I know I am biased ....

But check out this beautiful baby with her big blue eyes

My beautiful boy and his baby

Michael was an only child for so long.
He would ask for a baby almost every day. He loves his sisters so so much.
I love this pic of him with Margaret that I snapped on my iPhone.

Underground Mining

I work in the resource sector and as part of my job yesterday I went underground for the first time.

It was AMAZING. I had spent the weeks leading up to it being so so nervous. People kept asking me if I was worried about their being an accident , which I wasn't. I was more concerned about the unknown.

It is so very civilized. And not at all what I expected.

I however , didn't tell anyone but my husband, as I didn't want my family and friends to worry. My poor best friend read my Fb status update about going underground and had a meltdown.

You + Me = All of us

Today I went to a training course. It was internally run and about sales strategies. Interesting .... Yes. Tiring ... Very much so.

I sat near a lady who we work with who I don't know very well. She is just shy of 6 weeks older than me, single and with no children.

On the two hour trip home, It gave me lots of time to think about things and when I saw this pictures on fb today , it really struck a cord.

Makes me realise how blessed I really am

The Kids by Jane Anne Photography

Check out some sneak pics of my beautiful babies.... to say they are hard to photograph would be an understatement. Jane didn't stop for the whole session !

Check out her work at

Why i need to blog again.....

I have three kids and i work full time. Give me strength .... it is like juggling eight million balls at once.

I recently realised that i spend my life chasing after my babies,going to meetings, replying to a million work emails and constantly talking on my work phone. I need to blog for some me time.... Let's see how i go :)

I love my husband.......

But this made my day. Funniest thing i have seen in ages.

Easter's Coming

I brought Peaches and Peg one of these each from AnK Bowtique Plus one for Olivia, my niece. Can't wait to see them all looking super cute !

Back as a Mumma of 3

I had always intended to come back here to blog , but i just kept getting distracted. Last year , we welcomed a new addition to our family, Little Margaret aka Peg. I started a new blog, and had every intention to start blogging there about life as a family of five, but i remembered how much i love this place. I love the journey it took me on as a person and also as a mumma. So , today, is a new day, today , i will continue to blog here at my favorite place, and i will continue to do it with 'Much Love'

Lounge Room - Mood Board

A few ideas for our new lounge room - couch has arrived and curtains are in.

I am back.......

I have been so so slack blogging, it has been over 6 months since i posted.

Peaches is 9 months old and Master M has just turned 6yo !

It is crazy !

I am back , and i will make an effort to blog much much more !

Election Baby

We love politics in this house. My husband and i are both political junkies and support opposite political parties ! Election night is always a high tension night filled with good food, good laughs and a lot of ribbing each other.

Eleanor was only a few days old when Julia Gillard become Australia's first female PM, and i am sure it is something we will tell her about when she gets older.
She got a "I Voted" sticker from the polling both and while i was tempted to take her photo out the front near all the election posters, i decided against it !

My husband joked that she was upset because she was with me when i voted for a certain party.



This post is part of Point and Shoot on FAT MUM SLIM

M & I

I love this picture of M and I , i took it yesterday after our picnic on the lounge room floor, while his little sister slept. It was so lovely to spend some quality mum and big boy time.

E is for Eleanor

I have just bought this for Eleanor's nursery. It was custom made for her by Kylie @ WallFry. And i love it so much.
Kylie was such a big help in getting the colours and style right to suit our little ones's room.

Funky Furniture From Fantastic

We are considering building in the carport on our company supplied house. We would just use heavy duty fly screen to make it an indoor/outdoor area. And so, i was looking for some cheap but cheery furniture to fill it. And i come across Fantastic Furniture
And they have these chairs with this funky pattern on them. Not at all what i was looking for, but none the less very cool.

Cute as a Button

I have just purchased this for Eleanor's nursery. It is from Clares Place
Can't wait to put it up.

