This week I am joining in with Silent Sunday in celebration of my sister’s wedding.
Congratulations to my younger sister, Julie,
who married her best friend, Hugh,
on Saturday 5th February 2011.
Love you both Mr and Mrs Newsome x x x x
A Week of Good Cheer
This week has been a week of firsts, and cheerful firsts at that! I have lots of reasons to be cheerful this week and here are some that I have chosen to share.
As with previous weeks I have chosen photos to illustrate each point but they are shown together in the gallery at the end of the post.
My Fiance has started his 2011 challenge – to swim in the sea at least once every month!
David and I both love the water but for me it has to be warm, at least the weather if not the water! David however enjoys the sea in all seasons and this year he wants to make sure that at least once each month he swims in the sea, wherever we may be. On Sunday we went to Winchelsea in East Sussex with my parents. My Dad captured these great shots as David braved the waves of Winchelsea Beach. Mad fool! I love him dearly exactly because of things like this x He makes me smile so much x
I had a wonderful few days introducing my sister to her niece and nephew
My little sister, Julie, is home from Australia to get married. Her wedding is on Saturday. She took some precious time out of her busy pre-nup schedule to get to know her niece and nephew. It has been just lovely having her around and we will miss her very much now that she has gone. She was a natural with the babies and now we are hoping that Esther and William may soon have some new cousins to play with, albeit on the other side of the planet! Have a wonderful wedding wee sis, we will see you there!!
I am not alone as a Premmie Mum
I struggle some days with feeling alone and lonely and misunderstood. Kylie Hodges has shown me that this is not true. I am such an avid reader of this blog and I hope that one day I will get to meet Kylie and her beautiful little boy, Joseph. Thank you for being such a great friend and support. Your virtual shoulder to cry on means so much. Thank You.
http://notevena.blogspot.com/2011/02/being-mum-to-premature-baby.html
I went on the train to town with the babies
For ages I have been wanting to take the babies on the 9 minute train journey to our nearest town but I have not been brave enough. Today I did it, with my sister, and it was really good. We had a good girly day shopping and it was so good to get out. We had coffee and I breastfed in public too. It is not something I would want to do all the time but I am glad that now I have doen it once I will not be too worried to try it again. Spring is coming, the end of cold and flu season and time for us to get out and about! How exciting, a definite reason to be full of cheer.
Still need more stories to make you smile. Follow this link to Mummy from the Heart’s Blog to find more Reasons to be Cheerful!
The Gallery – Shape Street, Tessellation Town
The challenge set by Sticky Fingers for The Gallery this week is to find shapes all around us and snap them up. As soon as I read the brief I knew the photos that I wanted to share. They are from 2005 and my final teaching practice in Cumbria. I was working with a mixed Reception, Year 1/2 class for 6 weeks. It was wonderful. I learned so much and it gave the foundations of my own classroom that I had in the September of the same year. These picture show the celebration of a 2 week topic on Shape and Space in Numeracy. We had explored 2D, 3D, tessellation, pattern and symmetry. We brought all our new knowledge and understanding together to create a whole class display.
Ladies and Gentleman, I give you – Shape Street in Tessellation Town, in The Land of Polygon. (I wish I had taken more photos of it now!)
Silent Sunday – Love is all around!
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction”
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/life_has_taught_us_that_love_does_not_consist_in/174000.html
Reasons to Be Cheerful Week 4
That time of the week again? Where oh where is my life going? What a week, I feel like I have been on a personal journey this week (another story to follow shortly) and I also feel that the week has been a productive one, that alone is a reason to be cheerful. So here are a selection of my cheery things from the week that was!
My fiance’s company, Zu3D, have agreed to sponsor a Mummy to attend CyberMummy 2011
http://notevena.blogspot.com/2011/01/cybermummy-2011-update.html
I have followed this blog for a few months now and I talk to its author Kylie regularly on Facebook and Twitter. She has been an inspiration and a support to me since giving birth to premature twins back in July 2010. Whenever I have a question she gives a very quick yet well thought out answer. She recommends strategies, products and even friends. She is a true friend to me though I have never actually met her. As soon as I knew that Kylie wanted to attend CyberMummy 2011 I knew that I wanted to help make it possible for her to go. She has been a life line for me and I hope that this opportunity will in some way repay that debt. Thank you Kylie. I hope that you have a wonderful time at CyberMummy 2011 and look forward to hearing all about it, and if through your adventure then Zu3D is promoted for David then all the better x
Esther has been to the loo!
My poor darling daughter did not poo for 17 days!!!! Finally this week she has been able to go and it was not even that offensive. She seems so much happier since she got that out of her system, quite literally, though today I think has started teething in earnest. Poor little thing. Lots of Mummy cuddles for you this weekend x
I have finally arranged our baby equipment and thus sorted the lounge and the playroom
This has been on my To Do list since Christmas and finally it is done. We now have noisy play in the playroom and quiet(er) play in the lounge. We have had a great day exploring the new set up together and I am sure will have lots of busy days ahead trying out all the toys and activities that we have around. We are looking forward to spring and summer when we can have friends and family round for Play Dates. Hurrah!
The babies are enjoying solid (ish) foods and now each have their very own high chair!!
We have been weaning William for 2 weeks on Sunday, and Esther has little tastes from time to time. William’s favoutire food so far is definitely banana and baby riced with a dash of breast milk. He has also now had carrot and swede, new potato and butternut squash and parsnip. Each meal time has varying levels of success but on the whole I would say we are doing well and I am certain that we will do better now our high chairs have arrived. On the advice of other preemie Mums we have gone for Chicco Polly Magic chairs. As soon as we start to use them (tomorrow!) I am going to write a review. On the advice of my best friend as well as all the homemade purees we are also going to have shop bought food at least once a week so that the babies are used to eating from a jar or packet, in case of emergencies. For these times I have bought some Ella’s Kitchen foods that we are looking forward to sampling and reviewing! Tomorrow though I am making mango with baby rice and finishing off the parsnip!
My sister is in the UK! (though I have not seen her yet)
In the early hours of yesterday morning my sister arrived safely from her home in Australia to prepare for her wedding in just 9 sleeps time! I am sure that you will hear much more about her in my reasons to be cheerful next week! My beautiful wee sis x
In the meantime, if you need more cheerful thoughts now then hop on over to Mummy from the Heart to continue the happiness!
The Gallery: Celebration
Here is another pick of The Gallery archives from me. This time I have chosen to illustrate the theme of celebration and to do this I have chosen the bittersweet event that was our engagement party. It was held in May … Continue reading
Have just found this lovely letter on the internet entitled Letter to our Miracle Baby – just had to share it with you all, sums up the whole experience..
The Gallery – Show Me The Funny!
This post is inspired by The Gallery Blog Hop @ http://stickyfingers1.blogspot.com/
The funniest thing in my life at the moment, the thing that is most fun and makes me smile and giggle most of all is spending time with my twinfants! In particular my young son William just cracks me up. Here, for you, I am sharing the funnies!
Top 5 Mummy Buys
My Top 5 Mummy Buys is a Blog Hop started by the brilliant Bod for Tea, as a Mum in my mid 30s I was a huge Bod fan as a child, as a Mummy I am a fan of … Continue reading
The Gallery: Before and After
Today Esther and William are 6 months old and so I am taking a broad interpretation of the theme ‘Before and After’ to show you Esther and William then (when they were born) and now (6 months on). What an incredible journey we have travelled so far, I wonder what the next 6 months will bring?
Esther Day 5
Esther 6 months
William Day 3
William 6 months