Tradition - Gotta Love It!!

Its funny how some traditions come about in life. This dawned on me when my husband gave me my usual birthday gift of an Easter Egg. Now I know this seems strange to most people when they ask me what my husband got me for my birthday. But to me its the most romantic thing ever because he still remembers something that he started many years ago when we first got together.

That got me thinking about just how special Traditions are - weather they be birthday traditions, christmas traditions or just family traditions in the household. They are things that we do with people we love to remember just how special it was the very first time it came about - the history, the feelings around it and the stories of the ones before are what make us keep them close to heart.

But sometimes, due to no fault of their own, traditions die. I know this sounds sad and morbid but it is the reality of human nature and the changes that come with time. The most common cause is mostly because some have become outdated and old school to the next generation and they find it boring or mundane ... and sometimes we just forget that we care.

Society, social change, even money can be a few reasons why Traditions fade off into oblivion, never to be seen or heard of again. Sometimes they are forgotten because someone significant has moved on, or passed away and some just simply may have run their course and died a natural death.

Whatever the reason may be, I challenge you to think about the Traditions in your life, the ones you may have had as a kid, or ones that you may have created along the way in your life. Try to remember the exact moment it became a tradition in your life and breath some fire back into it for your children, your nieces/nephews - or anyone new in your life.

You never know, you may start a few new Traditions along the way :)

Peace & Love xx

2012 - The Year of Change

Well, again I have become guilty of starting something and then not quite completing it. Yes, I did try to re-viltilize my blog in 2011 when I was on maternity leave, and for a while there I did succeed. But as you all know, circumstances change in our lives that have the power to shift ones perspectives, prorities etc, and for me (and my family) nothing is more life changing then losing a parent.

So, after a long and very tiresome 6 months of 2011 we entered into 2012 with big hopes and dreams which we are both determined to see through. No excuses seem to be enough now to keep us from achieving what we so clearly deserve after months of trials and hardtimes. So we arrived at the doorway of 2012 with a fieceness that will push us to complete this goal of making 2012 the year of change for us.

Yes, it is already the 3rd month of the year, but that is not to say that nothing has happend thus far. Tiny changes have made big impacts on our decision making over the last 3 months, and as time goes on, 2012 will open up a whole heap of opportunities and visions to complete.

So far, so good. I can not wait to see what else is in store for me and my wee family. God is certainly good to us, even after the storm, he still provides that rainbow of hope to show he is still there.

Onwards & Upwards xx