Falling for Autumn

Today is Post day.

So me and my little side kick bundled ourselves up and went on an adventure to post Mummy's parcels.

And my, Autumn is in full swing!

We've only been house bound for about a week, but it seems that we've already missed so much!

Kicking leaves and jumping in puddles is by far the best way to travel!

What do you love about Autumn?

I think I may be in love with the entire season!

Crunchy leaves

Cool mornings

Time to bring out the woolly warmers, hats scarves and gloves

The seasonal veggies are by far my favourites!

Apple crumble - my god apple crumble!

Berries

All the animals out and about, busy collecting food 

All of those beautiful colours decorating the earth

Toadstools

Dew

Hot chocolate

And it could just be me, but everyone just seems so much nicer in the Autumn.

It'll be a shame when Winter gets here and it all goes away, but hey, then we'll build snowmen!

- hopefully.

What do you love about Autumn?

x

Mother's Day

Sunday 15th March 2015 - Mother's Day

A day to appreciate all the lovely mummies out there!

And since becoming a mum myself, I have come to realise just how much it takes to be one.

It's hard work, exhausting in fact, and the little moments of rest, a chance to drink a warm cup of coffee, are pure gold. But of course, every single smile and giggle and cuddle are worth even more. 

Mum's I would officially like to high five you all!

I've only been a mummy for 2 years now, and as cliche as the whole Mother's Day thing is, I truly had the most amazing day!

:)

My boy and my hubby-to-be spoiled me rotten!

Apparently Finn picked me some very cheery sunflowers himself

Perfect for the gloomy weather that seems to be determined to hang around at the moment. My house still looks sunny and ready to welcome Spring!

There's just something about having fresh flowers in the house.

I had some wonderful doodled cards, scrawled by my very own crayon-muncher and a pot of adorable tiny roses to make our home look even cheerier!

So much loveliness!

We had to do a shop and Lewis sneakily bought me a chocolate milkshake - my guilty pleasure

:)

and some chocolate muffins!

Yummmm!

Thoroughly spoiled

But my favourite bit of the whole lovely day was my traditional, special Mother's Day ice cream

- a little tub of ice cream to eat whilst we're out and about.

This year's flavour of choice was 

Ginger Spice 

by Jude's

and ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls I would like to officially announce this as the best flavour in the entire world!!

I'm smitten, and may have to insist on this flavour for every other Mother's Day to come.

I'm still bouncing around today after my lovely day yesterday, I hope all you mummies out there had a lovely day as well and treated all of your mums to something lovely.

(If in future you are ever stuck for present ideas, I can't insist enough on how good Ginger Spice ice cream is!)
:)

Happy belated Mother's Day all

x

Happy Anniversary

Just a small post to say

 a very happy anniversary to my wonderful Lewis!

(warning - mushyness ahead!)

It has actually been a whole 5 years since we met!

A snowy day in Reading, meeting at the train station, a bag of nerves.

Then off to the pub to calm our nerves!
:)
Followed by a walk in the snow, a game of 'throw snowballs at the statue's bottom', and exploring the little world around us.

I can honestly say that Lewis has been the only person to really 'get' me, notice the little things about me and make me laugh so much that I actually vomited water out of my nose in a shopping centre...

...and didn't feel the need to run away and hide after.

And it's never been boring, never been dull.

I love our little life that we've made together.

I know it's mushy and a little love sick,

but this guy is one in a million

and without a shadow of a doubt

my soul mate.

He even treated me to some roses 

(not too many that I'd tell him off for spending money on me, but enough to make me think he was wonderful!)

:)

Happy Anniversary Lewis!

Here's to many more years of adventures, cups of tea, rubber duckies, adorable offspring, trips to the seaside, discovering the little things, and creating as many amazing memories as we possibly can!

I love you

x

A Year Of Being A Mum

It has been ages!

I can't deny the little man has grown into an expert at absorbing all of time, but it's wonderful, so I'm not complaining! 

:)

Can you believe fellow internet friends...

my son is one whole year old!

On the 24th November we celebrated our little boy's very first birthday 

and congratulated ourselves on being parents for a whole year.

It's quite something I think, when you think back over a whole year and realise what you've achieved and have it staring right back at you, burbling and trying to grab your nose.

It makes you step back a little bit and go "Woaw".

It really does seem quite surreal.

I remember posting to you all about a little bean growing in my tummy and now he's a person, a tiny little individual, living with us.

I know everyone says it, but "time really does fly". 

And god I wish I'd immortalised moments more. 

His little hands and feet are bigger, his cry is different, his hair is growing...

-

I'm hoping my next few posts will be a gradual look back over a year of discovering how to be a parent. A scrapbook celebrating all of our little adventures!

(I wanted to post as things were happening, but Finn's ability to take up every inch of spare time is staggering!)

Starting from the birth of my special little boy and taking you through the learning curves we went through and all of the wonderful little discoveries we made along the way.

It's been magical, emotional, soul destroying, and euphoric!

- and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I can't wait to see what the next year has in store for us. 

(hopefully some more free time - or at least a magical method of gaining more!)

Here's to more awesome!

x

Cuteness

I've been a bit rubbish at planning my post for today I'm afraid.

It's been one of those grumbly, rainy days of gloom.

But

there is one fine way to make a person smile when your in a funk!

Google "cute" and your little grumpy face will start to smile!

:)

Then super hero Lewis, skoots off to the shops and comes back with an indoor picnic for us to go crazy on whilst it's all grey and drizzly outside!

I'm so full!

And there was pudding too!!

Mmmm

And then, just to top things off,

put Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 on

and there is no way that you'll be in a grump!

I don't think that I have ever cooed over a marshmallow quite so much in all my life! 

Eeeeeeeeey!!!

