10 sentiments shared

Aug
04

A little bit of happy.

“A little it of Happy” is what one of the CD’s Susannah sent me the other day was appropriately called. I do feel like I’ve been given more than a little bit of happy in different forms this week…Amidst some really shabby days, I was given such beautiful things to make me smile.

Remember a little while back I was getting my blog books printed?  Well I was a little suprised when Blurb contacted me to ask if they could use my blog book for promotional purposes. I was more than happy with that, I got three free albums to boot, and thought nothing more of it. I’m imagining my book sitting at the odd fete stall or something. Kate emailed me the other day to point out that we’d actually made the Home page at their site! How excitement!

I have to say I was really impressed when the books arrived – they were inexpensive so I was expecting mediocre print quality but they really are great. I did both soft and hard covers to compare and they are both very nice…It’s a real novelty to sit and read my blog away from the PC. Shipping is a bit expensive if you’re o/s but if it doesn’t increase if you’re ordering a few at a time and at least that will motivate me to get my 40,000 photos into books sometime soon.
 
Another little bit of happy arrived this week from Gloria, the chaplain at Ava’s kindy. Late one afternoon, she popped around with dinner and cupcakes for us. I was so touched – I can’t say enough what it means to have practical help at times..the simplest tasks can feel impossible on “bad” days and the good Lord knows that whipping up a culinary masterpiece at 5pm each evening is not my forte. So of course I had to photograph the cupcakes – it’sa good thing I did, they were a distant memory by about 8pm.


Another beautiful card from Jen…two more Sus mixtapes…lots of lovely supportive emails… a trip to the beach with the kids…a note from one of the kindy girls to say Ava’s gardenia had flowered for the first time (on the six month anniversary weekend) – so many things to be grateful for in an otherwise challenging week.

Love Sheye x

10 shared sentiments
  1. Melinda says:

    Cupcakes alone would make me feel better! ;-) I can’t wait to pop over to the blurb site to check it out.

    I think the Super Princess is probably behind all of the support you have been given this week. It makes me a little teary to imagine her on her pink cloud plotting ways to send you her love.

  2. Fari says:

    It’s Ava’s ways of letting you know she’s always with you.

  3. Anonymous says:

    special things for special people Sheye…
    laureen

  4. Sue says:

    OH Sheye , this is all such sweet news ! It is for SURE the super Princess trying to find ways to let you know shes around . Thats how it works !!

    When you first lose somebody the grief is so overwhelming your loved one cannot get thru to you directly , so they find other ways to send small messages , often thru other people who are at that moment more open to the messgaes .

    Shes with you Sheye , she knows your having hard hard time with the house deal and shes trying to let you know that no matter WHERE you go , just look for her with your heart and not your eyes and she will be there .

  5. Jenna says:

    Hi Sheye, my name is Jennam and I have been reading your blog for a while now. I just wanted to let you know you have been on my mind a lot lately and especially today for some reason. I wanted you to know you and your family are prayed for and cared about from very far away :)

    Wishing you many more unexpected happys!

    With Love, Jenna (Georgia, USA)

  6. Sussanah says:

    Well, they got the good end of that deal! Your images will sell them heaps of books!
    ps love a cupcake!
    pps do the boys love song 10?

  7. Sue xx says:

    Yummo looks at those cupcakes :)

    The boys look very spunky with their short hair!!

    Sue xx

  8. Anonymous says:

    You can also get those books made up at Harvey Norman!

  9. Carrie Young says:

    ditto what Laureen said :o)

    ‘anonymous’ the beauty of the Blurb books is that they archive your blog direct into an album, rather than having to do it manually :o) I am pretty sure the Harvey Norman ones don’t do that :o)

    Which reminds me Sheye, I HAVE to do mine!
    x

  10. Joe says:

    Glad the book came out well.. I was thinking about doing it myself, and didn’t know how it would look…. Love your site, my wife and I have been following it for a couple of months, and are completely hooked on your wonderful photography…
    Thanks for sharing!
    Joe
    http://ticklecookbreathe.blogspot.com/

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