Ten Months

He's 10 months today & it's freaking me out, it's gone so fast... So much faster than it did with Joselyn!  I feel a little sad that my baby is growing so fast, I know there are so many exciting times ahead but I also know that this is it. This is the last time for so many beautiful milestones... Maybe we should have another one after all! 

Why is it so much faster this time? Is it because I've got my hands full with Jos?

M x

Every little thing is going to be alright...

"Don't worry about a thing, cause every little is gonna be alright" Bob Marley was a wise man! 

Today I had one of those moments when i was in the shower, it was a moment that I wish I could hold on to... All my anxieties about my career, the house, the kids just washed away & I thought about how easily everything could just fall into place!! 

The kids will be in school in 5 years and I can work part time until then & then become whatever I want to be, I'll only be 36. I can go back to work and we can get a pool next year and then then extend the mortgage and do the renovations little by little - it will happen and it will fall into place, no hurry!!!

M x

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"Happy Lil Vegemite" Happy Henry is back this week, his smile is infectious.  He is a cheeky little thing so different to his sister but yet similar.  He's into everything and very destructive.  He's inquisitive and curious and got a personality that lets him get away with it.

"Sleeping Beauty" We've had a big week and while preparing dinner one day I thought things were a little too quiet in the living room and discovered that Miss J had fallen fast asleep watching a movie.  I love watching her sleep, her lips, her eyelashes and those bruises and scrapes on her arms and legs.  She is perfection, well to me anyway!

M x

Lest We Forget

I find ANZAC Day a very emotional day. I try to get the most of the day & enjoy the freedom that so many lost their lives for us to have the right to.

I think a lot about Gallipoli and all of those men or boys rather being sent to their deaths. 

I have a tradition of making ANZAC Biscuits and as silly as it may seem I find this a symbolic gesture of my thanks. I've been trying to include Joselyn in this gesture and am hoping that it ends up being something we do for years to come.

One day I'd like to get up and go to dawn service at Currumbin- it's supposed to be a magical service but at the moment I take all the sleep I can get! Maybe next year!!

Today I'm thankful, thankful for the troops who protect us. Thankful for the life I get to give my kids and thankful for this country I get to call home!  I pray for peace and that humans can live in harmony accepting of all beliefs.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. Lest we forget.

M x

Zootopia

I took Joselyn to see Zootopia today.  I really enjoyed it, I thought it was a really cute movie about stereotypes and how our minds can be poisoned by others.  I thought it also showed that the sweet and innocent "little guy" might not be so sweet and innocent after all.  I loved all the changes on popular brand names for example the phone had a half eaten carrot on it rather than an apple.  As with all kids movies there were lots of hidden adult jokes, I laughed out loud so many times... Especially at the Sloth section of the movie.

Great movie worth checking out.  Good job Disney its one of the impressive ones.  8/10

M x

Habits

When we got our new car the blinkers were on the left side of the steering wheel rather than the right- I've always driven cars with blinkers on the right. So it didn't surprise me that when I got my new car driving it had me constantly turning on the wipers as I turned corners or exited the roundabout. It wasn't until a week after I got my new car I drove the old car and I realised how easily habits can be changed, and I was amazed at how quickly I'd changed a 15 year driving habit in a single week!

It takes 21 days to make or break a habit, I've had this drummed into me since my first job & i've used this philosophy a lot over the years with water intake, exercise & sleeping habits.

I know all this and yet I'm struggling to make some new habits that I think would help me with some structure in mummyland.

I want to exercise for 1/2 an hour each day, 

I want to meditate or do yoga everyday.

I want to meal plan every Wednesday & create a shopping list based on this plan.

I want to cook meals every night and snacks during the day like protein balls & cookies.

I want to drink more water.

I want to wash towels on Fridays & sheets on Wednesdays.

I want to clean floors on Wednesday & bathrooms on Monday.

I want to make healthy habits that I can be proud of but I guess I've just got to take it one day at a time.

M x

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 "Dancing to her own beat" we have been playing dress ups a lot this week, I love listening to her imagination running wild.  This was captured as she was dancing to a sesame street song in the lounge room dressed up as princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, I could watch her dance and sing all day but these days when she catches me watching she stops... I hope she finds the ability to dance like no one is watching again one day!

"One Hundred and fifty Lashes" I was worried that Henry wasn't going to inherit his dad's amazing eye lashes but has time passes they are appearing one by one.  This photo shows our week as it was, a snotty and tired little guy that just has to be touching mummy.  I keep reminding myself "this too shall pass" as our sleepless nights and daily torture of teething continue, before too long I'll be able to resume my daily duties without Henry fastened to my hip and I might even miss him!

M x