Cheeky hens

We have had our three little chickens for exactly eight months today. Thats seven months of gorgeous , free , golden yolked , eggs .Mmmmmmmmm. Luckily everybody likes eggs ( although some more than others!) and we manage quite easily to get through our three a day. Although we are now throughly spoilt , when we were on holiday you could noticably tell the difference between the shop bought ( organic free range) and ones from our own chickens. The yolks ( on the shop bought) seemed so pale and not nearly as tasty. Makes you wonder exactly how ' free range 'they really are. Cuddly blue ( named by Sonny)

Cornelia ( brown one , Jamies) Snowdrop ( white one ! Maya's )

All of the children really love having the chickens (Well if i'm honest Maya prefers to admire from afar!) but Sonny REALLY loves them , he takes them treats , he picks them up, he brings them in the house..' take her back in the garden !! ' And he tells everyone that Cuddly is HIS chicken. Getting chickens really has been a brilliant experience for everyone but especially my little lover of all things living!

Thanks girls!

Yogatastic

I'm back! It was BRILLIANT!!


I feel energised and relaxed all at once. It was tough though i was really sweating. It was a different type of yoga to what i've done before ( used to do Hatha i think it was ) but i really loved it. I did a handstand for the first time in years ! I found some of it quite comfortable and not too tough but some of it was a real stretch.



I particularly enjoyed the meditation at the end , a dark room with complete quiet apart from the sound of rain on the window. Heaven.

I can't wait for next week!

Yoga

I'm going to my first yoga class in 15 years later ,and i'm so looking forward to it! I used to go every week in my teens but what with jobs and babies and families and money i don't seem to have managed one since.

I practise at home and some times the kids join in and sometimes they don't , but i can't wait to spend a whole hour doing something just for me , without the tea needing cooking ( ok so i'm doing it before i go!) or the phone ringing , or a bum needing wiping ( tmi) or an argument needing settling , or the washing up needing doing.

Just me ( and my buddy)

for an hour


bliss

A few pics

A few random pics that i have finally got round to dowloading from the camera ( all 651 of them !)

Challenge over

It has been 30 days now since i started my green smoothie challenge, and parts of it have been a challenge!
I have LOVED the smoothies every morning and will definately keep them up, i did one morning have a bright pink smoothie ( beetroot) when we were away and i forgot to pack the spinach ( what a bizarre sentance that is , normally its your toothbrush you forget!) . It was nowhere near as nice , i found it way too sweet and a bit syrupy( urgh)


Anyway on to the sweet stuff, this i found harder than any other aspect . At times ( when others were eating chocolate) i found it torture. But towards the end i found i wasn't as bothered about it. It was easier to just not have anything sweet rather than use alternatives , as it didn't always quite hit the spot. I don't know that i will definately keep quite so rigidly to this but i will def give it a go. The other things, the exercise, the no pop, the salad with every meal were relatively easy (although i didn't always have a salad , because it just didn't go with some things !)


On the whole the noticable improvements have been
Less energy slumps, not specifically heaps more enrgy but definately less peaks and troughs.

I've noticed that i feel happier, or perhaps less irritable.

My digestion (tmi) has been better

And i'm sure it has helped with the fact that i haven't caught this dreadful cold/ bug thing yet ( famous last words!)

On the whole i'm really pleased i did it and will definately carry on with it ( although perhaps not so rigidly!)

Balance

This post is a special hug for everybody who feels sad or just a bit down at the minute.




This post is because i know not everybody likes it when the air grows colder and the nights draw in.



This post is just a reminder that without the darkness there wouldn't be the light, and that for every bad time there will be a good one too.

A walk in the woods

We met up with another Gp Mama(and Baba) today and went for a walk in the woods . I hadn't been to this particular bit of the woods before but they were beautiful!

Sonny had been unimpressed with the idea of leaving the house this morning.

' i'm playing'

' the park is cold'

'anyway, i want to stay here'

' i'm not listening to you Mummy'

However as soon as we got there you couldn't have met a more happy and content child , he looked at trees, watched squirrels, poked fungi, collected leaves, drank pumpkin soup, and told of the virtues of having your own chickens( lovely blue eggs)

We are looking forward to going again , albeit wearing TWO pairs of socks next time!

And we timed it nicely as this was what happened when we got home.