LADY'S DAY

25th of March 

Call it whatever you like, just looking for any excuse to excuse the daily life and house work. Don't we all? So let's celebrate Lady's Day like its meant to.

Any activities to bring the ladies together for a tea party or golfing. Or just you and your best girlfriend. Relax or indulge in what your city has to offer. Tell your H (usband) to give you a day off too or a massage instead. Do something for yourself. Start a day in the spa, getting facials, pedicured and manicures, massages and a nice long hot shower. Meet your girlfriends for some shopping and a looong lunch with too much vino. Do not go home unless tipsy with flowers. Put those flowers in water, change and let your H take you out for dinner in a fancy restaurant. Or get extremely fancy, red carpet fancy and go to McD and order a salad.

Treat yourself to some whiskey-what a lady-like thing to do. Put on your disco shoes and ask fate to dance. Prior to that, organize a lady's dinner inviting all the awesome women in your life and giving them a big THANKS for inspiration and support.

What are your ideas to celebrate such a lovely and very much needed holiday?

HAPPY LADY DAY LADY!!!!!!

WORLD WATER DAY

22nd of March 

I don't know about you guys, but this is when the gratitude kicks in, for me. UNESCO & UN every year on this day try and raise awareness and bring focus on one of the words biggest problem. Running, fresh water. Billions of people are less, much less fortunate than us. We can not even imagine a day without water, let alone electricity whilst all around the world this is a luxury. Children not getting education or not attending schools because they need to walk miles to bring fresh water for their families.

Lets help out. Lets do our part. Last year, in Malta, a walk was organized to raise awareness and represent that walk that kids and all the others in need go on daily. I tried and look for it, to part-take this year but didn't find anything, please if you know something, let us know and let us join.

Every year, UN chooses a theme, this year is International Year of Water Cooperation. While 2005 was decided a decade long theme under the name Water for Life. Last year was Water and Food Security and so on. Here is a link where you can read more about the World Water day and ways to donate and help.

And here are some ideas how you can do your part at your home:

• Save a bath for the special evenings. Shower. 
• Put a brick in the water tank above the toilet. Brick takes up space and therefore less water is wasted in each flush. 
• Use used water to water your plants. Like bath water.
• Collect rain water for your garden, and you can drink it if you filter it. 
• Water your lawn and garden at night time. When sun is under the horizon, the water doesn't evaporate as easy therefore you'll need less. 
• Keep a pitcher or a bottle of water in the refrigerator for when you feel like a drink, that way every drop goes into you and it doesn't waste.
• Switch the water off whilst brushing your teeth.
• Drop the tissues in the bin, instead of flashing it every time. 
• And many many more.  

SPRING SPRING SPRING!!!!!!!!!!

20th of March at 11:02 GMT (make an alarm)

Here are some ideas how you can celebrate this best day of the year and the upcoming season. Hope you have a ball.

