Every Child Counts

A very important date is coming up here in the Emerald Isle. A once in a life time chance to change the way our country views and helps children. A chance to give them a voice and get rid of the "children should be seen and not heard" attitude, something our constitution has allowed to happen. A chance to protect them and give them the rights that they deserve. A chance for all children to be respected, protected and heard.

November 10th is the day and I sincerely hope that everyone will give the Yes vote for the above to be made real a chance for a more positive future for the children of Ireland.
If you're looking for more information on the referendum then take a look at www.yesforchildren.ie this website has all the information you need and you can also sign up in support, keep up to date and to donate. xo

October Goals

October Goals

I've set myself a 20 day challenge starting October 1st until October 20th. Mainly because my calendar has been freed up for that time and I need a short space of time to implement some necessary goals:

• No lunchtime purchases! I'm a divil for taking a stroll down Patrick Street on my lunch break on a Thursday (payday) and buying a thing or two. So for the next 20 days I'm not buying anything that is not an immediate necessity!
• Track down a nice Winter coat - Every year I say I'm going to invest in a proper Winter coat but never do. This is exempt from my "No lunchtime purchases" if I buy it before then!
• Go to the gym at least 3 days a week. I've still been going every week just not as often as I'd like. I've had a head cold and sore throat which has thrown me off so I'm going back with full force for the next 20 days.
• Resuming my healthy eating during the week..so far so good today! :)
• Take as many photo's as possible, I've lacked in this area recently but I'll be fixing that this month.
• More home cooking! Take aways have crept back into my life far too much lately so they are also out for the next 20 days!
• I also need to get one of those tape thingys for the car radio to connect to my mp3 player, my one at the moment is broken and only connects to one speaker, its been wrecking my head for months now!! 

So there it is, shouldn't be too hard to keep to these!

Anybody else have any goals for the month of October?! 

xo

October Is Here :)

 

OCTOBER HAS ARRIVED

This is one of my favorite months of the year! I love the feeling of Autumn finally creeping in, the heating has been turned back on, I need to blast the heater in the car for a bit on the way to work in the mornings, the evenings are sneaking up on us that bit earlier now and it wont be long before the clocks change. I've got all my scarves out ready for a freshen up wash so they can go back to being worn daily, I've also purchased a few new ones..and I love dressing in layers! The Mother made her first batch of soup and brown bread the other day too, thats always a good sign! I love the excited feeling of waiting for Halloween to come around, no matter how old I am its a feeling that will always remind me of being a little kid planning the costume weeks in advance and waiting eagerly for it to get dark so we can go out trick 'n' treating maybe. It also signals the final end of Summer because September is always a bit of a mixed up month.

A quick update with myself - Summer was a hectic one both personally and at work. I completed training with Le Cheile and am now a Child Mentor, just waiting to be matched up with a young person.

Work has been crazy and about to get crazier, but at least it's a job eh?!

A couple of "friendships" were reformed over the Summer months as I had expected would be, mostly good but some were a small case of deja vu where I realise that some people will in fact never change...but that's life and something I'm more than happy to leave behind :)

I start my Photography Introduction course in Cork College of Commerce tomorrow, Tuesday 8th.  It runs for 8 weeks and I'm really looking forward to this as I want to get the most out of my wonderful Canon camera...this is just the start of my future plan :) 

My next tattoo is in process, I've given my ideas and sample pictures to the girl doing it and really looking forward to what she comes back to me with. More on that though as it progresses!

I suppose I should also mention The Boy :) He's awesome and we got together in August. He spoils me rotten and I'm really enjoying our time together, it just seems to get better each day..blame him for the silly smile I seem to be wearing a bit more these days <3 

Hope everyone has been super :) xo