Made me smile

I wanted to share a few things that have made me smile lately.
My life is not a bed of roses, but when I can look past the crappy stuff and still find joy in the little things, I know I am on the right track.

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The rain. Okay, so I could have done without the thunder & lightning, but the rain itself was very welcome! We are on tank water, and it was getting low. We also have an underground bore which we can use if we ever run out of tank water, but it tastes “dirty”. It’s perfectly safe to drink, but I have been drinking rain water for 30 years and I can’t stomach any other kind (town supply included).

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Cute new winter PJs for my boys. I was at the Warehouse yesterday and saw they had 20% off boys’ PJs. So I bought these super cute ones for less than $10 each! Tyler’s have pirates on them and Ethan’s have racing cars on them.

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Vouchers. I got lots of vouchers for my birthday. I enjoyed spending $100 worth of vouchers at a couple of scrapbooking stores. I still have a $50 dinner voucher to spend (which also came with complimentary babysitting, how cool is that?) as well as 2 movie tickets.
Vouchers are fun. They make birthdays last for ages!

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Tyler is well and truly toilet trained. And as a result, he is a completely different child! We aren’t the only ones who have noticed – his preschool teachers have been raving about his increased confidence and independence in many different areas.
He starts afternoon Kindy next term (5 May) and he is soooo excited about being a “big Kindy boy”.
These changes are really good for his self-confidence. I am loving the new & improved Tyler, he’s so much happier now (not that he was unhappy before, but I think he’s just really proud of himself and he knows he is doing well).

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This afternoon I am (finally!) going to visit my friend Jo and her new baby boy! He has a name now :: Asher Joe. Rob and the boys have already met him, but I’ve had a cold since last Monday. I didn’t want to gift that along with the cute little size 000 t-shirts. So I waited until I was better. Now I am better. And I am excited to meet him!

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Answered prayer. I know Mum won’t mind me sharing this, because she would want people to know about the power of prayer.
A few weeks ago, Mum found a lump in her breast. She had an ultrasound done, and they said she would need to have a biopsy. Two days after my birthday, I took Mum for her biopsy. I was going through some other emotional stuff at the time, so it was a really tough week. We had to wait 5 days for the results, during which time there was a whole lot of praying going on. One friend prayed that the lump would turn into “a ball of nothing”. That is exactly what happened. It basically disintegrated, and 3 days after the biopsy, the lump was gone.
A couple of days later, the results came back. Negative. No tumour.

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And finally, I smiled when Teeni gave me this Chatty Award:

I am the first to admit that I’m a bit of a chatterbox, so I’m not at all offended by the connotation this award carries.
But like Teeni said on her blog, it’s actually a compliment to receive such an award. I know it means that Teeni would love to have a long chat with me over a cup of tea. I would love that too! But skip the tea. I hate tea. How about a nice hot chocolate instead? Or a chocolate frappe?
Teeni is such a good friend to me, supporting me “behind the blog” with her encouraging emails. She has always been there for me, during good times and hard times. If our emails are anything to go by, I can only imagine how long our talks would be in real life! There is the slight problem of us living in opposite hemispheres. Ahem.
But one day, we might get to meet.
And that would be all kinds of awesome.