Living the dream

'Living the dream' is a line my buddy Lisa and I are throwing around a lot these days.
You know......... house work, small children, cooking, groceries, bigger children, homework, sleepless nights, we are 'Living the dream' aren't we?

 Rico and Neo

Only in my dream I wasn't sleep deprived, I didn't have bills and a mortgage, I wasn't flabby, spotty and going grey!

Now that I'm where I always wanted to be, is this it?

It's not quite what I expected. 
But I guess I'm learning that it never really is what I'm expecting.

Nia, Phoenix and Brooke dressed up for book week

And you know what,  I wouldn't change if it meant I couldn't have these 3 precious noisey boys, and this one hairy cat.

 Nana visiting

Neo is 4 months old tomorrow. Yip.... it's ages since I last blogged.

My Mum came to stay for a week to help with Master 4's tonsils out/gromits in operation. Hubby had to be away for work and I wasn't able to stay in hospital over night with Phoenix since I am still feeding Neo. Hubby's work came to the rescue and got my Mum over from NZ and she stayed the 2 nights in hospital beside him. That was a very full on few days, Phoenix did not bounce back from the op as quickly as I'd hoped he would. It ended up being a very exhausting 11 days for us all before he was back to his normal self. The photo above is a pre operation photo of him with Nana..... little did he know what was ahead. Little did I know too. My Mum is amazing. She had 2 sleepless nights holding onto her grandson when he needed her. They have a special bond.

We've had random fires going on behind our property over the past few months. Some idiot keeps lighting them in the dry scrub. These photos are of the last one. In the top photo you can see a man, that's not the idiot, that's a fireman doing some back burning to stop the fire from getting out of control. The bottom photo shows the corner of our house and our fence. Looks pretty scary ay! To be honest it's not that scary any more. There's been so many there's not much more to burn out there. We think it must be a local wanting the scrub cleared up in the reserve behind us. Stupid way to go about it though. We hope that's all it is.....

Lisa and I made this for a friends baby shower. It'a a nappy cake.
I wouldn't try eating it though without a glass of milk or cup of tea, rather dry in the centre.

And here he is, Mr 4 months old. He's a delight, he's a smiler, he's a chunky little monkey but I wouldn't expect anything else, hubby and I breed giants!

'Living the dream'...... Yip, that's what I'm doing!