Let the Sunshine in!

I am so happy to finally see some sunshine again, after last weeks down pour and 10 loads of washing later, it was wonderful to say goodbye to the much needed rain and bring on the sunshine! It has pushed our dams up to nearly 80%, it is hard to imagine that only two years ago we were in the middle of the worst drought that we had ever seen.

Honestly all they needed to do was ask us to renovate cause as soon as we started building the rain began to fall and has been falling ever since. So next time we are in a drought Brisbane and you need some rain give us a call lol, I am sure that we can help out!

It hard to believe that in Amber's life time until recently she never really understood and got to experience rain and storms are all about. I can finally say that she now understands what her gumboots and umbrella are used for and she is loving every second she is allowed out in it.

The children were so excited at school when the prep area started to flood they were making any excuse possible to get out there in the middle of it! I think half of the playground nearly ended up in their classroom, but they thought that was awesome.

I feel terrible but on the way home Amber impulsively jumped into the gutter with her school shoes and socks, and I wasn't very impressed, but if I had thought about it and just how tempting something like that would be for a 5 year old I might have joined her and not been such a party pooper. It might of had something to do with the fact that our garage flooded as well as Davids office downstairs, so I had spent half the day sweeping water away, so I was a little over it all especially with our little man continually making his way outside and crawling in it all.

Don't get me wrong I love the sound of rain especially since I missed hearing it for such a long time with the drought, but since we seem to flood in the office and in our garage now every time we have a heavy rain, instead of the peace it normally gives me now the sound of heavy rain sends a panic down my spine.

Well I spoke to soon, the rain has now returned and is here to stay for the week. Thankfully it has only been light rain, it is certainly an amazing change for Brisbane I have never seen such a wet Autumn.

As they say when in Rome do as the Romans do! Well seeing I am a movie buff and musicals are my thing, I will grab my umbrella and as Gene Kelly did, I will start Singin' In the Rain!!!!

What a difference a week or two makes!

In the first year of a baby's life every week brings a brand new surprise and Aidan decided to throw a couple our way this week. We now have two teeth and a new word added to our vocabulary and an appropriate one seeing Mothers Day was only a couple of weeks ago. It is always amazing when you finally hear your name gurgled out for everyone to hear for the first time!

Mummy is hardly ever the first word muttered out of most babies mouths, which is a strange thing seeing they spend most of their time with you(no offence to all the daddies that stay at home with their children). But I guess truth be told I don't talk that much about myself when we are together, throughout the day our conversations usually lend themselves toward "When daddy comes home!" or "Lets go pick Amber up from school", so it is not surprising really that mummy is usually number three or four on the list. It doesn't stop me from feeling all fuzzy inside and thrilled to bits from my head to my toes every time I hear it. I know that the novelty will wear off when he is following me down the hall way continuously repeating it over and over again but at the moment I think he is the ants pants!

Aidan has just reached that age where he is becoming very aware of who I actually am and that I am not just the local milk bar, this is in evidence by the little shadow that follows me around the house now, but I am very lucky as sometimes when I decide to stop and turn around I receive a special little cuddle which always brightens the dullest of days! Boys are so cuddly!

Well hoping there are a few nights with sleep coming my way lol............Now i wonder whether that little man will let me capture a photo of those new toothy pegs.......................................................

My Special Mothers Day!

It has only taken me two weeks to post this and it has nothing to do with it not being a special day and meaning so much to me, it has just been a very busy couple of weeks and with a little one teething, I have been getting very little sleep so the last thing on my mind has been doing anything on the computer, usually it is just getting through the routine stuff and then dragging my butt to bed to catch at least a couple of hours of broken sleep.

I know some mummies are fortunate enough to have babies that sleep through the night no matter what is happening but when you co-sleep you're just a little too aware when they stir and are unhappy. Not that I am complaining, when Aidan was a baby I was fortunate enough to just roll over and feed and then we could both go back to sleep.

I guess it doesn't really bother me very much any more, I don't get up set like I did with Amber about lost sleep and loss of my time to myself. I guess that is the sacrifice of being a mum, and not that you could really call it a sacrifice as a privilege that I get to share those first magical years with my two darling children and that includes the good and the not so good. They grow up so very fast, so I guess what I am saying is this is what mothers day means to me it's getting to spend those special moments with my children and feeling fortunate enough that for me it is mothers day every day of the year and how truly blessed I am to spend every magical day with my children.

