To Find A Silver Lining

Getting OLD but Skinny!
Tuesday 26th October 2010
Every now and then, well - okay so that is a lie, regularly I am being reminded by my own body (traitor) that I am getting NO younger... I guess that is one of the 'benefits' of being an 'older Mum' (aka 35)!  My knees and my ankles all 'click' now, they never used too... I swelled up to gigantic proportions when pregnant with Button (well my legs and ankles did), and I was basically hobbling for the final few weeks. It took a number of weeks to stop having cankles and start seeing my ankles again once she arrived, and I have never been the same since... I keep hoping that one day some things will 'ping' back into place, and other things stop creaking and clicking; but so far I am out of luck!
We have stairs in our place, and while they are a God-send when Button has wind, they always manage to extract filthy words from me first thing in the morning (admittedly I don't tend to expel the words - just th…

Tuesday 26th October 2010
LOVING Stan Walker's song 'Choose You' at the moment... It is playing over and over on the radio, so if I didn't like it, it would be driving me stir-crazy! But I like it 'cause it's real - it's what love is really all about; there are days when you want to stay mad, and days when you can't think straight; but love is a commitment to the end. 


Choose You 
Stan Walker 
I'm so mad at you right now That I can't think straight And I should shut my mouth So I don't let out the cruel things I say

Cuz when love starts out
It's all peachy I love you, you love me seems easy It's like a walk in the park But sometimes it takes an act of my will And a walk in a park turns to uphill But I promise to give you my heart


I will choose to love you, yeahh
Even though I wanna stay mad Even though I wanna get angry Though it may be easier to walk away I will choose to stay & love you


Love is just so beautiful
sometimes it takes work And the ones …

Don't Wanna Be Anywhere Else
Saturday 23rd October 2010
Today my hubby and I decided that where we live is the best place on earth, and we'd really wouldn't want to be anywhere else at all... the sun was gorgeous, we are surrounded by beautiful countryside, it is quiet and we have a lovely sunny house together, with a much happier little girl. Happy baby means happy parents (at least in this house it does)! Let me show you with photos what our day has been like so far:


I mean - who doesn't like nice, clean, dry washing? I love the smell, and when you see it blowing in the breeze and know it's drying nicely; such a sweet thing... and such an old mother-thing to say!!!!!
Then this is the view from our bedroom window:

And now the view from Button's window (the one we're always trying to block out with those towels):

Can't you just imagine Bambi peeping out from that clearing!
These are just one angle of the views from each of our bedrooms, I didn't want to ma…