The Big Wake Up Call...5.1 for Breakfast!

Blue Skies with a tinge of cloud, and an aftertaste of SHAKE!
Good Morning Christchurch, this is your Mother speaking - Mother Nature that is!
WAKE UP! Youve slept long enough... Yeah I know, you didnt sleep a wink... Or you lot there (Us!)
I know youve just got to sleep, but cmon - WAKE UP!!...




Zander

 5.1 should be enough to wake the dead.
Oh wait, theyre NOT dead, theyre just rather badly traumatized and very very tired!
My Littles didnt sleep well. We went for a walk around the neighbourhood last night, checking on their local haunts.
They came home, we watched TV until late. Sleep. Bliss. Shake. Uh-Oh!
We were awake between the hours of 1am and 3am. Sleep again. Wake Up!!! Mother Nature calls... The 4.2 at 5.50ish I almost slept through, rearranged the blankets and cuddled under again.
6.30ish and we have LIFT OFF.
By the time I get off the floor to check the kids, the damn shaking is over, and I realize that I was the only one moving. The only one awake...Oh except for one very scared, big-eyed cat who meows at me.  (And now I think about it, that meow could have been for food, not empathy for our predicament!)

So. Its Saturday, and I have visitors arriving later, Family!
Bring it on. Lets Celebrate all that comes our way.
Best foot forward and besides, its CHRISTMAS EVE.
Joy. Peace. Spirit of Santa - of GIVING, sharing, loving.
The Joy starts when I realize Im alive. Theyre alive.
Im safe. We are safe! We have everything we need.
Most of what we want.

We can celebrate and whilst we celebrate, we can duck into doorways when required...The serviettes may not match, the glassware will be sparse.
It wont matter at all.

Merry Christmas.
Happy Holidays
Blessings!
E Butterfly
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... The Hardest thing sometimes, is to Just Let Go...

I havent written in a while - in truth I lost my blog, lots of computer troubles, despite other things...
Lots of those Real Life Things have happened, and Ive been a bit outta sorts.
Im so fortunate to have the support and love of a good man who has been there and helped me through, and together we make a kick ass kind of team (I think so anyways!) Bless him!
On Sept 4 we lost our son of 30 weeks gestation - Nevan Daniel - its made September a pretty ghastly month, but we are getting there... very slowly.

Im so grateful for so many things though, some of which I have managed to get out and enjoy as it is starting to fine up weatherwise, and we LOVE walking along the River at this time of the year. We are truly blessed with the beauty of Nature at her finest. The gardens around this area are overflowing with colour and scattered with lots to see... we have DUCKLINGS at last on the River... Swans, geese, shags, whitebait fishermen in abundance too *grin* It wont be long and the monarch butterflies will be out in force too!

I cant write much else, so Im going hunt through and post some photos...
Im here, trying just to Let It All Go... with the flow.

Thanks for *listening* :)

Have a fantastic week!
EButterfly