Sorry havent been on here in AGES!My bad...

Life is ticking along...Isabellas loving kindy,learns something new every day,and boy going to a Montessori kindy she is learning some pretty impressive stuff!Once she pointed to an octagon,asked me if thats what it was,and I had to ask Steve if she was right!!!Having a bit of trouble when I drop her off,she cries and clings to me and throws herself against the door as I leave.I let her know 5 minutes before I leave and count down and try and get her engaged in an activity...have been advised to set her,give her a kiss and a hug and leave,so will give it a shot.Shes super emotional at the moment,which as a mum Im finding very trying as shes been crying over e v e r y t h i n g!So afternoon naps are a must at the moment.

Sienna is being a cutie pie at the moment,smiling all the time and laughing her head off at everything!Shes talking a mile a minute too,she came up to me the other day and said "the first heffalump expedition" blew me away those words coming out of a 2 /2 year olds mouth!She will be starting kindy in February.BLISS!!!!I will miss her like crazy,but as they will both be going at the same time I'll have a few hours to myself.Thinking I'll get all the housework out of the way while they are at kindy and that way when they are home I can play with them and love up on em!Can actually have time to go to playgroups and the library and music groups.lol not what everyone would do but Im looking forward to it.

Steves got exams at the moment so we're not seeing much of him which sucks.He'll be working 6-7 days a week as of the 7th of November.Blessed he has a job,and that they can give him those hours but its going to be a loooong summer.And yes,I am a hog when it comes to time with my hubby!!!!!!I know it'll pay off once he graduates and is earning big bucks,but for now its hard.

Im doing well,have been going walking alot and doing yoga which I love,though my body doesnt always seem to bend in quite the right ways hahaha!Life is good at the moment :)

Winter Fun

Haven't been on here in a while!!!

A lot has happened,we made a trip down to Wellington for Isabella to see a specialist.She has a rare lymphatic malformation on her upper arm,so has to have surgery in the next 6 months.As a mum it freaks me out,especially after being told it could grow back which would require more surgery.

I've been sick since we got back which is no fun,but I think a lot of it is because it is so cold at the moment!!!!!So the girls haven't been playing outside much,but Isabella's discovered the fun of building blocks and Sienna,well Sienna just does her own thing haha.

I just took a walk with Sienna around our street,not long obviously,but she had fun!She picked up some sticks,broke them haha,and kept saying 'run away,run away'then proceeded to try exactly that!

All in all loving being a mum at the moment :)

Grateful for

Time for some positivity again...

Today I am unbelievably 100% grateful and thankful for my amazing husband.

Our relationship is far from perfect,but seriously the man is amazing! Within 2 weeks of us dating he had to deal with shit most men would have run away from. He still married me (and loves me) after I threw my engagement ring at him (gotta love how an 18 year old can act!). He finds me beautiful riddled with stretch marks and gaining a darn sight more than when we started our relationship.

He stuck with me through 2 horrible pregnancies and some crazy ass P.N.D.

He loves me even on days where I don't think I'm very loveable.

He provides for our family and WANTS me to stay at home with our children.

Every day he finds some small way to make me feel beautiful,special and loved.

After 7 years (6 being married) he still writes me love letters, he picks me flowers!

He gives up sleep because he knows I'm not good with less than 7 hours (well maybe that ones a survival instinct :p ).

He lets me steal his pillow (because after being pregnant 18 months in a row I cant figure out how to comfortably sleep without one wedged in beside me!).

I've always been grateful for these things,but I needed to write them down,as sadly at the ripe old age of 24 I'm already seeing my friends relationships go down the sink. I desperately want to be the couple that in 44 years time,on our 50th wedding anniversary say 'we did it!'. So many people were against us getting married,saying it would never work,but we're 6 years in and still going strong.

I just want to keep being grateful for my husband and never take his awesomeness for granted.

-The picture up the top,is actually a scripture I painted for my husband our first Christmas together and every time I walk past it,it reminds me what love really is, cheesey I know but it works!

