Pound Puppy's Big Birthday!!

Five years ago, we adopted our "practise baby", a shy little Maltese-Poodle that picked me when I went to the pound to find a Heeler for Tyler!  

Yep, big difference in dog breeds, but pound puppies pick you, you don't pick them ;)

Tyler had spoken about wanting a dog for ages, he liked Alaskan Malamutes and Blue Healers, I like Healers too, so I went to the pound with intention of finding one.  There were three Healers at the pound that day, all happy looking eager dogs, but then I spotted a fluffy little timed girl, hiding in the back of her shelter, glancing back over her shoulder at me, looking rather sorry for herself.  I was in love!  She pulled at my heart strings and I knew that if she could talk, she'd be saying "I don't belong here, please help me, I want to go home, will you take me home?"

She was a stray, so we got to name her, it was Mum who came up with her name, which turned out to fit her personality perfectly...from the nursery rhyme "Polly put the kettle on".

Polly has been such a joy to have in our lives, she's such a character.  We joked that she was previously living with an old lady and they munched on cakes and sipped cups of tea every day, coz any chance she got, she was into the sweets and lapping up our drinks!

Tyler quickly warmed to having a little lap dog, although to this day she barks her head off every time he comes home!

Luckily for her, she's come to an involving family, we take her out with us where we can...to the park for family picnics, to my mum's house for visits...and although she's always had a bed in the lounge room, she's never more then a few metres away from me...shadowing me around the house...including when I go to bed.

We also had her as a little flower girl at our wedding in 2006, including having her carry our rings, tied to her collar.

This years birthday is extremely special, it's her 10th!  Double figures, and it means she's now been in our family for half her life ;)

When she turned 7yo, I had my niece who was then 4yo over, with my sister and my mum and her dog Maizee, and we had a little tea party!  After discovering her love of a cuppa, Mum always makes her her very own tea in her very own cup, on special occasions ;)

This year, trying harder to steer Polly clear of sweet foods, I decided to do some cake cook-cook with Jack, with a difference, meaty cupcakes!!

  

JackJack did a pretty good job of loading up the patty papers into the cupcake tin, while Muma grated zucchini

JackJack wanted to have a go at grating, so he started off the carrot.  He was pretty excited when he made the grating noise!  Although light handed, he actually did get it to grate tiny bits, as you can see, he's pretty stoked!

Nanny helped JackJack stand some ice-cream cones up in the baking tray.  I have seen cakey cupcakes made in these, so thought we'd try some of our dog cakes in them

When you cook with kids....let go of any fear of mess!!!

This was Jack's 1st time with eggs....Muma banged them on the bowl edge to crack a little, then handed it to Jack....

1st egg....splatted in his lap and down the side of the highchair

2nd egg....exploded over his nose, nice face mask ;)

3rd+ eggs....made it into the bowl, shell and all.  Like, he musta thought the shell was needed too coz he crushed it into little bits

This Muma ain't afraid of mess...so this eggcellent lesson was hilarious!!!!

Next we squeezed in a loaf of sausage mince.

Oh and at this point I should explain, I'm only wearing gloves coz I have a band aide covered finger from peeling my finger tip when we made soup during the week, usually I'd dive my bare hands right into the slushiness!

Flop!  In goes a tray of mince meat

Squelch, squish, splosh!

The meats were so cold, my hands were aching!  But JackJack loved it ;)

Nanny had cooked up some rice, which was too hot for Jack's little hands to mix, so we busied him with the task of grating some cheese.....the block headed for his mouth rather then the grater though!! lol

After changing my gloves to help grate the cheese, JackJack insisted on wearing one too!!

He did a really great job filling the patty pans full of our meat mix, in fact, his turned out the nicest looking!

Major cheese fan!!

Every time I scrapped the excess back off, he tried to pile on more!

Ok, the only downside to cooking stuff like this with kids, was trying to stop the piles of cheese going into his mouth once it was mixed with raw mince meat....eewww!

