Weekly Eye-Candy

Hi
Here is your weekly eye candy.

Could not choose between them so I put them together. The Supernatural boys. Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. Would of happily put my hand up to place the sheet of them.

Here are a couple of YouTube clips just to help you get to the end of your day,




This one always makes me smile and laugh.



TGIF Must say might just enjoy a nice glass of wine later on....(this mums is on cloud nine her favourite show started filming S3 today so very happy)

Happy Weekend

xx

Articles i love this week

Hi everyone
Just want to say Thank you to everyone who has left comments or has started to follow me lately, please feel free to share with friends and continue to let me know what you feel about my posts.

These are some of the things I love this week, let me know what you think of them.

five-ways-to-be-more-intentional-mom/ This is so me I seem to rush around and get everything done and then remember I have not spend the quality time my children need, must remember to slow down as mums and wives we are all guilty of this.

6-ways-to-have-a-happier-life-with-kids
 I love this article. Some of the things in remind me that yes maybe we do need to slow down a bit.......will say I love my routine and my kids seem to love it too.

looking-after-mum-me-time/
This is a great idea, we should all do this for each other. We all deserve a little me time.

/after-school-behaviour
Is it just my boy or do they seem to be a little out of control when they come home from school, my boys seems to push all my buttons and this seems to be the time he knows I will get upset with him but still he does it I quite often get "I listened all day at school, it is hard to do at home" it seems the moment we walk in the door my lovable well mannered boy stays outside. Maybe it is just me.

I am not the best parent will admit to that.....will be writing about that soon. Enjoy the rest of your hump day

Elita xx

Friendships

Hi everyone

Sorry I have not been around as much lately had both boys down with bronchitis so not fun at all here, then a hubby with man flu(lots of moaning and groaning) and a mumma who cause a cold but had to keep going for the 2 boys who coughed all night and my big 5 yr old needing a nebuliser for the first time(scared the shit out of me) and this mumma was very tired.

Today let talk about friendships and what they mean to me/you.

My friends mean the world to me, I had no brothers or sisters growing up so to me they are like a second family. I have had a few really close friends over the years but never a huge group of friends I could probably count the group on one hand or less sometime......not sure if that is telling me something or not.

When I got in to the workforce to be honest I had workmates that were friends but I did not hang out with them on the weekend maybe the odd Friday night after work drink(worked in child care, so some weeks needed that drink) I was really a loner on the weekends....not from lack of trying, just did not want to push myself or our work relationship too far....hope that made sense.

Then came the whole motherhood thing and it seems like you are back to square one. complete strangers seem to comment on your bump or want to touch it. The friends that you had before you got pregnant seem to fade in to the background. I remember I tried to keep up my friendships after I had my first child by going out for drinks with the girls when my son was 6 weeks old......I though I can do this......it was the hardest thing ever to do.....I was only gone 2 hrs and I really did not relax.....I have since be able to go out and relax a bit more.....but as mums we forget how hard that first separation can be.

I went to a mother group program that Child health ran......which went for 6 weeks and I meet some amazing women(some were stay at home mums, part time worker and we even had full time workers) and we grew very close.....we keep meeting every week to help each other through the day to day with a baby/toddler and then a pre-schooler......the friends I had before kids fell away I guess we grew apart.....I will admit I did not mind as I had new friends that understood what I was going through on a day to day basis.

I still have a few of these friends.....others have moved states.....one of these friends has become my bestie and I would do anything for her and her family. She is always there for me and offers to help in anyway possible......I do the same for her she is part of my family now and would not have it any other way we even managed even when our children go to different schools.

Then we hit the school mums (my boy has just started kindy this year) and you feel like you are back at high school trying to work out where you fit or even if you do fit in somewhere......but I am so thankfully that I have found some great new friends at school and hopefully these friendships will continue to bloom as our children progress though primary school.

 I found this quote earlier in the year and thought it would be great and so true.
'People make time for who they want to make time for. People text & reply to people they want to talk to. Never believe anyone who says they've been to busy. If they wanted to be around you, they would'................even if it is a simple hi in a text or message on FB. what do you think of that quote?

So how many great friends do you have(the ones that are really there for you) and how often do you see them....do you make an effort or is it pretty even?

Have a great Monday everyone xx

Weeky Eye Candy

Hi

So have had a request for this weeks eye candy. My bestie wanted this so here is this weeks eye candy. Hope she approves.

 

 

 

Our very own Travis Fimmel (yes he is Australian, but will say not my first choice, hands up who will remove that bottle of vodka for him anyday) you may know him from Calvin Klein modelling and the tv series Vikings.

