Adiós

(X-Posted on both blogs)


It seems i really have been taken a bloggy break this summer , schools and such start back in less than 2 weeks and life will start to become normal again.

It less than 24 hours we are away to Spain for the week (and if your thinking of robbing t , my sister and her neice will be kitty sitting so someone will be living here) . I am sure i will have plenty to blog about when home.

Love

Well it was not a very hard challenge i set last week in this post .

It was my girls all snuggled up and sleeping , is this not the sweetest thing ?

Can you see what it is yet?

This week we are having a little fun with the gallery , my entry is not as inventive as some but i did leave it a little late and had to use what i had already taken . So hear it is



Do you know what it is a picture of?

Reveal will be on Friday

Behind

I am not in a blogging mood just now.

I have no patience or desire to sit and write what I'm feeling , i compose posts in my head and when i have the time to write them i cannot be bothered .

I wanted to big this blog up , spend time making it into something better but for the moment i have to recognise its not going to happen .

I think it will be a task for after summer , when my life is less full and i get to stop and breathe .

It is not all bad , i have more than enough me time - hours i get to spend doing what i want - at the moment that is just not writing.

I am heavily in a reading phase , ever spare second i pick my ebook and start to read . I finished the Harry Potters novels and I'm now starting on my Stephen King read through , all his works and novels in chronological order . I am easily spending at least 5 hours a day reading and i don't want to stop .

I do have stuff to say and many posts sitting half finished but I'm going to stop worrying and just enjoy my being. Posting will be irregular till the other side of summer , commenting and reading blogs will also have to wait for now as 3 children and a little hand held device are calling my name .

Wilkinson Nappies

I was sent these to review a few weeks back and must apologies for taken so long . I admit I'm a little hesitant to write the review as its the first time i have not had 100% positive things to say about the product.

We are sort of cloth nappy users around here which means i normally do it for a week or so then cannot be bothered and use disposables for a week or so then swap again . I always use disposable for night time though as no matter how much inserts i add the kids would always be soaked in the morning with cloth .

These days we mix cloth with Tesco own brand nappies which i love , for years we used nothing but Pampers but realised supermarket own brand were just as good but half the price and you really don't get much better than that.

Wilkinson have recently been releasing a whole range of new products designed to be affordable for the modern family which i think is a wonderful idea.

The nappies come in your usual ranges - Cosy Dry, Active Fit and Easy Pant and usual sizes and cost a reasonable £3.74 per pack .

We received a pack of cosy dry size 5 to try and i admit they seemed very basic , the nappies had a horrible papery feel about them which turned me off straight away . My children (1 full time in nappies and 1 in them at night) did not noticed any difference and my 3 year old said them felt comfy and fine . They fit both children well (boy aged 1 around 29lbs and girl aged 3 37lbs)and we had no leaks or problems . They do the job and i cannot complain about that.

I would buy them again but when i know i could get supermarket own brands for not only cheaper and be happier with the quality then they would not be my first choice .

Cry Baby

It is a Gallery meet writers workshop this week . With one word to focus on ...Emotions

I went through many different pictures trying to find one that called to me and could not decide between something that said emotion or made me feel . In the end i went for this.



He was never a happy child . His birth was perfect , born at home in the water but the pregnancy was stressful and i often wonder if this was something to do with his temperament ? . He was constantly hungry and demanding from day one.

Constant feeding , attention seeking , lack of sleep , hours of screaming. These are all the memories i have of my sons first year . I try to remember the first smile or laugh or when he first crawled or walked and i all i remember is hell . I blogged about it a few times on my family blog . I read through old posts and remember little of it , i so wish i had this blog then as i remember sitting and blogging and not able to really write how i felt.

I was depressed , i was miserable and i wanted someone to help me more than anything. I finally gathered the courage to go and talk to the doctors about it and they told me unless i wanted to stop breastfeeding there was nothing they could do. It broke my spirt and i spiralled even further down the black hole , no one was going to help me.



It did get better as he got older, i know walking made a difference in his temperament and his sleeping started getting better at some point between then and now.

Now he is 21 months and does sleep all night, he is still very demanding and screams at everything



His temper is horrible and he is very violent . I get so frustrated and angry with him when i cannot move for his yells and need for attention . He wants milk all the time but sometimes i just don't want touched . God forbid you don't give him what he wants.

These days though he is more fun , sure hard work but aren't they all at this age ? He does laugh and smile , he can be sweet and attentive and I'm so proud of him . I would not change a thing about him , but his first year of life will always remain in my mind as the year of the cry baby.



Hopefully this year will be the year that i remember as full of toddler giggles , plenty of sleep and kisses .

Creatures

Easy one from the gallery this week. It is Creatures and i knew exactly what to choose.




Can you tell what they are?

We picked up the Insect Lore Butterfly Garden for Rebecca's birthday and we are currently watching the cocoons and waiting for butterflies to appear. Its a fun like kit that kids love but is also educational . I also did not think *i* would love it as much as i did and spent many hours watching the caterpillars grow and change .

We all cannot wait till they become butterflies .