Loading up the ice cream cones

Once the cones were loaded, we made a log out of the left overs, and just like he does when we make sausage rolls, JackJack declared this "pooooo!"

Polly and Maizee frantically grabbing all the dropped bits of cheese!

Yeah, ok, a learning curve....the fatty liquid that comes outta mince meat just made the cones collapse!

But the cupcakes turned out well!!

I grabbed them outta the tin with tongues....they weren't really looking like I could flip the onto a cooling tray like cakey cupcakes.

We got our party hats on....tiara's coz she gets called Princess Polly coz she acts like such a diva dolly ;)

Finally, a pic of the Birthday Girl!!

Stupid blogger format has changed again and I couldn't change the order of my pics, I wanted this pic up the top but it didn't go,

I wanted to light a candle in a cupcake for her, so Mum suggested putting Pol in Jack's highchair to bring her up to the table.  I didn't expect for us to sing "Happy Birthday", but Mum said we should, which was lovely....here you see Polly watching Nanny and Jack singing to her!!

*note here- some of you probably think I'm nutty with my pets, but my Mum is just as much too! We love our pets like our children ;)

So keen for her cake!!

Don't worry, the candle was being blown out as this pic was taken ;)

Maizee and Polly enjoying the feast

Mum was joking we were having "dog food" for dinner!!

When you think of it, they're really just hamburgers/rissoles, done as cupcakes....and we all found them very tasty...plus a great way to get hidden veggies into kids!!

Happy Birthday Miss Polly Pocket!!

I made her this pearl necklace, with a pink diamante charm on it.

She can't wear her leather collar at the moment, with allergies she's lost fur around her throat and her neck is sore, so this is a nice gentle option...and suits her diva ways!

With a pink bow on top of course....always a feature on her collar usually ;)

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea!

Polly's rather partial to Scooby Snacks, but when I saw this packet near by on the supermarket shelf, I thought "there's a pack specially made for my Pol Pol!"

Footnote- No animal was forced into anything or lost their dignity in these celebrations! lol

While Maizee shys away from the fuss and is not forced into wearing "pretties", Polly will prance right up to anyone with some ribbon, hoping it's to put on her "necklace" ;)

Gotta be in it to win it, and I WON!!!!!!!

Last week, during our sick quarantine, I spent far too long on the lapi madly entering lots and lots of gorgeous give-aways for crafty products and hand made goodies, ran by Sew, Mama, Sew! Crafty bloggers from all over the world put their blogs on this site and had posts announcing their give-aways....some were giving fabrics and other products for the winner to make things with, others were giving away things they themselves had made.

Well, guess what.....I WON!!!!!

I won something that is so perfectly timed with JackJack being interested in cook cook and all things in the kitchen.....go check out our lovely goodies here at thrift.nest.sew

Funnily enough, this was a world wide give-away, and these are just a hop, skip and jump away over in Adelaide, South Australia!

Here is the winning announcement!

Head on over and follow Tracey!!

I really enjoyed discovering all the crafty blogs out there, many of which I will continue to follow....and some of their authors even hopped over here and now follow me!!

Oh plus, Saints thrashed the Eagles today, woot woot!!

See folks.....a crappy week we had last week and now here's my rainbow!!! ;)

Hibernating....

I've been sick since last saturday, eek a whole week at home :(

Who ever coined the term "Stay At HOME Mum" is a twit....this Muma is usually out and about for the most part of the day all through the week, so this forced hibernation has been a bit depressive.

Thankfully, put some cars out for JackJack and he's one happy tot for hours on end, so my neglect of him compared to our usual interaction hasn't prompted too much mother guilt ;)

I've more or less been moving from the bed to the couch, back and forth....napping and doing a whole lot of nothing....except for monday, when I had a huge burst of energy amongst the illness, and got a mother load of chores done!

