I read Best Blog Posts of 2009 at Scary Mommy and thought it was a pretty cool idea – if I have only got 6 months to choose from. I started this blog in July, thinking that it would be fun to do every now and then, but it quickly became more addictive than I’d imagined it could be.
July: Things I Learnt In My First Year (Part 1)
Breastfeeding: not as natural as you’d think
August: Things I Learnt In My First Year (Part II)
Sleep: apparently it’s optional
September: Crying It Out to …

She and I grew up together – we’re like family – only more interlinked because there’s choice in there too. So now, after 30 years of knowing one another, we both understand one another – inside and out.
It’s not that we didn’t have our ups and downs. I was a jealous friend in our teen years, possibly because I had so few friends and wanted to hold on to what I had – but my behaviour was childish, even for a child. And we had growing pains in early adulthood …

Since I moved to the Central Coast from Sydney, I don’t see my brother nearly as much as I did before, so it was nice to catch up – even if there wasn’t enough time.

From birthday presents and scraped savings I finally bought my camera and it arrived this week. I haven’t had time to play around with all the functions as yet – I’ve just been using it on automatic so far. The best thing about it is how fast it is. With our other cameras I would have missed this photo because of the delay time.

I had planned on buying a Nikon. Because my last SLR (film) camera was a Nikon FE10. I loved that camera. I sold it to fund wedding …

The silly season is almost upon us and we are going to three weddings in the next two months. All friends that I grew up with, now getting married. I think these will probably be the last weddings I go to for awhile, unless my brother decides to tie the knot, because know most people I know aren’t single. I feel old.

Not really. But kind of. (Isn’t that eloquent? You’re welcome.)
I was talking to a friend of mine about joint finances today. I would never have even considered joint finances …

I knew early on that I would marry Josh because I knew he was the father of my children. I just knew. Other things confirmed it – we fought like cats and dogs, laughed alot, enjoyed doing absolutely nothing together and were completely different yet totally the same.
This is us on our wedding day (do the outfits give it away?)

Us on our honeymoon in Vietnam (this is in Sapa) where we drank alot and I’m pretty sure I consumed my own body weight in bean curd. It was a mistake …