Eeeek!

Have you ever had that moment when you look at some photos of yourself and go "Holy S#@T!!!Do I really look like that????" Having one of those moments right now.God they suck!Trying my hardest to breath and remember my sense of self is extremely screwed up,Im not stick woman,but Im not lard woman either.

I desperately want to embrace my curves,heck at this point its embrace them or cry haha.I want my girls to have a better sense of self than I do.So maybe this is a moment where I can breath through these feelings and think "Im not so bad" (and heres some honesty,I weigh 75kgs.So Im not huge but not small either.I worked fricking hard to get down from 100kgs.I just cant seem to stop comparing myself to others.But maybe sometimes Im the one someone else is wishing they could be?)

Anyone else out thee in blogging land have these thoughts?

*and a super big note to myself (and yes you chose to read this!), a reminder that I was pregnant literally 18months in a row,my oldest is only 3,so Im not doing too bloody bad*

Positivity

I've noticed that I can be really negative sometimes.So in the spirit of trying to be more positive....today I am grateful for my Mum.

She listens to me rant and rave and babble and not make sense alot of the time.She loves me just I am,no adjustments required!She is the reason I have my faith. Our relationships not perfect,and hell in my teenage years I never thought I would write this,but I am finding I am A LOT like her!And its not a bad thing :)

Twins????

I realised the other day that I've kind of stuck myself in this hole of people always thinking our girls are twins.They are the same height sitting in a trolley,and then I go and dress them in matching clothes,like all of the time!I cant seem to stop myself from doing it. So my lesson learnt today?Dont get angry when people assume you have twins!'

My mum told me the other day that they are 'Írish' twins.Not a phrase I had ever heard,so I had a group of older women explaining to me!Seems a bit racist to me haha. But yes they are kind of like twins,they share their clothes,their toys,their FOOD! Up until earlier this week they even shared a room. They have matching duvet sets, matching beds. They sit in a pushchair together. They swap careseats,depending on who gets to which one first.

Now my mum used to dress particularly me and my sister (though I have a photo of my brother wearing colour co-ordinated clothes with us!) in matching clothes and there is 5 years between us. So the question I'm kind of asking myself at the moment is, 'are my girls going to look back one day and hate me for this?Or can I hope like hell they will still be sharing everything even when they are teens?' Am I doing them a dis-service??

I think Im going to go out for a walk with them in their double pushchair,in their matching gumboots, jackets and hats and ponder this :)

Must be love

Sitting here on a freezing cold morning,Isabella comes up to me and says theres something on her sock,so Im sitting here picking dried up rice bubbles off her socks...I must really love her!!!!

1 year 9 days and 7 minutes

On a happier note...this is my gorgeous girls,Sienna on the left and Isabella on the right.Lying in bed with a torch reading a story.Cute much?!

Im praying like mad that when they are older they are just as good friends as they are now :) I know I complain about the 1 year 9 day and 7 minute age gap between them,but really,this picture just shows why its all worth it :D

Exorcism needed

Yesterday I spent the day at the hospital-and if you know me well,you know how much I just looove hospitals-with my mum who was having a total knee replacement. Bugger of a day!Is it weird though that it was actually kind of nice getting a day away?haha thats what my life has been reduced too!A relaxing day away is going to the hospital :p

So after getting to relax,I come home and my children turn into little terrors!!!And NO they weren't like that for Dad,they save it up for mum. I was on the phone to my grandmother when they decide that is the best time to bite each other,pull each others hair,kick bottles at the others face and scream bloody murder!!!!!This all = a not so happy mummy! I got mine back though,they were in bed by 5.55pm!!!!

So a hard day YES,buuuuuut I got to lie in bed for a good 3 hours with no children,no husband,just me and a couple of Twilight movies :)

Sanity...what sanity??

My sanity is being extremely tested today! Love our girls to pieces but goodness after having spent an hour tidying their room they managed to destroy it in 10 minutes while I was on the phone!!! Not to mention climbing on their very tall dresser,Sienna jumping from the coffee table to the couch and Isabella somehow being a 13 year old trapped in a 3 year old body!!!