We had to take Sophie back to the vet tuesday for her check-up, and Polly came too, just for her nails to be trimmed.  Good news for Soph, she's healing well, the vet is impressed with the strong resistance she has in her legs and the self mutilation is also healing.  She has been rewarded with stints out of the bucket collar while we're home during the day to supervise, and short stints out of the cage.....and she's waisted no time in making mad dashes for the doors, both hubby and I have chased her in the backyard already! lol

Polly, who was only there for nail trimming, has been put on steroids for a skin condition, that is caused by allergy to fleas....they've been rather bad in our area this year, we haven't been able to keep on top of fleas here or at Mum's house, who lives a few blocks away.  Dad says the sandy soil of the land is likely to help the fleas breed.

We've made it through our first week of Tyler working day shifts!

Although, it hasn't been much of a test yet, coz we've not done any activities to get ready and leave the house by a set time.

The shift change has played havoc with Jack's sleep patterns.  Tyler hasn't gotten home 'til 8.30ish at the earliest, and Jack has pushed himself to stay awake...after going round the house asking "Where Tyler?" all day(Yes, Muma must nag Daddy aloooot coz tot calls him by his actual name now :-S )  And then last night Jack got on a bit of a crazy high with Daddy(Daddy really hypes him up with mucking around), which is all good and well during the daytime, but my golly.....I was still trying to calm him into a sleepy state at midnight :-0

Plus, the extra joy of this week.....not sure if it had anything to do with the shift change or not....Tyler got sent to the doctor on the way home monday from a back injury *sigh.  He had to go back thursday night for physio, and the doctor obviously has no children, because hubby came home with the advice not to lift anything more then 1kg.

1kg, are you kidding me??

Our teeny tiny cat weighs more then that!

Our small dog weighs more then that!

And most importantly.....our tot is over 10kg......you can't tell a Daddy he can't pick up his son!!!! Na uh girlfriend!

You can't tell a man that, in a way that he's gona take it as gospel, and come home to a house that he barely lifts a finger in anyway, to tell his wife he has to take it easy!! Na uh girlfriend!

It never rains, it pours around here! 

But...if you want the rainbow, you gota put up with the rain ;)

Google schmoogle...

I am not a fan of Google.

There, I said it.  Controversial in this day and age, but true!

Why?

Coz it's robbing us of social interaction.

I don't want a bloody search engine to tell me something my friend knows the answer to, I don't want it giving me a recipe from a website that came up simply coz that site paid the most to get highest on the list of results!

Arrrrr! I think it's taking away the friendliness of friendship. 

I had a particular friend, who was left of the middle in a lot of things she did in her life, so of course a lot of things she talked about were truly fascinating to others.  Yet when asked about something she had touched on, the popular response would be "Google is your friend people"........in other words, go and get the answer online, rather then her sharing her own personal knowledge.  Crazy, isn't it?  Why don't people want to share their learning's with others?

When I asked through a facebook status for favourite biscuit recipes, nobody shared....then my sister suggested googling recipes.  Of course I could, I would have done that in the first place, had I not specifically wanted my mates favourite recipes!  The recipes you've already used, you found easy to follow, and your own children loved the results.

Had I wanted to make just any biscuits, there's were google comes in.  See, I have a lovely collection of cook books, and I actually do have a biscuit recipe that makes delicious bikkies, but that was my fave recipe before Jack came along, and is a little to involved for making with a tot.  So all I wanted was a simple fun recipe that Jack and I could make together, coz he'd been raiding the kitchen drawers yesterday and wearing some biscuit cutters as bangles, and I thought it'd be great to show him what this bangles really could do!

I don't understand why people don't want to share their knowledge anymore, why let your knowledge be lost to the websites with the highest listing, that may not even be any good in answering what we were looking for?

I guess I am a little sick of internet technologies in general this week.....facebook especially.  Why do we find out things only through our "friends" statuses now?  Things that you would think they could have extended you the courtesy to tell you first hand, at least in an sms or private message addressed to you, not just included you in the announcement to the whole world.  Especially the way facebook has been lately, in that you don't seem to get all the statuses listed on your feed, so you may miss some major announcements in friends lives coz the status didn't show up.  Statuses such as pregnancy announcements, birth announcements, major purchases(such as a house), changes in activities you were involved in.....if these are "real life" friends, it's a shite way to find out....especially if you read through the responses and see how many nobodies got to find out these important announcements before you did, simply coz they were online when you weren't .

