365 Grateful – Day 51- Evening feather

It’s good to have Bilgin at home in weekends but there’s something special about him having a day off midweek. It’s just different from the weekends. There’s this little game we play with Ada which she immensly enjoys. Some nights we get her ready for bed and she goes no problems and a…

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365 Grateful – Day 48 – laundry-laundromat

While washing a massive load, our washing machine decided not to honour the purpose of its existince yesterday. Today, I hand washed them all and who says I need to exercise! It made me think of my mother. The poor woman did our laundry by hand for years including curtains, sheets, jeans everything….

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365 Grateful – Day 43 – mindfulness

It’s amazing how much more life becomes with mind being present. Every little moment turns into an occasion to celebrate. I watched the light around the house. I watched my children to dance around it. I watched my garden in the rain.

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365 Grateful – Day 29 – Dancing into love

I most feel the pain of not having any extended family here on specail occasions. There would be grandparents day at the day care and we wouldn’t have anyone to attend. The presents our kids receive on their birthdays are limited. My mum and brother send us little packages every now on then…

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365 Grateful – Day 13 – For my father

There was a time I felt I could never live without having my father around. He’s long gone. A very long twenty one years. There’s  strength in us, we become immune to pain, blind to change. What pains me these days, not so much of missing him but I will never watch my…

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365 Grateful – Day 12 – ACMP Student Photographer of the year awards

It’s been an amazing run this year. I’ve returned to my studies after a long break. I’ve stressed, rushed but managed and maintained being a full time mother alongside work and school. I’ve pulled off four decent folios and recieved a lot of recognition for my work (ACMP Student photographer of the year)…

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365 Grateful – Day 11 – Midnight baking

I used to work with a woman, a mother of two. She would do crazy things for her children. One day she came in really tired, had a long day. She said -one of the things she did that day – her little girl asked for some muffins for her lunch bag and…

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365 Grateful – Day 10 – The Place

There’s not much to add to the pictures here. It’s the existince I carry with me. You wake, it’s there. You sleep, it’s there. You breath, it’s there and one day when I stop, it’ll be there. What an amazing place the childhood is. It moulds you, it tells you. Its music makes…

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365 Grateful

When I first heard about 365 Grateful, something clicked in me. I knew I hadn’t been “present” enough in moments that needed to be acknowledged. I knew that my life has become one big race, a contemporary living, fun at first heavy in the end. Slowing down has always been a challenge as…

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