I love you as big as the world

Who would have thought that reading my son a book would stop him from crying. He was screaming and I wondered what would help him settle down, so I thought I would try reading him a book. I honestly didn’t think it would help. I thought I would only get through about 2 pages before he started kicking and screaming again. Man, I love that book.

A bit of our history on how we stumbled onto this amazing book. A few months ago when I was at the library I found a beautiful book called “I love you as big as the world”. When I got it home I sat down with my little one on the couch and read it to him and for the first time EVER he sat quietly without being distracted and let me read him the whole book twice. We continued reading this book everyday before I had to take it back to the library.

Because of Logan’s love for this book, I decided to go searching for it to buy. I looked and looked and I could not find it anywhere in town so off to the net I went. Bingo, I found it on the QBD website so into the cart it went (along with a few other discounted cooking books). It seemed to take forever to arrive but once it did, we sat down again to read it. Same reaction from Logan. So now it sits on our couch in easy reach.

http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Big-World/dp/1561486183

So back to today, there we were in the lounge room with him screaming his little head off and sitting with what appears to be his favourite book. In total we read this book 9 times, yes you read correctly, 9 times!!! I even changed books after reading it 4 times and he was not pleased. Halfway though he started screaming again. Got back out “I love you as big as the world” and instant silence so on we continued to read until we finally got distracted at the ninth time.

As a mum, I love this book. It really does express to my son in a structured way how much I love him. Here is a short excerpt that I always tell my son.

I love you as big as the world,

I love you as deep as the sea,

I love you as bright as the sun,

I love you and I know you love me

I strongly suggest this book. It has beautiful pictures as well as words.

Have you found any books that your kids just love?

Bring on 2012

“Welcome 2012, why don’t you stay a while and have a cupcake.” That’s the way I feel about 2012 at the moment. 2011 was a year full of highs and lows. Through the high I have laughed, smiled, and felt grateful and through the lows I have felt anger, disappointment and resentment but here I am still standing strong. Actually I think I may be standing stronger than every before.

2011 saw me become a mum to a amazing little boy who makes me laugh everyday, even through the haze of sleep deprivation. I made the decision with the support of my husband to become a stay at home mum and we started up a business for my husband. After working a bazillion hours a day/week at my old job and feeling super stressed out, I feel like a new person. I love spending everyday with my little boy. He amazes me with his sense of discovery and determination to learn whatever task he is learning right at that moment. Even on those days where he has woken every 3 hours the night before and my eyes feel like they are about to fall out of my head, I still feel a sense of calm for most of the day. I feel like I am where I am meant to be right now.

2012 will bring with it new challenges I am sure. I have many goal, not resolutions. I believe resolution seem to be a bit of fairy wish whereas a goal is an achievable endpoint with a roadmap leading the way. I feel this year I am up to the challenges. I am determined to get my life balanced and feel like I am on the right path.

I have been thinking about blogging for about 5 months now however, I just seem to keep putting it off. I didn’t really have any clear direction for my blogging until now. Thanks to Deb at http://www.homelifesimplified.com.au/ I am committing myself to the “52 week to simplify your life challenge”. I will also be blogging about other stuff that interests me in between. Cooking, Baking, Scrapbooking, Being a mum, etc may all be featured at some time or another. As a SAHM, I sometimes feel rather isolated. Not that I don’t have friends or that I don’t get out. I do but it is different from that daily banter that you have at a workplace. So I think that blogging might help me feel connected to the outside word where I can express some thoughts, be them random or quite on topic for the moment.

So now off to work on my Week 1 Challenge: Create a list of everything that went right in 2011.

Kim xxx