Some days I think I'd like to disappear off facebook, but then, I wouldn't know anything about my friends anymore! lol

Tapping into blogger giveaways....

Have you ventured into any blog holes lately?

You know, you check out what your mate follows...then what their followers follow, and so on until you wonder how you got there! Luckily, unlike real life, the "home" button gets you safely back to the start! lol

Sometimes though, blog holes can reveal some pretty creative blogs, and tonight I've stumbled across blogger's hosting give-aways!!!!

Check this one out at make it perfect ;)

Children's drinks.....

As I type here, my tot is happily standing in front of me rejoicing in his new skill of drinking from an open cup.  I can tell from the look on his face between sips, and the giggles, that he knows exactly how clever he is!

For some time now, he had ditched the soft topped sippy cups, preferring to drink from the same type of drink bottle as Muma does....even the exact same one most of the time!

We haven't really offered him the open cups on a regular basis, coz he sticks with his bottle, but if he asks to have some drink out of one we happily oblige.  Every week at playgroup he gets an open cup at morning tea, and if we're at a friends house and the other kids are drinking out of a cup, he likes to have one too.

My point of this blog post though, is what children are drinking.

Do you know what is being poured into my son's cup?  What he is watching flow into his drinking vessel, with a huge smile and squealing "nummy nummy"?

It's WATER!!!!!!

My son loves his water, just as much as he loves his booby juice(which is to the point of obsession!).

I think it's great, he has two drink choices (breast milk and water) and he loves both of them.

Soooo, the question is, why is everyone else...including his Daddy....got an obsession with getting him onto juice, flavoured cow's milk, or the big one....soft drink????

Too many kids these days are thoughtlessly given sugary and acid drinks as a part of their staple diet, and I'm baffled as to why? 

I feel I'm failing my son in the food department....crappy reasons like being time poor or tired led me down the path of doom to processed, ready made and even take-away foods.  But when it comes to his liquids, at least I'm getting that right!!

So why is everyone so keen to treat it like it's wrong?  Trying to sneak him a different drink here and there, joking that he'll get to have a soft drink for his birthday.

I am proud he doesn't drink soft drink and juices!!  Not only are they extra sugars and acids that our children don't need in their diets, but they are incredibly bad for their little teeth....and as a dental nurse, I have seen many a child come in to see a dentist, mouth full of rotten teeth, from poor habits.  While I can't say for sure the children's teeth are for the fact of what they drink, I can tell you that I have had plenty of patients...many tradies....who admit to drink gallons of coke or similar, and almost every tooth in their mouth had acid wear around the gums of the lower teeth......solely due to the acidic drinks sitting there around the teeth after gulping it down.

It probably is these visions of past patients that make me wary of introducing these drinks to my son(even though, hypercritically, yes I do drink them myself), but it is mostly coz I don't see that he needs them when he is perfectly happy with his water. :)

Oh and....by the time I've finished typing this, he was a bit over the cup and started playing with the water and sticking his hand in it, Muma ended up with it spilt all over my knee......so lucky for me that it is water and not soft drink!! No sticky spills ;)

In desperate need of advice for tot proofing the pets....

Oh good golly little totty, you sure pick your moments for hyper devil times!!!

Ugh, Muma's not well today...sinus's flaring, bones aching, general cold virus ickiness :(

Today I was wrongly assuming that my self entertaining tot would be a breeze to look after while Muma drifted in and out of delirious sleep(I can't even remember Tyler leaving for work, so musta been in deep coma moment).

Well, when I woke, it had been half an hour since Tyler would have left for work, and our tot sure had been entertaining himself :-s  ....emptying the pets pellets into the water bowl, then tipping the whole sludgy mess everywhere.

