Lists..!!! I LOVE them....
I could write a billion lists, sometimes it's like lists find me...
I have lists for everything..
Cooking, shopping, ingredients, what to take, what not to take, what I need to aquire, what I need to get rid of, I've even created 5yr plan lists, 6mth lists, baby names lists, what I like about myself, what I want to change, fix, love, hate, chuck, keep, style, follow, dream, download, upload, you name it there is a list..!!
It hasn't surprised me there is a "list" sensation taking over social networks, blog's, instagram etc.. People are creatures of habit, and yet too busy for their own good.. Too busy to follow a recognised path and it breeds insecurity.. So we tend to forget, important things, big and small details.. and eventually ourselves..
Another blog has begun a 52 Lists challenge.. It's brilliant, and people love it.. Why? Because I think sometimes lists remind us of who we are, where we are going and what we need to do to get there..
I love this challenge personally because amongst the years of being Mum and worker and creator Ive forgotten my essentials, the ones that make me, ME. I love the idea of having a weekly 'to do' list of fun things with your children, because sometimes time just passes us by, and next week never comes, I even love the idea of writing appreciation lists once a week for what makes you happy, just happy, happy in your life and self, just a little reminder list.. Lists that are now being written, that are all the craze, instead of being useful on a daily grind level they are useful in other ways.. "Favourite Smells"!! well who doesn't have favourite smells? Ones that remind you of a special time, a childhood moment, a memory that has been buried in the recesses of your heart and mind..
One of my favourite smells is gingernut bikkies, they remind me of my Grandad and being little, and happy days filled with sunshine and twirling and laughter, simpler times.. I love the smell of old books..!! I've always been a voracious reader, I'd leave school and unlike other teens my age, would wander off to find old church opp shops.. why old church ones as I am not religious in any way shape or form?? Well they always seem to have the best book collections, maybe its a respect thing..?? I don't care why really, all I know is they do and I would find them and sit and read, and explore and smell the books and know they had been alive longer than I and it always made me happy..
I have a number of lists to write this week, my kids are back at school, and I am also back at school, doing a degree.. I'm starting something I've wanted to do for a long time, something I will talk about in my next blog, and I am scared.. Scared I wont be able to make it through and do what needs to be done, until I think of writing lists, and then I know. It will all be ok because I will have lists to guide me, they may not be perfect and may only be written by me.. But they will get me through each week, like clockwork, and routined pattern that will perfect for me and my life, It really will all be ok..
I will no longer write listless lists of maybes, I will write lists of haves and can-do's.. This may be the year for me to shine, but I'll be damned sure I have a list that shows me what to wear when I get there..
Yours, truly
Mama, Madly... xxx
