Hello to those who are reading,
Today is day one of mummy boot camp- me booting myself up the but to get these kids into activites in their own environment and to deist with their development where I can. It didn't start off to well with plenty of cat fights during the night, my dogs barking at the cats and my lack of sleep due to my upcoming eels of radiotherapy which is beginning to worry me!
So today, the boys are dynamite on legs, knowing mummy is tired, why wouldn't they push my buttons as much as possible? Connor is asleep so Master B and I are attempting to do a cutting activity for the very first time. Brayden is left handed, with both mummy and daddy being right handed the challenge has begun. Already he is getting confused by trying to watch me cut, let alone trying to learn how to hold his scissors or get the blunt safety ones to work.
I have purchased some $1 wrapping paper sheets from red dot, we have dinosours and trucks today, the easiest way I found to show him, was by cutting long strips of the paper for him, holding either side of the paper and letting him practise cutting between my fingers. He did really well and had a great time!! We have several pieces of artwork hanging on the fridge! This project lasted for about an hour and cost $2, it helped with his hand to eye co-ordination and many other area's of his development just by asking him questions and talking with him!
The rest of today was a bit all over the place!! We drove to the next town over (about 40 minutes away) to do food shopping- which was the usual... we pointed and named all the different fruits & vegetables, Brayden chose some of his favourite meals out for mummy to cook and the best part was we added to the ever growing craft collection!
I came home and literally went on a cooking marathon- I made Carbonara, Tandori Chicken, Honey Mustard Chicken, Lamb Rogan Josh and Bombay Chicken Curry- all served up into individual serves and frozen ready for next week! I am about to go through the hardest ten days of my life!! I have to go to Perth (3 hours away) for radiotherapy - it means that I cannot be with my children at all for 10 days straight! This is something that I am really not coping with, I will miss the boys, Garry and my family more than I can even begin to imagine at the moment!
Anyway.... tomorrow's agenda- Green Geli-baff in a swimming pool, filled with plastic bugs, slugs and crocodiles for the boys to play in all day long should they wish!! It is going to be a great day and again a great play experience with my babies!! I am really enjoying my goal of having one set up activity for the boys each day, it really isn't very hard but so rewarding at the same time!! Already this week, I have done scissor cutting/pasting, painting, play dough shapes and cooking toasted sandwiches!! So simple, so cool!! :)
I love being a mum!!
Until tomorrow, take care and enjoy being a mummy!!
Tahlia
xoxo
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Welcome To My Blog :o)
Well this is officially my first 'blog'! I have no idea what I am doing and have literally spent a whole two hours trying to edit the layout of my blog page..... hmmm still not 100% but that can be on tomorrow's agenda!
So I guess I should post a little about myself and my wonderful family... where to start? I am engaged to Garry, my partner of 10 years. We have on several occasions tried to get married, but I have been pregnant twice and the third time (which we thought was lucky) I was diagnosed with stage two, Papillary Thyroid Cancer, but more on that later!
I've kind of been through the run of the mill.... I was diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) at the age of 17, at 136kgs I knew that I needed to loose weight. However, when talking to a doctor specialising in fertility, I was told the liklihood of conceiving our own child is extremely slim. At the age of 18, I had 17 years to wait until I was at a desirable age to begin IVF, which was not an option for us. Following this, I made a dramatic decision to have gastric lap-banding surgery in a final bid to have our own baby, on our own. This was in September 2006, 15 months later and 45kgs down and at a Gun's N Roses concert- I discovered I was 10 weeks pregnant with our first child. Brayden William James was born 13th January 2008, perfectly healthy, absolutely beautiful and proudly ours!
I won't go and post my whole life story, but the last three years have flown by and changed us for the better. In 2009, Garry and I were working long hours in Perth- we hardly saw each other! He was a despatch manager at a large plumbing company whilst I was working full time a child care centre running the babies room. I had 7 babies in my room plus my own (Brayden- who I was breastfeeding at the time.) On the 11th February 2009, Garry, Brayden and I were discharged from hospital after pulling an all nighter - Brayden had his second bout of serious Micro Plasma Pneumonia and we were absolutley exhausted. This was the day that was about to change our lives.... forever!! At 10am, Garry received a phone call from my mum, who informed me that my step dad who had been in my life since I was 11 years old had just been killed in a car accident. A phone call that I could never have seen coming, something that I will never forget but at the same time it gave us so much. The next week was a blur, Wednesday the 18th February we said our final goodbye's to Graham and the following day Garry and I made the huge decision to leave our house in Perth, and move down to Bridgetown (3 hours away) to support my mum, her other 6 children and assist with the Courier business Graham loved so much! On Saturday the 21st February, that familiar gut instinct came over me... most of you mum's would know it. The gut instinct that tells you to drive to the chemist at some strange hour and buy a pregnancy test "just to check". Garry and I had not been using contraception after Brayden, as we believed any little miracle that came along would be a huge blessing! Along came Connor, in the form of vomiting, nausea, cravings, swallen ankles and much much more!! His pregnancy was a nightmare, especially as it was unexpected and I was suffering premature labour from 29 weeks. The last 11 weeks was spent in bed where possibly (considering I had a 19 month old at the time- I did fairly well to keep him in for as long as I did).
