Perfect Moment Monday: Summer Rain

I love Perfect Moment Monday, purely for the reason of there is so many of these moments in life and its wonderful to try and capture them.... 

Perfect Moment Monday is about noticing a perfect moment rather than creating one. Perfect moments can be momentous or ordinary or somewhere in between.

Once a week we engage in mindfulness about something that is right with our world. 

Thank You  Lavender Luz at Weebles Woblog for hosting this each week ...it really is something I look forward to

I know i have already posted about this once (See Summer Rain) this week but really it was a perfect moment for many reasons.

Bop has always been deathly afraid of storms, even when there is no storm she will predicted one when she sees a black cloud, and this to be honest can be very annoying at times ..... it's like living with Mystic Meg.

So when the storm hit on Friday we all held our breaths and waited for her to kick of ..... and waited and waited.

She made a few comments like.

"Don't you think we should close the windows"
And
"Is that lightening getting closer"

Im not sure why she is so scared .... It's not like we only get them every now and again they are pretty frequent through the summer.

Friday for some reason unknown to us was diffrent for her she remained fairly calm as the storm came in and once it was over us she didnt seem to flinch a muscle ........ and then

I surgessted we went out to play in the rain once the lightening and thunder was in the distance and she AGREED.

This is a first and I was shocked, I have surgessted this more than once, and never efore has she taken me up on my offer.

Bop Splashing in Puddles

there are more photos of this moment read Summer Rain

I Capture Perfect Moments.

No Such Word as Can't !

So it was all change today....
Equipped with my new parenting Bible .... away we went.

Well everything was fine until It was Mommy's time to get a shower, do my hair and so one....
Tuesdays, we have to leave the house early so I can get Bip to class by 9.30am.

I told them both to get their reading books and read for 20minutes... (I have this showing, getting dressed and not looking a mess down to a T now.... 20 minutes and I have to say I look half decent) and I did state without talking....
They jabber to see who can control the conversation the longest, and believe me it turns into a fight cause in their minds someone has to win... to win means to control...

I'm not in the shower two minutes before they start, I step out and ask them to stop and read....

This happens three times, each time I give a simple warning saying if they can't read quietly then there would be a consequence to them disobeying me.
I get on with my shower the whole time they jabber away.

By the way I had sat them outside the bathroom and the door was open ....
Just in case your wondering if I have super sonic hearing.

So out the shower ... dressed and ready to go.....

"Bip, Bop outside please"
They follow me out to the yard.... I ignore their questioning...

I tell them both I want two laps from the car to the post .... Bip just does it ... Bop refuses

" I can't do that"
Very calmly I tell her she can.... she replies "You can't make me".... I tell her she is right, and that I'm not going to make her .... that she has to do this for herself.... and if it is that she is to weak to do two laps of the drive way ( this is no great distances by the way) then maybe she needs to go to her bed and rest until she is strong enough to do the laps....

The laps get done.
This pretty much goes on once we are back from Bip doing class....

She did some alone time.......
she refused to eat lunch .....she took a nap...
she jabbered through out the day ..... and the whole time I was cool calm and collected....

I heard her say to Bip at one point... "Is mommy OK she hasn't shouted at us all day"

She even nearly missed dinner...

Cause as soon as Hubby arrived home from work she really kicked off...
Normal everyday action .... but this time she was told to do laps...
She refused...

What started out as two lapped ended up as five she refused so many times...

Spent 20 minutes of alone time .... and was told again if she was to weak to do them she needed to go and rest.....

Again the laps got done...

With a great big hug at the end of it all.

A Labour of Love

Finally we have finished Bops new room.

Just a brief explanation on why we moved her room.

When we moved to our new home she had a room downstairs which was near to the bathroom.... we have had bathroom issues for quiet sometime and really believed that if she didn't need to go far at night then she would get out with no problems.... not so.... in the eight months we have been here I don't think she has ever gotten up and gone bathroom at night unless we have lifted her and took her....

Then a patten arose, she would ask if she could sleep in our room at night, in our bed, it started just once a week...it became every night, and the nights that she slept in our room or in our bed she would be dry at night .....

So we talked with her and with her included in the decision ...it was decided that she would have what was our dumping grown ... it is a very small room of our bedroom..(there is a fuller story to all this somewhere on this log)

I think maybe if you had the money you would make it an en-suite bathroom... so you get the picture.

This is what the dumping ground looked like two days ago.

just full of junk ....

Was meant to be a craft room for me but we never really got round to that.
with not really a lot of money to do this I had to get my interior designer hat on and make the most of what I had and didn't have....

This was her bed... it had been totally destroyed .....

This bed was part of her past......when we became a family this bed came to.... this was a select all + delete moment ...but I really couldn't afford to buy a new one....

That same bed

She has a reading corner to...which I think was the best move every .... cause this kid will read for hours even at the tender age of six....and has already been up there reading.

We named the room "The Room of Love" we want her to know that no matter what, that the room wasn't a place that she was sent to when she had been bad...that it was a place where when the world outside became to much for her it was a place where she would feel safe and loved.

She loves this little sofa

Most of the thinks in the room Ive made myself... the heart on the shelve was a wooden one I covered with paper to match her theme of Pink and Orange .

Mini Pin Boards which again are just cork boards covered


One of the prints we ordered from A life through the lens


Close up of her reading corner.... which she tells me she is sleeping in tonight

At time through out the last two days the temperature in the house has been as high as 91F but we just carried on with sweat dripping of us.... I'm so glad its done now.... and on a budget we did this room for under $100...

My grand total was $86