What's going on today..... Gardening

Today, we are planning a day of gardening. It is chilly outside but the sun is shinning and my husband has the day off. So, thought we might get stuck in and use our green thumbs.
We live in a house supplied by the company my husband works for and as such, i refuse to spend to much money, time or effort on the place.
So , i have been buying beautiful pots to decorate the place with, we are currently planting Aussie Boomers (Syzygium australe Boomer PBR) which are a type of Lilly Pilly and make beautiful topiary trees in pots.

Native with non-invasive roots. Grows to 1.5 metres high x 1.5 metres wide. Can be shaped into any size or shape. Ideal for hedges, container planting, topiary or general garden planting. Makes a great specimen plant or a spectacular hedge. Dark green foliage topped with bronze/red new growth.

Info from Logan River Tree Farm

Aug to do...

This month i will try and....

~ Walk 5 times per week
~ Finish Eleanor's Nursery
~ Cut down my chocolate intake
~ Make healthier food choices (as per previous post)
~ Do much more housework
~ Organise E's Christening

Nursery Sneak Peak

A sneak peak at Eleanor's work in progress nursery....

Eleanor's Birth Story

At 38 weeks, i arrived at the hospital for my planned induction, i had been booked in for a C-section but thankfully she decided to do something right and turn around. On Tuesday night i had the first set of gel done , and nothing happened, a few tightenings but nothing. Wednesday Morning, another set was done , and again a few tightenings but nothing major, Wednesday night , another set of gel and this time nothing at all happened , no tightenings nothing. By Thursday morning, i was starting to get a little depressed and my obs decided to break my waters and start me on the drip. We got all set up in labour ward and obs arrived and broke my waters all over his trousers at 7:35am. He joked that he would send me the dry cleaning bill, and i replied “ if you have this baby out by lunch , i will pay your dry cleaning bill"
The midwife got me up and i showered and returned to the bed for monitoring and the hooking up of the Synto drip. Before she could hook me up the contractions had started and she decided to ring the obs to check he still wanted me on the drip. He told her that he didn't want me to labour all day , as i had with Master M , and so to hook it all up.

Within 15 or so minutes the contractions were quite bad, and then just before 9am , i had my meltdown. I think it had been such a long journey that it all just hit me. The midwife and my husband decided that i needed a shot of pethidine to calm me down and space me out a little bit to get through what was to come. I remember them having the conversation and not including me but i knew that they both had my best interest at heart. So at 9:20 am , i had a Pethidine shot which allowed me a chance to pass out between contractions, and not worry about what was happening.

As her back was against my back , i was really uncomfortable and whilst the midwife advised me to stay active, i felt the most comfortable laying on the bed , as each contraction came i would squeeze my husband's hand with one hand and rub the midwifes hand with the other. Rubbing her hand gave me something to concentrate on.

The midwife left us at 9:55 to go and have a quick drink and she had been gone about 5 minutes when i felt the need to push, i pushed the buzzer and she didn't get back into the room until just after 10. She said that she thought it was bubs just laying on my bowel and not to worry but she would have a quick look to see how things where going.

She took one look and looked up at me and said with this ver panicked look, “Your baby is coming" , she then yelled at my husband to grab her some gloves and hit the emergency button. The midwife grabbed the blue towel thing from under neath me and caught her with that and the end of the bedsheet. At this stage people started running in from everywhere and another midwife introduced herself and held my hand whilst people rushed around getting all the stuff organised that should have been there like clamps, wraps, wipes ect.
She was born at 10.09 , just under 2.5 hours after my waters where broken.

They then put her briefly on my chest and then grabbed her from me and took her over to the resus table to check her out. The obs came rushing in , gloves on to realise he had missed all the action.

Our little girl was checked out and given oxygen before they handed her back to me and my husband took a quick photo of us before they decided it was best for her to go to SCN.

To us names and meanings are very important and all 3 of her names are family names

E- meaning "sun ray, shining light"
G- meaning "favor; blessing & the hymm sung at our wedding
M- meaning "fire-born; son/daughter of the wise ruler".

We are so very blessed to have added another child to our family. She is Master M's little sister and our beautiful baby girl.

Details

Born - 17th June 2009 10.09am
Weighing - 7lb 1oz
Length - 47cm