And so it begins... Or ends... Or the beginning of the end...?*

We are moving. Home. HOME! :-D.
Oh the joy that fills my heart to be going home!
Home isn't far from where we live now- a mere 20 min drive into paradise, but to be living there, waking up there every morn, playing there every day, breathing the air, walking through the hills and forests, and drinking the water (no more chlorine and fluoride!!), playing in the creek, swimming in the river, and reimmersing back into the community, well, that just feels like bliss to me :-).

But first.... one 3 bedroom home packed full of years worth of hoarded treasure, must go, to allow our remaining possessions to fit into a 220 x 808 cm housetruck... Jinkies! The past few weeks I've been really excited about freeing up my time, setting myself free by letting go of SO MUCH STUFF, but now it's crunch time and though I'm still very excited, it is proving to be rather tough.

Measuring out my little guys new 'room' (a 220 x 150 mezzanine) to see what will fit, and what won't!*

Our new dining table. Yup, for reals! The small ones play table.  Japanese style dining anyone? ;-).*

 Books, for example- I have been reading this to help inspire myself, and sustaining myself w large helpings of these guys to get me through. I wonder if they have done a post on craft items and other 'useful' materials... I hope so!!!
Wish me luck! I'm gonna
 need it ;-).
Ka kite ano, Tink*

Perfectly imperfect*

For a wee while now I had been contemplating starting a blog. Suprising, as I'm far (far-far) from a whizz on the computer!

But I have a small collection of blogs I love to read regularly (mostly holistic parenting), and a handful I check in with occasionally (mostly for sewing/crafting inspiration), and though this has been an activity I can happily squeeze into lil' snippets of 'me time', I have often felt that so many blog writers are, perhaps, a little afraid to show the 'less than perfect' sides of their lives... Could this be so?

As a mama on my own journey (or journey's! So many, intertwining journeys!) I sometimes find it hard not to compare myself to others who 'appear' to be 'doing it better'. I know this kind of behaviour is counterproductive, I know, and I am learning, a lil' more every day, to be gentle with myself. 

I know I am not alone with this kind of sentiment, and I have always appreciated the times when bloggers, or people in general, are brave enough to share their real-ness.

But don't get me wrong- I have a constant hunger for all that is positive, bright, inspirational and beautiful! I just want mine to have balance :-). Perfectionism is just not my kind of cuppa!

So here I go! Please consider this my attempt to show smidges of my life, as it really is, the beautiful, and the not so much; the real, and the magical (though I do believe those last two fit together perfectly, when we let them). Arohanui, Tinks*