Connor Graham was born on the 9th of October 2009, again he was perfect, beautiful and proudly all ours!!
Now my boys are 3 years and 17 months old, they are funny, cute but most of all they are typical boys!! Extremely active and on the go! I have created this blog to create a real support network for other mums to go to when they have crayon all up the wall, or piddle on the couch or just simply looking for a easy, fun, cheap activity to do with their children. With my childcare background and experience as a mother, I will try share plenty of inspiring ideas to share with your children and give advice where I feel I can!! I am not a expert who has studied at University, I have done my diploma at tafe- but in my opinion that is all theory. I can only talk on my experiences in the industry and my experience as a mum or eldest child of 7!
Thank you for taking the time to follow my blog, I hope it is amusing, funny, inspiring but most of all real and something you can relate to without all the competetive crap that goes on in mother's groups etc. Enjoy the read and please please make sure you contribute- whether it is a recipe you have tried or a cleaning technique you swear by- as mum's we all want to know about it!!
Until tomorrow, Take care and remember how lucky you are to be a mummy!
Love Tahlia
xoxo
So I guess I should post a little about myself and my wonderful family... where to start? I am engaged to Garry, my partner of 10 years. We have on several occasions tried to get married, but I have been pregnant twice and the third time (which we thought was lucky) I was diagnosed with stage two, Papillary Thyroid Cancer, but more on that later!
I've kind of been through the run of the mill.... I was diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) at the age of 17, at 136kgs I knew that I needed to loose weight. However, when talking to a doctor specialising in fertility, I was told the liklihood of conceiving our own child is extremely slim. At the age of 18, I had 17 years to wait until I was at a desirable age to begin IVF, which was not an option for us. Following this, I made a dramatic decision to have gastric lap-banding surgery in a final bid to have our own baby, on our own. This was in September 2006, 15 months later and 45kgs down and at a Gun's N Roses concert- I discovered I was 10 weeks pregnant with our first child. Brayden William James was born 13th January 2008, perfectly healthy, absolutely beautiful and proudly ours!
I won't go and post my whole life story, but the last three years have flown by and changed us for the better. In 2009, Garry and I were working long hours in Perth- we hardly saw each other! He was a despatch manager at a large plumbing company whilst I was working full time a child care centre running the babies room. I had 7 babies in my room plus my own (Brayden- who I was breastfeeding at the time.) On the 11th February 2009, Garry, Brayden and I were discharged from hospital after pulling an all nighter - Brayden had his second bout of serious Micro Plasma Pneumonia and we were absolutley exhausted. This was the day that was about to change our lives.... forever!! At 10am, Garry received a phone call from my mum, who informed me that my step dad who had been in my life since I was 11 years old had just been killed in a car accident. A phone call that I could never have seen coming, something that I will never forget but at the same time it gave us so much. The next week was a blur, Wednesday the 18th February we said our final goodbye's to Graham and the following day Garry and I made the huge decision to leave our house in Perth, and move down to Bridgetown (3 hours away) to support my mum, her other 6 children and assist with the Courier business Graham loved so much! On Saturday the 21st February, that familiar gut instinct came over me... most of you mum's would know it. The gut instinct that tells you to drive to the chemist at some strange hour and buy a pregnancy test "just to check". Garry and I had not been using contraception after Brayden, as we believed any little miracle that came along would be a huge blessing! Along came Connor, in the form of vomiting, nausea, cravings, swallen ankles and much much more!! His pregnancy was a nightmare, especially as it was unexpected and I was suffering premature labour from 29 weeks. The last 11 weeks was spent in bed where possibly (considering I had a 19 month old at the time- I did fairly well to keep him in for as long as I did).
Connor Graham was born on the 9th of October 2009, again he was perfect, beautiful and proudly all ours!!
Now my boys are 3 years and 17 months old, they are funny, cute but most of all they are typical boys!! Extremely active and on the go! I have created this blog to create a real support network for other mums to go to when they have crayon all up the wall, or piddle on the couch or just simply looking for a easy, fun, cheap activity to do with their children. With my childcare background and experience as a mother, I will try share plenty of inspiring ideas to share with your children and give advice where I feel I can!! I am not a expert who has studied at University, I have done my diploma at tafe- but in my opinion that is all theory. I can only talk on my experiences in the industry and my experience as a mum or eldest child of 7!
Thank you for taking the time to follow my blog, I hope it is amusing, funny, inspiring but most of all real and something you can relate to without all the competetive crap that goes on in mother's groups etc. Enjoy the read and please please make sure you contribute- whether it is a recipe you have tried or a cleaning technique you swear by- as mum's we all want to know about it!!
Until tomorrow, Take care and remember how lucky you are to be a mummy!
Love Tahlia
xoxo
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