What better words can you hear than when your child first tells you how much they love you or hearing for the first time the word mum ma. I might hear it two hundred times a day now..........but I will never get tired of knowing that my children need me and love spending time with me.


Well what a lucky mummy I am, my mothers day started on Thursday night up at Amber's school and then didn't finish until I picked up my presents the weekend after. I am one lucky mummy. Even if i did select my own presents lol.

It was so sweet of Amber's teachers to put on such a lovely evening, for all the mummy's in Amber's class, it truly made me feel very special. It was strictly Mummy's and their school child only which was really nice, to have some one on one time with Amber, as it is very rare these days. Amber's teachers Mrs. Argayris and Mrs. Bee must have worked tirelessly the weeks leading up to the night as we were showered with beautiful things.

When we arrived we were greeted with a special hand made red rose followed by a photo with your respective child then we were placed in our allocated seat where the children had made the tablecloths with lovely handmade vases with more paper flowers one for each mummy on each table and a place card with our names on them. We were then treated to some special songs that the children had been rehearsing (amber accidentally let a couple of songs slip on one or two occasions) followed by a special dance that we all had to join in on.

We were then served mini quiches and love heart shortbread washed down with some iced tea. The night was then finished off with a lovely power point presentation with a photo of myself and Amber with a caption underneath with why their mummy is special to them. Amber said because I gave her snuggle whuggles and you gave me a special cd (cd is what she calls a dvd for some reason and it was "The Sound of Music lol).

Now if this didn't make you cry the Celine Dion song they played while showing this did. Amber's teacher then read us a book about a mother and her son as he grew up and left home.............still sobbing just thinking about that book lol and if this was not enough we were given a decorated box with a verse on the side. If the power point presentation or the book didn't tear you up than this verse surely would do the trick! By the way it doesn't take me much to cry, it is one of my many talents lol!

This is a very special gift

That you can never see.

The reason it's so special is

It's just for you from me.

Whenever you are happy,

Or even feeling blue.

You only have to hold

This gift and know

I think of you.

You can never open it

Even if you tried.

Just hold the box close

To your heart,

It's filled with love inside.

We were also presented with a portrait of ourselves that our child had painted. How glam am I lol, looking very blond also, maybe Amber wishes I looked a little more like herself. She is so thoughtful though she knows that my favorite colour is blue and that I love wearing dresses or skirts.

Big, big thank you to Amber and her teachers, you made one mummy feel like the most special mummy in the whole wide world.

On a similar note, I had to include this photo of what Amber purchased for me from the mother's day stall at the school. A coffee mug and a satchel of coffee and a milky way. Now the mug is very cute with the slogan "my mum rocks", but my daughter obviously does not know the fact that I don't drink coffee lol and never have. I do love it so though as I can drink my occasional mug of tea that I have and well the chocolate went down a treat and the coffee well some special visitor will hopefully win that with there next coffee at my place. Amber made me smile several days later when I made us both a cup of tea, Amber remarked "Mummy would you like me to bring the tea over to you?" in which I replied "That would be lovely thank you darling!". She then came back a minute later saying that she couldn't bring the cup over as it was too special and she was too scared that she would break it. This is when I realized she must have spent at least a little while thinking about what special thing she would select for me.

I was also lucky enough to receive breakfast in bed on the day even if the pancakes they made me were served up with golden syrup instead of mayple syrup, I was still very lucky to have breakfast made for me. This was followed by my lovely gift of a gardening tool set which Amber needed to help me unwrap.

The day was finished off perfectly with a picnic in the park down the Gold Coast, with my mum and Barry, Jennifer, Emma and Makayla and Alex, Belle and William. It was a one of those perfect autumn days that the South East of Queensland has and it was a perfect opportunity to take advantage of this. Amber hasn't had many opportunities to ride her bike that she was given off Mum and Barry for her birthday, so we took it along and she thoroughly enjoyed the chance to practice some much needed riding skills.

It was an interesting park with a lake and a playground, but it also had like a fantasy feel to it, with a sculpture of Bigfoot (Amber was a little freaked out by this, it took a little coaxing to get her to sit on his feet lol) and waterfalls with little bridges and peacocks, it felt a little Alice in Wonderlandish!

We had a fabulous day, and we will definitely have to come back again for another visit. It was so nice to share mothers day with some other mummies. Thanks for a simply delightful day!

