I was looking out through the side glass windows in our home today, and saw that my Grandpa’s rose bush has lovely red roses on it! I hasn’t seen them before today, and Dad kindly picked a few of them so that I could enjoy them close near me in a vase. Their fragrance is so lovely! It is not too strong that it affects my nose. The rose bush is from roses that my grandpa and grandma had in their garden when they were alive. Each petal is also a reminder of them ❤️ I send softly scented  rose petals to encircle the hearts of those who may be hurting inside today, or who are feeling weary or tired, or enduring through physical or mental pain. May their fragrance bring comfort to you and help you through all that your life is holding. You are so very, very precious and special ! I send a gentle hug too ❤️

May a beautiful sunrise and a lovely sunset with their special shades of pink, red, orange and yellow  enwrap the beginning and then the  end of your days. Through the joyful times, sad times, exciting times, and painful/achey times that each day may hold, may the caring loving support of family and friends be your encouragement and give strength as you face whatever the day holds and enjoy the quiet blessings of each day.

To see the colours of the sunrise and sunset, we need to look upwards. May we always look upwards  and be so very aware of His love ❤️

I like having tic tacs! My favourite variety is peppermint. When I eat them, they seem to help with pain. The latest version has faces on them, which is cute! They are just little in size, but when you eat them, they give a great strong taste to your mouth! It is a bit like life. What may seem to be a just little thing to do, like a smile, or a “ I’m thinking of you” message, or stopping what you are doing to listen to another one who needs to talk can have long lasting effects! They can bring a sunshine moment on a cloudy day, and help to bring caring

encouragement just when it is so much needed! 

          The new season stone fruit from local farmers are now at Coles! The peaches and nectarines are delicious ! They are also very juicy! My lovely  Mum makes fruit salad each day for me to enjoy eating! She then puts yoghurt on top of it. I like natural plain yoghurt rather than the fruity variety of yoghurt. The “ plain” everyday things in our life are very special! Being with our loved ones, just doing the normal day by day things, brings a sense of comfort, in all that our lives  are holding.

Through happy times, painful times, and sad times, it is the everyday things that are special to do with our loved ones. Just like a “dollop” of yoghurt on a bowl of fruit salad, I send a  “dollop” of love to you to spread on you in all that your days are holding this week!

       

Mr Kipling’s makes delicious and yummy  Cherry Bakewells! They look very special with the icing on them and a cherry on top! They have a plum and raspberry jam filling . They are a special treat to offer to visitors, or as an enjoyable morming or afternoon bakery  snack to enjoy on your own or with family at any time! Love is like the plum and raspberry jam in bakewells! It  holds our life together! Just like there is jam in each bite of a Bakewell tart, love sustains and encourages us through all that life is holding. The  love of our beautiful loving Lord Jesus and our loving Heavenly Father encourages, comforts and gives us the strength that we need for each day! 

A friend of ours recently went to the Floriade flower event in Canberra. It is a month long floral event, that has lots of beautiful flowers on display! She sent us some pictures that she had taken of the flowers, so that we could share in seeing the lovely flowers also ❤️

A few of them I have posted below.

The word : “ Floriade” sounds a very  melodious word! It is a gentle word, that seems to flow when it is said aloud . Flower petals are very delicate and fragile , and their beauty  brings so  much delight to all who look at them!  Life is very precious and  fragile also, but contains so much beauty in the “ everyday” blessings that we have day by day. May we take the time to “ Stop,  look,  and see” , the many blessings in  our day by day’s lives that we can be muchly thankful for!