Have a great weekend....off to dr here soon 2 sick kids. May need some wine before day is out.

xx

Mumma Guilt

Hi everyone

Today I am writing about mumma guilt. It has taken me 5 yrs to feel it but all I can say is "dislike it a lot"

I feel like crap. I have the man flu (that hubby passed on to me) and master 5 was home from school yesterday with a temp and one chesty cough.(I am that mum today who you say should have keep child at home)

Today I sent him to school and I feel so guilty for it (sorry to classmates, if they get sick) we went to the dr yesterday at 10am and by the time we got in the car after being told he had a viral thing. He asked for McDonalds for lunch (which we had because he had waited well for 45 min to see dr for a 5 min appointment) and then after rest time he ran around the backyard for an hr playing with his brother.

So I decided if he could do that he would be right for school. (did wake up with a small temp which had come down before school) so I dosed him up with neurofen and sent him to school.

I will be the mum waiting at school gate with Panadol in hand ready to dose him again.....feel like a bad mum and guilt is unbelievable.

He wanted to go to school to see his friends he was so excited who am I to say he could not go...I know I am his mum and I should put my foot down but to be honest I could use a rest so I can get better too. He has a book week walk tomorrow and would be so upset to miss it.....worst mum ever I would be

So I am sorry to his classmates and I guess I am sitting here waiting for a phone call to collect him from school......before my little man nap time.

So anyone else had the mumma guilts and what did you do to get them confession time?

xx

What I love this week.

Hi
Here are some the articles I am enjoying this week. Hope everyone is having a fantastic Sunday and you get some time to check these out with a cup of tea/coffee

Some of these are so funny. Will admit I have used a few of the below excuses when I have been late. The car keys and phone one come to mind quite a lot.
33-reasons-moms-late/


We all need to do this, now which one to choose, let me know which one you have chosen todaynot just for mums but all women.
Affirmations for mums.


Isn't this always the way
-26-murphys-laws-parenting/


what-every-teacher-wants-you-to-know-but-wont-tell-you/  these are great.


These are great and make a lot of sense.
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Let me know what you think of them.

Happy reading (I know I nodded a lot to these)

Bye for now.

Weekly eye-candy

Hi

What can I say it is a hard job but here is this weeks eye candy

Some of you know who this is if you don't this my friends is Jay Ryan (Mr Beast from CW's Beauty and the Beast)  may have seen him in Offspring, Terra Nova and Go girls.

If you have not seen Beauty And The Beast  do yourself a favour and watch it,no I am serious really watch it and give it a few episodes ...I mean his voice,his eyes and man that body.......ahhhhh puddle on the floor right now. He can pull a suit off very well.(Monday nights on foxtel/Austar 8:30pm on Fox8) if not I have all episodes if you ask nicely I will pm you.......remember I did worn you about my obsession with this show.

Any suggestions for weekly eye candy is welcomed.

Bucket List

Hi
After my last post these are something I thought about while having chemotherapy and decided I needed something else to think about so I started my list.

Yes I am still young but I have a bucket list. so of the things on it I have achieved some I will achieve a little later in life. These are not only things I want to do but dreams and I am always working towards my dreams.

Bucket List

• Have a best friend who does not let me down.
• Feel breathless from a kiss.
• Name a star.
• Own a husky.
• Surprise party thrown for me.
• Kiss in the rain.
• Take a cute photo in photo booth with someone.
• Have a baby.
• Be called mummy.
• Take the kids on amazing holiday.
• Watch children get married.
• Be the best parents we can be.
• Be kissed unexpectedly. 
• Wear couture.
• Be woken with a kiss.
• Visit set of my favourite show (BATB, Toronto,Canada).
• Experience paradise.
• Be a bridesmaid.
• Go to a Masquerade ball.
• Go on a cruise.
• Let go of a floating lantern.
• Become an inspiration .
• Stay in a penthouse.
• Send a letter to a random address and see if they write back.

 The most impotant one: Actually do my bucket list.


So do you have bucket list and what is on yours. would love to hear some of the things you have on yours.

Have a great day.

Long road to motherhood

Hi
Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Well this the post that I thought I should write now. The long road to children.

My first pregnancy was not the best experience I have had and not sure where to start to tell you about it, so may just start at the start and tell you this is not something I wish on anyone so if there is too much information I am sorry.

I have PCOS and so it was hard to conceive a baby to start with so after a trip to GP and being told that I was ok and that I need to relax we tried for over 6 months and I still felt that something else was wrong so back to GP and tell him I want to see a specialist finally I have my referral and off I go to see my fertility specialist.

First visit was told I need fertility drugs or IVF to conceive will admit I learnt to trust what he said very quicky. So off I went with my prescription for Clomid and the instructions to follow. I went back to see him at day 14 of my cycle to have an internal ultrasound which I would have every month for the next 5 months until I feel pregnant on the last round of Clomid .

