Chocolate

Thursday, 10 June 2021

Chocolate

I love Chocolate. I try to give it up. And now I have decided to just accept that I do love Chocolate. Chocolate brings Joy.

Chocolate defined as “a food that is made from cacao beans and that is eaten as candy or used as a flavouring ingredient”.

I have always had a love / hate relationship with Chocolate. I love Chocolate. I have always had my favourite Chocolate. As a child my Dad would buy a block of milk chocolate and on Friday nights we would get a row of Chocolate. It is a precious memory. And at school I loved strawberry Freddos, the best Chocolate that I would buy from the school canteen. Now I love Cadbury small Easter Eggs and Top Deck Chocolate.

I have often felt that Chocolate is bad – certainly bad for me. I do love eating it yet often get headaches when I eat Chocolate at night. Eating Chocolate like tonight is usually closely followed by taking panadol. I have almost felt this part of me like a person sitting in the cupboard eating Chocolate, ashamed, hiding, secretive. It’s strange.

Now I have decided to embrace the part of me that enjoys Chocolate, to enjoy and be happy and Joyful. I have decided to be like I was when I was a child, enjoy the Chocolate perhaps once a week, maybe twice, no rules, yet certainly limitations.

Chocolate does bring me Joy and I have decided to just allow it to bring me Joy, allow myself to eat Chocolate and enjoy it.

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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.