Wishing you lots of smiles folks!

Happy Friday!

x

Being A Mum - 10 Things I Wouldn't Be Without

This Saturday the 24th May, I will be a mum to a 6 month old!

How on earth 6 months have zoomed by I'll never know,

but one thing's for sure, I don't know how I would have done it without these things!

1 ~ A dummy

I know that some mums are pro dummies and some are completely against them, but Finn found it such a comfort when he was little and trying to sleep, and now it helps him while he's going through teething his first tooth through (a dummy fresh from the fridge is a god send!).

2 ~ A Gro Egg

From the very first night we were paranoid about the temperature of our house without central heating and little Finn being warm enough. This was definitely an investment! And it came with lots of advice about how many blankets to use with ranging temperatures, and it makes a lovely little night light too!

Grobag Egg room thermometer

3 ~ A light weight blanket

 On the same subject as keeping your little one at the right temperature during the night, a thin, non-woolly blanket has been a definite must-have! Knowing that he's not going to over heat with a think blanket is great peace of mind when you need all the sleep you can get!

4 ~ Fairy lights

It sounds silly, but he's totally amazed by them. He loved staring at them when he was tiny and now seems totally mesmerised by them! 

5 ~ Fun baby clothes

Again, something quite silly when you think about it. Surely all baby clothes are cute and fun. But when he's managed to mess up a clean baby grow and vest within 5 seconds of you struggling with flying arms and legs to get him into it, it's less of a 'job' when you're then putting him into a super cute Tigger onesie!

6 ~ Muslin cloths

I think all mums would be with me on this one. Muslin cloths are your hero! They save the day with anything - dribbles, vomit, messy eaters, teething aids, a cool cloth in the summer... the list goes on!

7 ~ A clothes rail

We don't have a tumble drier, and one human has never needed so many clothes washing each and every day! 

8 ~ My phone

As much as I hate being ruled by the technology world, if I didn't have my phone when I became a mum, I'd have been a little lost. Being able to hop onto the Internet whenever a doubt or question popped into my head was a massive reassurance that all was well! 

And of course being able to take photos of the super cute things he does without having to hunt out my camera is a plus.

:)

9 ~ Rubber ducky

Probably just a Finn thing, but he loves his rubber duckies! In the bath or out, he's always after them, and most of the time chewing on them!

10 ~ Lewis

Most important, above all of these - Lewis!

Without him I would most definitely be a quivering wreck somewhere, doubting all my mothering instincts and scoffing chocolate like there was no tomorrow.

He has been amazing, totally beyond words, a super dad!

x

10 Awesome Things About Newborns

It's been nearly 7 whole weeks since my little boy decided to venture out into the big wide world, and it feels like one of those weird time bubbles where it feels like he's been here forever but at the same time, it's gone so quickly!

I can't believe we're creeping ever closer to the 2 month mark! And he's grown so much in this tiny space of time!

He is officially too big for his Newborn baby grows now and I've had to pack them away, and in a way it feels like a bit of a turning point. He's not a newborn anymore, he's my growing baby boy!

And to celebrate this, here's 10 awesome things about newborns that I'll miss as he gets older: 

1. Everything's so tiny! The very first thing that tugged at my heart strings about him were his tiny ears, and his hands, and feet, and nose, and just about everything! 

2. They sleep a lot :) hehe, giving you plenty of time to catch up on your sleep.. Or just to stare at them in utter awe as they dose!

3. Their constant need of 'something' makes you feel very needed and like you've achieved something amazing when you finally figure out what it is that they've been crying about - even if it's just a cuddle!

4. Presents! :) hehe, on a very selfish note, you can finally use all of those adorable baby presents you've been given and all of the cute things that you bought yourself! I spent ages pottering around the baby room before Finn was born, getting all excited about using his changing mat and going through all if his baby cloths.

5. Watching them grow, even as tiny little humans, they grow at a crazy pace! I swear some mornings I look at him and think 'I'm pretty sure you're bigger than you were last night!' It's amazing to see, but at the same time a little heart wrenching... Before I know it he'll be off to school to learn about dinosaurs!

6. Kind of in line with number 5, you get a whole new perspective to life by watching it from its very beginning. Almost everyday you'll have a 'I made that nose' feeling of awe, and you marvel at how amazing their little body is and how amazing yours is to have made something so complicated and wonderful!
I have made life!

7. Having something very awesome to show off! I'm his mum, so naturally he is amazing and wonderful and the best baby ever to be born! But it is good fun taking him to see people or inviting friends round to see his awesomeness themselves!
:)

8. Planning his little future. I don't mean that I am planning for him to be a doctor or anything, but the little things that will help him through life. I like thinking about when we should take him swimming, planning his first holiday, how I'm going to teach him about trees and bugs and to save me from big, creepy spiders!

9. Holding his little hand. It might be a baby reflex, but by god it makes my heart melt when he grabs hold of my finger with all of his tiny, baby fingers. One day I'll be holding that hand to cross a road!

10. And as silly as it sounds, all of those midnight feeds are wonderful. Getting out of bed in the first place admittedly is the hardest thing in the world, but when you're staring into that little face while he eats and tickling his little belly during changing time... it's magical. And I know when he finally sleeps through the night it will be great, but I also know that I'll secretly miss all of our little midnight conversations and cuddles.
They say that they grow up so fast, so I am more ok with loosing a little sleep to spend as much time with him as possible!

There's a gazillion more things that I could blabber on about my little boy, but from my very little, personal experience, these are more 10 favourite things... for now... there will be more as he gets older... he's already starting to smile like a loony at little things that make him happy... swoon!!

god help me when he finds hid giggle!

I hope you're all having a lovely week

and are starting your new years with awesomeness!

x