• Spring cleaning (clean everything! behind, under, the tops of the wardrobes, wash your curtains and windows, rugs and carpets, air your linen and put away your winter blankets and color sheets, covers and pillowcases-making space for the spring colors and decorations) 
• Give it a spin for your spring cloths, sheets and what you may use. Put scented water in your iron and iron away. 
• Give it a go to some creative organizing. (clean you closet from the winter cloths, things that are worn off and might not have the use for the next winter, give it away. In Malta, there is an ASPCA second hand shop, drop it there. Get post-it papers, 7 of them and make a week plan. Get yourself a recipe book and start collecting your favorite recipes and documenting dinner and tea parties. Also get a garden journal.)
• Buy lavender and lay it around the house. Hang it in the kitchen, put some on the night stand and don't forget a bouquet for the bathroom. They are pretty and relaxing.
• Make a big spring bouquet for your dinning table. 
• Grow your own Easter basket grass 
• Make and hang a bird feeder
• Research and plant flowers that attract butterflies
• Plant a herb garden 
• Listen to spring music.
• Take a spring equinox walk (when the Sun crosses directly over Earth's equator and the day and the night are equal length)
• Have a picnic  
• Make spring rolls
• Make a fruit cake
• Do some art in pastel colors
• Make a kite and go fly it
• Paint your drive way
• You and your family make a spring flag, hung it and decide on the spring anthem. 
• Make your own sunshine (round your kids and let them paint the biggest, most colorful suns and hang them high up on the east walls of the bedrooms)
• Get a new spring purse, and a dress and shoes.
• Send some sunshine to someone. (make a box and fill it with sunshine: a poem, yellow lollipop, yellow flowers, a painting of a sun, a little bottle of vanilla scented oil, pick yellow macaroons, yellow socks, a yellow scented candle, a jar with a book with a yellow color, a yellow scarf, yellow earrings, yellow nail polish or yellow eye shadow, a lemon, a yellow mug, a poster with a spring theme and an invitation to a spring dancing party or a spring tea party where you'd be drinking 'sun tea'. If a yellow is a dull colour for you, do it in pink, and green, and red and orange,whichever reminds you of spring) 
• Read/ study al' fresco
• Hunt for rainbows
• Paint your nails in spring colors, you've got 20 of them
• Celebrate Sundays with ice cream
• Organize a dance party 
• Write letters to friends and family that live far away
• Volunteer 
• Start your exercise for the beach babe body 
• Rent bikes/ bicycles and go for a ride
• Make your own ice-tea (cook a lot of your favorite tea, let it cool, bottle it and put in the fridge over night)
• Do some spring photography
• Hand wash your car

Wishing you the best Spring yet, eventful, colorful, happy, filled with ideas and quality times with friends and family. A prosperous and fertile season! 

GODDESS OF FERTILITY DAY

18th of March

Whatever this holiday may resemble or hint, it is. It should be the day of too much love!

Even if your uterus is not itching you and your biological clock didn't even start ticking or you are done with the little feet running around, commemorate this day reflecting towards your life as you would do with your body if you were about to become the goddess itself.

It is the beginning of spring, signaling the clean, prosperous, decorative, warm color start. While researching for the meaning and ways to celebrate this day I stumbled upon many fertility blogs and pre-baby talks. Which I found very interesting and useful for other aspects of life.

It said something like: 'Healthy body, healthy baby'. Sure enough. But healthy body means healthy day, week, month, life. Even if you are not expecting you should treat your body as a temple. Get enough sleep, nutrition, water, exercise and care, respect too. Being and feeling healthy allow us to give more, do more, produce more. Ideas, kindness and attention.

Another thing was: 'Eliminate toxins'. Try today to stay away from alcohol, soda drinks and loads of inorganic refreshments. Instead make a lemonade, fresh orange juice, blend some fruit and have a smoothie in a martini glass. Same stays for the food.

'When it's time it's time'. Do not push yourself, take your time. Do not over work or overwhelm yourself with social events or chores. Take the time needed. Stop and say 'thank you', hold the door for someone, etc. Do what you love more and things will come when it's time. Yeah, we have to get up and do, make things happen, yet some things take time and answers and more tools leading to our goal will come when it's time.

'Too much love'. As I said, for so many times, first you need to love yourself in order to love another. And that could not be turer. You should be in love when you love no matter the object of you affection. Give out love, put it out there and you'd receive nothing but love. Share, include, invite. Just love!

'Relaxation is the key'. Amen. Whatever is you do, however busy you are, you MUST find the time to relax and do absolutely nothing. And I mean nothing. Might be a nap, lying on the sofa and reading, bubbling in the bath and listening to soothing music, meditation, whatever works for you. Say no by saying YES to yourself.

Today let it be the day when you finally recognize the goddess or god in yourself and start treating yourself as one. Today may be the day when you start that resolution and fall in love, again. Or just go and make babies.

What goddess are you? Let me know how you are going to embrace the new you.

Good luck in baby making business and good morning to the goddess in you. xoxoxo

LEARN ABOUT BUTTERFLIES DAY

14th of March

A cocoon does not have a chance but to become a butterfly, a creature with wings that doesn't know how beautiful they are.

