Happy Birthday

The divine Arki Robert has joined us earth side. He was born at 3 am on the 26th of July.


At about the same time I was feeding Jed and looked up to see a shooting star.


A beautiful moment! A quietly feeding babe in my arms and another taking his first breaths earth side, as a brightly shining star crossed the sky.

We wish Arki a lifetime of sunshine and joy.

Congratulations to the new Mama and family, enjoy your Baby moon!

Here come the Babies

Oh wow, my beautiful friend is in labour.....I have been so looking forward to the arrival earthside of this baby!

I have lit my candle and sent many many birthing vibes, now I'm going to bed and I'm sure I will wake to the wonderful news that she is holding her brand new babe.

I can't wait to hear the full story and meet the new one, all love for the birth of your dreams.

Unveiling

Okay the official unveiling........

It all started with 6 balls of yarn and and big dream that of course I could knit a cardigan for Jed.....

Next we got this.....

and finally after some cursing we ended up with this....

Rather cute baby if I say so myself... the cardigan has plenty of mistakes, but I have to say that the yarn was extremely forgiving and Jed can make pretty much anything look good...maybe we should sign him up for baby modelling lol.

The birthdays have come and gone.....

First Mim.....now a gorgeous 13!

and then Tiger...a fantastic 3

Once again we seem to have been very busy, so much so that I have been seriously guilty about how much I have been resorting to convenience and using packaged biscuits instead of baking. Also as I load another pile of washing into the dryer, I have to realise that there just aren't enough sun hours up here to get the clothes completely dry and a "finish off" in the dryer is acceptable. Especially when you have a 3 year old and an 8 month old with colds at the moment. On top of having his first cold Jed also has been cutting his three top teeth, all at the same time!!

Lately I seem to have lost my inner "eco- warrior" that was born when I was in high school and wanted to go to Tasmania and help with the Franklin River protest. My mother wouldn't let me go but I desperately wanted to go and freeze my butt off and save a river from a dam..... it was also at the same time that I became a real vegetarian, since lapsed.

I have been thinking a lot lately about what I can do to lessen my impact on the planet. I have been getting loads of inspiration from blogs that I am reading at the moment, so many people doing so much better than me... I am feeling really time poor, but I think that a good routine and making some lists might help with that. I have always been completely hopeless at making lists, but possibly at this time in my life I need to think less about what I should be doing next and actually do it, so that I get something achieved. Some routines and meal planning will help lots...at least then I will know what I need at the shops and stop impulse buying.

So my goal for the next week is to write up some routines and try to organize myself a little more. I really need to find some more time though...where to look for that???Look over here Mama.....

Holidays

Firstly I have to say a very big "Thank You" to my wonderful friend for the gorgeous banner I now have adorning the blog. She really is a talent!!


Jed is again in tooth mode and his sleeping has been a bit hit and miss, last night was a difficult one and I think we got about 4 hours, yet the night before he went from 11:00pm till a quick wake up at 2:00am and then back to sleep till 5:00am. This too shall pass!


The school holidays are here and so are the big kids. Mim has started to put to use her birthday present (knitting needles and yarn), she has already knitted herself a beanie and is currently working away on one for Tiger. She and I also made Birthing Fairies this morning, ready to give to two of our friends who will be having Blessingways and births by the end of the month. I am so looking forward to meeting the new little people. I am continuing on with Jed's cardigan, but now I'm worried that the sleeves will be too short. I guess I will have to see how it looks when it is made up, but I suspect he is going to have 3/4 sleeves. Don't know why my tension is good and the body of the cardi is huge!!


Unusually for me I have had a couple of disasters in the kitchen this week. One was a veggie soup that ended up in the bokashi bin. It turned out like a gluey solid mass of tasteless yuck!! The other was a sourdough loaf that I tried to make from scratch. I think I forgot to let it have a second rise, in between changing nappies and dealing with washing I just kneaded it and shoved it in the tin, and baked it after the first rise. Oh well live and learn, I think I might try and follow along with this.


Tiger's 3rd birthday on Thursday, we will be having a little celebration at home but I have decided against anything bigger. I have a copy of the new edition of The Women's Weekly birthday cake book, but at this stage I think it might be a plain sponge...... still haven't decided on a gift for him yet, he already has everything he wanted, as much as you can want things at three!


I am really enjoying being at home with all the children this week, the weather is still crisp and cold at night, but the days are beautifully clear, so far everyone is well and we are having a lovely peaceful winter break. Some baking, crafting and playing outside with bubbles and ride-in cars. It is really calming and soothing for me after a few quite busy weeks. I will just have to try and keep this head space when things start to gear up after the holidays.
Happiness isn't always found somewhere over the rainbow.