Living the Quiet Life

When your life is all breast milk, pooey nappies and playgrounds, it's sometimes hard to think of something newsworthy to share. The one thing that I have had over the past few weeks to brighten my days is visitors. It's been lovely seeing people that I haven't seen for a while and others who I've seen more regularly and are happy to listen to my trivial venting! It also gives me an excuse to sit down for a bit. The vaccuming can wait for another day, can't it? Too bad, it has to. So here is a photo of a long time family friend, Ang, who couldn't understand what all the fuss is about this looking after a baby business. Needless to say she had just missed the poo-athon that had happened about half an hour earlier. In her words, "this is easy"!















Another good friend, Bev, came to see the latest addition also. I hadn't seen her since Feb, so it was really nice to catch up. She's becoming a grandma in August and is very excited, so she was just getting some practice in!















And the final photo is my 1 mth old in his size 3 mth old outfit! Yep, he's a big boy alright; mummy makes good milk! Depends on who you talk to, but we are calling this a smile. Maybe it was a burp on it's way up, but that's not as interesting a story. Angus loves cuddles. He has a terrible 'witching' hour between about 5 and 8:30pm, but if someone is holding him, he's prefectly fine. He will fall asleep in your arms, but the minute you put him down, he arks up again, so last week I had my mum and dad helping me from 4pm until Jim came home, so that I could help Tom with dinner etc. whilst someone held Angus. This week my Ergobaby (baby sling) is my saviour. I can have two free hands whilst still pacifying my cuddly boy. Lucky he's so cute, it makes it all worth it.















Thank you to everyone for all their cards and best wishes, personal thank you cards are on their way in the snail mail, but I just want you all to know that it's been wonderful hearing from you and I appreciate your thoughts.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all my friends out there who are mums, I hope you have had a wonderful day. I have had a very happy day with my family. Lots of cuddles and love from my boys as well as lunch with my Mum and Dad and sister has made this day a good one. Plus I've had lunch cooked for me and some take-away for dinner has eliminated any need for cooking or dishes, which is nice for a break! Life has settled down a bit for us over the past week. Tom is getting better about the new situation, he's actually been a champion little boy over the past couple of days, so I'm lucky, and Angus is growing and eating very well, and he just loved been held and cuddled. I've now just got to get my head around doing this all on my own. Nappy changes, getting out of the house, feeding, bathing, cuddles etc. all times two. Twice the work, but twice the fun!


Last week we went to visit Jim's brother and his wife and their brand new baby girl. Our kids are three days apart and we thought they looked pretty cute on the rug together doing their 'synchronised swimming'! Hee, hee. It will be fun watching them grow and change together and hopefully become really good friends.

Me and My Boyz!

I grew up in family of girls (God only knows how my Dad did it!), I went to an all girls school, all I really know is girls other than my main man. Well, now I'm living in a household of farting, burping, motorbike-loving boys. How did this happen? Well to be honest, I've been truly blessed; and I figure it will give me a lifetime of reasons to go for a facial or pedicure ("Mummy needs some girly time....). And there will always be time for shopping when Dad is at footy training with his sons I suppose.
So Angus has joined the ranks and has certainly rocked the boat. Tom's world has been turned upside down, and although he doesn't really mind the baby, he's not generally happy about life. I've gone from having a wonderful little boy to a whiny, annoying little two year old whose favourite word is, "Nooooooo". Oh, where oh where did my little boy go? I know it's an adjustment phase and soon he won't remember life without Angus, and eventually he'll love having a brother, but for now he's a big pain in the bum. Any tips more seasoned Mums? Feel free to email me.
I've also had an adjustment phase. I think it could be accurately described as mourning my loss of being my little man's number one. More on that in another blog, but it was something I had no idea was going to happen and had no idea how to deal with.
So above is a photo of my boys, and below a closer one of the newest addition: more to come. All is well with us, we are slowly getting used to our new situation and working our way through the issues, but overall we are a very lucky family and I'm a very lucky mummy. And hey! at least I'm going to get plenty of use out of all of Tom's clothes and the trucks , trains and cars are going to get plenty of use over the next few years!
Learning to go with the new flow............