RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #102 Birth&Cheer

20 Jun 2016 27 Comments

by Ritu in Challenges, Poems Tags: #Ronovansweeklyhailuchallenge, Birth & Cheer, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Haiku, Ronovan's Weekly Haiku Challenge

Firstly,

A huge birthday cheer
For our Haiku Meister Ron
Wish you many more!

Ritu 2016

Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge Image.

The prompt words this week,

Birth & Cheer

Image from Pixabay

The dawn of summer
A time for optimism
The sun WILL come out

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Cheers of joy erupt
The birth of a new baby
Happiness abounds
A time for celebrations
New life, new love, a new hope

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Monday?! Already!?

20 Jun 2016 21 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Ice Cream, teamwork, tired, Weekend

Why/how does Monday get here so fast?

I swear, the last few weekends have gone in a flash!

This weekend we spent a day standing out in the cold, supporting Lil Man and his team in a go kart tournament. There was a team of 6 children chosen to build from scratch an electric go kart, using eco friendly materials, and decorate it. All a form of teamwork, and plenty of opportunity for Learning about engineering and science.

They won Smartest Team, which was cool. But he wasn’t a happy bunny, as in his race, he got clipped from behind, quite severely, and the other car which was behind him, got pushed on in front… Competitive nature means he was devastated that he lost his third place…
A whole day in fresh air mean that we were all shattered and early night were needed by all!

Sunday, no rest for the wicked!

It was Father’s Day, but I needed to catch up on housework, and grocery shopping, then get the homework whip out and crack it too.

This brought on a headache, so I slipped a 2 hour nap in!

Dinner, we went out, for a lovely meal with my in laws to celebrate Father’s Day, and visited the new dessert parlour in town, Creams…

But I was so full…. I could hardly move! I had cramp from too much ice cream!!

I was so thankful for the mountain of ironing I had to do, so the food had time to go down!

But it meant another nearly midnight bedtime…

And here comes Monday… Again!

Still, reports are more or less done, and there are five weeks of term left. We still have our class seaside trip to look forward to, Lil Man has his residential trip, (first time away from us , eeeeek! Don’t get me started!) and his prom!

Where has this year gone?!

Right, I’d better be off! Enjoy your Monday Peeps!!!!

The Happiness Tag – Times 2!

19 Jun 2016 44 Comments

by Ritu in Awards Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, grateful, Happiness Tag

It’s one of my aims in life, to make people smile, and feel positive, happy in their lives.

Today, I woke up, and in my notifications was a particular entry that brought a smile, a HUGE one to my face! Carol, of Retired? No one Told Me! had nominated me for the Happiness Award/Tag. And she wrote something so sweet!

“Ritu from butismileanyway.wordpress.com never fails to make me smile.”

Now, that’s what I am all about, so to know I make you smile… my work is done!

Then a few short hours later, that beautifully loopy Luna blog-sis of mine, Erika, also nominated me! I feel blessed!

Happiness

So, what to do with this tag…

Here are the rules
List
5. Things that make you happy.
5. Songs that make you happy.
5. Bloggers that make you happy. Let them know you nominate them and you are done.

5 Things that make me happy (Among other things!)

My Family
My Cat
My Blogily
My Job
My Writing

5 Songs that Make Me Happy (There are soooo many, here is a selection!)

James Brown – I feel Good
Pharrell Williams – Happy
Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting
The Jungle Book – The Bear Necessities
Wham – Wake Me Up Before You Go Go!

5 Bloggers that make me happy – now my sis has already nominated me, so even though I would normally nominate her, I shall veer in a different direction!

Geoffles – I cannot stress enough how wonderful Geoffles is! You have to pop over to his blog if you haven’t already! I tend to finish reading all his posts with a smile on my face!
Huggable Hugh – Hugh is another positive and amazing writer, who also gives heartwarming hugs!
Judy – My poetic blog sis who gave me the incentive to get going on my Poetry book!
Rich – My dear blog brother who hasn’t been around as much recently, but will always make me smile with his poetic posts and wonderful music choices!
Syl – Another Blog Soul Brother with some wonderful uplifting poetic words every day!

Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 70 – Father’s Day Special

19 Jun 2016 22 Comments

by Ritu in Spidey's Serene Sundays Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Father's Day, Quote, Serene, Spiderman, Spidey, Spidey's Serene Sunday

‘I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.’ – Yehuda Berg

Spidey and I settled on this quote as a totally appropriate one for today, a special Father’s Day quote.

It encapsulates my feelings for my Pops totally. He is everything good that I see. A purity, soulfulness, spirituality, stability, all that makes life good.