We are a very sick household. Bodily fluids are coming out all over the place - ewww. All that I want to do is sleep which is exactly what I'll be doing once I post this up. Once we are all right again I'll be back blogging very soon....
Have the best day and night,
Mummy Style xxx
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Coffee break
I'm addicted to hot chocky and chat morning teas. It's the only way I can get through most mornings. The only problem with this addiction is it's unhealthy and those pesky calories. Damn you mummy tummy!
My two boys have taken a liking to waking up at 5.30am this week. Not sure if it's because the weather has warmed slightly, the lighter, brighter mornings or just that they want to see their daddy off to work before he leaves but I'ld really wish that they would stop. I've really needed my hot chocky and chat fix!
I have never had to travel far to find other mums who share this addiction. Just this morning at a local chocolate cafe http://www.chocolatefactory.com.au/ there were at least twenty other mums (the babies and prams were a real giveaway) chatting and recharging. I myself have managed to find a group of lovely women who will give up the days housecleaning if I send out an sms for coffee and cake.
I've noticed a few more local websites popping up to help mums indulge in this addiction. Recently I was placed in the position of hot chocky but no chat. I moved house and the daily 2 hr travelling to see my mother's group wasn't fair on my two boys so I searched for local mum groups. Perth girls http://www.buggybuddys.com.au/ is a great mum's site if your missing the chat and playgroups.
I wonder if I might be pushing it if I started an afternoon tea fix?!
Have the best day and night,
Mummy Style xxx
My two boys have taken a liking to waking up at 5.30am this week. Not sure if it's because the weather has warmed slightly, the lighter, brighter mornings or just that they want to see their daddy off to work before he leaves but I'ld really wish that they would stop. I've really needed my hot chocky and chat fix!
I have never had to travel far to find other mums who share this addiction. Just this morning at a local chocolate cafe http://www.chocolatefactory.com.au/ there were at least twenty other mums (the babies and prams were a real giveaway) chatting and recharging. I myself have managed to find a group of lovely women who will give up the days housecleaning if I send out an sms for coffee and cake.
I've noticed a few more local websites popping up to help mums indulge in this addiction. Recently I was placed in the position of hot chocky but no chat. I moved house and the daily 2 hr travelling to see my mother's group wasn't fair on my two boys so I searched for local mum groups. Perth girls http://www.buggybuddys.com.au/ is a great mum's site if your missing the chat and playgroups.
I wonder if I might be pushing it if I started an afternoon tea fix?!
Have the best day and night,
Mummy Style xxx
Sunday, 9 October 2011
Selfish Older Mum
It's been interesting reading the articles and various comments regarding Dr Barry Walters opinion during the past week in the local newspaper, The West Australian, about older mums being selfish. As an older mum (37) I was a annoyed that I could be labelled as selfish without knowing any of my history. From a medical stance I could possibly understand Dr Walters point of view, but then improved medical science has allowed many woman, young and older with predisposing factors to have healthy pregnancies and newborns. The main point of Dr Walters that annoyed me the most, suggested that older parents where selfish as their children would have to take care of them as geriatric parents.
If in my twenties I had started a family I would now be a single mother whose children would have seen and heard their mother subjected to domestic violence. Luckily I chose not to start a family then.
As it turned out I waited for Mr Right who arrived when I was the ripe old age of twenty eight. We started trying out for a family two years later. Problems and miscarriages led us to a fertilty expert where we found that the only way for us to have a baby was through IVF. Seven attempts at IVF later and we were no closer to having our baby. It was just after the seventh IVF attempt that we found out that my fifty three year old mother had a massive tumour. After surgery it was determined that the tumour was inoperable and unfortunately she only had months to live. It was right then that I decided that mum was coming to live with us. We also took in my youngest sister who was still living at home with my mum. During those final months I never found my mum to be a burden. Don't get me wrong. It was a very emotional and challenging time but I hold those three months close to my heart. I'm glad I got the chance to care for my mum and repay her for all the love and care that she gave to us.
My mum was nowhere near geriatric. I was born when she was twenty one. If she could have foreseen her future I'm thinking she would not have pictured herself thirty two years later dying and being cared for by one of her daughters.
I'm happy that I had my children later in life. As it so happened five months after mum passing we found out that we were pregnant naturally (thanks mum). Having my children later and working the previous fifteen years of my life has allowed my family to accumulate a comfortable lifestyle. That benefits all of my family. Surely I can't be selfish for wanting that? Don't get me wrong. We aren't living on easy street but in the unfortunate event that either myself or my partner become seriously ill, then we will have savings (thanks to older self choosing to delay parenthood) to receive medical care and help whether my children choose to care for us or not.
