The other day I read about something called The Joy Dare.
The aim is to write down things that you are grateful for; that bring you joy; to thank God for the little things in life.
And there's a goal- to write down 1000 in 2012!!
There is a guide for January that you can get from here, and you can read more about the whole thing on A Holy Experience. They're also having some giveaway, and one prize is a Nikon camera *gasps*. I haven't read what you have to do yet. Our printer's not got ink at the moment, so I wrote it out all by hand. I wanted it to look pretty as well, so I burnt the edges with flames and soaked it all in coffee. Looks great!
It suggests writing down 3 things a day. I only started yesterday, so I had to catch up for 6 days, but it was easy enough. And at the end of the year you'll have a book filled with beautiful, happy thoughts and memories! Hopefully a thousand of them!!
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One thing that I'm grateful for, and I feel so incredibly blessed to be part of, is something with three other ladies...
... a 'The Four Generations' photo!!
That is my great-grandmother, Rienkje, on the left. She will be 91 in a couple of weeks! Her daughter, my grandma, is awesome, along with my grandpa. They recently rescued a puppy dog with one eye from the RSPCA, and have just bought a motorhome to travel around Australia with (p.s. They named their dog Boondi, which is some Aboriginal word. She's adorable). Then there is my lovely mother :) She stays at home and homeschools my two younger sisters... and makes my lunch when I go to work :p And that last lovely lass, is me. Hannah. I complained to my mum that I look like I have a baby face, compared to her skinny face, and she said
"When you're 90, you'll be glad you had a baby face at 19!"
I hope so.
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Guess what- I'm moving into a big caravan in our backyard very soon!!
It's a sweet 24ft long (7 metres!) and has 3 areas/rooms. My dad got it at a low price because it needed lots of fixing up. He's done really well so far; he's painted it all, and he only needs to put some lino down on the floor, and fix some broken windows. Then me and Mum (and maybe Grandma too!) will need to make some curtains, and then I can go for my life and make it all pretty. I cannot wait. I chose a nice, casual creamy-white colour for all the walls, and all the cupboards are drawers are being left brown.
I had had enough of my bright purple and green walls, haha. Too overstimulating for my now 'adult' lifestyle, lol. I need I place where I can come home too, and relax, haha.
Yesterday I took a couple of photos of my room before I started packing it up (my sister's will be moving into it- Eve who's 12 is very excited about the awesome colours). My brother will be moving into THEIR old room. He has lived outside in a tiny (11ft, tsk tsk) caravan for years, but now it kinda has no door and some windows are broken, haha.
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| my 'big' wall |
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| my messy door wall (how i will miss those cds!) |
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| my colour coordinated cds :p |
{And I'm very excited now because I'm ordering a new lens! Woooo!!!}
Love to everyone,
Hannah xx
