Hello and welcome to Hump Day! The time of the week when we can all take a moment to look back over the past seven days and remember three things that made you smile. Not any old hump day either, but the first day of Spring, hooray! Hello Spring, long may you reign… well, until Summer anyway.
The past seven days have gone by at a nice pace, not racing but not dragging either, and here we are at the top of the hump ready to run full speed down to the weekend.
Once again I am focussing on the little happy this week. When things seem to be piling up, instead of dwelling on it I am trying to look at the small things that bring a smile. So, without any more rambling here are my three…
Now, if you squint you may just see the water droplets hanging on these branches. Beautiful. This Japanese Maple is about to bud too... loveliness.
The drive home from work Monday... see that? That's blue sky. In Melbourne. I know! Happiness is blue sky.
This note was all I saw of the kids on Sunday morning. Note the Star Wars reference? The note is still blu tacked to the wall.
Now over to you… what has made you happy this week? Leave a comment or do your own post, link it back and let me know so I can come see! Lets spread the happy… that’s gotta be good!
Happy Hump Day!
N xxx
PS. If you’re wondering why all the pink… go and visit Sarah or Carol to find out more!
I’ll be posting on Friday about it too… kind of! x
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Dear Wednesday… where have you been? It feels like it should be Friday already. As the end of term three creeps closer, and the lurgies bite, as Winter seems like it may never end (although it almost has) the days begin to drag. But, the top of the hill is here, it’s a short ride to the bottom and the weekend… I can all but hear the collective sigh at that thought…
So, on we go then with this weeks hump day happiness… the time of the week we reflect on what has made us happy the past seven days.
This week I only have one happy. It’s a good one I promise. You see, I have been waiting for this day for just under nine months. I knew it was coming… I have felt feet kicking through a tummy wall… I have kissed a blossoming belly… and I have laughed, and talked, and wished… but yesterday I got the good news… You see my darling friends welcomed a new member to their family. I have written of this family once before, and the loss of their precious Layla. Their big boy has a baby brother… I am an auntie again, and the joy I feel can only be described as love for my friends and their sons. So, that you see is more than enough for me this week. Now, I’m off to sort out flights to wrap my arms around all four of them.
So, that’s all the happy I need this week. Because right now, all is love at my house.
Now over to you… what has made you happy this week?
Happy Hump Day! And welcome to the world little one, you are loved beyond words xxx
N xxx
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Posted by Naomi on Aug 18, 2010 in
hump day *With a side of shameless self promotion
I’ll be the first to put my hand up and say this week finding the happy is none too easy, and it’s weather induced gloom. But, as this is a happy space, I’ll just have to build a bridge and get over myself! The weather here in Melbourne has been unpredictable and on the cold side of super chilly. But I know it won’t last too much longer… right?
So, on to the main game… namely looking back over the past seven days and remembering some of the things that made me smile.
The Green Eyed Girl bought these lanterns with her hard earned pocket money. Cherry blossom paper lanterns holding fairy lights... what's not to smile about?
I received this gorgeous hand knitted beanie in the mail form the talented Thea. It's ruby redness is as warming as the wool it's made from. Just click on this pic to go to her handmade store.
…and (yes folks here’s the shameless self promotion!) I have been selected as one of Kidspot’s top 50 bloggers. I am in the company of some of my favourite bloggers, and I have the chance to win a trip to Dunk Island! So, *ahem* click here and vote for me! Then go and vote for some of the other bloggers on the list. While you’re there go and check out this list of bloggeriffic bloggers that didn’t make the top 50, but are just as worthy of your reading… and yet more of them are on my daily reading list.
Oh…. and I have finally managed to get myself a followers space on the side bar, as well as a facebook page… yes, I am a technical genius and can copy and paste code! So, what are you waiting for? Don’t be shy! Here endith the shameless self promotion… because I’m even rolling my eyes at myself now!
So, that’s my happy for the week.
Now over to you… what has made you smile this week?
Happy Hump Day!
N xxx
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Ah, Wednesday I wondered where you’d been hiding. So happy to see you! Now, if you could just give Thursday and Friday a bit of a push and get them to move along quickly I’d be ever so grateful.
After a bit of a hump day hiatus, it’s good to be back in the swing of things. I’d forgotten how much knowing I had this post coming up made me look for the happy… sometimes the happy is big things, and sometimes, like this week, it’s little things. To me, it’s often the little things that matter most, because as nice as the big, the momentous, the thrilling are (and believe me I love a big do!) it’s easy to find the happy in them… what is not always so easy is finding the happy in the small and the every day… so that was my challenge this week, to find the happy in the small… and so then, here they are.
As you may know, I have a LOT of black clothes. So, in an attempt to get out of the black rut I wore this red cardi, with a grey top... the only black I wore was boots! I added this vintage fabric button my sister sent me last year... What's not to be happy about with that button on?
On my running leggings there are splashes of mud. Running in the rain and the low cloud, in thermal gear this week was utter, utter bliss.
The Green Eyed Girl's new sequined high tops. Seriously, what's not to smile about?
So, what has made you happy this week? I’d love to know.
Happy Hump Day!
N xxx
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Posted by Naomi on Aug 4, 2010 in
Family,
friends,
random sweet nothings... 
There has been a bit of a break in hump day posts. It’s not that there has been no happiness, more that I have not really been in a place where I wanted to post about it. I know this is contrary to my very own reasons on why I started this post. It’s also contrary to the rules I made up for hump day comments! But there you go, that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
But Hump Day is back! So, here goes…
We had a very full, and very satisfying weekend here… more than enough happened to keep me happy.
- I had a whole hour on the train into the city reading. I had Mumford & Sons on my iPod and a book in my hand… what a lovely start to the day.
- I walked through the city I love seeing the rumblings and promise of the day to come.
