Giving

Monday, 28 September 2020

Giving

I love Giving - it gives me so much Joy. I love seeing my children Giving and being generous - this definitely brings me so much Joy.

Giving defined as “making gifts or donations”, “providing love or other emotional support; caring”

I love teaching my children about Giving - and teaching them and showing them and involving them - and then seeing them Giving to others too.

I love that in our street we have been getting to know each other and Giving too.

It all started with our neighbour, across the road, Giving us fresh eggs. They explained they had chickens. Last school holidays we looked after the chickens and enjoyed Giving the eggs each day to the other neighbours.

Around the same time we started getting our fruit and vegetable box delivered each week and we always have so much fruit and vegetable. And so the last few months I have been Giving food to my neighbour and I especially love making soup or vegetable dishes and Giving them to my neighbours. I really get so much Joy from Giving and sharing and I love when my children can come with me and are involved in the Giving too.

I love that my children love Giving presents to their friends and their teachers. My hubby in particular races around buying chocolates and presents so that our children feel Joyful in their thoughtful and generous acts of Giving.

I would much rather spend money on Giving or providing opportunities for my children to be Giving, then buying a fancy handbag or top or dress (not that there is anything wrong with buying nice things for ourselves, yet this is just the choice I often make or what brings me the most Joy).

Giving is definitely one of our values - yet it is more than one of our values - it is a goal for our lives - actually a “must do”.

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I Choose Joy

Today is Mother’s Day 2020 - I love being a Mum and I love celebrating special occasions with my beautiful family - I am blessed.

As a Mum there is so much to do and so much to get done. As a Mum I am on a Mission to be the best Mum I can be - this is what is most important to me. I do love the word Mission, defined as “an important goal or purpose that is accompanied by strong conviction”.

Today I am setting a simple Mission for the year ahead - to be Joyful or Joy Filled.

I love the word Joyful, defined as “experiencing, causing or showing Joy”. I also love the idea of Joy Filled - where the word Fill means “to make, to become full, to use empty space”, and Joy means “delight, pleasure, happiness” and to be filled with Joy means “to be extremely happy, content, to be delighted”.

I love when you feel Joy - it is felt in the heart - it lights you up and warms your heart and creates an imprint in our memory.

I will be actively choosing and pursuing Joy, and deliberating creating Joy to colour our days and nights.

I am making a commitment to write 100 posts over the next one year, two per week, as an opportunity to record my thoughts, insights, discoveries. This is my journey and I write these posts to be the best Mum I can be - it is not intended to give advice - it is my brave process and adventure, and this Blog is about keeping me accountable too.

I am actively going to pursue Joy Starters and be conscious of, and proactive with, the Joy Robbers. And I want to teach my children the importance of Joy too. I really want my children to be happy and Joyful, where each night as we go to sleep we are at peace.

I am hoping that when I reach Mother’s Day 2021, I will look back on the year and really feel that it was Joyful, and that in this process I learn new tips and tricks for my life.