Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity. Walter Dill Scott
Motivation and Inspiration is everything…
May 11, 2011 0 Comments
Green is Good
May 10, 2011 0 Comments
We are now in full blown winter weather, and if it is one thing i love about winter it is warming dishes that just make you feel good inside. This weekend in my pledge to keep it healthy while still creating something that my husband wouldnt reject, i found a simple stir fry recipe which i adapted to suit. (Original recipe from Asian Perfection – The Hinkler Kitchen)
Green Vegetable and Chicken Stir Fry
Stuff you’ll need
- Broccoli, cut into very small florets
- Bok Choy, washed
- Snow Peas, top and tailed
- Chicken Breast
- Corn Flour
- Onion, chopped
- Ginger, from a jar is ok
- Chili, use paste or blend a chili so that it is pureed
- Soy Sauce
- Oyster Sauce
- Rice Wine
- Peanut Oil
- Toasted sesame seeds
How I did it
Slice the chicken breast and place in a little bag with some cornflour salt & pepper, shake so that all the chicken is coated in the flour. Place some oil (not peanut) in a hot pan and fry chicken in batches making sure that you do not overcook the chicken. Once chicken is fried, remove from the pan and set aside.
Clean out the pan and bring back to maximum heat. Add about 2 tablespoons of the peanut oil plus the chopped onion, ginger & chili and stir fry for a minute. Add the broccoli and stir fry for about 2 or 3 minutes making sure they are coated with the oil, ginger & chili, while stir frying (dont let it burn) mix in a side dish about 2 tablespoons of soy sauce & oyster s
auce plus 1 -2 tablespoons of rice wine (depends how strong you like the rice wine flavor). When the Broccoli is mostly cooked add the chicken back into the fry pan with the snow peas, stir fry for a minute then add the sauce, let bubble and thicken for a minute then add the bok choy. Stir fry for another minute.
Then sprinkle with sesame seeds and serve… nomnomnom!
Motivation and Inspiration is everything…
May 10, 2011 0 Comments
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be. David Viscott
No more babies…
May 9, 2011 0 Comments
Day 257 in my miracles life
It is done. The decision has been made, and the paper work has been signed, all there is too it now is a stamp.
I am just not quite sure if i will have enough courage to buy that stamp and place the letter in the post.
Last night my husband and i signed the paper work to dispose of our remaining 3
embryos.
I wish there was a way in words to explain the emotions that are running through my mind, but the only word that comes to me is empty.
I feel empty, i feel like i have decided to throw away my babies, i feel like…. I dont know, i just feel empty.
Empty. Not sad, not happy, no tears, nothing, just empty.
I have thought about this for months, we have talked about this, for what seems like an eternity, i have put it off for as long as i can, but each time i think about it, each time we talk about it, the answer is the same. Dispose of the embryos.
I know in my heart it is the right thing, i know deep down inside i cant, i just cant go through what i went through again, and i know i cant donate them knowing that i would spend each day wondering ‘what if’ – i know that, but i still feel empty, it still feels hollow, it just feels like i am saying goodbye to three little circles of hope…
It feels like the end of a journey that is so much a part of me i cant let it go.
Motivation and Inspiration is everything…
May 9, 2011 0 Comments
Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind. Sasha Azevedo
To a Mother, From a Mother
May 8, 2011 0 Comments
Day 256 in my miracles life
To my dearest mother,
I miss you.
I always miss you, but today, today i miss you more than ever. Its not just mothers day mum, its my first mothers day.
Each step that i ran this morning mummy, i thought of you. As the music of my ipod played loudly in the background, as the trees and people passed by all i could hear was the sound of your voice and all i could see was the image of your beautiful face from the times we used to skip along the old streets of where ever it was in France that we lived…
I am not quite sure what it is, and i am not quite sure why it is, but when i hold and comfort my george in the middle of the night as she cries, i miss you more than ever. I think of the times you used to sit on my bed and comfort me after a nightmare, and i wonder if you ever realised just what that meant to me, i wonder if you knew just how very much i love you, and i wonder if your up there looking down on me now, on us now, thinking how very proud you are of me and my sister, thinking that you could just tell us how very much you love us…
I
f i could wish for anything in this world, it would be mum that i could tell you i love you just one more time, it would be for you to see me running with julie and dad, and it would be for you to meet my george, and just see how far we have all come and just how happy we all are.
I miss you, i love you,
Happy mothers day mum… Guess what? I am finally a mummy myself….
Love always from the deepest depths of my heart,
From the mother that is.
I lost my mum to breast cancer when i was just 11, this morning i ran 8km in her honor, please find it in your heart to sponsor me & help raise funds for breast cancer research HERE
Motivation and Inspiration is everything…
May 7, 2011 0 Comments
I share this with you as it was shared with me (thank you to my wonderful brother in law)
What is Success?
To laugh often and much;
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by
a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just Perfect.
May 6, 2011 0 Comments
Day 254 in my miracles life.
To end a sad day on a peaceful note. Love you Grandma.
You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes and she all she has left.
Your heart can be empty because you cant see her
Or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorro because of yesterday.
You can remmeber her and only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and trun your back
Or you can do what she would want:
SMILE, OPEN YOUR EYES, LOVE AND GO ON…
David Harkins
Motivation and Inspiration is everything…
May 6, 2011 0 Comments
Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. Denis Waitley
Motivation and Inspiration is everything…
May 5, 2011 0 Comments
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can’t buy. Izaak Walton
