Go take a step outside.....

As I sit on our back veranda watching my children play with our dog, a lot of things go through my head.....gee the BBQ needs a good clean, how can a child make such a mess with one muffin, why are my legs so pale etc....then all of a sudden I had this thought......why do we care so much about crap that really has no significance to ,well, anything? Who cares if my legs are Bee Gee teeth white? or that the BBQ has seen better days....it still works and I can clean that muffin off that child in a few minutes. We are so busy trying to project a certain image of ourselves to the world even when the world is really taking no notice.

I spent my weekend in Merriwa with my family and a few of our friends...in the middle of nowhere.....gum trees...stars....kangaroos....no Internet or phone service.....no hot water.....no comfy bed and I can honestly say no worries (apart from my son nearly breaking his other wrist when he fell off a postie bike!). I felt safer than living in suburbia and felt at ease with everything. I could read without the phone disturbing me, I knew the kids were not up to mischief and I really didn't give a toss if my hair looked like shit.

My boys on the quads

......but I sure was glad to come home and have a hot shower.