TJ’s Household Haiku – Chaos & Order

13 Aug 2017 33 Comments

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Lovely TJ’s Haiku prompts this week: The words

Chaos & Order

And the image below:

St malo rock pool 2 (Large)

Chaos of nature
Confusing us mere mortals
Hiding true order

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And one about some fun we had with my parent’s old cinefilms this week!

Bringing order to
A chaotic mess of reels
Housing memories

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Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 130

13 Aug 2017 32 Comments

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“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael.J. Fox

Well, considering I’m leaving my parents today, after a week with them, to head back home, I think Spidey found a lovely quote!

You all know how much family means to me. My own little family of 5 (Me, Hubby Dearest, two 2 legged babies and one 4 legged one), my parents, my in-laws, and all the rest of the extended family too.

And I honestly believe that I wouldn’t be anywhere close to where I am in life today of it wasn’t for each and every member of that family.

Together, they have helped to mould me into the woman I am today. Stronger because of troubles that have come my way, compassionate because of helping others through struggles, happy because I have always had the love and support I needed right there beside me.

My family truly is everything to me. Without them I am nothing.

Have a wonderful week Peeps!

August G…uest #6: Home Sweet Home

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#SoCS Aug. 12/17 – Guess

12 Aug 2017 26 Comments

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Linda’s prompt this morning for #SoCS:

Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “guess.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

That Linda, eh, really kept us guessing last night!

I am so used to her email pinging into my inbox on a Friday night, giving me my prompt for the #SoCS challenge.

But she kept us waiting!

I started to get a little concerned, as she is generally pretty reliable when it comes to these prompt posts!

I even visited her site several times, right up until I fell asleep, just in case the gremlins that work for WP had decided that I wasn’t worthy of email notifications … it happens sometimes, we all know that.

I confirmed that I hadn’t unfollowed her by mistake too.

Then I gave, up and went to sleep, hoping that the post would be up when I woke, and that email would be there waiting for me!

And it was! Turns out she was fine, just actually has a life beyond blogging! (I do too, honest!)

Phew!

It threw me a little because I am so used to sitting and allowing my stream of consciousness to take over late on a Friday, so you have a post ready and waiting to read early on Saturday!

Just a stickler for routine, I guess! (And a bit of an addict!)