It's been a while...

We've been MIA from the blogging world for a little while.  There's been ups and there's been downs, but the ups make the downs worth it.  It's difficult for me to decide what to disclose.  On one hand I think it may be therapeutic to just let it all out.  Type it.  Read it back to myself.   Accept it.  But I don't think I'm there yet.  I wish I was, but I'm working on it. I'm my own 'work in progress'.  Seeing this is therapeutic though ...

 This kid LOVES tomatoes. I tell her to smile and she does this.


Some days are harder than others.  But everyday there are two reasons I get out of bed.  My babies and my new obsession with licorice peppermint tea.  Yes, sounds revolting... don't knock it til you try it. Most amazing herbal tea, hands down.

My offspring picks me weeds.  She thinks they're flowers.  The way she says the word 'fwah-woh' just makes me melt and the day that she says it correctly will be a very sad day.

 mama needs to plant some real flowers for this poor girl!

We've decided, that every Saturday we will try and buy our fresh produce at the markets.  So, we take Ella in the hopes that it will be warm and sunny and fun... well would you know, it was the coldest, windiest morning of the entire winter season.  Its as though mother nature blew us a big freaking icy cold kiss goodbye before the first day of spring.  It was SO cold.  So we managed to dig through the back seat of the car, through toys and towels, beach buckets and sippy cups to find a blanket.

 

 Poor little muffin stayed like this almost the entire time.

These delicious treats made up for the teeth chattering mother nature climate stuff up:

So in all honesty, Ella stayed in her pram the entire time.  Just before we left we staged this photo so it looked as though she was actually enjoying the day.  It went a little like this 'babe, go stand over there so it looks like Ella is picking her own pear'.  When really, she was cold, hungry and wanted to get the hell out of there...

We all do it...


I'll tell you what she did enjoy though, the EKKA.  It's a massive exhibition/fair that is held in brisbane every August.  We didn't go last year because Ella was too little to appreciate it.  It was crazy busy but she loved it.  We did some cow petting...

 (two seconds after this photo, a goat came barging through behind Ella and knocked her forward onto the sleeping cow.  It was one of the funniest things I have ever seen.  I laughed so hard at my child...  It was even more hilarious because it was my own child.  How horrible am i!?)

 Some famous strawberry icecream eating...

 Creepy laughing clown games... and winning crappy little toys.

Buying ridiculously expensive winnie the pooh balloons because thats what you do.

And bought some showbags from the showbag pavillion.  Dora, you entertained us for days.

 

I've been playing around with my camera when I've had the time.  Something that I really love to immerse myself in.  I don't think I would ever want to pursue a career in photography, because then it would become stressful.  I just love to do it for my own family and plaster our home with my (probably not so good) photography.   

 

 Hello golden light, and hello pot-belly

 i'm borrowing a Lens from Chris' boss... and it is Ah. May. Zing.

I'm trying to cut back the time that I spend on these sites that seem to suck the hours out of my day.  Facebook, blogs and the like.  I love checking on peoples status updates.  I love knowing that my best friend's baby has just cut through his first tooth, or a long lost primary school friend has just gotten married... but there needs to be a line, for me anyway.  I already worry that I'm going to look back and think 'Did I spend as much time as I could with my baby? or was I too busy looking at other peoples lives to see my own?'  I don't want it to be that way.  So if i don't post for a little while, its because my heart and mind is where it should be, with my family.

So I think that's just about it! So if you got through my ramblings, thank you for reading!