Seeing this picture of a Birds Nest brought back many special memories of something that happened quite a few years ago. Dad was growing beans in our backyard. He had them growing on a trellis. One day, he went outside, and found that a bird had decided to make his nest in the middle of the beans! Perhaps the bird just wanted to introduce his little bird children to healthy vegetable eating from an early stage of their lives! It was very special “ peeking” at the nest when the bird wasn’t there and looking at the  eggs! Eventually, the extra special “ birth day”  arrived and the little birds are born! But then the mother bird disappeared and left the little birds as orphans! All of them except for one decided to test out their new flying abilities, and off they flew to explore their  exciting and adventure packed life in their new world! But the last little bird looked a little sickly and weak. He couldn’t fly! It wasn’t good when his attempt to fly landed him on the ground in the midst of the beans! Dad to the rescue! Dad tried not to touch the bird, so that human scent wasn’t on the little bird in case the mother bird returned, and was able to move him to a box where he put some water and even found wriggly worms! He put a protective bar screen over the top, to protect the little bird from danger. Not a good idea because the little bird got “ stuck” amidst the bars! Dad was able to fix that issue! A few days later, a very exciting and special thing occurred! The mother bird came back! Dad quickly removed the bar screen, and the mother bird “  chirped”  her thanks at Dad’s caring kindness of looking after her baby bird! She then assisted the little bird to start flying! 

A birds nest is a very comforting and warm place for a little bird to be. Our own homes are a very special place for us to live. It is not the furnishings of the home or the exterior design of the home that makes a house a home or is important in life. It is the special love  and care that is felt between family members as they support each other through all that life is holding for each of them, and as a family . Through happy times, sad times , exciting times, Ill health and times of pain

 ❤️

I think that the saying : “ an apple a day keeps the Doctor away” is a funny saying! I can just imagine a big basket of apples, and as a doctor is nearing someone, the apples jump up and form a shield wall to prevent him coming closer! Apples are very nice to eat! They are crunchy, juicy and tasty! It is quite amazing that a big apple tree can grow from a such a little apple seed! In the same way,  one little act done in love can cause a big encouraging help in the lives of another person! As we take bites of apples, may it encourage us to “ live a life of love” ! 

Spring flowers are very pretty! There are so many types  of flowers in the world! Each are so special! I send a bouquet of Spring flowers to everyone❤️. They are all sorts of colours and varieties. Yellow flowers to bring with them the warmth of a smile to cheer your heart.

Bluebells to ring out a joyful tune when you are happy and calm soothing music if in pain. The beauty of a pink flower to remind you that you are so special and and your inner beauty is so beautiful  to your loved ones,  A fragile little violet to say that each day is precious and special. They are tied with a love ribbon made up of hellos from me to you ❤️

I saw this very cute picture of the elephants and  straightaway I saved it to post as a part of my Chirpings! Even elephants like to give and receive flowers! I have read that elephants have an excellent memory skill.

They remember things very well. In our lives, what seems to us to be a small or simple gesture, or a little chat, or a kind  word, or a smile,or a caring act, or a listening ear, can live on in the hearts and minds of the receiver for a long time to encourage them and bring warmth ❤️

Hello to everyone reading this blog . All the below posts have been from Chirpings that I have written over the years. I decided to post some of them here. From now on, I will be writing new posts that I haven’t written before. I will keep “ chirping as a sparrow” here!

The sounds of early morning seem to differ every day! Shortly after I got up one morning last week, all I could hear was the very, very loud thumping down of torrential rain outside, accompanied by the "crashing" and banging" of the weekly rubbish truck van entering the court in which we live. It really was a huge amount of noise!! Then another morning, lots of magpies and other birds decided to unite together and form a "bird choir" to sing early morning tunes to us. The best sound of all is a "hello" and a "how are you going today?" loving enquiry from a family member or friend ANY time of the day. On other times, just being with other people speaks so much louder than an uttered word. May we enjoy all the sounds that we encounter through this coming week!!

Vacuums are very, very noisy machines!! They seem to make so much noise, and then when they are turned off everything seems extra extra quiet! It is good every day to have quiet times and noisy times all mixed together. May we take time to stop and reflect on all our blessings and be thankful for the love we receive and the love we are wonderfully able to give out.

And in the midst of the "noisiest" of our lives, take pleasure in all the delights that it can hold and know strength in the cares and challenges that these times can hold too.

We have some new "guests" to where we live. Their names are: Zachariah the zucchini, Beatrice the bean, and Taryn the tomato! Dad been growing the zucchinis and beans from seeds, and they have all of a sudden over this last week literally popped their heads up from out of the soil in the containers where Dad planted them, and shouted "Hello World!" . Dad is transplanting them now to our backyard garden, and has already planted some tomato plants. Dad has bought the Apollo and Mighty Red varieties of tommies so far this year. We now look forward to eating the vegies that will appear in a few months time!!

