My early riser was too sleepy to even attempt the pasta at lunch. Weirdly the cat ate a good portion of it later. Maybe someone should tell her she’s supposed to be a carnivore.

I was watching Julie & Julia tonight. A rare treat to watch a movie, alone and undisturbed. Which makes me sound like a social recluse, which I’m not. But I do love to get completely lost, every now and again. To be completely immersed in something. It got me thinking about writing and the beginning. It is a cruel master and a loving mistress, sometimes separately and sometimes together.
When I still had the luxury of perfectionism and before I realised that perfectionism was seriously beating the crap out of my self esteem, …

A definite improvement.

Where by virtue of her young age I can inflict my sense of style on her (for now)
The Saucy Rabbit
I don’t know why it got this name, but it did. Maybe because of his hat fettish.

Party Snaps
Riley and one of her good friends, enjoying the awesomeness of a jumping castle:

Her Name
Because nothing says I love you, like I can spell.

The Office
Because nothing says productivity like a bear obsessed with eating honey and sleeping

The Sleigh
My love for sleigh furniture can’t be put into words. But if it could it would be …

Letting me know she’s still teething, but at least capable of thinking of something entirely cheeky at the same time. Or perhaps she’s plotting world domination. Impossible to tell.

I’ve been concerned about the local schooling options since we moved to the Central Coast. And I realise this post might come off as snobbish. I don’t care. Some things I should embrace a certain level of elitism in. Education is one of them.
When we moved here, I couldn’t drive. So, I caught a lot of public transport. We live just a couple of blocks away from our local primary and high schools. And while I was on public transport I was often sitting next to students/teachers from this particular …

Riley is definitely feeling more herself again. Slept through last night – ah sweet slumber how I’ve missed you.
Today was Mothers’ Group. Her sharing skills take a nose-dive when we’re at home and it’s all of HER stuff that requires sharing. I have three rocker-type toys: The snail, the wooden rocker and a bouncing zebra. You would think that would be plenty for four children. But that would be assuming that they all don’t want to be on exactly the same one at any given time. Rookie mistake.
But she did …

It’s been awhile coming, but here is the video of the munchkin seeing all her presents outside for the first time (trampoline, cubby house and climbing equipment – and yes both Josh and I and various relatives did go a bit nuts this year)

Every now and then her hair throws a little ginger. I’d be all into her being a redhead, but sadly I think as she gets older her hair will get darker and you won’t really be able to see it anymore.

Riley wears alot of pink. I never thought I’d be into the whole pink thing. All of her newborn outfits were in neutral colours and not just because I didn’t know her sex at the time. I really hated the whole girls wear pink, boys were blue thing.
But now, well now I just think it’s pretty damn cute. And there was also a period of time when she had practically no hair and people kept mistaking her for a boy. I got very tired with correcting them all the time, …