Sunday Adventures

Today I had a day out with my sister.

Our adventure started when we caught the bus into the city. We walked around the city, soaked in the atmosphere and did some shopping.

We then went and had lunch at an Irish Pub and the food was delicious then it was time for us to go to Perth Arena. This was my first time of attending the Perth Arena and to see a show. The Perth Arena is amazing and inside it was pretty impressive.

We had great seats and really enjoyed the show that we went to see.

It’s great to have a day out in Perth and just to see how much is going on. It was quite busy.

I have had a really great weekend and have loved spending the time with my sister.

I really enjoy the time that we spend together.

We caught the train home and then my brother in law picked us up.

It was a great fun day with a hint of adventure.

We are home now relaxing and reflecting on the day that we had.

How do you spend your weekends?

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Breakout

Saturday is my time for Samba lessons and I love them.

Today our instructor said enjoy yourself have fun when you are dancing. My favourite one that she says is don’t think or stop thinking, just enjoy the music.

I find it really hard to just let myself go in dancing. I want to I really do.

So my thought is I just want to BREAKOUT!

BREAKOUT!

I want to dance with feeling, with enjoyment and with passion.

I was thinking how this could be transferred into my everyday life about just being myself. Being myself and just enjoying what I am doing and not to be too concerned what others think.

Also I think it is that I don’t have to have it all together to begin. I don’t have to know the perfect way to dance, create draw and to be creative.

What it will look like to me with be different to what others are doing and I think that this is a good thing.

We are all individuals and I love that.

Art is personal.

Creativity is personal.

So my challenge is to BREAKOUT.

It’s a little scary and that is okay. I am stepping out and will see what happens.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Friday

I cannot believe that there is only one week left of the school term. It has been a really busy time with lots of great things happening.

I have been so blessed this term-

• YouthCARE Conference
• Being able to attend a workshop that I was hoping to get into
• Spending time with other Chaplain’s at the conference
• SPARC Gathering being able to network with other creative people
• Blogging for the whole of March
• Taking a photo in March everyday
• Being able to speak at one of the church’s that supports YouthCARE
• Catching up with lovely friends
• Being able to celebrate family birthdays
• Celebrating my Mum and Dad’s 40^th anniversary
• Helping out at one of the Schools Bush dance
• Being able to attend the community sundowner at the other school I work in
• Speaking at the school assemblies
• Catching up with beautiful friends for coffee
• Going back to Samba lessons
• Being able to have my car serviced
• Getting a new windscreen for my car after a crack in it

• Going ice skating for the first time
• Spending time with family

There are probably more things but these are the things that I can think of at the moment.

It hasn’t been all exciting and there have been some hard days. I am choosing to look back and look at the things that have blessed my life.

Be blessed.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Courage

Driving home today I was thinking about my new blog on April Adventures and just thought about what it is like to try something new. Something that is out of your comfort zone.

What does that look like for you?

Last year my friend said that 2013 was the year of saying yes for me. So I did.

Courage is the word that described my year. I had to be courage’s.

Was it easy? No but it stretched me, it allowed me to develop new skills to live my days differently and to mix it up a bit.

Since I have become a Chaplain at two beautiful schools I have really been stretched. I am not complaining at all I loved it.

I started with the dunking machine at the school fete oh my goodness that was so scary, but I did it. I screamed the first time that I was dunked and I think I swallowed half of the water. Have you ever tried to recover your breath and you are chocking and spluttering where everyone can see you? Well I tried to do it gracefully. Mmmhh!

Another experience I will share with you is the school camp. If you know anything about me I am not an outdoors girl who likes camping and going in the bush. I also am not very good in finding places likes streets which way to go, I have no sense of direction at all. So you can imagine me with the students being in the bush and doing orienteering with them. We were told by the camp staff not to help them at all while they were trying to find clues in the bush. I didn’t because I cannot read a map very well at all. We did make it back and I didn’t see any goanna’s.

I did go on the flying fox and I loved it. I climbed up the ladder then had to be strapped in and then it was my turn to gently step off and fly across the river. I loved it.

I am so grateful for the adventures that I have been able to go on. I cannot wait for more adventures this year.

Embrace something new.

Have an adventure yourself.

Mix the day up a bit.

See what you discover.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

An Adventure

Monday morning I came out to find that my front windscreen has a crack in it. On my day off, I have so much to do and I have to go out tonight. I felt a great sense of being overwhelmed, so after a call from my sister I had a plan worked out.

I phoned my insurance company, went to an appointment I had and then came home to wait for the windscreen place to call me. After that was all sorted I thought about how I was going to get to the place that I had to go that night. I really didn’t want to drive at night with my cracked windscreen.

My whole thinking was oh my gosh this has happened and now I can’t go out. I could of spiralled down that path and stayed at home, why not is was an over cast day.