Springtime is a great time to plant seeds and seedlings, and watch them grow. But…anytime is a great time to show love and care to another. Zucchinis literally "explode" in size overnight, and for us to bring  a little bit of joy and support to someone really makes them "flourish" and keep blooming through life too!

The Melbourne Cup is being run this week. It is the "race that stops a nation" for 3 minutes! People all around the country (and sometimes Aussies around the world!) stop what they are doing to watch the tv, or listen to the radio, or actually watch it live at Flemington to see which horse wins and if the horse just "wins by nose" or by a greater distance. Perhaps the bigger the nose, the better!

May we
too each day take time to "stop" and think about all our many daily blessings. May we be thankful and encouraged and joyful…all three at the same time! What a great "trifecta"!! Horses enjoy a simple meal of an apple; may we take much delight in "everyday" blessings too! And just as many race watchers barrack for their favourite horse, may we too seek to "cheer on" our loved family and friends and all who we may come into contact with day-by-day.!!

Geraniums are such lovely flowers! They just grow wild in our garden, and are nicer and more beautifuller than any flower you could ever buy from a shop. They just seem to yell out to me "home!" From when I was very little, geraniums have always played a special role in my life. When I was very little, Mum and I would go out to the garden every few days and pick a little posy of these flowers, wrap them in foil (it was always foil! Such a homely comforting touch when I remember it.) And then Mum would bundle me into the pram/stroller and off we would go on our way as she pushed me around the different streets and up and down hills to visit my grandma/grandpa (Mum's parents) who lived not too far away, with me proudly holding my little posy of geraniums tightly in my little hands to give to Mama and Papa. They may not have looked as good when we reached our destination as when they started off from our house, but they would always be delightedly received and placed in a vase, until they needed to be "disposed off" a few days later…and then we could
again pick another posy for them! We went to visit my grandparents every day so we certainly kept their house full of these little posies! In fact, I think that originally when Mum and Dad bought our house, they planted the geraniums from an off cut from my Papa's own geranium bush, so really the flowers were returning to him!

Geraniums give out a lovely fragrance too. The scent remains on your hand when you are carrying them, and also fills the room where they are placed. When I think of geraniums, I think of homely, warm, comforting things…of family memories…of joy in the little things…just a tinge of sadness because I miss my grandma and grandpa…of how love and kindness and care leaves a beautiful
fragrance on the hands of both the giver and the receiver. May we treasure our family and friends, treasure the little homely things of life, and treasure all the fragrance that our loved ones add and give out to us in our lives!

It is just a week before Christmas Day! I have been thinking about the first Christmas Day night. I don't think that it would have been a very quiet night. I can hear the angels singing praises the most melodiously than could ever be sung. I can hear the shepherds talking to each other excitedly about what they had heard and seen. I can hear all the animals around the manger using all their animal mouths to cheer and praise and celebrate too. And I can hear Mary and Joseph tenderly and softly talking to our loving Lord Jesus. May this Christmas time be a very special time for you. I send

loving thoughts to each of you, and please know that you are all extra very, very special to me and to our loving Lord, whose birth we all celebrate!!

Many students are going back to school this week. It is a fun time filled with a sense of "newness" about it. New books, new subjects, new classmates, new teachers, new things to learn. Some students are starting school for the first time, or other ones are starting Secondary school, whilst there are also students who will now be attending a new school because their families have moved houses since last year. But every person is always a student in everyday life. Each day we learn something new, or see or read or hear something new that we never knew before or makes us think or surprises us or

encourages us. May we all continue to enjoy learning new things each day, and take delight in the little and big things of life!

I was thinking the other day about cheese slices. Every day, there must be literally thousands of cheese slices eaten by people around Australia, whether it is in sandwiches or in a salad, or used in recipes or in a hamburger or on dry biscuits or perhaps grilled on toast ! Cheese slices usually all look the same,although when you taste them they can sometimes have quite different flavours.

