So here I am, in this first week of the new year and I'm experiencing something I don't get to experience that often - the joy of nothingness! Its like I'm living in a hazy dreamy place in between the end of the Christmas festivities and the beginning of this New Years 'things to do in 2012' frenzy. And I like it. In this hazy dreamy place I get to stay in bed with my two boys playing all sorts of jumping games about my head - dangerously close at times, we get to eat hot porridge on the couch with blankets covering our jammie clad legs, we get to paint and draw and do all manner of things, and bake special buns 'especially' for daddy, we get extraordinary dinners from Ciarán's kitchen, that Santa so cleverly knew to bring -which consist of eggs and hot chocolate mostly, and from mammy's kitchen- lots of soup and homemade bread for comfort and with the weather being so stormy and crazy here lately, we just get to hang out together, me and my boys, kicking off our boots (well generally Ronán has lost his somewhere along the way) after feeding all the hens and ducks and cows and and just sitting re-reading books by the fire. It is indeed a lovely week - one that I never seemed to have noticed before, but will take a special interest in from now on!
So this week has got me pausing and reflecting on last year, and what better way to sum up a year than to go through the pictures I'd taken throughout it - so here is a little selection of what summed up 2011 for me...
a little bit of relaxing didn't go amiss.....
our Sunday 'Flask in a Field' was always fun...
muddy puddles and a happy drakey...
evening walks.....
new kids on the block....
visitors that brought the best pressi's..
Galway Hookers on a summers day!
mammies and babies....
my new found love of all things 'Elder'!
a bit of fun with the shadow of the evening sun...
my little man doing everything he can to be like my big man!
clouds you could almost pluck from the sky...
never underestimate the joy of arts and crafts!
co-habitation and contentment in the garden...
the first signs of spring are always welcome...
realising how lucky i am to live in such a stunning place!
touching history - The Plassy Inis Oirr!
oodles of Red Admirals on a hot window...
Bluebells....enough said...
Donkey kisses!
Scarecrow faces!
very handsome Spikey!
the exhilaration of just running..
very special moments!
New Arrivals!
New Ventures!
