so grateful for my mum

I can't tell you how grateful I am for my mum. Words just wouldn't be able to cover it. When I am having 'one of those days' she is always there ready to rescue me should I need it. I'm fortunate to say that we are the best of friends too. We enjoy one another's company and I don't often go a day without talking to my mum.

J & Z both love her dearly too. There is nothing I love more than seeing them all snuggled up on the lounge together reading books. It warms my little heart. My body is tired and aching most of the time at the moment, being 28 weeks pregnant now, and the energy and breath of fresh air my mum is for my kids is truly appreciated.

My favourite thing this week: hearing Zoe look up at my mum who she was snuggling with, and saying 'love me yiayiaka*'. Her way of saying, give me cuddles and kisses.....<3

* Greek for 'nanny/grandma'

spring time smells

playing along with wordless wednesday at Faith Hope & a whole lotta Love

my little photographer {review}

Some time ago, Fisher Price sent my kids the Kid Tough Digital Camera to play with and review. Josh, particularly was super duper excited because he is always trying to take photos with our good camera or with my iPhone so this was perfect. A camera just for the kids! It really is quite tough with lots of rubber panels on it, in case of being dropped. And it definately gets a work out here!

Other things we loved about it:

* It's super easy to use, and very intuitive even for kids

* It has it's own little display screen on the back so kids can see immediately the results of their artistry! What kid these days doesn't want to see the picture instantly?

* It holds LOADS of photos, up to about 1000 photos. Yes, you will probably get lots of photos of darkness, or nothingness, like we did (LOL!) but there were also plenty of cute ones too.

* It connects easily to computer via USB so you can transfer the photos over quickly and view them.

* While the quality isn't as good as a grown ups camera, it's definitely still pretty good by kid standards!

* Price is about $60rrp which I think is pretty good given how close this camera is to the real thing for kids and not so toy like at all.

Things not so great:

* There really weren't many down sides, except that it does require 4 x AAA batteries, and even though the camera has an auto shut down feature, I found we still ran down the batteries pretty quickly, and it doesn't recommend using with rechargeable batteries for some reason.

Above is a small selection of photos the kids took with the camera, including a charming one of their mother poking her tongue out. Josh was constantly on the move with the camera and didn't have the steadiest hand, so a lot of his photos were a little blurred. We might have to work on that!!

a few of my favourite things

.....finding random photos on my iphone from my four year old photographer.....too cute!

a trip down memory lane

Well, I'm kind of back.....

I've been thinking about leaving this blogging caper. Pregnancy and life with all its busyness of late have left me with very little 'me' time, and what time I have had to myself, I've preferred to just curl up on the lounge once the kids are in bed for the night and watch trashy tv.

While I was thinking about it all one night (and hubby had probably hijacked the tv watching the cricket!) I found myself at the computer, on my blog page, reading my blog from the very start, right through until very recently. Wow it took a long time, but it was actually quite lovely reading it from a distance to when it was all originally written. I had forgotten all the beautiful messages I had written about my kids, beautiful memories recorded forever, inspirations and longings. It gave me a greater appreciation of what I had started here and what I now know I want to continue. It made me appreciate the readers I had more, when at the time I think I was too consumed with comparing myself to others and still feeling like a little lowly blog, even though I've never wanted to be a big amazing blog anyway. At the heart, I've always wanted to continue blogging, but I have been so sapped of' 'me-ness' lately that I haven't felt like I have anything to give, and didn't have the confidence that I really had anything much to say anyway.

So I wanted to put it out there, that sometimes a big break might be just the thing you need from a project/hobby/task, etc. A chance to look at something with a bit of distance in between so you can really appreciate things for what they are, instead of being blurred by being in that moment.

I love the keepsake this blog is for me. And I'd like it to keep growing with me for longer. I hope you will stick around too, whoever is still reading. xx



today is awesome

Found this little print on my Etsy trails. I think it will be fitting for my life. A bit of a mantra I should take on. Especially with baby number three not too far away now......

Do you have a little mantra you swear by daily? Something that gets you through the day? Please share, it might just inspire me more!

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