Wowsers. That was a hard month boy {hence post is 20 days late, pic was on time though!}. No lie. We have both been sick, you have another tooth {and more on the way} and you somehow managed to sleep through and IN your first …
My lovely sister-in-law is totally cray-zy about rabbits and will be celebrating her birthday at the end of the month. As she and my bro will be on vacation in the states at the time, we had a little early birthday dinner for Joanna last night. Luckily I had planned this gift ages ago so I had given myself plenty of time to get it finished. So sweet right? I love the whimsy of it and I’m SO glad I did it on grey fabric. One more hoop gift to make then I need to get the needles clacking – I’m going to attempt a jersey for Nixon! Bit scared actually.
Oh this week. Oh every. single. day of this marathon week of crapness. Currently on day 12 of massive sinus infection. Dave took the day off on Tuesday as I was completely useless and took my ass to the doctor. I cried in the waiting …
“A portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2014.”
ethan: you returned home from cub camp tired & grumpy & argumentative. we let this bother us & we all bickered instead of letting you decompress. you needed to be on your own, to relax, to be 9. the beach worked wonders, i’m sorry your dad & i didn’t give you enough space yesterday, we will try harder xx
nixon: those eyelashes. a hard week. up for hours at night, nose and eyes running but always in the best of moods, you are the sweetest baby {in a non-huggy, non-snuggly kind of way}. your big brother adores you and instantly forgets his complaints/attitude/frustrations when he holds you. he is holding you a lot lately now that i think about it!
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I wish I had a ‘publish’ button in my head as I write brilliantly in the shower, or when I’m breast feeding, washing the dishes or rocking the baby. I’m able to continue my mental blogging as I move through the day, from diapering to …
and I finished it. 20 minutes of workout insanity IN MY KITCHEN. Kind of, it was ballet. ish.
I was waiting for the jug to boil the other night {sad but true, the wine bucket has been subbed out for a steaming mug of hot blackcurrant lately ::::sigh:::: we are all sick}, I noticed what long kitchen benches we have, and how swishy our new floors are. Snippets of ballet barre routines came back to me and I smashed out a few plies and thought that I would quite enjoy a bit of ballet again.
So this morning while avoiding important things like housework, I did a YouTube search for ballet barre routines and cracked in to the first one that was about 20min long.
I did years and years of dance, it was a compulsory partner to gymnastics training, and this routine was such a good throwback for my inner-adult-ballerina. I really enjoyed it and my legs got a great workout. I can now say for sure that I still have butt muscles , tiny as they may be they came alive during my impromptue kitchen bench barre routine, which also included abs and arms! Yah – “Hello Girls!”, now pass the Old Gold.