We are not like cheese slices, because everyone looks uniquely different and are uniquely special. We all have different likes and interests, things we prefer to do, are good at doing some things and not so good at doing other things. We are all different in many ways. But at the same time, we are all the same! We all laugh, cry, smile, get tired, feel happy, and have times of sadness. And we all want to have people who love us and whom we love. It is good to be different…it is good to be the same ...it is good to be uniquely you whom no-one else could take your important place in this world ❤️

I heard the other day someone mentioning about our "Fallsum weather". I was wondering what they meant by that? Then I realized that it referred to a mixture of Fall (American version of Autumn) and Summer weather!! It was said when we were experiencing all that very warm weather last week, but it really was officially Autumn/Fall season time. The word now makes sense! Our days and lives too

are made up of a mixture of times when we are happy, sad, tired, excited, fearful, and glad. Through it all, we are always encouraged by the love , care and support of our family and friends. Love is like air, it is a part of each and every season, and it is very great to know that we are loved and to love each other !!

Good Friday and Easter Sunday is coming up this week. I was thinking the other day about how many, many Easter hymns Dad would have played on the piano and Mum would have sung over the years!! Before Jesus and the disciples went to Gethsemane they sang a hymn. And I am sure that there would have been so very, very much singing on that first Easter Sunday morning when there was the hugely joyful occasion that our Lord had risen!! I think that the women who first saw Him would have had hearts and voices exploding into songs of praise!! And when Jesus appeared to the disciples in the room after he had risen, I like to imagine the whole room would have been filled with heartfelt rejoicing in song! And what a scene to imagine to think of the angels in Heaven looking on

and singing so wonderfully praises that "He has risen!!" We may not be able to always sing out loud, but our heart can always rejoice in "inner singing  " of songs at Easter and every day!! Christ has died! Christ has risen! Christ will come again! Rejoice!

In a brochure recently I saw advertised some bandaids. BUT…these weren't just "ordinary" bandaids. They were special ones as they were coloured and had little pictures of animals on them! They were labeled as "kids bandaids". They looked so cute! Perhaps it would make any cuts or any times that you  needed to use them make healing occur  quicker! Every time you would look at these bandaids , you would always have a little smile to yourself!  Sometimes people are hurting inside, and all you want to do is put a big happy animal colourful bandaid all over them and make things better. Of course, we can't do that. But we can throw a soft light quilt of love over people by caring about them and how they feel. A smile, a "thinking of you" word, an encouraging action, are all parts of a

patchwork quilt that can bring so much warmth to a person. Knowing that you are loved and showing your love and care to another are the most precious things in the whole wide world!!

The other day, we received a letter but the sender had accidentally forgotten to put a stamp on it! The address on the front and their own written address on the back were very clearly written…all that was missing was the stamp! The funny thing was that it was postmarked just the day before, so it had only taken the single day to reach us, and yet at other times letters can go missing for days and days even though they are correctly and clearly addressed and stamped! Names are very precious things. When we think of a person's name, it can bring so many lovely thoughts and memories and shared time remembrances into our minds. Thinking of the name of a loved is a treasured thought! And every person who we meet in our lives does leave a "stamp" on our life. Sometimes the "stamp"may be the footstep of a tiny ant, but it still is someone that we may remember years and years later. I am thankful for people who leave ant footprints, elephant footprints, teddy bear pawprints, and all other sized footprints in my life, for each print is a beautiful expression of love, joy and preciousness. Thankyou for the special stamps you make on each other's lives and hearts! ❤️

I was thinking the other day about the dilating eye drops that eye doctors put in your eyes when examining them so as to open up your eyes wider so that they can see more closely the areas of your eyes. For quite a while afterwards, your  eyes look quite wide open and bright! Perhaps we need to drop imaginary eyedrops into our own eyes each morning when we wake up, and have a look at

the world around! May we see the beauty in other people, look closely at our family and friends and people we meet that day with loving concern and seek to support them, and be ready to "stop, look and see"!

I was thinking the other day about the saying: "it is the best thing since sliced bread", and it started me thinking about all the different varieties of bread that can be bought! We can buy white, wholemeal, multi-grain, seven seeds, soy and linseed, pumpkin, white with added fibre, white with added calcium, herb, vienna, cob, sourdough, french stick... and the list goes on and on! There are lots of different varieties of breads, and they all taste differently, but they are all known as being bread. It is a bit like people! We all look differently, live in different places around the world, have different interests, likes and dislikes, have different jobs or go to different schools or unis or kindergartens. We all may spend our days differently, get up and go to bed at different times. BUT…we are all people…who love and care about others and are loved, who breathe and smile and cry and feel happy or sad or excited or fearful. We all have such special travellers with us on this journey through life. Thankyou, each one of you ,for being you, an extra extra special person!