But no!

I decided that this was going to be an adventure.  So I caught the bus into the city and went to the function. I had the best night and met some fantastic people and it was fun.

Then I was deciding how to get home I could get a bus or catch a taxi, I decided because it was late to catch a taxi.

I walked out of the function down the lane and out to the road. I crossed the road saw a taxi, so I put out my hand and the taxi stopped. Wow it was just like being in a movie. I arrived home safely and reflected on my whole day.

If I had let the cracked window drag me down, I would not have realised what I could do and how much fun that the whole day was.

So be encouraged turn opportunities into an adventure.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

April Adventures

Yesterday I completed my #marchchallenge2014 and I was wondering what I was going to do for April.

I have come up with the idea that for April I will write daily about what happens in my life. I know that life is an adventure and to really embrace life and I want to live each day to the full. I don’t know what this is going to be like, what it is going to look like or what it will sound like. I do know that I am committed for the whole of April to blog every day.

Last night I went to a creative night in the city and it was just a great night of hearing great music and then hearing from people in the creative area in Perth. There was also a time for networking and I met some amazing people.   My friend who encouraged me to participate in the March challenge was there and she spoke as well. I said to her what am I going to do for April and she said continue blogging, so that is what I will be committing to.  Blogging everyday mmmhh.

I am looking towards April with adventure in my heart.

#apriladventures2014

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

March Challenge 2014 Completed

So the day has come, it’s the end of March and I have blogged every day. Yeah! I am really excited.

The challenge is completed.

I have learnt a lot about myself being involved in this challenge. I know that I can commit and achieve things.

It has been challenging but all together it has been fun. Creativity is what I want to do and what I want to be involved in.

I don’t know yet what I will do for next month, I do know that this is only the beginning and I cannot wait to see what happens for the rest of the year.

Thankyou for being patient and supporting me with the challenge.

I think that I have finally realised that I need to write about what I am passionate about and to write with feeling.

I have learnt to place my feelings into words and to share them onto paper. I have also learnt to be a little more confident when posting my blogs.  This has taken a bit of courage.

Tomorrow is April ……………………….

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Day Thirty

I have reached day thirty of my #marchchallenge2014.

Wow!

It has been exciting and a new adventure.

I didn’t know that when I started that I would actually commit to the challenge, that I would be able to blog everyday of March.

I have one day to go and I am really looking forward to tomorrow.

I am really ready for another challenge for April, not sure what that will look like at the moment. I will let you know.

Some ideas to think about for April are-

• Write a song-commit to writing four songs for the month of April.
• Writing in my Princess Heart Journey blog three times a week.
• Making time to for #spacetocreate.
• Working on creating a website for Princess Heart Journey.
• Learn to play my guitar.
• Recording the songs that I have already written.
• Looking at studying.
• Samba lessons on Tuesday night for the month of April.
• Finishing my draft for Princess Heart Journey Journal.
• Working on Princess Heart Journey book committing to writing twice a week.
• I also want to share my testimony with women and girls.

I do know that I want to create, create, and create more.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Saturday

I enjoy Saturdays a time to sleep in and then I have my Samba class. Love it.

I have decided that after a few weeks of having lots of things on, that this weekend will be a time of just being home. I want to have time to read some books that I have been wanting to read. The books that I have will help me in my work and it is also research.

I also have some books on leadership and will be looking at styles of writing to help me with my own writing style.

I am really excited for this time, the weather outside is over cast and there has been a little bit of rain. Yeah, perfect conditions for a weekend of reading, writing and being creative.

Time to just chill out a bit.

I am expecting to have a great weekend and looking forward to what I am able to achieve.

Take time for yourself.

Do something that you enjoy.

Enjoy your day.

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx

Friday

I have 3 more days of #marchchallenge2014, I cannot believe that it will be finishing soon. I am a bit sad about it.

I have loved the challenge of blogging every day and talking a photo of something. It has been quite refreshing.

Today I had a beautiful day at work, I love my job as a Chaplain. I love being able to listen and help others. I am passionate about what I do and I really want to make a difference.

What are you passionate about?

What would you love to do?

Do you want to make a difference?

I often ask myself these questions when I am looking at doing something different.

This year I really want to look at balancing my life, balance my work and home. There are some things that I have had to let go and for this season that is quite okay. There are some things that I wanted to try like Ice skating and this is okay as well. I really like to have new adventures.

I have been really focusing on self-care as well. This was raised in our Chaplain’s Conference about taking care of ourselves. I am working on this and have realised that being creative is what I want to continue with in my life.

What do you do for your self-care?

Take it easy on yourself, you are worthy, valued and loved.

Will see you tomorrow

Loves and Hugs

Traceyxx