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The 5-Day Gratitude Log Challenge

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I love those memes on Facebook and this one is rather timely as I was just browsing through my gratitude journal and thought of the many times I missed writing in it when I got the tag from a mommy blogger friend. In this Gratitude Log Challenge, you are suppose to write down 3 things you are grateful for in 5 days and tag different friends each day to do the same. Easy-peasy, right? Plus, I love the idea of spreading the attitude of gratitude around. I’m thinking if everyone will keep a grateful and thankful attitude our lives will be so much better and so is the world we live in.

So here is my list of gratefuls for today:

  • a very long weekend so I can rest, relax, bond at home with the little man + work on my backlogs + chores
  • for the rain {even when i do not like it much} so that i can anticipate + appreciate the sun more when it is up again
  • for my little man who never seizes to inspire me to become a better person {+ can you believe that he’s only a couple of inches away from being 4ft at 5 years old?}

I’ve tagged a couple of my friends on Facebook to do the challenge, too, and am now tagging you {yes, you, the one reading this now! ^_^} to do this challenge with me. Let us help spread the attitude of gratitude around, shall we? 🙂

image is from Facebook

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gt: mum's favorite word

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I have always loved words.  They have fascinated me much just like magic + mysteries ever since I was a little girl.  They seem to leap from the pages of my favorite books + prance around me in an odd parade of random letters forming familiar words.

But, somehow, when I became a mum my vocabulary was altered by leaps + bounds + is now peppered by monosyllables (+ sometimes, guttural ;)) courtesy of my little man. That is why it is no surprise that when asked what my favorite word is, this one instantly popped into my bubble thought:

dood

 

 It was originally coined by my son to denote his feeding bottles, but I have noticed lately that everything pertaining to his immediate requests + concerns are summarized by this word.  He could either mean he wants milk, to be carried or to go out of the room + eventually out of the house + heaven-knows what else 🙂  What makes it all the more cute is the way he pronounce it, giving emphasis on both D‘s (much like how a Brit would do it!) + saying it with that much urgency in it that you will be sure to follow his wish!

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