Blonde moment..

For those of you that know me, you will know that I can be just a little absent minded at times. I'm not sure what it is, whether I'm just so tired I can no longer focus on anything other than the things my brain now does on auto pilot like running a household, cooking, cleaning, washing, shopping and constantly keeping a small child happy, clean, warm, fed and YES most importantly entertained!  If its not under than banner ... Then its too bad...!

I know I used to blame being pregnant for this lack of brain power or concentration, but as I am not pregnant - What do I blame?  Have I become so lazy of mind since becoming a mum that I just switch off?

I'm not a physically lazy person at all, I'm always on the go, I rarely sit still.....

(writer pauses for a moment to think.....)

HA HA.. I just had the biggest belly laugh at myself. I had forgotten the point of this story, which just proves my absentmindedness... Thankfully I remembered ....

The point:  

I walked out of the house the other morning with my handbag and Sara both packed for a shopping trip to our local Westfield Shopping Town, I had a list a mile long of a million things I needed to do before lunch. 

We got to the garage and I opened the door with the buzzer, (that was in my handbag since yesterday as the garage had flooded and I'd taken it inside the house with me), I went to open Sara's door to lock her into the car seat, but the door is locked.. BUGGER...I start searching though my handbag for my car keys.... Uhmm ... NO KEYS!!!! Crap!

THINK.... What do I do?? 

Do I call a locksmith to come out, and at what cost? 

Is there a window open, can I break into my own home?? 

All the while I have an impatient child at my heels saying... "Mummy" .. "Mummy" .. "Mummy"

Discover the tiny Laundry window is open a fraction enough for me to get to the fly wire and knock it inside onto the floor... I wind the window out, unscrew window, (with a screwdriver from the garage that I was able to open), place baby safely inside, now its my turn. Not so easy when you have to squeeze in between the laundry trough and the dryer that's mounted on the wall above it! 

BUT.. SUCCESS!!! We're IN!!! 

Keys collected.... Doors and windows all shut so no one else can do what I did!!!! 

Alarm system NOW ACTIVATED ... SAFE AS HOUSES!!

These boots were made for walking...

Sara has a shoe fetish.. She is fascinated with shoes, whether they are mine or her fathers she loves to play with them, try them on and naturally attempt to walk in them. 

She must get this obsession from me!! 

Much to her fathers horror I'm sure all he sees is his little girl, growing up way too fast and potentially the amount of money she will cost him in the future when she starts to want her own collection of shoes like just mummy!

Yesterday Sara decided that my boots were her favourites and she clumsily as first stomped around the house in them, gradually becoming more and more confident as she went until finally she had had enough of them. 

Rain, Rain, GO Away!!

For the third time this month we have had torrential rain in Melbourne.. And for the third time our backyard has flooded.

We live on a hill so we expect some run off from the property at the rear of us, which is higher up than ours, but when we have 4 or more gushing water features added by an overflowing storm water drain that just cant cope... that's not expected and I'm NOT happy!t 


Back yard:

Front yard:

Have you had any similar experiences this year with this crazy Melbourne weather??

The love of a family is life's greatest blessing..

I designed our famlily Christmas Cards today.

I am so very please with them, as I've chosen three of my favourite photos of Sara to go on the front of them as she is the light of our lives.

Christmas is a time for being thankful for what you have and being with your family so why not share these wonderful images of her with everyone.