To Find A Silver Lining

Tuesday 18th January 2011
Do you like the new look? It's to go with my new year theme - 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life'... needed something bright and cheerful to greet me, remind me to focus on the good stuff!
Talking of that - you're welcome to keep me accountable! Now that I have committed to staying positive this year, feel free to remind me of that if you feel one of my blog entries is not following this! Of course there'll be times where my posts will not be quite so bright, as that is life - but gentle reminders to look beyond whatever the issue is that I am blogging on about, are welcome!
Elizabeth  

Welcoming in 2011...
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Ahhh - the sound of peace! My baby is transitioning from three sleeps down to two sleeps... this has meant that by late afternoon she is beside herself with exhaustion, and over the weekend she never even got to eat her dinner; let alone have a bath. So I went back to giving her a dream feed, to make sure she made it through the night, between that and the excessive heat - poor baby probably needed the extra feed! Yesterday we managed to get dinner into her, she scoffed it down... and she got a BATH, yay - she LOVES her bath and I am sure she was missing it!
So I decided to try and hold her out a little longer between sleeps today, in the hopes that by going down a little later,  they last a little longer and - thus making it easier on her at the end of the day. However, I fear I kept her up a little TOO long this time! She normally handles two hours, and if we're out she copes with three hours between sleeps... so I managed to keep her up…

Tuesday 18th January 2011




Do not judge!
Everyone has their weaknesses... mine is hot toast with melted butter, loaded with peanut butter and apricot jam. YYYYYUUUUUMMMMM - oh yeah!!!!!
And the reason for comfort food:


Crappy weather...
And it's not that I mind the rain and wind today (although I am sure I will be OVER it by tomorrow *grin*), but it just feels like the kind of day you want to be eating comfort food, and doing very little... maybe reading a good book, watching a good movie (blogging on the computer!) or curled up with your little treasure - who is currently asleep, yay! 
That's my take on the day...
Elizabeth

Hmmm - having never put a video up on here before, I can only hope this will work!
This is not a good video of her, but Blogger wouldn't let me upload the slightly bigger one I wanted to put up...
Anyway - the point is, this was taken January 7th, and it was the first time we'd seen her attempting the next step to crawling (up on hands and knees rocking) in public. Both Mr. C and I have caught her 'practicing' it in her cot however - so we knew it wasn't far off!
She managed to go backwards yesterday for the first time (almost fell off the stairs), but no forward movement as of yet... however, even now she is much stronger and when she 'head butts' the carpet, she just pushes herself back up.
Won't be long and our entire lives will never be the same!!!!
Elizabeth

Thursday 13th January 2011


* For our beautiful country
* For the opportunity to live in our wonderful home
* For the 5 acres of land surrounding us
* For my little family
* For glorious sunsets




Taken at the exact same spot, only a few seconds apart - difference is the mode on the camera in which I took each photo... one was on 'Dusk/Dawn' (top one) and the other on 'Sunset'. The 'Sunset' mode is definitely more accurate regarding colour, as tonight it was fiery orange - hence why I took the photos; not even a hint of pink!
Love it, Elizabeth

Thursday 13th January 2011
We took our first trip to the zoo this past Monday, but came to the conclusion that Button really is still too young to appreciate it... I had thought that personally, but she does have an extreme fascination with the animals around our place (of which there are many), and Mr. C was SO excited to be able to take her these holidays - that I figured it wouldn't hurt, and maybe we'd have a nice family outing!
Oh yeah right, I forgot that it is MY daughter we're talking about here... the child who 'just knows' instinctively when we are trying to go out, and just doesn't sleep, or doesn't behave - just doesn't do anything that she is supposed to! Anyone else have this issue, or is it just a 'me and Button' thing here?!? The day before she had slept - had a perfect day when it came to sleeping in fact, given us nearly 3 hours altogether, and had gone down super quick and super easily each time. But not that day... nope, sleep …