All Things Mum

How to cure post-natal blues: Retail therapy. Thankyou K-mart. I bought some coffee mugs, $2 each Face washers for baby's bath time, $2 pack of 4 Book stand $4 Oven roaster (not pictured) $14.75 = one happy mummy (Priceless) They had mugs in other striped colours but I figured I should stick to one colour instead of mixing. There was a beautiful turquoise striped one but it was too summery for me right now. This is the cute book stand. I struggle to read recipes properly so to have this is really handy. I can just pop a recipe book on it and cook away. Plus it was super cheap so I could not pass it up. My adorable little man who was 3weeks yesterday. Sheeesh how time flies. I would like to say he's a perfect little fellow but he does not like to be put down half the time but luckily I sewed up another sling to keep him snuggled next to me. The sling is made from a single bed flat sheet cut in half lengthways. Really, what do people do with bed sheets? I have quite a collection...

12 days since he entered this world. Wow. It feels like much longer. The first week is really the hardest. I am full of hormones, full of ups and downs. I am Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. One moment sweet, the next moody and angry. It's time to get out into the sunshine I think. I've been cooped up inside for too long. Right now my son has carried in a chestfull of toilet paper. His dad is going to be sooooo upset at him. It doesn't make me happier either. The baby is on my lap snoozing after a good breastfeed. Thankfully I have this part under control. It's not as painful to feed anymore and he's putting on weight so yay for me and him. We're having rice paper rolls for lunch. I can't wait cos it's yummy and mum gave me a jar of her chilli dipping sauce. It's the next best thing to slice bread. Speaking of slice bread I am thinking of buying a bread maker. Should I? We go through a loaf and a half a week on slice bread. If I made our own we could save mone...

Baby Elijah arrived in the wee hours of the morning on the 8th June after a much anticipated labour. A day before his due date, mind you but a quick labour was very promising. At 4.20am he was pushed out and I have enjoyed every second after that (not so much before, lol) No stitches for mummy even for this big 4.04kg baby! The heaviest of my now complete brood of babies. He is doing very well and I feel pretty good as well. We are completely over the moon and getting on with... life. Thanks for dropping by.

Today is our first day of Winter. I am still baking baby number 4. I will be 39 weeks tomorrow. I was 39weeks when lil J was born (pictured above). I feel pretty big but feeling like bub is quite low and getting kicks right in the middle up high. I am hoping that there will be something happening tomorrow. In the meantime there was lots of nesting: i.e. cleaning and washing. We attended a wedding a few Sundays ago and gee it was lovely. The food was great and best of all we too all the kids with us. The only shoes I had which fit my feet were heels and I totally regret it. Anyway, it was fun being barefoot and pregnant at the reception. I cut up a turtle neck top for Miss 4.5 but have procrastinated in finishing it. I want to double the fabric as the knit is rather light and not warm enough for our cold weather. I've only got around to making some dresses for her naked Barbie dolls, lol. So watch this space because I'm sure it will be rather eventful once our last baby makes hi...

image from my camera Happy Mothers Day to all you wonderful mummies out there! My morning started with a kiss from hubby before he left for work. Not long after the kids woke up and we had breakfast. I got them ready for church. As I finished dressing I went into the kitchen to find my eldest (4.5yr old girl) apologising for spilling the beetroot container! She had stained her white fancy dress and some of the floor with beetroot juice. I had left the container on the bench but I did recall having a lid on it. She apologised, saying she was trying to help me clean. God Bless her. I rinsed her dress and popped it into the dryer so she could still wear it out. She gave me the present (a little pink led torch) from her preschool stall along with some other items made at school. I had tears in my eyes. It was my first official present made by her and I was full of emotion. We hung them up on the wall in fron tof my sewing table. Church was good and I didn't even worry when my younges...

Yesterday I took to the sewing machine. I let the kids run wild (they actually weren't that bad) while my littlest slept. I was thinking about thrifting some big mens shirts but I tried that the other day and it just didn't work out. So I went through my stash and found this lovely knit I got from Spotlight a while ago which was waiting for me to make up my mind and cut it up. I had a metre of it and I remember it was on sale. I'm not really into red/coral colours but once I tried it on I really love it on me. You can't see the white detail properly but it really adds a great detail to it and doesn't have any over-powering coral colour. What I really wanted was to make a top that I could still wear post-natal, therefore breastfeeding friendly. I chose Simplicity's New Look 6697 because it's perfect for knits and I figured I could wing it on the belly and back piece. I will end up making a Spring dress later on. I used the bodice pieces (view C) for this and...

I love walking into my bathroom and seeing these roses from our front garden. Father in law had pruned them a while ago and now they are coming back so beautifully. They were just from Bunnings and I think I picked a good variety. There's an exquisite yellow one with red along the edges. It's actually fallen over in the vase but I have since taped it back up. It also has the sweetest perfume. So there I am with my almost 33wk belly and counting down the weeks. Soon I hope to count down days and pull out the winter gear for this baby. I've never had a winter baby before so it will definately be one of my many challenges. I still can't believe I am carrying a baby again and everyone says they forget I am pregnant. I guess they are use to me just getting through each day as though it were a breeze. Truly, I tell you, it is not. I'm better at planning though so when some of the kids are asleep (esp. the youngest) I can pull out the mop and clean my kitchen ...