6th July 2014
A picture is worth a thousand words but the memories are
priceless…
Completely self indulgent blog this morning we had a lovely
day yesterday celebrating moms birthday with her even though it’s her actual
birthday today, Lynne came yesterday and we had a lovely day, Jen and I made
mom cakes on the morning and she made her a loom bracelet as a birthday gift
then we all spent the rest of the day together chilling and laughing – perfect!
It’s my brother 50th today as well, fancy giving
birth on your birthday – mom must have loved that! Last night as we were all sat watching a
movie I was scrolling through my albums on Facebook looking for photos with him
in and WOW I was suddenly being reminded of all the things we’ve done together
and the places we’ve been, and they’re have been some amazing memories made.
I mostly have a
dreadful memory however I only have to look at certain photos and I’m back in
that feeling, how I felt when that photo was taken I feel when I look at it,
and last night they were causing me to smile a great deal, they really
were. There’s one that was take in
America when we were cycling from San Francisco to L.A. in 2002, and we’d just
cycled none stop uphill for 6 miles – I felt so fit when that photo was taken,
amazed at myself for having cycled that long without stopping because it was an
awesome hill! Another of us sitting on
the ground at the bottom of Snowdon after we’d walked up and down all 6 paths
in one day; exhausted beyond works but impressed at ourselves for having
achieved it. There’s another about ten
years later when we did that walk again, we’re walking down the Watkin path I
think and I just remember the pain, we were looking to see what painkillers we
had that we could take ;-) because we knew we still had to go up to the top of
the mountain again!
I’ve got so many fantastic memories of spending time with my
brother, we’ve done some truly wonderful things together and travelled to some
incredible places, photos for me help my memory, they trigger the feelings
which then help to bring that moment back to me – they really are the only
possessions I truly cherish, everything else is just stuff.
The photos I came across of mom and I we’re always laughing,
they’re aren’t too many of us together because when we’re out it’s usually only
the two of us and selfies are a relatively new thing, however I did find this
old photo yesterday that was possibly our first selfie (must be 25 years ago),
I’d had a new camera and was trying to work out how to use the timer / remote
thing on it;
We’re so low down because the camera is on the tele table
and it was as high as we could get it ;) good memories, really good memories
and today I plan on making even more, we made a few yesterday and thanks to the
power of Facebook and the technology of the iphone I am able to film mom and
share that with the rest of my family who can’t be here all the time so they
get to still enjoy mom as much as I do. I tried to take a selfie of us both sitting on her chair and
mom laughing and saying “"oh I don't like it!"
so we’re both in stitches and the photos were out of focus ;0) lots of nice
piccy’s for the rest of the day though. Looking through my albums last night reminded me of how fantastic our
family is, we may not be super close and in each others lifes all the
time but we are family and we're there when it's important.
I was challenged last night by a
friend on Facebook to “show us their positive
thinking skills!” She’d posted 3 positives about her day, she told me “basically it's an antidote to negative thinking so find
three good things, as you are the queen of positive
thinking I thought you'd have no probs” I’m flattered and I can honestly say I could
easily stop at any moment, even on my worst hormonal bitch day from hell and
find you 3 positives about my life, even being an hormonal bitch is a positive because
I know it’s a way that my body and mind re-balances me each month and feeling
that “AAARGGGGHHH” makes me feel amazing and appreciative when that moods gone!
If you look hard enough you can
always find the good, the positives and the happy I promise.
I’m off to make fresh, warm
chocolate and banana muffins for breakfast, it’s my mom’s birthday after all
and Lynne and Jen are here for breakfast, then they’re off and mom and I will spend
the rest of the day having quality mom and daughter giggle time, and I know we’re
getting a visit from the boy she gave birth to 50 years ago today!
Where have those years gone…
Remember the years may pass and
you may age but you can BeYOUtiful all your life. xx
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