I consider myself one very lucky, fortunate mummy and lucky for me I also received two other items that I really wanted off ebay lol, a lovely calico egg and two blue bottles to add to my very blue and white kitchen and living room. Ok I know this is cheating and had nothing to do with luck but it is something i really wanted lol, and yes I know its another dust collector!

I know this post was very long winded but even though this special day is all locked up and forever stored inside my head, I want my daughter and son to know how much this mothers day truly meant to me.

As my mug says "Mum you rock", so do you sweetheart. I love you my precious very thoughtful sweet little angel you made my week truly magical. I love you both to the moon and back and a big snuggle whuggle to you and throw in an extra whuggle also!

Well needed break in Coffs Harbour!

It will probably be alot cooler the next time we head down to Coffs to visit David's parents, so there will be no more summer dresses or dipping our toes in the water!

It was an interesting journey down as we decided to go inland from Brisbane and that happened to be the windy way! Not very smart as we had just filled up with the normal stop as requested by Miss Amber at McDonald's, so in the end I think we had to stop a total of 5 times as someone was feeling a little green.

For some reason I don't get car sickness and can catch up on a little reading on the way down. Its a funny thing really as I am one of those people that feels ill when I am over tired and I was violently ill with both of my pregnancy to the point of being bed ridden, so I am clueless as to why I can be on the windiest road ever and not even feel a twinge or pang in my stomach. Unfortunately I can not say the same for Amber, well we finally made it onto a main road and she was cured, that's when the baton was handed over to Aidan, it was now his turn to melt down lol! Ahhhh what would a road trip be without a few dramas and a whole lot of pain lol!

We finally made it and it only took 8 hours lol, not bad for a trip that usually takes around 5 hours but I can safely say that everyone arrived in one piece even if mummy and daddy's sanity had gone missing and half of our hair on our head had been pulled out lol!

We went down on the Queensland May Day weekend so it has taken me a little while to blog this as it has been a crazy busy couple of weeks and with the arrival of Aidans first tooth which is very exciting, but also means I have had quite a few nights of broken sleep, so I have been a little shattered lately lol, hence the lack of effort (to do anything productive at all actually lol)!

Thankfully the rest of the weekend away was lovely and it was nice to catch up with David's parents. Amber was so excited to see her Oma and Opa, it would have been devastating if for some reason we did not make the trip down there.

We finished off our weekend at the beach, it is like a tradition, we cannot go to Coffs Harbour without taking a trip to the beach. Its funny when we lived in Coffs Harbour we hardly ventured down to the beach ever but now that we don't live close to the sea, we are literally busting at the seams to spend some time on the sand!

The kids had a ball, Aidan got up close and personal with the sand, touching it, digging in it and most importantly eating it lol, we were seeing sand in his nappy for days! Amber has inherited her mothers love for fossicking for treasures, and we worked on her alphabet with her name in the sand (who said going to the beach couldn't be educational!).

I have to laugh though, when we arrived at the beach Amber did not want to venture very far at all. The poor little thing last time we were at the beach she was playing in the water and a freak wave knocked herself and my mum over! Well mum was pissing herself laughing flat on her bottom and Amber was like a tumbleweed rolling nearly all the way to the shore (thankfully her Uncle Adam rescued her!). But this incident was still clearly in her mind and she wasn't going to have a bar of that mean ocean! You can see this in the below photo, it took daddy quite a bit of convincing to get those tootsies wet!

I have to laugh the above stick came home with us, she is such a little hoard like her mum and dad!

Amber with some of her treasures!

Amber was also very curious about the tiny little crabs that scuttle along the beach. She was a bit worried that all these little crabs had larger mummies hiding somewhere close by and that they were going to come out and get her lol!

WE had a gorgeous time away and Amber and Aidan loved seeing and spending time with their grandparents. A couple of days went by all to fast and before we new it we were back in the car and heading anxiously home (praying that our trip home would hopefully be a little faster and a little less chaotic lol)! Thankfully it was!

Aidan having some one on one time with his Opa, he is such a boy so inquisitive already trying to work out how Amber's new flashing slippers work lol! He is secretly thinking how do I break these silly things!

Thanks for having us Opa and Oma we had a wonderful time! Oh and thankyou so much for my amazing birthday present, I love, love, love the chairs now all I have to do is find the time to paint them! Hugs to everyone Kylie xx.