BTPT: ABC Book

Been There, Pinned That, Changed my Life:  ABC Book

When I saw this pin, I thought in this day and age of technology, it really is true that anyone can create a book. 

Why We Should All Just Lose The Mummy Guilt

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much mummy guilt there is out there. So many different opinions on what to do or what not to do. Every time you turn around, there will be someone criticizing the choices you have made, or showing you something you could be doing better. Sure they may have a wonderful idea, and ideally everyone would do it, but there is so much pressure (often self inflicted) to do everything. 

These people on the internet saying you should do things this way or not this way, will have made their own mistakes or done things they are not proud of.  They just don't tell you about them and they certainly don't put that on Pinterest.

All the Stories Matter: Hot Air

Hot Air

Inspiration:

"Spring Kite and Cat Dreams" by Olga Dabrowska

  

Mummy:

As Mrs Dabrowska started explaining the periodic table, all Kat could hear was the hiss of hot air. Science was normally one of her favorite subjects, but the day was too warm, the sun too beautiful, germinating Kat's fertile imagination to the possibility of at least 467 other things she could be doing at this time, all infinitely more pleasant than sitting in this classroom on this early autumn day. Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron….. How on earth did learning the elements of the periodic table help her fully appreciate this jewel of a day? There would be fewer and fewer days like this as autumn crept closer to winter; the wind would gain an unpleasant chill and the trees became barren of leaves. Hydrogen, Helium. Gases that deserved to be free, to play in the breeze, to ride those winds like a kite, up, up, up to become one with the ozone, somewhere in that infinite beyond. That thought was too much, and Kat started planning her escape.

BTPT: Artsy Silhouettes & Inspirational Quotes

This project was one of my most inspired Pinterest moments. I found a way to motivate my girls, incorporate their love of pink, pink and only pink, and decorate their playroom at the same time. 

 

Been There, Pinned That, Changed My Life

I love Pinterest! It helps me feel as though I could do anything. I am Supermum and Domestic Goddess rolled into one!  A few minutes browsing and I leave with the supernatural ability to cut lunch sandwiches into puzzles, to use a sparkling calm jar instead of the naughty corner, and to make zen-like reading nooks out of old rusty trampolines. 

Animals in the Bed

 I couldn’t sleep last night. It appears as though once you wake up your brain, it can be a little resistant to sleeping again for fear of the situation becoming permanent.  It was a playful puppy all night. The joyful exuberance was fun at first. This thought, that thought, leaping here and there. This could be a blog post, a story, a project, what about this idea? I delighted in the twisting and turning, playing and chasing ideas. My brain was alive again.

All the Stories Matter: Growth

Growth

 Inspiration:

"Growing Up" by Olga Dabrowska 

Mummy: 

The tears fell slowly and deliberately. 

Drip. I hate this. 

Drip. I hate this. 

Drip, Drip, Drip. Hate, hate hate. 

The little girl was overcome by the strength of her emotion, her body racked. How could they not understand? Did they not see the fear? The narrowing of her pupils, the goose-pimples on her skin. Still they sent her out here. They would not listen. Their eyes glazed over dismissively when she tried to give voice to what lurked in the dark, in the shadows. 

All the Stories Matter

As it was my daughter's writing that inspired me to put “pen to paper” (never so figuratively as it has now become), I want to keep collaborating and sharing our love of writing fiction.

Inspirations - Olga Dabrowska

I have found the most amazing children’s artist as inspiration for our short story writing! I am so excited about the work of Olga Dąbrowska and she actively encourages you to create stories from her art! 

  

 Her work is the best mix of whimsical and fancy, with many different depths of layers  and the cutest characters and is perfect to inspire both of us - An adult and a five year old

This Wand Can Do Magic

"This is a wand. The wand can do magic, but what kind of magic can the wand do? Snow magic! Sun magic! Rain magic.... " E.M  Age 5

I was so proud when she wrote this. I thought, how fabulous, what a great story! So forward for a five year old.  I started wondering if she might grow up to be a writer. I entered her into a little children’s writing contest. I died a little more inside.