With the cold weather now here, particularly with the low temperatures overnight and in the mornings, it must be quite a busy time for the RACV being called out to assist drivers who go outside to start up their cars when going off to work and school in the morning…only to find that their car won't start up because the battery is dead! Many RACV drivers  need to "come to the rescue" and get these cars going again!

Batteries are important to cars. In our own lives,
being loved and loving each other are what keeps us going, "motoring on" through the day and through our journey through life. Seeing a smile on someone's face is a bit like hearing a friendly "toot" of a horn as a friend passes you by in their car, and the scenery of life is always nice through life's front and side windows as we share our road trip travelling alongside of our family and
friends

We live in a very colourful world! When we look around us both outside and inside there are millions of different shades of colours that we can enjoy seeing every day! The colours of clothes, the flowers and plants outside,

the food that we wear, images that we see in a book or magazine that we are reading or see
when watching tv…all are very colourful sights for our eyes to see. We not only can say something is coloured blue, we can also see lots and lots of shades of blue, or shades of yellow, red, green, purple and other colours. May we all enjoy looking and seeing all these shades of colours. At the same time, may we be thankful so much to our loving Master Painter Whose
 paintbrush of love is beautiful in people and our surroundings

We have now started the last month of Winter which is great, because soon Springtime will be here! Springtime brings with it lots of colourful flowers, andnice gentle flower petals! As you walk down life's pathway, may you always

walk along a road of soft petals under your feet. Wherever your feet take you as you walk through each day, may the perfume of love and joy surround you as you walk on these petals. May the delicateness and fragileness of petals remind you of life, and may we all take each moment to love and care for each other!

Mum bought me a Valentine's Day balloon! It was red and had hearts on it. When she bought it, she was told by the lady who sold it to her that there was only a guarantee that it would stay up in the air for one day. It was very "floaty " when Mum brought it home... But the next day it looked very "saggy" and could only remain on the ground ! It looked very tired!

Sometimes people feel a little like this balloon... a bit tired and out of energy. A caring thought and a smile can really make the person gain strength and feel lifted up like a balloon. I send you a balloon filled with lots of special thoughts from me to you , for you to look at when you are feeling a bit tired, aching and have pain. It will never deflate like an ordinary balloon does.

I send a rainbow of hellos to you ! Yellow to send some sunshine into your days and thankfulness for the yellow warmth of family and friendships. Blue for bluebells to chime out a melody of music to brighten your day. Orange and red as a reminder of the sight of a beautiful sunrise or sunset. Green for grass, that as you walk along life's pathway may a carpet of soft flowers be always under your feet whatever your daily lives hold .

This is a very nice picture of Dutch Springtime scenery. It is a lovely scene of colourful tulips with the background of a windmill.  The rows of different coloured tulips are just like life. Our world is made up of millions and billions of people from all countries around the world and we all join together to create the scenery of life on Earth.

We all live our daily lives, enjoying eating, sleeping, studying, playing, laughing, crying, chatting and working. Every person just like every tulip brings beauty into the world each day. Thank you for the extra special , precious, and lovely role that you have in this world!

I have been having  the most "squishiest" red plums lately !! Mum bought a white polystyrene  plate of plums from the green grocers that were very ripe and squishy! They were put out cheaper because they were ready to eat. But... some plums weren’t  completely ripe so that was great because we could leave them a few days whilst we ate the ripest ones. They tasted very nice, but Mum got very purplish reddish fingers as she peeled off the skins! The red flesh decided to stain her hands!

It is a bit like life. May the love we have for others leave a stain on their  hearts. May we be like plums that are soft inside , and let caring loving concern for others leave an encouraging imprint on their day!

Daylight Savings Time ends next week. I always remember what way to change the hour by remembering the saying  : " Spring forward , Fall (Autumn) backwards" We turn our clocks backwards next weekend.

