Lots of love
MLP
Friday, 17 February 2012
Sunshine in songs
Some songs are just so addictive and I thought I'd share one thats just been stuck in my head
Friday, 10 February 2012
Sunshine in the dark days
I know I've been gone for a long time and I apologise to all my readers and followers.
Sometimes things don't go as to plan as you thought and you find yourself faced with dark days...My plan was to start a diary and document 2012 because I thought it would be eventful in a good way but now its feeling really dark...
I'm still at odds as to whether I post and share my dark days in my diary (http://mlpdeardiary2012.blogspot.com/)
Now as I look back at the last blogspots it's pretty much the turning point of my year, after that day it all went downhill...But lets not dwell on the darkness and focus on the brightside, which in my case is the love and support of my family during this hard break-up.
When your family and friends are there for you...whether they stay up til stupid oclock listening to you cry down the phone babbling absolute nonsense, stroking your hair as you soak their shoulder with tears and when they try to cheer you up when you stop smiling.
Sometimes you take your family and friends for granted because their always there, you just don't realise how much they mean to you and how much you mean to them.
Life is full of surprises and it can take being surrounded by darkness to bring a good thing to light.
Lots of love
MLP
Sometimes things don't go as to plan as you thought and you find yourself faced with dark days...My plan was to start a diary and document 2012 because I thought it would be eventful in a good way but now its feeling really dark...
I'm still at odds as to whether I post and share my dark days in my diary (http://mlpdeardiary2012.blogspot.com/)
Now as I look back at the last blogspots it's pretty much the turning point of my year, after that day it all went downhill...But lets not dwell on the darkness and focus on the brightside, which in my case is the love and support of my family during this hard break-up.
When your family and friends are there for you...whether they stay up til stupid oclock listening to you cry down the phone babbling absolute nonsense, stroking your hair as you soak their shoulder with tears and when they try to cheer you up when you stop smiling.
Sometimes you take your family and friends for granted because their always there, you just don't realise how much they mean to you and how much you mean to them.
Life is full of surprises and it can take being surrounded by darkness to bring a good thing to light.
Lots of love
MLP
Monday, 9 January 2012
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
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
Sunday, 8 January 2012
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.
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
Saturday, 7 January 2012
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...
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
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