Naomi at our Ohana Love feast

Sweet Naomi with her little friend Olivia enjoying the music at our staff Ohana Love feast.....

It's been a while.......

Hi lovely friends who view this blog- actually I don't know how many actually bother to check it out anymore I have been so in consistent- all for a good reason though- Miss Naomi. What a joy she is to my heart- I have been enjoying her so much lately! Christmas morning she came in our room and said "Hi Dadda!" then I was like "Did you say Hi Daddda!?" and she looked at me and said "No mamma!" :) So funny.

So this new year begins with Joy and excitement for what is to come and also a sense of....Lord what is going to happen next in the world- Ryan and I and some others have been seeing 911 every time we look at the clock- oh that we would know His judgments are just and true and that we truly would be without offense until we see Him again.

Phillipians 1:9

...And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ.

Well I will post more soon- I have some cute video's on their way of little Naomi.
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Love you all so much

Tips from the Kitchen for a busy mum :)

Just thought I'd share some fun healthy way's to always get your salad and vege intake for the day. We all know what it's like to rush in the door at midday as we are trying to lay our baby down for their nap, pick up around the house, start laundry and oh yes eat! We are hungry so whatever we see in the fridge we grab. So some helpful things I do to save me from eating whatever is in site and make sure I eat a proper meal, oh and of course make it healthy is to have some things already cooked in advanced or on hand:

• Quinoa- It's KEEN-WAH :) as the health food experts say- I add this to salad's as it is an excellent source of protein and yummy.
  
• hummus
• cooked pea's (to add to salad)
• lettece already chopped (the night before I usually make a large salad that way I can have it at lunch the next day)
• pan toasted seeds (pumpkin and sunflower-spritz some Bragg's on them!)
  
• nutritional yeast (sounds terrible but tastes great added to anything like salad's, soups, vege's etc. spray some Bragg's Ammino acid on top and olive oil)
  
• 'flat out' wrap's (from Costco)
• Roasted vege's (again do a batch the night before- anything from tomato's with olive oil and garlic to onion and sweet potato)
• Olive oil (I dress all my salad's in olive oil-try adding lemon juice with some garlic and balsamic and a dash of brown sugar)
• Pumpkin pie spice- add to hot chocolate, yogurt with some honey, oatmeal with raisins, chopped almonds and honey, sweet potato with honey then bake them in oven, also on pumpkin oh and of course pumpkin pie! :)
  
• Coffee. A must! Always have this on hand! :)
  

So there is a small list of yumminess to add to your life :) Oh by the way you don't have to be a "busy mum" to enjoy this :)

Prepare the Way

Born to dance
Born to sing
Born to be an ambassador of the most high King
It is true; He is really coming again
He is coming as a man clothed in fiery affection and zeal
without blame; without sin
So put on your armor and take up your sword
It is truly a battle with great rewards
This life is not our own
But it is to give glory and honor to the one who is seated upon the Throne
Prepare the way of the Lord
Make His path's straight
For this is the time and hour that we cannot hesitate
If we read the word and believe what it says
we are called to be ones that look forward to His coming
and speed Him on His way!

1 Peter 3:11-12

Since EVERYTHING will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you be?
You ought to live HOLY and Godly lives
As you look forward to the day of God and SPEED IT"S COMING
That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire,
and the elements will melt in the heat.

Beauty within

Beauty within
Beauty all around
Beauty that dosn't fade
Beauty that is eternal
Beauty that resounds Holiness
Beauty that takes your breathaway
Beauty that shines from one generation to another
Beauty that is all together lovely
Beauty that is pure, undefiled
Beauty that is sweet to taste
Beauty that welcomes with arms wide open
Beauty that remains
Beauty within

This is who you are
This is who you have been created to be
This is you....

Beauty

I was made for LOVE

Saturday- oh sweet Saturday- family day-beach day- my day :) I even got to "sleep in" until 7:30! Wake up to freshly made coffee and enjoy my baby girl and husband. Took a lovely drive up north and explored a little, ended up at one of the beaches up there. Naomi was SO entertained pouring water on mummy and daddy's head from one of her buckets, ran in and out of the water and then crashed on the drive home.

Tonight we all snuggled up on our bed and watched about 20 minutes of Milo & Otis until Naomi was just about asleep. A few minutes ago I went in to watch her sleeping (which if one of my favorite things in the world!-she is SO peaceful and sweet looking!) and I just loved on her and I could feel her love for me- I could feel the love of my husband as he walked into the bedroom tonight and looked in my eyes and just played and sung with his guitar, I could feel the love of my family as we all shared a meal tonight- I love to feel love and I love to give love, what would life be without anyone to love or anyone that loved me- love is sacrifice- love is hope, love is everything we need to keep us alive- love is what sustains us for another day in the journey= love it sweet, love is painful but love is all I have to give and love is all I have to receive , love is all I can take from this life and love is what I was made for in this life, truly, I was made for Love

Mummy & Ne Ne