love twirl

Smiling on my own, heart dancing, mind in beautiful disbelief, day dreams filled not with future love hopes but with beautiful love memories, blushing like its as natural as breathing, happy almost endlessly, inspired, unbreakable, beautiful.  I'm a mother, a woman truly blessed. There she is toppling over as she learns to stand, up to her feet she gets, look at her excitement, "yes world i'm standing", i listen to her laughing.  There she is reaching for her shoe, now its in her mouth i'm laughing, "dirt isn't good for you" i say as i remove it from her curious lil hands. There she is, tiny chubby feet "awww!" i kiss them and that adorable face, her lil neck, giggling she hides her face from me, i'm now blowing bubbles on her tummy, her eyes are smiling. Its sleep time, lullaby's aint working, its 11 pm, i'm obviously getting this putting her to bed very wrong and she's laughing at me.  There she is racing around in her walker, loud as can be, still smiling i hear "mama" then not much later "dadi", my heart fills up, she's calling for me.  Here she is, sound asleep in my arms, peaceful as can be, my lil chaos is asleep, she looks like pure softness, she fills me...

[this piece is dedicated to my pumpkin Asante who turns 9months today, she has made my world such a joy, mommy loves you pumpkin, thank you.]

Affascinante

He brings out... the sexy in me, the playful eyes, the feminine stride, the teasing smile, captivating.  He brings out the naughty in me, the cushion thrown there, the laughter, the flair, that unnerving cute stare.  He brings out the 'it' in me, it was always there, yes it makes you wanna stare, hang around. Yes that thing that hypnotizes men, has women envious and everyones head in a swirl, "my God who's that girl??".  He brings out me...

Volcano???

So today is my honey and me's 6month anniversary, wow wow wow what a journey its been, he is every bit as amazing today as he was  when this started, as he was when i met him.  Lately i call him my superstar, he makes my eyes twinkle *sigh...ok so yoll are probably wondering about the title volcano, well my Mr came to meet my daddy for the first time, yeah ! The title makes sense now doesn't it, now that its  happened i figure my imagination as to this ocassion was a 'little' dramatic, i totally envisioned a remaking of Jurassic park with my dad as the T-rex of course and my darling as one of them helpless tourists stuck inside the cage.  Well yeah, that didn't happen, to my pleasant surprise the meeting went of smoothly and my darling lived to tell the tale.  I for one am glad its over, lets face it, meeting the parents is always a scary concept, the anticipation, the hopes that your both accepted by each others families and just the general tension involved.  So yeah, its up hill from here, lol who am i trying to kid? i get the feeling that the remaking of THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW will be an accurate description of our lives as wedding preparations one day come in to play, will our familes remember its our big day, hmmm...who knows?! maybe i'm being dramatic(^^,)

Lerato's box

OK so this is my first post, I'm a box opening up and what i could talk about has endless possibilities, in me is this desire to be profound and all wise at least that's what i think it is, i mean isn't that the reason i started a blog? a desire to touch people by sharing the many lessons I'm learning on this interesting journey called life.  I'll keep it simple I promise as i take yoll on this journey, let me start this blog by saying:

My name is Lerato

I am African

I was born in exile with both parents being freedom fighters

I have a beautiful lil girl

I'm not married

I'm a born again, very realistic Christian

I wanna adopt one day, I have a heart for orphans

I'm outspoken

i have many amazing friends and family

and i'm in love with an angel.

Welcome to my blog,
Lerato Africa'