Maternity Leave | Day ………….

All the people with all of the places to go have left.  Dave has gone to his new office on the second day of his new contract, Mum has gone to work, E has gone to school – excited about the Matinee performance of the Operetta in which he has a starring role! I’m still pregnant.  About to start my …

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Wardrobe Wednesday | The Final Edition – 39 Weeks

This is the final hurrah, my last Wardrobe Wednesday in what I’m sure will be a long, long time – measured in kilograms! And perhaps seasons lol.  Somehow I have gotten still larger, and somehow despite all predictions to the contrary I am still pregnant, due next Wednesday. I sat in the salon for 3.5hrs yesterday so don’t fret, those …

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Hippo’s Nursery | Colour & Light

39-ish weeks ago I started a Pinterest board for this room and I have been collecting ever since.  The only hard and fast rule was that I didn’t want anything matchy-matchy.  Ethan’s nursery in America reeked of co-ordinates and was totally themed floor to ceiling from Babies-R-Us.  Eight years on and I took my time, mixing colours and patterns until …

Day 2: Maternity Leave

Obviously I outdid my self with my kitchen exploits on Thursday, you know, pumpkin soup and homemade bread rolls for dinner so I kept it real and decided on Pizza Hut for dinner and once again had dinner organised by 9.30am!  I am amazing. Work cut off my public email so I was unable to do any work from home …

Day 1: Maternity Leave 38 Weeks

I made it. I survived nine months at work with only two sick days! I enjoy my work and have had a trouble free pregnancy so the decision to keep working for so long was not a big deal. Today was a different story though. My first day at home. By 9.30am the washing was hung, the pumpkin and other …

Mall-Walking

Have you ever heard of mall-walking?  No?  It’s what old people do in the sweltering climes of America when it’s too hot to power walk outside.  They don their shell suits and head inside for laps + air-con.  I couldn’t fit in a shell suit if my life depended on it and we need sheltering from the rain and cold …

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Things I’m Loving: Bloggers & Georgie Pie

Two of my favourite things came together yesterday in an unplanned symphony of awesomeness!  I had allowed myself Friday off work as I attempt to wind things up (and use a couple of leave days here and there before maternity leave kicks in!).  This enabled me to finally enjoy morning tea with some other Auckland bloggers at The Parenting Place …

Nursery Sneak Peek | There’s art on the walls…….

I had to wait a while for some prints to arrive from the states, but now they are hung I’m feeling like the nursery is done…enough.  The light in this room is amazing, it has East and North facing windows so stays bright all day and the plaster/concrete block combo of the exterior suck up the sunlight and keep it …