Our days of late have been busy in the morning, quiet in the afternoon. Today flipped the script a bit as I was volunteering again with the Lothian Breastfeeding Buddies and had to be online from 10.30am til 11.30am (or thereabouts). It was a slow and gentle start to the day, after I was woken up at about 6.30am by a small human tapping me on the head.
I was a bit apprehensive to be online with Wee Daftie floating around behind me. She’s a great kid and sometimes loves playing by herself. She is, however, also a 4 year old who is really social, loves babies and definitely thinks that my pals are her pals. I love volunteering, the sessions are precious and I like to give the mums my full attention. I also like to give Wee Daftie my full attention so it’s hard to balance the two. I usually do my peer support when she’s at nursery but, times being what they are, I need to work out a way to do both successfully.
And today, I think, was okay. She was able to chat and say hello but she also had fun playing with her cars and drawing when I needed to concentrate. Wee star.
After lunch, we made our walking plan. As it’s winter and dark earlier in the evening, we’ve had a couple of walks where we’ve brought torches with us. Mainly out of necessity, but also for the fun. So we left later than we usually would, took some torches and headed out in search of somewhere to shine them.
The other day, my Dad innocently asked if we still went out walking in the rain. “Oh yeah,” says I. “Come rain or hail, clouds or sun, off we go!” Foolish me didn’t realise that my throwaway comment was basically a premonition. I opened the front door and out we stepped into hail. Not massive, awful ones but hail nonetheless.
We had such fun. It was really great. There is something really refreshing and freeing about embracing the elements, leaning into them and not letting the wet dampen anything more then our shoes. We were sodden and smiling by the time we exceeded our target today.
I received a parcel of books from my sister and she included this gorgeous card. It is definitely something that speaks to me. I’m generally not into motivational quotes but the card is very special and it feels very relevant in this current climate. And not just because we are literally dancing in the rain some times.
I try to live joyfully, I try to keep positive and I always try to dance in the rain.
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