- I met up with the gorgeous and oh so lovely Jodie and Megan for brunch. We chatted away like old friends, not all that surprising as we chat most days on twitter and various blogs… so we could skip all that new friend chit chat about weather, and Hubbies, and where we live and what we like, because we know all that already! It was lovely.
- The football. Two codes in one day. What too much? Perhaps, but we did it! Dad got us great seats at the MCG. So, with Mum, Dad, the Blue Eyed Boy, Green Eyed Girl and Hubby I saw our beloved Pies win. Then, Hubby, The Kids and I went to the Rugby at Docklands, and surrounded by a sea of All Blacks we watched our beloved Wallabies lose. But the spark in the kids eyes was worth it.
- Spending an afternoon meal together with family in our lovely hills, in a small restaurant. Great food, great wine, great family.
So, there are mine. More than three… but that makes up for missing the last few weeks!
Now over to you. What made you smile this past week?
Happy Hump Day xxx
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Posted by Naomi on Jun 30, 2010 in
random sweet nothings... Wednesday has rolled around once more and this week I find myself back in Tasmania, sitting in my sisters kitchen basking in the sun warming my back.
A week can be a life time. A week can give you a different outlook. A week can see history unfold before your very eyes.
Read more…
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Posted by Naomi on Jun 23, 2010 in
Meme,
random sweet nothings... 
Well, here we are not only at Hump Day but at my 100th post! Woo hoo! Crack open the bubbly! What better way to celebrate my 100th post and Hump Day than with a link up!
I am going to keep the linky open but I have decided to make some rules… yes, I’m getting all bossy! So here are the rules.
- This is a positive only space. We have all week to complain, moan and dwell on negative things so there will be none of that here thank you very much!
- Write about the things that made you grateful, happy, smile over the past week – without the well this was blerk, but then this made me smile, just the smiley bit OK? OK.
- Post it on your blog then link up here.
- Give some comment love to other linkers – a bit of love goes a long way
- Have fun and come back next week too!
So, without further ado, this past week I have been grateful for great friends and red wine.
The fact that I live in a community where a wizard and a jedi roam the street with out so much as a blink of an eye.
That I was once again part of the community lantern festival celebrating Winter Solstice. Was a great night! More on that tomorrow!
And last, but by no means least, my family. I love you all.
So, what are you waiting for?Get too it! Hit me with you happiness and your links!
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Posted by Naomi on Jun 16, 2010 in
Meme,
random sweet nothings... 
Wednesday came in a blink of an eye this week. I love that in a week. A long weekend thrown into the mix helps. A lot. Happy Birthday Queen, I may be a republic kind of girl, but I do love a holiday! Surely if we do become a republic one day we’ll replace the Queen Birthday Holiday with a Republic Day Holiday…. surely!
Anyway, this is not a political post, this is a happiness post. So then onto my happiness for the past seven days…. and remember, blogging friends, you can link up your own for some blog hopping love.
- A Sunday afternoon spent with lovely people working on our paper lanterns for the up coming community lantern festival.
- Spending a day watching the Blue Eyed Boy make models and the Green Eyed Girl continue with her lantern.
- Spending some time just the hubby and me choosing new glasses for him, and new boots for me. It’s nice to have some together time.
So, what about you? What made you happy, or made you smile, or thankful?
Happy Hump Day everyone xxx
PS This is my favourite image at the moment! I do love a good bit of nag champa incense!
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What’s your Hump Day Happiness?
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So, here it is Wednesday again… and a whole week between posts. It’s been a busy week here and there have been reasons to smile. That is, after all, what this weekly post is all about! Looking for, searching out, reflecting on the happy. So, Happy Hump Day to you all… and here are my smile worthy moments.
My darling BestPam was here. In my house. In my kitchen. Drinking bubbly with me. It was great, as it always is. We laughed, we talked, we drank, we laughed some more… we did french manicures…. at about 2am… after a wee drop of wine… as you do…
Watching my Blue Eyed Boy soaking up the history, the injustice, the tragedy that was The Titanic and the exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. He has an amazing capacity for historic detail, and for seeing the injustice in social inequality.
Seeing Mia Freedman in real life! In the most gorgeous pink heels.
Watching my family, which includes BestPam, her GOB and her delightful kids, at the football… and our team winning! …. and just the fact that we are at a footy game, yelling out players names, yelling at the umpire… if you knew this family that was made at all… you’d be as mystified as we are at the fact we are there at all, let alone having the time of our lives!
So, Happy Hump Day to you all…. and, what made you smile this week?
Nay xxx
PS remember you can enter your own Hump Day Happiness link here!
Tags: Best Pam, blue eyed boy, freindship, hump day
Posted by Naomi on Jun 2, 2010 in
random sweet nothings... 
It’s been an interesting week, a week when trust was rattled. But now? Now, it’s time to focus on the good, the things that make us smile, make us thankful. Simple as that. Three things (or there about) that were good about the week that was. Dig deep, find those things that gave you warmth and hope, and a smile. They are there.
So, these are my three…
Tonight I am going to see a movie preview thanks to Mamamia. I’m more than a little excited about this! There will be fellow bloggers, tweeters and MMers in real life! I can not wait. This has made me smile all week as I look at my special piece of printed cardboard… the Movie is Mother and Child (trailer here) and it promises to be great night out mid week with a dear friend, and great movie buddy!
My BestPam is on her way to me. Tomorrow she will be here. We have been talking, and planning for a while…. I am so happy… squeeeee is the only word I can think of.
The simple act of shared reading of a book with the Green Eyed Girl and the Blue Eyed Boy… sometimes there is nothing better than a good book, a couch and your kids.
So, what made you grateful, happy, smile this week?
Looking forward to reading yours.
Love Nay xxx
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