My Winter Post

The background soundtrack to this post is "(MTV-Unplugged) Florence and the Machine".

I never add this detail, i guess because i do most of my posts quickly throughout the day and i am sitting here at night time with the most ethereal beautiful voice in the background and the fireplace spreading warmth throughout our home. 

As i sat down to think about the things that i was looking forward to this season it was with a heavy heart and a troubled mind that, in fact there is not much i could immediately think of. To be honest winter kind of depresses me, it's darker, colder and harder to cope with.

 (I am very distracted right now as i am completely captivated by Florence Welch, anyway.....)

It's so much harder to get up and get going in the mornings, and now, that we have a fireplace it will be even harder to leave the house. I guess maybe it's my state of mind right now as my head space could do with a little boost of positivity. There are things around the home that change with the season: more clothes are worn and needed to keep warm, hot hearty meals are desired, all of the blankets come out of storage. But also the ongoing, seemingly never ending, bouts of colds, flu's and sickness begin (or should i say have begun in our case).  I do enjoy my hot tea and coffee, my warm snuggles and the 'feeling' of warmth in general that overcomes me that we obviously don't enjoy when the days are hot. 

("It's hard to dance with the Devil on your back, so shake it off", this lyric is ringing true to me right now as it's being sung)

I am going to try my very hardest to enjoy this cold season as i have been trying very hard lately to embrace more of the small fleeting moments that i will never get back again. I have been trying to make a conscious effort to stop and be mindful of what is actually happening and not to slip in to 'autopilot mummy' mode. I have been trying to acknowledge the seemingly unimportant things that my children bring to my attention as to them having that acknowledgement might mean more than i'll ever know. I am also making an effort to do something that i am really passionate and inspired by and therefore i am embracing my love of photography with open arms and have decided to soak up as much information as i can. 

(needing to cut this short as baby boy has woken up sick and upset)   

I hope you are welcoming the cold in to yours lives in a more positive way than I am and even though i am not welcoming it, i plan to try and live it with acceptance.