Mundane Monday

Rope It! Mundane Monday

January 30, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha5 Comments

Mundane Monday challenge is created to find beauty in almost everything.

The challenge is simple. Find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.

Wordless Wednesday

Wazzup Dog? Wordless Wednesday

January 18, 2017January 18, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha2 Comments

Gangsta Hot dog

Catching A Fry – Wordless Wednesday

January 11, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha12 Comments

Travel

Carrying The World

January 10, 2017January 10, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha10 Comments

In my usual meandering, I came across this lovely set of travel cases and the one that I found most appealing is the case pictured below, which set my thoughts running across the globe 🙂

I would certainly love to visit more places in the World, one place at a time and I hope that gets to happen.

One of the truthful challenges of being a parent/mother is having to set aside some of your aspirations and keep them on hold for a while, either due to financial constraints or the exigencies of time.

Traveling abroad with family costs twice as much and takes extra planning to ensure that it’s fun for everyone, however, in the interim to long distance travel, consider shorter road trips to locations around you that you’ve not visited before. It’s equally as much fun, educative and gives me the same sense of satisfaction. Sometime in the past, I shared a post on road travel, ‘it’s almost time for a road jaunt.’ 😉

Now, let me get back to dreaming and pinpointing those places that I plan to visit and you hold on to those warm thoughts of a road jaunt.

A Click A Day · Wordless Wednesday

Seeing double – Wordless Wednesday

January 4, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha5 Comments

A Click A Day

I Saw ‘Big Red’ Raili

January 3, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha2 Comments

You need to see how my face widened in a smile when ‘Big Red’ pulled up beside my ‘Yellow Ride.’

My thoughts automatically went to Raili of Soul Gifts.

I find it amazing that I’ve made some friends across oceans and continents through blogging and have come to know bits and pieces of their lives enough to think of them in relation to mundane things that I would normally have overlooked.

Personal

Yesterdays’ Moonlighting Job…

December 17, 2016January 3, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha19 Comments

Tuckered out after a busy yesterday spent writing an exam (talk about adult night schooling) and covering a photo shoot and editorial for a customer later on in the day, I am spending a lazy Saturday today.

Let me share a bit of my moonlighting work with you 🙂

Santa in the House as Jump-Boxx celebrates its 2nd-Anniversary.

The best memories of our lives are truly made of those beautiful, little things and happy moments that life brings our way. At the top of these best things in life are the joyous moments spent with our loved ones.

We may not realize these things as they happen because they seem so ordinary, but as time passes by, we only grow to appreciate these wonderful moments in time.

A good afternoon spent yesterday at Jump-Boxx brought childhood memories of Christmas past flooding my mind and as I write this article, reminisce takes me down the lane of those days filled with activities building up to Christmas morning.

You could literally smell the distinct fragrance of Christmas in the changing atmosphere and the cold, crisp morning breeze carried certain excitement in it.

Our parents shopped for toys and lovely clothes for us. Indulgence in eating during this season was and is still common.

Our Christmas gifts always turned up each Christmas morning, nicely packaged and delivered by Santa.

Though I tried many times to stay awake and catch Santa as he made his trip from the North-Pole to our house, alas, I was never lucky enough to catch him. I presumed that I never caught him because we had no chimney that he could slide down in, so he left his gifts at the door and my mother always found them.

We looked forward to the trips to our schools Santa’s grotto back in the days, where our eyes rounded out like saucers in wonder as we looked at this white-bearded, red-velvety garbed robust mystery with his jolly good HO, HO, HO laughter and a twinkle in his eyes as he handed out wrapped gifts that we couldn’t wait to tear into.

Indeed, as I watched the excited children meet a jolly good Santa yesterday at the 2nd-anniversary celebration of Jump-Boxx, a quote from Winnie the Pooh comes to my mind, “We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.”

Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Here’s a slide of some of the photos I took. There are more through my photos in google link.

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Wordless Wednesday

December 14, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha4 Comments

Echos Of My Neighbourhood

Hello There… Echoes of my neighbourhood

November 24, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha31 Comments

It feels so strange to get back to my blog after four days of been away from it. The longest ever that I’ve been missing in action.

I’ve been on the move around the Middle East, Bahrain-Qatar, and connecting was giving me so much stress that I decided to chill and let it be. I’ve missed the banter and you guys, that it felt like aeons to me.

I love this community of friends and as I catch my connecting flight back to DXB, I will quickly add some snips and snaps of my walkabout.

Stay blessed and talk to you tomorrow.

Jacqueline

I ate so much baked potatoes this week, I hope I don’t sprout spuds 🙂

Waiting to grab that fresh hot out of the stone oven, flat bread

Christmas things are popping up everywhere

Mundane Monday

Silhouette – Mundane Monday

November 14, 2016 jacquelineobyikocha13 Comments

Mundane Monday Challenge is created to find beauty in almost everything.

The challenge is simple. Find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.

I love passing this trail on my evening strolls when the sunset gives its beautiful rosy blush to the sky. My aim was the little birdie perched on the cactus, but I like how the total image turned out.