He has been a very busy mischief maker today!!

I caught him putting tomato sauce hands on my fabrics, having climbed onto the sewing table via the couch, while he should have been eating.  Then he's been using the tv stand as a podium, dancing on it and bopping his toosh into the telly(oh this will impress Daddy, who loves the tv more then his wife!).   And standing on the arm of the couch, nose diving into the (luckily empty) fish tank and pushing the pebbles around to hear he tinkle noise they made on the glass(ok, so that definately needs a lid and distance from a climbing aide before we get fishys!).

Any, all the other devilishness aside....the pets food and water being played with is an ongoing problem.  What to do about it?

We have a cat and dog, both indoor pets.  We have their stuff in the laundry, which is a walk through to the backyard from the hallway. 

A friend suggested a while back what her family did for their cat, which is food and water in the bathroom with toddler gate across the doorway, which the cat could get through.  Great idea, but our dog doesn't fit through the gaps, she never could fit through the play pen gaps which would be the same.

It's not so much the pellets that are the problem, they can be rationed rather then left out, but their drinking water.  They need access to fresh drinking water all the time, but our little tot is taking delight in splish splashing in it and tipping it across the floor to dance in puddles!  

Arrrr!!!  What to do?

What do you do?   

Shoulda stayed in bed.....

Did I break a mirror recently?  Like, seriously dude, what's goin' on??

Yeah, I guess I'm having a bit of a pity party of late :( 

But, you know, when you go down, you go waaaay down, and it takes a hell of a lot to climb back up and clear of the shite pile.

Everything is getting to me, every little irritant that I could normally brush off.....like the hyper niece and nephew, I can usually laugh at their craziness and indulge them in their many questions, but not today.  But then, today was an extra crappy day........

Thursday mornings we go down the coast to attend a tots music class.  It's usually a lovely start to our day, and the drive home is filled with Muma and buba continuing the sing songs as we wind down the road and past the beach (oh, side note- JackJack said a new word today, which is "beach", though it sounds like "bitch", oh dear!).  As soon as Jack can see the water he starts excitedly squealing "Bishies! Bishies!" (fishies), and he was right into it today, as was Muma....basking in the joy of my gorgeous little son....when I saw flashing lights!! :-0

Holy moly!!!!!  I was being pulled over :(

This is the schmuck in question......

YES I got a pic of him! Helloooo, would you expect anything less of me? lol

I took this AFTER all the shite, when we returned to collect my car he was busy booking more drivers....is he on commission??

So he was sitting in the middle of the road, and clocked me speeding down the hill, big whoops :(  Then he took my licence and said he'd be 5mins writing the ticket up.

When he returned, he had two tickets :(  Why? Coz my friken licence was bloody expired! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

Expired by a month, a whole month....had we really gotten that slack??

Was an expensive learning curve in leaving things in the hands of my laid back hubby....so laid back infact that he wasn't the least bit shitty when he saw the almost $600 worth of fines....wtf man, how can you be so calm??

Anyway, coz of the expired licence, he advised that I shouldn't drive home.  He said he'd turn a blind eye if I wanted to drive off and get my son home, but said that no insurance company or TAC would cover me, should we have an accident.  So I tried calling Tyler....thanks to his stupid piece of crap iPhone and it's zero friken reception in the back end of our house, where he would have been in bed, it took a whole friken hour to get a hold of him!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

I was fuming by the time his phone rang!  I'd said to him only days ago that he needs to get something done about the pox phone, before I need him for something important and cant get a hold of him.....trouble is, he's so god damn laid back that this probably won't get him to act on his phone either! GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

After waiting that hour, right through Jack's morning tea time, I am so very thankful of breastfeeding!!  We hadn't packed snacks in the nappy bag, so my golly I was lucky to have my boobies when JackJack was getting distrait with hunger ;)

When Tyler finally showed up, he drove us straight to vicroads to pay for the licence renewal........oh joy, for the next 3yrs my licence photo will remind me of this horrid day, puffy red eyes and all :(

We spotted Mr Highway Patrol booking another driver along the railway tracks, on our way to vicroads, then he was back near my car next to the beach when we got back....booking again.  All in a days work for him huh :(  

Hard pill to swallow....