After this round the fun started had a lot of morning sickness more then what I should be doing, I worked throughout all of this and I meet a wonderful OBGYN who would take car of me for many years to come.

At my 12 week scan(which I went alone too) the operator left the room suddenly and I got worried the next thing I know a Dr. has come in and asked me when I see my obgyn again I tell them a months time and they then phone her to see me straight away, as luck would have it she was in the hospital so saw her and then she told me I had what they call a Molar Pregnancy (I went white and was scared by now) it was the very rare kind you could have (An extremely rare version of a partial mole is when twins are conceived but one embryo begins to develop normally while the other is a mole. In these cases, the healthy embryo will very quickly be consumed by the abnormal growth)

In the next 2 weeks after being told that I was rushed to Melbourne to confirm this is what it was and on the ultrasound screen I saw a happy healthy fetus growing......but that was to change.

2 days later I was having surgery to basically save my life and the life of my uterus(my baby had to be aborted to save me) on the operation table I had a thyroid storm which is a result of my molar pregnancy.I NEARLY DIED. and then being told you might need chemotherapy to make sure there is no cells left was hard to hear.

I spend a month in hospital the dr amazed at my recovery and determination. I was spent home at this stage healthy and ready to try again, but nothing goes smoothly and I am rushed back in to hospital again 2 weeks later with a massive bleed and vomiting.

I was to have chemotherapy so I add another dr to my many I have now. He is fantastic, so now every 2 weeks I am having chemotherapy (hospital on Friday afternoon, home on Saturday morning and trying to work on Monday) the only thing that I could do was sit and paint my nails being hooked up to a iv pump, after 3 rounds (6 weeks in total) I was told my numbers were good and that I did not need anymore, my hair thinned out which made me cry.....but the biggest shock was still to come.

1 month after chemo had finished my dr and Obgyn told me that when I had that massive bleed and vomit my body was getting rid of what it need to do......so I may not have need chemo in the first place.

So now have a 12 month wait to be able to try to have a baby while having monthly blood draws my veins run now when they see a needle.

With the help of my obgyn I made it to 9 month and was told I could try again under very close supervision.

So that is the road next time my pregnancies.

Weekly Eye Candy

Not much to explain here do you agree or not:

Give me your suggestions


This week it is..........................

Mr fifty shades himself........Jamie Doran


 If you have not read the fifty shades of grey books then I suggest you read them.....I like them.




Let me know what you think of the trailer for the movie...will you be going to see it....

I will be. Have a great weekend everyone. Xx

what i am liking today

Hi everyone

Thought today I would write a post about things I am loving and that have caught my eye recently. I love to read what other people think of parenting and then take what I like from them. so these are the articles I am loving this week.

http://www.kidspot.com.au/on-the-days-i-struggle-the-most-with-my-little-ones/


http://www.thirtyhandmadedays.com/2014/08/kid-approved-lunch-box-snack-ideas/


http://goodmenproject.com/good-feed-blog/25-rules-for-moms-with-sons/ this one is my favourite it has some great ideas for us mumma's with boys

I am also in to spending time with each child to make sure they know I love them, I made a vow when I had children that I would take them for special treats and make sure they know how much I love them and also give them time to talk to me about anything that is bothering them.

Very simple things seem to make my boys happy. I love that.

Well better be off the boys are taking me for coffee/Hot chocolate and a chat today.....after I take them to the library.

Have a great day.

A bit about this mumma

To be honest I am very new to this and not sure where to start. So deep breath and here I go

I am a late thirty's stay at home mum with 2 beautiful boys (sometime very hard to handle boys) my oldest son just started Kindergarten this year and my other boy is 2 yrs old. I have a background in early childhood education(child care) over 15 yrs working with children of all ages and in all child care settings.

I have a huge story to tell about achieving both pregnancy and that may be another post a bit further on.(seeing how this one goes first)

I have an obsession with a few things in life:

• Love my best friend would go to the end of the world and back for her(she know who she is)
• LOVE the TV Show Beauty and the Beast ( maybe even an obsession with that one, most beasties do) so check it out if you have not seen it, Other ones I watch Arrow, Graceland, Teen Wolf, few others that I can not think of at the moment.
• My children and hubby are my world.

I am a blog reading and I will share them in another post in near future.

I am not very good at writing blog post I have found out, but I am hoping to improve.

My dreams for this blog is to be somewhere that mums, women can come and say I have been there too and that I can put articles I find that I feel are great. some will be about motherhood other will be about life in general. So please feel free to follow me or leave a comment

Feel free to just say Hi.