Holidays day two

 Enjoying summer solstice. The pretty crystal was a present from my wonderful Mum yesterday, perfect for soaking up sunbeams on the longest day of the year!

Rosemary, little dasies, purple flowers

Sun tea


 And sun biscuits (yep their meant to be suns:)

Two of my chickie girls laid their first egg! Yay chickie girls!

2 weeks holidays! Day one

 For my very first day of holidays I went to visit Mum
It was a fun day full of opp shopping, last minute present buying and lunch in the park
After tea we went to the beach until it was time to look at Christmas lights

 The water was dark and moody looking, the weather unseasonably cold

 We saw lots of pretty lights

 It was nice to drive around my old town and see all the farmilliar lights that we see each year and of course some new ones.

Im glad to be on holidays but I dont feel as relaxed as id hoped. Ive taken my second lot of clomid (fertility medication) and its making me feel stressed out.

 I figured that with my work increasing and my day care anual re-approval coming up that I had reasons to feel stressed but now that im on holidays and have nothing to stress about for two weeks I can see that realy im stressed about nothing!

 I hate feeling like this and im considering not taking clomid next month to give myself a break but I hate the thought of missing an oporturity to get pregnant.

 Anyway, my mum gave me a nice relaxing massage and im planning to meditate and have a restful break and hopefully feel good and enjoy my time off.

Right now im loving

Knitting light airy cotton

Crunching cool crisp cucumbers

Feet in the kids little pool (and recycling its water after use by bucketing it onto my plants)

My good friend the air conditioner 

Sweet sounds of our new wind chime dancing in the warm breeze
Ice in drinks. Crunching ice. Water 'icy poles'. Kids playing with ice. Did I mention that we like ice over here?
The promise of a day off on Sunday (by then I will have worked 13 long days straight. Really must learn to say no occasionally...)
On Sunday I plan to sit in my hammock chair with my feet in a bucket of water and do nothing all day long

Mmm, fresh fruit from our little corner shop. In case your wondering yes that is an icy pole cooling my drink, like I said ice disappears around here!

Oh yes, summer I can tell your near. This mug is from the opp shop, the back is a winter even cuter