, don't fret. It has a new cover, but it's the same marvellous book.
(Australian and New Zealand readers, if you click on the links under the book covers you'll find where to purchase them locally)
It's ANZAC DAY in Australia and New Zealand today - this is the start of the 100 year anniversary of our combined troops landing on the Turkish beach of Gallipoli, where too many of them died.
You can find out about the 2014-18 Centenary Commemoration here.
You can find out about the 2014-18 Centenary Commemoration here.
Lest We Forget.
hugs