Moments, hours and days pass by. Sometimes they skip along as quick as can be, like a young child happily hop skip and jumping along a pathway. Other times they are like little snails that poke their heads out, have a look at the sunlight, then poke their heads back in and the time very slowly ticks over. Each moment we spend with our loved ones is very special. May we treasure, enjoy, take delight in and be thankful for the moments of our everyday daily life!

     It is nice looking at all the pretty coloured foil papers  that are around  chocolate Easter eggs. The only thing is that the inside is empty! It is the opposite to normal eggs where the shell looks plain but the inside which is the yolk and whites are the tasty parts of the eggs when cooked or used in meals. There are though Easter eggs that have creme filling in the middle or contain smarties or other lollies in the middle! Little tiny eggs are rock solid with chocolate ! Eggs come in all sorts of varieties when I start to think about it! Some are  hollow, some chocolate solid inside, others with liquidy  yolk and white, some have pretty outer coverings , whilst others just have a white shell.

May loving helpfulness and care explode from inside us like a yolk or white does when its shell is cracked, and may the prettiness of the foil of Easter eggs come in the form of the beauty of a smile that we give out each day!

We received a postcard last week from a lady who has travelled to Lord Howe Island for a holiday with her daughter. The pictures on the front of the postcard were very nice! She said that it was a very calm, scenic and restful place to stay. It was great that she wrote a lot of news in the very small space that you are given on the back of a postcard!

She used quite smallish handwriting! May we be like postcards. May we write messages of love on people's hearts through caring words, smiles and thoughtful actions. Just like the front of a postcard, every person has such beauty inside them bursts out from them. Thankyou for the specialness and beautifulness that you bring to everyday life for those around you.

It is quite amazing that as I am writing this, I am looking outside our side window and in plant pots that are there, there are very brown, withered  spindly plant stems  that look quite dead, and yet on the tops of three of them are a nice pink flower! I don't really know where the flowers are getting their nutrients from! The stems are not really helping them!

They look very determined though to keep staying to bring a touch of colour to our days as we look out through the window! Sometimes we may feel a bit "withered" and tired. We still can bring a touch of beauty to the world in the midst of our pain.  Sometimes it can get very tiring in the pain, but may we imagine a big fluffy pillow to be surrounding and cocooning us. May we have the strength that we need just for the day, hour or minute.

It is great that there is a variety of apples which we can enjoy eating! There are different varieties for different times of the year. At the moment, we can eat Jazz apples. I don't think that you need to go jazz dancing after eating this apple! Also, it is not only royal or regal people who eat Royal Gala apples! And definitely, you do not need to be a grandmother to eat Granny Smith apples, or be a male named Jonathon to eat Jonathon apples!

I was thinking the other day about apple seeds. They are very little, but if you plant one, they will grow very, very big and tall! It is a bit like a smile, or a caring word or empathising expression on a face. It may be just little, but the effect of it can brighten  so much and bring sunshine to another persons day! Someone may be crying inside, and with the sunshine you bring, the apple pip smile/word/expression plus the tears water and sunshine will grow a nice tasty apple!

Happy Wintertime! I am not too keen on the cold weather that Wintertime brings, but all the seasons of the year brings nice experiences with it. The sound of rain falling on the rooftop at night time is a sound to hear. Nice hot toast eaten  straight away from the toaster at breakfast time tastes even better in Winter. Looking at my bright pink slippers on a Wintery darkish day makes me feel

happy! May the warmth of the love from your much loved and loving family and friends fill each of your days through this Winter season! May sunshine moments be scattered daily in your lives, whatever the weather is like outdoors.

It is the Queen's birthday today! It is not really her birthday though, because her real birthdate is April 21st! We are not royals in that we live in palaces or have grand furnishings in our homes or wear regal clothing. But... when you live in a home where you are amongst family and friends whom you love and are loved  by, you can feel like a queen or a princess. The type of furnishings that we have in our homes do not affect the  joy of our lives. It is the caring support, love, and helpingness that our loved ones give us that are the true furnishings in our daily lives. May we not wear big bulky ornate regalia clothing that would just weigh us down and make it hard to walk in.

