12.29.2009

Pregnancy Snacks

I spent a little bit of time whilst dinner was cooking yesterday packaging up some healthy snacks for myself. As I get further along in this pregnancy I am finding that I need to snack a lot more regularly. So I went to the grocery store just for snacks for me, I know the broccoli is a bit weird that is my latest graving!! I am going to try and do this at the start of every week so when I leave the house I can grab a few bags of different things to have ready for when the hunger hits !! I don’t always eat this healthy, please don’t be fooled but I am trying : ) So for this week we have rice crackers, grapes and the vegetables at the front.

12.29.2009

Attitude is everything

I have a belief system that a happy daily life requires a great attitude. I have thought this over the last few years and it has helped me to deal with the “stuff” that life has a tendency to throw at you, just to test you. That is why you will find on my blog mainly the things which enrich my life and make me happy- not because my life is perfect (because it isn’t) and not because I am trying to pretend that it is either but just because these are the things I like to focus my life on. As humans we have a tendency to focus on the negative in our lives and not to let go of the past, I believe this can bog us down in the present and cause us to be unhappy.

This faith and belief system that everything happens to us for a reason has been tested to it’s absolute limits for me over the past 18 weeks of my life. I wake up ever morning hoping it will be different, hoping that on this day I will feel great and I will not have to pretend to be happy and well. And almost every morning is the same- I feel sick from about 10 minutes after I wake up- that’s about 6am until I go to bed at about 11pm- that’s 17 hours of feeling like I am going to die.

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12.28.2009

Staycations : )

What are they? Well they are holidays where you just stay at home! We have stayed at home this Christmas Holidays the last 3-4 days have been spent exclusively at home and it has been great. Not having anything to do can be hard for me at times as I am such a busy person but I have tried to just enjoy it and I am going to try and have an afternoon nap at some stage this week. We have some fun activities planned for the rest of this week but for the weekend there has been nothing- it is so liberating.
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12.27.2009

A sneak Peak

Here is a sneak peak of what I have been working on over the weekend. A little mini album of the best of 2009 for us as a family, more to come tomorrow.

12.27.2009

Christmas Morning

We had a great Christmas morning this year, it was so great to see Flynn so excited that Santa had come to the house. It was so wonderful to see his face light up as he was ripping open all of his gifts : ) I touched yesterday on that I would talk about how we have made Christmas morning a little easier. After our first Christmas with Flynn we realized that the first thing he wanted to was rip open the present and then use it straight away. But then came the time to unwrap the actual gift from the package with all of the twisty ties and plastic snaps and then to find the batteries (hoping you have the right size).
Then with a gift like the Tag Junior you also have to load the machine onto a laptop and register it along with each book. This took Simon about half an hour. So what we do now (starting last year) is open the actual present and add batteries, register it etc and then put it all back in the box/bag in this case. This way when he opened it on Christmas morning he was able to play with it straight away. It makes for such an easy morning and saves all the time involved in opening some of the more complicated toys : )

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12.26.2009

Christmas Day : )

I hope your Christmas and Boxing Days were as wonderful as mine. The day spent with those you love is the most important thing, but the yummy food is also nice : ) We spent this years at my mums house which was great as there was minimal work to do for me, it was nice to have a year off an just enjoy ourselves.
I think I have learnt a lot about entertaining from my wonderful mum. She truly takes it all in her stride, no rushing around on the last day shopping and cleaning, no complaining about the work involved in hosting she really does it all so well. We had 21 for lunch and it was wonderful, great food and great company- what more in there to say!! Days like Christmas make me appreciate even more what a wonderful family that I am truly blessed to have.

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12.23.2009

I know I say it a lot on this blog.

I know I say it a lot on this blog and you are probably sick of hearing it by now. But it really is the small things in life that make it amazing and worthwhile and will create moments that you will remember forever, like Flynn getting ever so excited about making cupcakes with mummy.So on that note on Christmas Eve 2009 I want to share with you a letter a wrote to my gorgeous boy. …READ MORE

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