a glimpse into my day, things that make me smile and embracing the little things...

I'm loving walking past my little collection of shells and pebbles that the kiddo's and I collected on our summer holiday over the Christmas break. It reminds me of home, reminds me of summer...and makes me smile, and I like that! 


It also reminds me that I  need to, everyday, just take a look around me...embrace the everyday...embrace the mundane, the little things...find the beauty in it and be grateful and be thankful for all that I have.  

 I started my ''things that make me smile'' posts as a way of challenging myself to find things everyday to be thankful and grateful for and a way of reminding myself to offer up that same challenge to Emma and Sean. I've kind of gotten a bit slack of late, well actually very lazy indeed and have gone from weekly posts to hardly any posts at all about things that make me smile. 


Then I decided to try to get away with it by telling myself I could combine my daily gratitude journal with my ''favourites'' posts...ugh!...super lazy Alison! 


Mental note to self ...new year = new start = get onto that! Pronto! 

 Today I am also thankful that I copied my big sister's photos of her holiday here in Europe last year. At the time it was just to make sure that she had another copy somewhere just incase her copy was lost. Now I'm super, super grateful for keeping the pics because I've got a very exciting little project on the go for her 50th birthday....ooooohhhhh so exciting. I can't wait to give it to her!  Love you Chris. xxoo

...and remember...embrace the every day, find the beauty in it and be thankful...

Alison x


Thank you to Sarah at A Beach Cottage for Good Life Wednesday's, I'm a big fan of thinking about all the everyday little things & embracing them. It makes you stop and think about all you have and be grateful for it. Even the mundane.x