Being bitter is not something I like to admit to, and especially don't like experiencing, but I am.  I am so bitter, and it's hard to swallow.

I am having a particularly shite day today, and the bitterness just tastes even more sour because my husband(who you would hope would be the first and most concerned to notice this) didn't even have a friggen clue.

I hate that this mood has sunk so quickly that everything, every little thing today, is making me feel bitter.

Two main points are the real bitterness....and as always they're both about friggen babies.  I say "friggen", coz I'm so damn sick of a subject that should be beautiful, make me feel so crappy.

Thank goodness that I have developed the worlds biggest amount of patience when I became a muma, coz I never have and hopefully never will, take any of this out on JackJack.  But, in saying that, he has been wanting feeds soooo much today that as I sit here and try and accommodate each and every time, I'm cursing in my head and wishing he would be distracted long enough by anything else to leave my boobs alone for a longer stretch.  Thankfully he doesn't realise this, coz I'm still smiling and cuddling and stroking his head, but deep inside I'm screaming for a break.

Things I'm bitter about can't be fixed up....loosing babies, and not conceiving babies.  Yeah yeah, I know that can be fixed by conceiving, but it doesn't change the void in the time already past.  It doesn't change how much I hate that Jack has spent most of his life with a muma pining for more, rather then just appreciating what she has.  It doesn't doesn't change the fact that I'll probably never conceive twins again, leaving us out of the multiple world that I was so longing to be a part of.  It doesn't change the fact that everywhere I look right now is pregnant women, in their own little world of pregnant activities, another world of wonder that I don't get to share....not right along side them anyway.

I'm so friggen deep in this ditch I dug today, that I've emailed the contact for tonights bag pipe practice to cancel my spot(just for tonight).  Knowing I'm short with people in this mood, I don't like being around people who don't know me.  I don't want them thinking this is me.

So anyway, after  post this, I'm off to my sisters, on my mums insistance that I go for company and to talk.....my sisters where her twins are.  I hate this.  You know it already family, I'm not telling you anything new, but these twins....as different as they are to mine...are confronting.  How I wish this bullshit feeling would just piss the hell off!!!!!

The things is though, I don't want any of you to stop sharing, it's an internal struggle and stopping the twin and preggy talk would just turn this crap in me into another pile of shite, of feeling left out even more coz you fear sharing your joys.

Not a fan of playcentres....

Am I missing something here?  What is the appeal of play centres?

Seriously, I don't get it! 

I don't get why you want your child to play indoors on a beautiful sunny day, well just personally, even on a rainy day! lol

I don't get why you are happy to pay to play!

We've been to several play centres, and I don't really fancy any of them. 

The tight arse in me is not impressed with shelling out money for my tot to play in a place less appealing to him then our local park. 

Almost every time we've been to one, there has been an older, absolute shite of a kid, who's been left to run riot while his parent or guardian grabs a coffee and turns a blind eye.

I'm no helicopter parent, but most times we've gone to a play centre I've had to be, for all the nutter kids let loose in these places.

Stuff the bloody ball pits and jumping castles, the slides and stairs and wobble bridge at our local park are far more entertaining for Jack.

Not just the play equipment either......the wide open space, the fresh air....let the tots run around and tumble on the grass, crunch their feet on leaves, feel the textures of the surrounding trees and plants.

Get back to nature people, and enjoy your local surrounds!! ...for free!!!

It's what you're used to....

Today Tyler is on day shift.  Yuck.

His usual roster is a shift that sees him leaving the house around 3.30pm and returning home around 3am.  Not what the majority of families would like, but it's what we're used to(having had this since before Jack was born), and I grew up with my Dad working a similar time, so it's what I know.