Instead, may we wear a smile on our face, have glasses on our eyes that look out to see how others are, and be aware that our loved ones, both with us and those that have passed away,  are like little squares  of patchwork that are combining together to make up a coat of love for us to wear.

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It is nice looking out through the windows and seeing sunshine, even though it is quite chilly indoors! Some of the mornings have had quite low temperatures over this last week! On some days , the suburb where we live was being mentioned in weather reports that they had very a  low overnight temperature that night! It

makes me feel even colder! Sometimes when people are feeling a little "low" or down, just a very small loving and caring act, whether it be a smile, a message, a talk , or an act can bring rays of sunshine into their day. May we all bring warmth into another person's Wintery day!

Just one more day and then we will have had a month gone of Winter! The weather has been so very cold and Wintry lately that it has been good  weather for snow! I wonder if the green grocers in the snow area towns  sell extra amounts of carrots over the Winter month, for people who want to have noses for their snowmen?! Perhaps if we have a season where the is lots and lots of

downfalls of snow, it may lead to a carrot drought! Then, carrots might cost one hundred dollars each! I don't think that it will get to that stage! Carrots are meant to be good for your eyesight. Whether people have good physical eyesight or not, more importantly is heart eyesight. May we look at people with our "heart eyes" , caring for them, loving them, sharing in their joys and seeing them with how they feel inside. 

May each day of this month hold special moments for you. May you see a smile when you need it, find a listening ear when you need to talk,and enjoy the beautiful scent of flowers as you walk through your day.

May your footsteps down  your daily life pathway be walked with you knowing  that you are so loved by your precious loving and loved  family and friends and that they are beside you on the sides of your life pathway, encouraging you on in your daily life.     

  I think that this rose picture is very nice! It is so very colourful! It reminds me of what life is like, with such a variety of people in the world with all sorts of tastes, likes, interests and talents. Every person brings beauty and specialness

into the world and our days! Rose petals are fragile and life is precious and fragile. Thankyou to you for making life beautiful!

One of the things I remember about my grandpa ( mum's dad )  is that he liked pepper on his food! I was little when he passed away and I can always remember being at his and my grandma's  home everyday, and he would always be peppering his meals! When I see pumpkin, I always think of my grandma because she really enjoy eating pumpkin! When she wasn't feeling too well, pumpkin and bread and butter would be the food she enjoyed eating. When I hear about home made vegie soup, I instantly think of Mum's cousin who would make up a big batch of vegie soup each Christmas and bring it up with her when she came visiting my grandma who lived with us. My Mum's cousin lived in Frankston, so it would have been quite hard to transport soup from there! But, she knew that my grandma enjoyed eating it!  She is the cousin who gave my grandpa a bowl of jelly to take home with him after visiting her... the only thing was that the temperature that day was 37 degrees! The jelly didn't make it home intact!  It is funny the strange things that you can associate with people!

It is very special the memories we have with people. May we always every day treasure the special moments we spend with our loved ones. Life is a journey and love is our constant encouragement as we walk along the pathway!

It is Daffodil Day this coming Friday. People buy daffodil themed badges, pens, daffodils, and other items as a sign to support everyone touched by cancer and to raise funds for the Cancer Council of Australia as they do research and support those people who have cancer. Daffodils are very sunshiney flowers!

They seem to shout out a message of joy and light. Whatever is happening in our lives, through pain, tiredness, laughter and tears, may a garden of daffodils be growing in your heart.

     This is the last week of Winter. Spring will soon have sprung into life!  I have never seen a snowflake but I can imagine how beautiful it would look if snowflakes were falling and sunlight caught the edges of them! If there was a rainbow as well, it would look extra lovely!

People are very beautiful. Love shines out from inside them like a rainbow covered snowflake that is glistening in the sunshine. Their inner self radiates love out. It is not how we look on the outside, it is the inside that is our true self. Thankyou for how special you all are!

Hippos are funny animals! They are very big animals! Their full name "hippopotamus " is a very long word too! It is a great word for teachers to use for their students to spell in a spelling bee!

The  three word sentences :"I love you" and "Thinking of you" and:"How are you?" are only little sentences but they mean so very much! We don't need to use big long words or sentences, to tell others that we love them and care about them.