Sunshine in a surprise

Having a few surprises in your day can bring a little ray of sunshine. Whether you surprise someone or they turn out to surprise you, its always good...

Today was full of surprises. I woke up to the surprise of my nana finishing the marmalade in the morning so it was ready for me to have it for my breakfast on my toast. Then later in the day we all decided to surprised grandad with a birthday cake since everyone was together. Later when Patrick came over and had tea and watched movies with my family I was surprised in a good way that everything went really well today...

Overall the surprises in my day made me realise how much my nana loves me, how much we love my grandad and how we all came together as a family and had a nice day. We had dinner together, sat and laughed at films together and overall had a really nice day. 

I hope I'm surprised like this more often...

Lots of love x

MLP

Sunshine with my nana

Today I spent the day bonding with my nana, I've probably told you all about my grandparents coming over to the UK to visit. Well today spending time with her on a one to one basis was lovely and brightened up my day...

My family love to bake. Everyone in the family has a signature dish. My mum makes the best carrot cakes with lemon drizzle icing. My special dish is cupcakes with pink frosting, and my nan makes marmalade and jams like you've never tasted.

She brings them over from back home and smuggles them into the UK because she knows we love it soo much, and today I wanted to learn how she makes marmalade so that I can have that little reminder of her every day at breakfast as a spread the marmalade on my toast.

We went out and bought the fruit we wanted which was quince (tastes like a cross between and apple and a pear). We peeled then grated about 3 massive ones and covered it in sugar. Then we boiled the skins with cloves to get all the goodness out of the skins. We sieved the juice into the pot and added the grated quince we boiled it for a while and left it too soak.

Tomorrow were going to boil it again until it starts to look like a good marmalade should. Once it's all prepared I will upload the final product.

What made me smile about this little bit of binding between my nan and me was not that I get to have a pot full of marmalade that will last me a month. But that something got passed down to me from two generations and something that one day I want to pass down to my grandchildren if I'm blessed enough to have some.

Family bonds are precious and don't let things die out, pass them on for generations and pass the sunshine along with it.

Lots of love

MLP



Sunshine in January

Christmas is over, new year has passed, we're all back at work and back to our old lives but sometimes there are those little reminders that Christmas wasn't that long ago...

Walking to work the other day I can across something that just put a massive smile on my face and I just had to stop and share it with you all...

Lots of love

MLP

Sunshine in a resolve

Sometimes people can be sly, manipulative and just plain rude. At somepoint in your life eventually you will be faced with a confrontation...because let's be honest people are complicated...

There are days where there are confrontations in life and you just need to stopnthe pettiness and be the biger person and today I believe that I was the bigger person. I apologised even though I don't believe I should have been the one apologising...and even though she didn't apologise I will be the bigger person and just accept that not everyone will be mature and accept their faults and that you have to be the bigger person when an issue arises.

Atleast I know that when it comes to doing the right thing I did my part. And doing the right thing is always important.



Lots of love

MLP

*sorry if this isn't as bright and bubbly as my usual posts but today all I can do is look at the bright side of an  argument and smile because atleast I did the right thing and hopefully it has all been resolved. 

Sunshine in my new year resolution

This year my new years resolution has been rather simple. To keep being happy, to keep my spirits high and to always be grateful for my life...I normally never keep my resolutions. I always end up eating that bar of chocolate I told myself I wouldn't, or have a bit of a potty mouth even though I said I would be more civil. But this year I've decided that I can do this...

My resolution this year is to keep a diary. 2012 is going to be a year of big changes.


I've finished university and  will be job searching to start my career. I've found the person I want to spend the rest of my life with and now my life is beginning to change. So I wanted to document this year because I don't want to forget a moment of it.

So I went out and bought that beautiful Diary I saw in the sales and I've been writing in it everyday since new years eve...

To take things one step further I've decided to upload my diary to my new blog (which can be found  at http://mlpdeardiary2012.blogspot.com/ - incase you were wondering )

Well I hope that my diary entries will make you a smile and that maybe just maybe they might bring a little ray of sunshine to your life.


P.s just to let you know I will continue to update 'A little ray of sunshine'  I'm not planning to stop sharing what to makes me smile everyday with you all.



Lots of love x

MLP

Sunshine in new years

New years eve brings so many different things into our lives that make us smile....for some people it brings family who are still hanging around from the Christmas holidays, for others it brings friends they've not seen in a while meeting up for a drink or bite to eat  but one thing that almost everyone has is a renewed sense of hope, that next year you will do better, be better and live better...

New years resolutions, something that we all do every year, whether we think of them before the big countdown or those of us who write them down in a nice neat long list and put them under our pillow before we fall asleep. The truth is whether we keep them or not, for that short little moment we all have hope that we are strong enough and lucky enough to have a better year than before.

My new years resolution was rather simple to wake up every morning and tell myself that I am beautiful and that I'm lucky to be alive and grateful to be here another day longer.



Lots of love x

MLP