Have the best day and night,
Mummy Style xxx
If in my twenties I had started a family I would now be a single mother whose children would have seen and heard their mother subjected to domestic violence. Luckily I chose not to start a family then.
As it turned out I waited for Mr Right who arrived when I was the ripe old age of twenty eight. We started trying out for a family two years later. Problems and miscarriages led us to a fertilty expert where we found that the only way for us to have a baby was through IVF. Seven attempts at IVF later and we were no closer to having our baby. It was just after the seventh IVF attempt that we found out that my fifty three year old mother had a massive tumour. After surgery it was determined that the tumour was inoperable and unfortunately she only had months to live. It was right then that I decided that mum was coming to live with us. We also took in my youngest sister who was still living at home with my mum. During those final months I never found my mum to be a burden. Don't get me wrong. It was a very emotional and challenging time but I hold those three months close to my heart. I'm glad I got the chance to care for my mum and repay her for all the love and care that she gave to us.
My mum was nowhere near geriatric. I was born when she was twenty one. If she could have foreseen her future I'm thinking she would not have pictured herself thirty two years later dying and being cared for by one of her daughters.
I'm happy that I had my children later in life. As it so happened five months after mum passing we found out that we were pregnant naturally (thanks mum). Having my children later and working the previous fifteen years of my life has allowed my family to accumulate a comfortable lifestyle. That benefits all of my family. Surely I can't be selfish for wanting that? Don't get me wrong. We aren't living on easy street but in the unfortunate event that either myself or my partner become seriously ill, then we will have savings (thanks to older self choosing to delay parenthood) to receive medical care and help whether my children choose to care for us or not.
Have the best day and night,
Mummy Style xxx
Friday, 7 October 2011
Mummy hair.
Ahhh. My first blog. My first blog post. After reading this you will be wondering in which direction I'm heading with my blog. Mummy style to me means a multitude of things. It's can be fashion, work, of course being a mum and hopefully a little bit of fun. I try not to take life too seriously and hopefully you'll not take this too seriously either. I apologise in advance for bad grammar. Never has been my strength but I hope that it all makes sense!
I'm a mum trying to get her 'mojo' back after the past 3 years being pregnant and/or raising a baby and a toddler. Yes I'm a mum to a 9 mth old and a 2 1/2 year old who somehow has lost all her fashion sense and is trying to get it back. Why? Why is this so important to me? I guess because I've somehow lost my identity. Being in fashion, wearing the latest make up trends was me. Now suddenly being thrust into parenthood I kind have lost my way. It's not that I'm vain. After such a dramatic change in my life as suddenly having children, it was a massive shock to me. Maybe I was naive in my expectations but nonetheless this sudden lifestyle change, I felt that my identity had changed. Even if I wanted to keep my current identity I couldn't. I needed a whole new wardrobe. Extra kilo's I had piled on and they weren't coming off to quickly. Time. Hmmm. I was short of it. My first bub was very needy and rightly so. The poor thing had reflux and barely slept. Many nights we fell asleep together just so he would sleep longer then a 40min stint. For 8 months I was only getting a maximum of 2 hours straight sleep. So any spare time I had certainly wasn't used on shopping or keeping up with the latest trends. Geez my spare time wasn't even spent on housework!! Yep, you guessed it sleep and more sleep! The only problem with this cycle was I slowly lapsed into depression. Luckily I had some fantastic friends and an excellent support network from local community services which got me back on track.
I must say that 3 years "out of the game" and fashion and beauty is not really all that important to me. I mean as long as my littlies where happy and healthy then that was all that should matter right? Well so I thought and then I received the latest Sussan catalogue. But that's a story for another blog post.
Right now I'm going to bring up another issue- "Mummy Hair!!!"
