Flashback on Friday

Sometimes it is easy to just share a photo.

I thought it might be interesting to compare the three, not quite right in ages. Princess is only about 6 months while Sweetness is around 14 months. I have no idea how old I was- maybe 7 or 8 months.

Mum of oct

I have just seen a little bit of an interview of the Octuplets mum. She and her mother were arguing over the affects that it has on her other children. Her mother told her that she shouldn't have had any more children but then added having just one more would have been ok. The Octuplets mum said that then gave the reason as to why she had all eight children. She said 'they (fertility clinic) gives you a choice- use the embryos or destroy them.' The grandmother said she should have just left them frozen.

I am a big pro-lifer, even before I became a Christian and so I can't help but understand why this mother did want to use all her embryos. IVF was what we were told would be the only way we were probably going to get pregnant and so we had to do a little research into it. What we found out was that many fertility clinics wouldn't harvest less than around 10 eggs if they were to do it. The chances of all 10 eggs becoming embroys and then implanting was not high. But then what happened if the very first embryo worked and then the second as a pro-lifer we would need to look at having 10 children. Which is a lot- really a lot.

There is a lot of bad circumstances surrounding this mother such as the fact that she wanted to parent children all by herself. Also that a fertility clinic would use so many eggs at once, especially after she already had so many children. And many many other things are just not right. But I could help but think about all those frozen embryos and was happy for someone to say- they are a life and that we can't just destroy them.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25099855-663,00.html

Painting on our fun day

Well you saw the beginning of our fun day and this was the part that little sweetness missed out on but gave Princess some much needed Mummy face time. I was so surprised just how tired I would be by the end of a day that to many kids would be considered just normal. Although being mummy means that I need to perform clean up duties as well but I mostly tried to keep the day as fun as possible.

Our day included the following

Play School- tv watching
Drawing- we focused on creation and made some great drawings of the sun and moon, plants and animals, Adam and Eve.
Dress-ups were next. Of course there was the princess and fairy but we also had enough things to put together a superhero-I definitely realised though we need to look at increasing our dress-up box. Maybe some pirate things and cowboy stuff,hmmm...what else?
We then decided to have a swim in the clam shell, not me mind you, there would be no room left for the girls.
Lunch was next and after waterplay the girls are always hungry.
Nap time for Sweetness while Princess gets to do her painting, she loves it. Mummy has mixed feelings about painting because of the mess to clean up afterwards but I decided to just throw out the paint holder- egg cartons and paint brushes went into some water- I need to buy turps.We then had some cuddle time and play school was on in afternoon again.
dinner was next and then a fun thing was the girls got to see Uncle and Auntie on Skype, which they were very giggly about so I guess the enjoyed that.
But poor daddy was home only half an hour before bed and so he missed out on any fun time with the girls and today he is a work again:(

They were all such simple activities but when you do them all in one day it really thrills the kiddywinks. Mummy really needs to get more organised and have more fun days at home and next time maybe daddy can join the fun

What wouldn't you do to get more faces like this!

Dress ups

I have a quick few minutes while Sweetness is falling asleep and Princess is waiting to do some painting so I thought I would post a few photos from dress up time.
I couldn't resist playing with them first of course in the iphoto application, except the pic of me and sweetness- I love this one so I am going to change my facebook picture.

We added a swim in our clam shell to our day because it is so hot here today along with a visit from the cousins- it's a great day but tiring to keep playing all day I don't know how kids manage to do it all day long.

Well we all know where she gets it from

So you can hear her lovely singing don't forget to scroll down and press pause on the music.



These days when I ask Princess to sing for me I rarely get the song I asked for and if I do it is not sung exactly how I expect it to be. The other day I asked her to sing Jesus loves the Little Children and it ended up being a song about her sister having a bin which was a cup- very odd indeed. As I was saying though- we all know where she gets it from.

Well tomorrow we are finally having a fun day at home- I have plans to do some painting, so drawing, some playing with outdoor toys inside and of course lots of books to read (we have been to the Library). We may even dress up as fairies and I may even be allowed to take some photos- you never can tell with my models. So I am very hopeful that all the girls in the family wake up in very chipper moods tomorrow.

flesh eating bug

No not quite but I have had a few problems with germs making my cuts infected. So I finally went to the doctor and have been given some antibiotics. Along with instructions to wash sheets, towels and my clothes in hot water so as to get rid of the germs.

What is particularly difficult is keeping a positive outlook these past two going on three weeks. The weeks before that I had been going along really strong and making changes to my life for the better- I was motivated and on top of things like housework, educating the girls and my prayer life was the best it had been for a long time. Then his Aunt Erma, then hits sickness and now hits flesh eating bugs (well I know it is a bit dramatic) and I feel it is harder to retain my positive outlook. I haven't given up and I am still fighting to get back on top and you know I think maybe I can see a clearing but boy is it hard.

Its funny how some people have bad days, others have bad weeks, others months, years, decades, lifetimes. We can sweep away a bad day and just get back on with life, but sometimes we can continue to feel sorry for ourselves and our bad day and our day soon moves into a bad week. In battling with depression the one thing that it is important to be aware of is the cycle. And that we need to try to get off it. I have read a good book recently that talks about prayer and that the Bible does have quite a lot of verses that deal with depression especially Psalms. But my favourite is "Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer" Psalm 6:8-9

There is a way out from the blackness and by continuing to take it to the Lord- it will get better. Sometimes the prayer might be hollow, but the objective is to keep going because one day you will feel the lightness and you will realise that you have finally handed it over to God.

My last few weeks have not been depressed ones, but they have been difficult. This post is just to remind me that the cycle needs to end before it does happen. We all need to make very conscious decisions of what we are going to do with our day, week, month, life sometimes we forget that it is not us in control but it is God. I can't fix me.

I hope this wasn't too boring, uncomfortable for you to read but I am almost certain that my next post should be back to one of normality, at least what is normal to me.

Okay, here is something new

For the last two weeks life has been a little ...bleak but now I am almost better I am determined to write in my blog rather than just use it to visit other sites and catch up on other people's lives.



Being sick my lovely mother-in-law was able to look after the girls. She was very clever and made this beautiful necklace for Princess.She saw one in the shops and did what we often do and said' I can't justify spending that when I can probably make that myself for much cheaper'. I put my hands up and admit that I would say the exact thing but then there would be no action taken to make the item. Well Mil did it and it looks just gorgeous.
The only problem with it is that there is only one- Sweetness is known to spot it lying nearby and swiftly reach down and in split seconds race out the down and down the hall before Princess can jump up and run after her yelling 'Heyyyyyyyy, that's MINE!'

Can you tell though that my model was not in the modeling frame of mind. She didn't want to look at the camera and wouldn't smile, I guess she won't be doing commercial modeling then. She has the pouts, turn away from camera or 'don't cross me looks' down.
But just so you know she really, really does like to smile, we even get a laugh from her occasionally.
I read this

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece

and just couldn't get over the photos.