New, baby animals and colorful flowers are the symbol of spring, so let's make some coffee and learn about butterflies today. Education is success of us and what surround us. Learn of the species that inhabit your region, your garden. Read what kind of flowers, bushes and other plants you can plant in order to attract more beauty.

I tried that last year, and I am doing it this year too. Yet, there wasn't many of butterfly friends that visited so I made them myself. I cut silhouettes out of old paper and hanged them in my garden. Just when the sun is setting and producing the long shadows there was that magic I was hopping for. The paper butterflies would be whirling reflecting on the wall, my kind of meditation looking at them.

Learning about butterflies will give us a better perspective of the species, their life, their feeding and reproduction. Enabling us to help and preserve. Do your research before the spring comes, before they come to life and do your part. Experiment with your camera. Have your fun.

In many languages a word 'butterfly' means 'soul' and many believe that if a butterfly lands on you, means good luck. Representing beauty, delicate and elegance.

Still didn't hear of a person that has anything against butterflies, especially the tummy ones experienced after the first kiss, after falling in love.  

Happy learning about butterflies!!! xoxox

ALFRED HITCHCOCK DAY

13th of March 

It's neither the date of his birth nor his death but Mr. Hitchcock's favourite number and not a lot of us are surprise here, I can say.

It is only fair to have such a day in a calendar year to celebrate one of the best directors, UK's certainly the best so far. Produces fifty and a bit movies in six decades. Starting in his native London, only to move to Hollywood in 1939, where he went on to direct many of the classics of the 20th century.

Since this holiday is almost a month away, your book club can choose Psycho to discus or you can spend a day in your PJ's and have a Hitchcock movie marathon or go to the movies and watch a movie about Hitchcock baring his name, staring Anthony Hopkins.

Get scared, appreciate the art and the transition from silent movies to talkies and the ones we know now.

Happy Hitchcock Day!!! 

GET OVER IT DAY

9th of March 

Everybody addresses and fixes the issue/s their on way. But two things are in common, we all have something to get over and we all do our best.

In those moments I repeat to myself this simple line: 'Who angers you, controls you.' Could be anger, could be pain, could be anything, but I'd let no one control me. I choose what I want to be, I choose happiness every morning. And the science of getting over helps me be patient and allow the time to take its toll. It goes something like this, while making new memories we are exercising and strengthening new neuron pathways. The older ones, fat with memories, loosen up while the new ones get bigger and happier. Make new memories, even of the same places with different people- that is my recipe.

Also, everyone needs to give time for the self to feel the blues and grieve. I cherish those times, the process of heart repairing and the birth of new soul. I free fall into what sometimes seem a whole without a bottom but I know, once I hit that ground and break all my bones, that will be the day when I feel sick and tired of feeling sick and tired or missing someone. That is the day when I had enough and when I start building the foundation with the lesson bricks, dust of who I was and experience mixed concrete. It is a block, so strong, that will withhold and support as many steps as it's needed to reach the day light. Every day I'll build a new higher one. Once I reach the ground level, I feel reborn, I enjoy the sun as for the first time, I do not take things for granted, I cherish the things that stayed, waiting for me, friends, sea, my plans and to-do lists, the self care too. Learn how to live my life again, without that someone or something. Learn how to concentrate on myself again and take better care of me, waste time on things I'd like to learn and improve. I know this all sounds like a big metaphor, and yet, that is exactly how I feel and what I do. Literally.

I can write of steps and best ways to get over an ex, or a lost job, or a stolen camera or phone, a gone friend, but we all deal with those things differently due to the experiences. The most important thing is to decide that we do not want to feel like shi* any longer and a WANT to move on. Be happy again. To decide that the happiness comes from within and we can be happy, content by ourselves.

Today can be that wake up call, a reminder that there is beautiful world filled with wonders and better people waiting for you, and if you are ready you can make that decision now. Or today can help you realize what is the thing that is stressing you out, if you do not know, ask your friends what have you been complaining a lot about lately and make a plan how to attack and solve, remove the bad thing.

Take Good Care and Rock On!!!!!