A few days ago a status update from a friend brought up the topic of "mummy hair". The friend was getting a new do and as banter happens on status comments some one said, "Just don't get "mummy hair". It lead us to contemplate what is "mummy hair". The consensus was that mummy hair was when you had your long hair all cut off. I didn't comment. It was a long post. I've had the same hair for most of my life. I grow it long. I dye it blonde then brown, back to blonde then brown. Then once I dye it back to blonde I go and have it all chopped off and somehow the process starts all over again. I don't think short hair symbolises mummy hair though. My blonde short hair had a Cameron Diaz feel about it. I was nowhere near parenthood when I had it done and I thought that I looked pretty damn good. Now if I think back to when I was pregnant with my first bub my long hair was annoying me so I walked into Maurice Mead and asked for the "whatever you think is best cut". Unfortunately unable to think past the just tie it up into a ponytail and that will fix the annoyance problem (damn you pregnancy brain) and not having my regular stylist coz I just walked in (another damn you pregnancy brain) I got a rather puffy, moussey brown style that was definately mummy hair. I went to work next week with an elaborate style of teasing the front and twisting and pinning the sides that no-one was aware that I had a massive hair cut til a few months after (maybe my growing belly was distracting them- who knows but no-one noticed thankfully until it was longer). So I think of Victoria Beckham. Short hair equals yum mum on her. But then I think of Katie Holmes' first attempt at a short style and yes, I'm afraid she had mummy hair. What makes these two woman different is that one looked her age and the other looked years older. Mummy hair means finding a style that makes you look older then you are. So in a few weeks time when I get my newest do I'm hoping that it'll reflect my age or maybe even make me look a few years younger! Wouldn't that be nice?
Have the best day and night,
Mummy Style
xxx
I'm a mum trying to get her 'mojo' back after the past 3 years being pregnant and/or raising a baby and a toddler. Yes I'm a mum to a 9 mth old and a 2 1/2 year old who somehow has lost all her fashion sense and is trying to get it back. Why? Why is this so important to me? I guess because I've somehow lost my identity. Being in fashion, wearing the latest make up trends was me. Now suddenly being thrust into parenthood I kind have lost my way. It's not that I'm vain. After such a dramatic change in my life as suddenly having children, it was a massive shock to me. Maybe I was naive in my expectations but nonetheless this sudden lifestyle change, I felt that my identity had changed. Even if I wanted to keep my current identity I couldn't. I needed a whole new wardrobe. Extra kilo's I had piled on and they weren't coming off to quickly. Time. Hmmm. I was short of it. My first bub was very needy and rightly so. The poor thing had reflux and barely slept. Many nights we fell asleep together just so he would sleep longer then a 40min stint. For 8 months I was only getting a maximum of 2 hours straight sleep. So any spare time I had certainly wasn't used on shopping or keeping up with the latest trends. Geez my spare time wasn't even spent on housework!! Yep, you guessed it sleep and more sleep! The only problem with this cycle was I slowly lapsed into depression. Luckily I had some fantastic friends and an excellent support network from local community services which got me back on track.
I must say that 3 years "out of the game" and fashion and beauty is not really all that important to me. I mean as long as my littlies where happy and healthy then that was all that should matter right? Well so I thought and then I received the latest Sussan catalogue. But that's a story for another blog post.
Right now I'm going to bring up another issue- "Mummy Hair!!!"
A few days ago a status update from a friend brought up the topic of "mummy hair". The friend was getting a new do and as banter happens on status comments some one said, "Just don't get "mummy hair". It lead us to contemplate what is "mummy hair". The consensus was that mummy hair was when you had your long hair all cut off. I didn't comment. It was a long post. I've had the same hair for most of my life. I grow it long. I dye it blonde then brown, back to blonde then brown. Then once I dye it back to blonde I go and have it all chopped off and somehow the process starts all over again. I don't think short hair symbolises mummy hair though. My blonde short hair had a Cameron Diaz feel about it. I was nowhere near parenthood when I had it done and I thought that I looked pretty damn good. Now if I think back to when I was pregnant with my first bub my long hair was annoying me so I walked into Maurice Mead and asked for the "whatever you think is best cut". Unfortunately unable to think past the just tie it up into a ponytail and that will fix the annoyance problem (damn you pregnancy brain) and not having my regular stylist coz I just walked in (another damn you pregnancy brain) I got a rather puffy, moussey brown style that was definately mummy hair. I went to work next week with an elaborate style of teasing the front and twisting and pinning the sides that no-one was aware that I had a massive hair cut til a few months after (maybe my growing belly was distracting them- who knows but no-one noticed thankfully until it was longer). So I think of Victoria Beckham. Short hair equals yum mum on her. But then I think of Katie Holmes' first attempt at a short style and yes, I'm afraid she had mummy hair. What makes these two woman different is that one looked her age and the other looked years older. Mummy hair means finding a style that makes you look older then you are. So in a few weeks time when I get my newest do I'm hoping that it'll reflect my age or maybe even make me look a few years younger! Wouldn't that be nice?
Have the best day and night,
Mummy Style
xxx
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