Next week starts a 6 week stint of day shift, to cover someone on holidays, and today he's on day shift to train in ordering and what not that goes along with the shift.

Where most families are used to having Daddy home for dinner and children's bed routine, in our house we're used to Daddy being home for breakfast and wake-up routine.  In our house, when Jack has morning activities, such as playgroup, Daddy gets his breakfast and dresses him as Muma gets herself ready....so needless to say, this is gonna be a reality shock for Muma, and definately mean earlier mornings to get us both ready and out the door on time! Gah.

So today, my mission is simple....to have a shower at some point! lol  Yeah yeah, you're used to managing a shower on your own during the day, I'm not!  I can handle the bedtime routine on my own, so suck on that day shift families ;-P

I think though, coz Tyler works an hour away, this day shift stuff is gonna suck all day long.  I dought he'll be home for any of Jack's awake time :(

It's now 9.30am and he's just getting ready to walk out the door now.  Yep, not the usual day shift start time today, but the bastards put him on day shift after working last night, he got home at 3.3oam....seems his boss has just enough of a heart to let him start a bit later.

Mother's Day 2010

Mother's Day in our house started last night, on account of Tyler having to work tonight(his usual day off).  The boys cookcooked dinner together....spag bol with garlic and cheese bread(which Jack pulled the cheese layer off and just ate the garlic bread!) and nachos....the best ever nachos!!  The best coz they were very cheesy, but very bad coz JackJack nibbled so many chips while they were making them that it was really just cheese and salsa with a sprinkling of chips! Delish!!!

While Daddy was doing things before dinner, JackJack joined me for music practice :)

I have been dutifully practising my Chanter a little session each day.....

As you can see...JackJack is my no.1 fan!!  He often joins me for practise....boobing under my Chanter(multi-tasking muma here!), and when I finish he asks for more, as he is above here

Mother's Day morning started earlier then Daddy would have liked, with buba finishing his morning milk before 7am and draining Muma to the point of starvation, so we were keen for our breaky in bed ;)

Firstly.....the present!!  JackJack was very excited to point out the wrapping paper had "raaaahhh!"s(lions) on it!!

I got a box of ferrero rochers....hidden under an "I love my mum" tshirt, a "My Aussie Mum" book and a cupcake tea mug(I forgot to take a pic of it, but it has a fairy cake on it that looks just like the ones Grandma used to make us!)

Inside the cover of the book, Daddy had traced Jack's hand print! Too cute ;)

We had a flick through the book, and JackJack was so excited to see caaaaarrrs in it!

We started breaky by munching on some chocies(well, I did, as buba peeled them for me!), and I took great delight in sticking the little stickers all over bubs face!!! lol

Daddy made waffles with raspberry jam, yum yum ;)

Thank you, my sweet son, for choosing me as your Muma!!

You fill my world with laughter and make my heart sing xxx

Jack hoped in his trike and we went bikling to the local park for a picnic with my family

Joshie and Jack, helping Daddy bbq

Happy Mother's Day to my Mummy , who is the inspiration behind the muma I strive to be!!

I didn't realise how lucky I was that I can call you my best friend, I thought everyone had a mummy like you, but I try never to take you for granted, I appreciate and love you more then my words could ever express and I hope that I do you proud!!  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Mummy, me and Ciny, holding our special treasure boxes(I made Mums and she made both of ours)

Mum is holding Kaiden, and Ciny is holding Hollie....or as JackJack calls them- Baby and Holalolly ;)

Millie and JackJack sharing some chippies

When we were younger, Mum and Dad used to joke that a lot of the family pics were just a series of "here's the family eating here" and "here's the family eating there", coz meal times/picnics were a popular time for photography.......seems the tradition is continuing still!

