It's been another tough week

I am so thankful for the great weekend I had last weekend with my kids home - I just have to focus on how blessed I am to have some great people in my life - try not and dwell on my work issues. It is still on going and it has been a tough week. These last couple of days, I have just had this incredible feeling of sadness - kind of like greiving - seven weeks on and nothing resolved. It has been a hard year - first with the farewell of my USQ job, although in comparison to what I am going through now, at least we were made to feel valued and respected for a job well done. I am definately not feeling that at the moment. It is very hard to wake up each day and go to work when you don't feel supported or valued at all. It is also hard going when you have no idea what your future holds. I am sure that in time, I will be thankful for the lessons learned through this hard time - but at the moment I am just feeling a little emotionally stretched and worn out, kind of like on an emotional rollercoaster. I am thankful though, that I did not have to attend the meeting this past week, and that I have been a little at armslength from it all.

I did have a good Mother's Day - all my kids were home, the best present I could have received. We had a pretty low key day, as I had hurt my back the day before, we took in a movie in the afternoon, us girls going to see the "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" and the boys went and saw "Star Trek".

Sunday night Pete cooked Dinner for us all and we had a family dinner before he had to board the plane back to Brissie. It was nice and he definately surprised me with his culinary skills.

I did manage to get a couple of photos of Chloe riding the bull,

And a photo of her brother and sister helping her


and this young lady hid
Just wanted to also share a couple of photos of this gorgeous orchid which flowered in our garden this week.
Also took these couple of photos this week - I really need to get back to my photo a day blog and start uploading again also.


It is going to be very quiet here this week - Amanda's prac teaching finished last Friday, so Chloe accompanied her on the drive back to Brissie and is spending this week down there with her brother and sister, so it is very quiet at home with just the two of us. Still haven't managed to get any scrapbooking done - just don't have the energy or the mojo to do it. I am knitting though but I am going to try and get back to the gym this week - I am sure I would feel so much better if I was a little more physically active.

Came accross this quote this week and thought it applied very much to my current situation.

Crises test our beliefs, and I believe that they occur when they do as a way of showing us what we're made of; they make us walk our talk and demonstrate how far we've come since the last time our foundation was shaken. We'd much rather do without them, of course, but handled correctly, they can lift us to the next level of our growth… Sometimes the message is that we should be doing things differently. Maybe we need to appreciate certain things more. Or certain people. Maybe we're being told that our timing isn't right. Maybe we have to learn the value of patience, or honesty, or kindness, or self-love. Maybe we just have to weather adversity with dignity and faith."