Later today my plans for us is to take some props and head up to a mountain to get some Christmas card photos done. Hopefully our models are up for it, but my guess is at least our big model will be. Taking photos outside makes it so much easier to capture moments where the children are just interacting with their surroundings in the most natural way. I am really looking forward to it, and despite the total lack of late-November weather (it's been very mild and no sign of any wintery weather so far with the exeption of a couple of frosty mornings - suits me fine by the way), we will try to get our Christmas spirit on and start thinking about planning the coming weeks. (I started my Christmas shopping online and am very happy with the progress so far. This year the only place you'll find me in the shopping centre in the week before Christmas is at the coffee shop, laughing at everyone stressing out getting their last minute gifts - yep that's right. Yeah Right.)
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Monday 21 November 10:22pm: The house is quiet. Bigsis is asleep in our bed, and little sis is asleep in her bouncer. She is usually in her own bed by now, but tonight she woke up as I put her in bed, so she came out with me and I bounced her. She's snoring now, she's soundly asleep. In a few minutes I'll take her to bed, and hopefully we'll all have a good night's sleep.
I look forward to being able to sleep a little longer in the mornings because then I can stay up later. I am actually past my bedtime by half an hour already, normally I am asleep by ten. After getting severely sleep deprived after having littlesis I made a deal with myself not to push myself when it came to getting enough rest. Sure, I have the occasional night where I'll stay up a little longer, like tonight, but most nights I am in bed by ten. And despite waking up a few times during the night to feed littlesis, and getting up at around six most mornings, I actually don't feel too sleepy throughout the day. Sleep is good for many things, and as long as the kids are young any beauty sleep is out, but just enough sleep is in, I'm good. Keeps me doing a decent job of being a mother I think, and that is a thousand times more important than being beautiful. (Did I mention my current beauty scheme in the morning is (as I am on my way out the door to take bigsis to kindy) leaning from the hall into the the bathroom to take a look in the mirror and (with my finger) wipe off any mascara that might be stuck under my eye from sleeping? It's the truth. At least sort of.)
The photos we took yesterday turned out well, but I am behind in posting, so I'll leave you with two from the past few weeks for now.
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Hi, Thanks for your lovely comments and lovely to virtually meet you. Your blog is awesome. You know, you've inspired me to pick up the park blog again. We got so busy and stopped travelling outside of our comfort zone to find new parks but you've inspired me! Perhaps we should hit a park together when you are in town? Again, love your blog. Have subscribed now too!
Ooh, last comment was from Tricia @ theitchyeyes.net by the way. Expected to be able to leave my name but it took me through to my gmail which is not my name at all :-)
Lenge siden du har oppdatert her nå! Jeg håper dere har hatt en fin jul :)
Jeg er spent på hvordan det skal bli med søvn her i huset når lillesøster kommer. Vi er ikke så flinke til å komme oss tidlig i seng, men når man skal opp og amme flere ganger i løpet av natten og så opp med største for å levere i barnehage, så MÅ man jo bare komme seg i seng tidlig..
Jeg lurte på en ting jeg. Har du babyjogger city elite? Har du isåfall brukt den med bagdel til lillesøster? Hvilken av bagene har du hatt, og har du isåfall vært fornøyd med den? Jeg blir veldig glad for raskt svar :)
Hei Mona! Ja, her forsømmes bloggen over eb lav sko. kjipt i grunn, men det har vært så travelt at jeg rett og slett ikke har rukket å oppdatere. skal komme med lang oppdatering så snart jeg får eb ledig stund. Nå sitter jeg på en kafé i Brisbane og svetter! Vi fikk endelig tatt turen og så har jeg ikke rukket å skrive noe om det enda. vi koser oss iallefall. :-D Jeg har ikke hatt bad til city eliten, fordi storesøster fremdeles måtte bruke den innimellom og da ble det for styrete å kneppe hele trekket av og på hele tiden. Min løsning ble en babytravel mykbag som jeg klipset fast oppiog der lå hun godt til hun ble for lang. etterpå har jeg bare brukt den med ryggen lagt helt ned og det ser ut til a ha fungert greit. Men skulle jeg valgt en bag hadde jeg definitivt valgt den største jeg fant, mtp plass til vinterpose og lengde. Lykke til! Nå kom solen fram her og vi har 29 grader allerede. Venter på at det skal begynne aktiviteter for barn. livet er heelig. see you soon blog. xx
Ja, mobilsvar er lik skrivefeil. please ignore. ;-)
Oioi, så herlig at dere er på tur nedover!! Gleder meg til rapport :)
Takk for svar! Daniel bruker også vogna innimellom enda - stort sett bare til og fra barnehagen de dagene pappaen leverer, så jeg har lurt litt på å kjøpe en reisetrille til å ha ved siden av. Får se hva vi bestemmer oss for..
Jeg har lest at mange er misfornøyd med bagdelen til city elite fordi de er så små - men jeg vet ikke om det gjelder begge typene man får kjøpt. Nå får vi jo "heldigvis" et februarbarn, så da trenger vi bare å ha vinterpose i helt i starten. Jeg får titte på de i butikken før jeg bestemmer meg kanskje.. Føler bare at det begynner å haste litt ;)
Kos dere massse videre på ferie!
Klem
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