11 weeks today

I still remember that moment in the first week holding Baby and looking down in amazement and wonderment at this tiny human, that face and those eyes as he looked up at me... it's a moment I will always remember. He is only 11 weeks today but already I miss how small he was.

heart

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
- Oscar Wilde

Oh how that touched my heart today.

I saw it in the most unexpected place - it was written on one of those whiteboards normally used for indicating delays or some such information, coming out of Earl's Court tube station.

mind

The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.
- David Orr

Contrary to what you may think, the one that resonated most was storyteller, not lover. There is a story that needs to be told, and you will tell it one day.

"Flaws"


When all of your flaws and all of my flaws,
are laid out one by one,
A wonderful part of the mess that we made,
We pick ourselves undone,


All of your flaws and all of my flaws,
They lie there hand in hand,
Ones we've inherited, ones that we learned,
They pass from man to man,


There's a hole in my soul,
I can't fill it, I can't fill it,
There's a hole in my soul,
Can you fill it? Can you fill it?


You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve,
And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground,
Dig them up, let's finish what we've started,
Dig them up, so nothing's left unturned,


All of your flaws and all of my flaws,
When they have been exhumed,
We'll see that we need them to be who we are,
Without them we'd be doomed,


There's a hole in my soul,
I can't fill it, I can't fill it,
There's a hole in my soul,
Can you fill it? Can you fill it?


You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve,
And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground,
Dig them up, let's finish what we've started,
Dig them up, so nothing's left unturned,

When all of your flaws and all of my flaws are counted,
When all of your flaws and all of my flaws are counted,


You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve,
And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground,
Dig them up, let's finish what we've started,
Dig them up, so nothing's left unturned


All of your flaws and all of my flaws,
are laid out one by one,
Look at the wonderful mess that we made,
We pick ourselves undone.
Dan Smith

...

"Born To Die"

What? Who me? What?

Feet don’t fail me now
Take me to the finish line
Oh my heart it breaks every step that I take
But I’m hoping at the gates,
They’ll tell me that you’re mine


Walking through the city streets
Is it by mistake or design
I feel so alone on the Friday nights
Can you make it feel like home, if I tell you you’re mine
It's like I told you honey


Don’t make me sad, don’t make me cry
Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough
I don’t know why
Keep making me laugh
Let’s go get high
The road is long, we carry on
Try to have fun in the meantime


Come on take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane
Choose your last words, this is the last time
Cause you and I, we were born to die


Lost but now I am found
I can see but once I was blind
I was so confused as a little child
Trying to take what I could get
Scared that I couldn't find
All the answers honey


Don’t make me sad, don’t make me cry
Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough
I don’t know why
Keep making me laugh
Let's go get high
The road is long, we carry on
Try to have fun in the meantime


Come on take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane
Choose your last words,
This is the last time
Cause you and I
We were born to die


Come on and take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane


Don’t make me sad, don’t make me cry
Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough
I don’t know why
Keep making me laugh
Let's go get high
The road is long, we carry on
Try to have fun in the meantime


Come on take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane...
Choose your last words,
This is the last time
Cause you and I
We were born to die

Grant, Parker

a couple more words

1. Marathon
2. Amazon (more the online shopping website, rather than the river - the former tends to permeate conversations more regularly than the latter)

I've been 'pulled up' on many other words (but obviously my pronunciation is correct), but for some reason I'm more conscious of this one. Perhaps it was because I was actually blissfully unaware of the difference until it was quite harshly pointed out to me (thank you very much my English friend :) I have to admit though, it does sound better... and while we're on the subject, I am quite partial to the English pronunciation of yoghurt.

Oh dear, am I becoming English?

cookie!

I gave in last night! At 10:30pm, I set off to try out a white chocolate and macadamia cookie recipe. A little over an hour later, 16 cookies were baked and everything all washed up - record time!

Mmmm.... soft and chewy - just the way I like them. The only problem is they're just a little bit too difficult to stop eating - there are just 2 left... my poor poor waistline :(