something you can be thankful for...........

So a few Blogs' Im following are starting with the sentence below,  at first I thought I'm just going to ignore that as in this November month especially the beginning there is not a lot that I'm loving.  But as I thought about it a bit more I decided that this sad old heart is going to try my dandiest to find some LOVE.

I wholeheartedly believe that no matter what is happening in your life, there is always something you can be thankful for no matter how simple it is. 

I am thankful that I can celebrate Josh's 21st birthday without too many people thinking Ive lost the plot and I am very thankful that some of my friends/family are celebrating with me,

Tyra always has to join in!

I am thankful that Im going to Queenstown this month (admittedly at the end of the month but hey) and will be meeting for the first time in REAL life the lovely Nik who lives in Cromwell

I am thankful for my friends who make my heart a bit warmer just by being in it

and who are going to KILL me for including this photo I took the other day when we met for coffee.

I might have to work a bit harder at thinking of things, maybe tomorrow xx

OMG really its been two years!!

So I'm slightly ashamed of the time that has passed since I was last here BUT I've had the push to start Blogging again thanks to a swap I'm taking part in......super excited but it does mean I've got some updating to do.  If you have stumbled across my blog and live in New Zealand (BEST place in the World) here is the link to the Christmas swap

http://catalinanz.blogspot.co.nz/2013/10/secret-advent-swap-2013.html


so Last two years well my children now look like this

doesn't Geo look beautiful and here is one of Scott and Mel from our dinner last night,

 

and here is Scott and I, we are all rocking our Pirate Hat

 

 

I guess I should explain,  Josh would have been 21 on the 6th of November so we thought we had better do a night of drink rum and wearing pirate hats and saying a lot of ARRRRGGGG me hearties,  we may look silly but we did have a lot of fun (just saying lol).

So maybe tomorrow I might load a few photo's of art stuff Ive been doing, not a lot of scrapbooking but heaps of ATC's, altered puzzles oh and Kelly and I have been working hard on doing a very messy art Journal (that faze started thanks to a lady named Ruth but that's a whole different story)
Ciao