Things I'm loving...

I wholeheartedly believe that no matter what is happening in your life, there is always something that you can be thankful for... no matter how simple it is.

1) Loving bath time....

 ...and letters to Santa with Little Miss.

2) Love spring cleaning and being able to send lots of the clothes I don't wear anymore to charity.

3) Love making a point of using the stupid amount of candles I have lying around.

4) Love choosing which recipe book I'm going to cook all the recipes from for one of my 101 Challenges. I decided I wanted one that had a variety of things in it, (although I had to talk myself out of making everything from my 'Golden Book of Chocolate' recipe book) which narrowed down the field of many contenders - I have too many cook books don't I? We had piles of cookbooks all over the place as you can see. The photo on the bottom right shows the finalists.

I then ran the finalists by the big man of the house and he liked to and chose his own winner which I had to over ride and choose his other favourite after scrutinising both options.

So our winner is 'On the table in 20 minutes' :) Seen here on the left of the top image.  I had to take a photo of what my cook book shelves look like now after a clean out.  Books from biggest to smallest on a shelf make my OCD day! :D

I'm having a great week - what are you loving? <3

You tube + Twitter + facebook = 'You Twitface'.

More inspiration from Mama Kat's Weekly writing promts;If Social Media died tomorrow, describe another hobby you might get into.

If there's one thing I love, it's social media.  I love Facebook.  It's not so much the fact that it's such a good communication tool (which it is) but the fact that it enables me to express myself  - photos, status updates, voicing my opinion, challenges. To be honest, I don't think I'd be so fussed if no one saw what I was posting... hmm, that might be a lie... but really.
I'm no extrovert!
So why do I like it so much? Maybe I'm a closet extrovert..wait...surely that's a paradox.

And recently I've taken up blogging, which already has been so rewarding in so many ways. I've enjoyed getting comments from other people, correction, I love it! It's been good to sharpen up my writing skills, both for my personal satisfaction and my job (teaching) and I didn't think I would but I just like sharing things with people.  The last post about my dad wasn't so much about sharing the story as it was good for me - I cried almost the whole time writing it but felt SO good when I was done, being something that I'd never shared with anyone in that way.

But what if it all died tomorrow?

Another good spin off from blogging is that I'm able to share my photos creatively and with a purpose and the blog provides a place for presentation.  
In the past that's always been covered with my scrapbooking, which I love but is;

• Time consuming
• Money hungry
• Does not reap rewards as the albums get dusty in the cupboard
• Not enviro-friendly.

 Scrapbooking would definitely be something I would fall back to if social media died tomorrow. Baking and cooking would too.  These are other things that I like to do but it just seems so convenient to let them fall off sometimes, and doesn't every woman like to guilt trip herself with the lovely internal dialogue? "Why haven't you used all those great scrapbooking bits and bobs in the cupboard Kate? And what about all those unused recipe books? Jeez, you're poor husband, what a terrible wife you are!"

So after all that rambling, in conclusion - with no social media I would probably delve into the hobby of 'doing all the things I want to do while I'm wasting time with social media'. DONE!