This week it's my family that's making me smile. This is the clan - mum and dad, my wee bro, his lovely wife and beautiful daughters and of course my two men. Here we are in all our differences of personality, temperaments and talents, sharing our Christmas Eve tradition of eating together. (Usually we go to our favourite Chinese restaurant but we were too late to book this year so this is us squeezed in at my mum and dad's.) I love this crazy, busy family night when all the prep is done and the kids are full of excitement (read hyper) and we just share being together.
My life is very blessed but the days are mostly very ordinary and there's nothing grand or terribly exciting in the smile inducers of my weeks (or at least the ones I could photograph). Don't go getting the wrong idea either and thinking there's always something to smile about round here. A couple of times there were no posts because, lets face it, some weeks smiles are a bit elusive, but you know, I have much to be thankful for and I'm glad that I spent this year looking for snippets of that.
Thank you for indulging my little personal project for 2013!
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you always have these pictures of smiles to look at ... and when its hard to smile get them out xx I think that we need the not so smily days to remind us what a blessing it is when they DO come along xx
ReplyDeleteLooks like you all had a great meal together Sarah. That's what Christmas is all about, getting together and spending time with each other.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun evening, hope you all had a great day yesterday too :o)
ReplyDeleteI have loved your smiley posts. They tend to always make me smile too. Thanks Sarah and I am glad that it has been a good end to the year for you and may 2014 have even more things happening to make you smile.
ReplyDeleteI shall be sorry to not see more of these. Please can you incorporate some ad hoc ones, just for the sake of it?
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed them. They have given me a smile, too.
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It's been a great reminder of something we all need to do, and keeping focussed on the important stuff! Thanks friend, Jxo
ReplyDeleteYou have made us all smile over the year with your posts, thanks for lifting me up at times, this latest photo is lovely, so good that you could all get together, families these days are not close like they used to be well mine is not we are scattered all over the place.
ReplyDeleteHope you have lots of smiles in 2014 too :o)
ReplyDeleteI have really enjoyed your weekly Smile posts. I think that most of us lead mundane lives but there is always nuggets of joy as we go along. Di x
ReplyDeleteYour smiles brighten my day, just when I need it, and to know that smile is so dazzling in real life just makes those smiles all the more special! X. Looking forward to the joy the new year will bring to you and yours xx
ReplyDeleteAs with everyone else, I've really enjoyed these posts and have been reminded by each that there's always something to smile about!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely end of year pic to bring a smile to our faces. :-) abundant blessings for 2014 to you and yours Sarah. Xxx
ReplyDeleteI've loved your making me smile posts. I've never seen a photo of you doing anything other than smiling though! Happy New Year!
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