Things I’m Loving…

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Sunshine & beach reflections in curious eyes

♥ LOVING the feel of summer, with reflections of sunshine, blue sky and time on the beach with my youngest daughter. This makes the sleep deprivation worth it!

After school sunshine in the rose gardens

♥ LOVING a visit to the rose gardens at Wellington’s Botanic Garden after school to smell the scent of summer, feed the ducks and have our fingers tickled by the fish in the Begonia House. Also love the super friendly staff at the Picnic Cafe there (coffee is great, wine is served if you prefer – I should be so lucky, food is wholesome, they do a great little menu for the little’uns, have plenty of high-chairs and the staff are very helpful too).

Princess Bay

♥ LOVING a walk around the headland on a morning that feels like my kind of summer. A sun that’s not too hot, a refreshing breeze, birds singing their mating calls and bees busy doing their thing. Also loving that the rain and wind have let up enough for a decent walk – I’m rediscovering some leg muscles I’d forgotten about over winter!

Exotic flowers

♥ LOVING beautiful and exotic flowers of every colour, texture, shape and size imaginable.

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The sand dunes, the gardens, the walkways and the city are ablaze with scented colour.

Nursery rhymes on the ipad via youtube

♥ LOVE finding Alice and Charlotte tucked up on a camp-bed together, with Charlotte showing Alice baby lullabies on the iPad.

A new friend!

♥ LOVING special time at our local Zoo with Alice. She found a new ‘friend’. They were both very curious about one another and spent several minutes ‘communicating’ with only a panel of glass between their noses!

A wee tipple on a Friday

♥ LOVING this tipple Dan bought for me (featured in a review here) – the label sold him and the contents taste fabulous 🙂 An appropriate tipple for a stay-at-home Mum who spends a lot of time singing nursery rhymes (thanks Wellington City Libraries for entertaining Alice and I at ‘Baby Rock & Rhyme‘ this week)!

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I wholeheartedly believe that no matter what is happening in your life, there is always something that you can be thankful for… no matter how simple it is.

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7 thoughts on “Things I’m Loving…”

  1. Beautiful post!  I’m going to live vicariously through your warm weather outings over the next few months, as we begin our drizzly decent into winter.  Boo!  We have existed in perpetual summer for the last 4 years… the weather in Shanghai is not agreeing with us!

  2. Loving all of this….such beautiful pictures…the flowers are stunning and laughed at one little monkey talking to another little monkey!! We are off out this morning for a walk amongst the Autumn leaves…will take a photo or two and send to you later.Big hugs all round…and enjoy the wine….what a lovely hubby…the label made us chuckle!!

  3. I second the rose garden at Wellington Botanic Gardens and all the fantastic flowers. Those purple ones you have a pic of — the ones that have those fern like leaves and sprout those giant heads of little purple flowers — those are fantastic.

  5. I was going to say that I was loving your gorgeous pictures, but then I saw that Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, my favorite thing in the world, and all other thoughts flew out of my mind! I wonder if I can find Squealing Pig here in California?

  6. Loving all those beautiful outdoors shots especially the flowers…summer is officially less than 2 weeks away now…wahoo!

    Cute wine bottle..that label would really appeal to me too. 

    Funny how we don’t see each other for months until your party and then in the space of a few weekends we’re also waving at each other across the parade and then spotting (excuse the pun) Dan in Spotlight today…hope you got a good range of goodies for the party? It is so easy to get LOST in that place for hours…today was my third trip in as many weekends!!!!

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