And as Daddy had gone off to work after lunch, we went back to Nanny and Papa's for dinner....here is how Nanny found JackJack when he was in the kitchen while Papa cooked dinner ;)

And this is what I'm looking at now :)

Buba using Polly as a pillow on the couch

xxx

Happy Mother's Day to all you blogging Muma's

xxx

Women's Circle - week 3

Oh my golly, I love fridays.....love love love women's circle!  It nourishes my soul ;)

This week, we all expressed how much we missed our circle, we had had a gap of 2wks this time, as have the circle was busy last friday, so we missed our little love fest last week.

Firstly, we checked in..... just a little heads up to our fellow women on how our week had been, any hurdles, low points and high points we felt able to share. 

I was excited that my report was mostly positive this week!!

My week had involved personal growth, in the form of signing up for bag pipe lessons(AND also knitting lessons, which I forgot to mention!).  I also mentioned Sophie's battles this week, but even that had a positive spin to it, as I have enjoyed watching our little fella be "Dr Jack"....helping Muma keep Sophie calm during her medication time by giving her lovely cuddles and pats, reading stories to her through her mesh windows of the box and talking about her all the time when we're out, hanging out to get home to check on his "Ovee".  We have such a generous caring soul in this little being, it really constantly blows me away!

Tonight, we were blessed to receive gorgeous funky hair cuts, from the lovely Jess ;)

As she set to work on us, one by one, the rest of us had some little solo activities to work on.  Rather then sharing our energies with each other, tonight was about nourishing within ourselves.

We had blank papers, pastels, women's family type magazines, scissors and glue....these were to create a "vision board", kinda like "The Secret"....to put things on the page that we could visualise into our lives.  There was also several packs of tarot cards that we could do our own reading, along with blank exercise books for us to write in if we wished.

I started by checking out the tarot cards, having never had a reading before, I was curious about these.  I looked at 3 different sets before I found a set that felt right to me, and after reading the instructions on how to do it, I did a 4 card reading for myself.  The sceptic in me(thanks Dad! lol) had me wondering if I was just trying to make them fit into my life....but gosh honestly they really rang true!

The first card represented PAST - past influences of the situation

I drew this card....

PURIFICATION

Bare essentials, The naked truth, Wholeness

The second card represented NOW - How the situation is affecting you now

I drew this card...

MOONLIGHT GODDESS

Repressed emotions, Healing, Reflection

The third card represented FUTURE - Possibilities for the future (about 6 months)

I drew this card...

NINE OF HEARTS

Fullfilment, Harmony, Protection

The fourth card represented OUTCOME - Indicates the overall message/lesson; a culmination of everything examined

I drew this card...

WINTER'S END

Regeneration, Rebirth, Positive outcome.

In the moment, I was fitting hope of a near future pregnancy into all of this(as I do try and see it in everything!), but now that I've typed it up here, I'm seeing wonderful personal growth.....that I am now giving myself permission to try new things and venture outside of the bubble I had created around myself, and that this is going to lead to a stronger, confident, self assured me!!

As usual, the dreamy goddess cd was playing in the background.  We've had it playing almost everyday at our house, after I requested a copy because JackJack loved the music at the first week.  He has a particular song he loves, always dances to it, and I told the other women how we noticed that the words at the beginning of the song sound like "latch me, latch me"....which we joke is why he loves the song, coz our booby boy loves a latch!! lol ;)

As I was doing my tarot, JackJack was rather excited to see the return of the pastels(note to self-buy some pastels for home), and had set to work on his own page.  Once I grabbed a page and started looking through the mags for pics, he joined me in browsing and we found lots of trains, buses and cars to cut out for his page...infact he found so many that he got two pages!

I didn't get to finish my page, but for a good reason....it was my turn in the hairdresser seat!! 

I had freshly dyed my hair earlier today, so now with Jess's funky cutting....this Muma is feeling pretty spesh ;)

We also got given a piece of calico to decorate for Courtney's bunting banner, for her up-coming homebirth.  I'm so excited, I have a million ideas buzzing in my head, so I shell think over the next few days about what to go with.  This will be my first involvement in blessingway type stuff and feel honoured to be a part of it ;)