Santa's been here !

Aspiration and hopes

I recently went to the movies with one of my friends. A girls night out kind of thing. It was her turn to pick the movie and she wanted to go see "For Colored Girls". Although I found that the movie was a great credo to the resilience of women in the worst of circumstances I also found it extremely disturbing. I'm having a very hard time viewing any movie/tv show that depicts children being hurt in any way. I found myself sobbing in the theater. As a matter of fact, if my friend had not been there, I would have left.

I know it was fiction but it does raise the question about real lives where this has happened and may still happen. My heart is aching for children that are neglected or worse hurt by the very people that should protect them at all cost. When it comes to my little bug, the idea of her being hurt in any way makes me sick. She is more precious to me than my life. I am at a point of my life where I have questions and doubts but I'm very sure nothing can change how I feel about my child. There are moments of exasperation and frustration, all parents experience those. But I know that I'm giving all the love, care, guidance and protection to make her childhood happy and safe.

I have been thinking about all this a lot, especially with Christmas right around the corner. Thinking about giving unconditional love and sense of  security to another child that needs it may be the answer to some of my questions.

All caught up!

There is a certain feeling of satisfaction when the house is clean, the dishes are done, all the laundry is washed, the shopping is done and the coffee machine is ready for the next morning. I'm right there. All caught up on chores, almost done with Christmas shopping. There are still some presents I want to make. The Christmas cards are stuffed in envelopes and will be mailed tomorrow. But yes I'm all caught up. And it feels quite good. I have to say sewing and crafting brought me a lot of peace and balance, a feeling of accomplishment, it's been a great outlet for creative energy. And the blogging part of it has been a lot of fun albeit quite time consuming. So not much to rant about. I'm a happier person than I was almost a year ago when I started this blog. That's good right ? Yep .. I'm all caught up with myself too