Soooo..this is my de-stressing moment!Hope it helps another mum feel a bit more normal haha.

Lunchtime for them then an afternoon sleep for all of us is in order I think :)

Being a mum is harder than being an MP

‎"The implication is these mothers aren't working, mothers have been so denigrated that its as though they're not doing real work. I can tell you I've been a mother and its much harder than being an MP" Sue Kedgley on BackBenches last night referring to Nationals welfare reforms'

This is something one of my friends put up on facebook in our mums group! How true is this though,and I am SO stoked this was said by someone in government :D

Mothers-most of the time because there are always exceptions to the rule arent there?!- have got to be the hardest working people in the world!What we manage to fit into 24 hours is really incredible.

So thank you Ms Sue Kedgley for acknowledging us and for acknowledging what we do is harder than sitting in the beehive discussing our nations future!!!You get my vote thats for sure :)

Sleeping like a baby

So its 6.30pm,hubbys at work,kids are in bed and only the dishes are calling my name! I've done pretty well today,baked some buns,cooked mini quiches for dinner,two loads of washing is hanging up,another two loads of washing has been folded and put away,baked a cake for my brothers-in-law,read a book and spent time with my girly wirlys today :) All while Mr Wong studied blissfully unaware with headphones on...love you babe! :p

No wonder at the end of the day parents crash and just want to blob haha.I never understood that when I was teen and would stay with my sister (who has 4 beautiful little girls),in saying that a decade later I'm not 14 and able to stay awake for copious amounts of hours!Its a miraculous night where I'm still awake at 10.30,which Mr Wong finds highly amusing...the man who survives somehow on 4 hours of sleep if he needs too.Haha 2 kids and 3 1/2 years down the track I'm still not capable of that feat.

Speaking of sleep and looking at the photo of Miss Sienna sleeping the dishes are hauntingly calling my name and then I think my bed will be doing the same!!

xoxo

Bubbly Bubbles

I love love love love having a hot bubbly bath!!!!!Before I had kids it wasn't something I particularly indulged in...but now....its just one of those things when you slide into some hot water that makes you go 'ahhhh' .

A big thank you goes out to my wonderful husband Steve who frequently watches the two littlies so I can have a soak (when they're in bed so am I haha).

Funny how running through my mind while soaking is not a mindless hum but "Ba ba ba bubbly bubbles' gotta love the Wiggles :p

(oh and I SO want one of these tubs when we own our own home!!!)

munchkins

I have a new favourite time of the day....Ive just started checking on the girls before going to bed myself-previously was hubbys job-and discovering our munchkins in each others beds or having swapped beds or just looking all cute and snoring,just puts the biggest smile on my face ever!

What a way to end my day :)

Tea Parties

Im in love with the idea of having a tea party at the moment!I think it would be an awesome thing for big and little girls to do :) Isabella and Sienna seem to enjoy them so much Im sure that those of us that are grow up would too!!Maybe one day when the sun is out

"cuggles" and princesses

Best thing about being a mum right now???

Isabella our darling 3 1/2 year old,looking at one of our wedding photos and telling me "look Mummy your a princess and I love you" and the other day she put a white twirly dress,spun around on her little tip toes and said "Im wearing a dress like you Mummy". Melt my heart moment.

And Sienna our precious 2 1/2 year old learning to wrap her little pudgy baby arms around my neck saying "cuggles" (for those who arent parents,thats baby for cuddles!) and giving me a big old squeeze!

Definitely makes up for snot being smeared,the pooh filled nappies and the tantrums haha. Im sure God made moments like this happen so we can keep our sanity and remind us why we really do love our kids!

Life

Far out,its been so long since I hopped on here!

Life has been pretty crazy since I last posted...in April this year we moved back to Hamilton,after much nagging on my part (thank God Steve loves me haha). Absolutely loving being back near family again!6 years ago I never would've thought that,but its really REALLY made a huge difference for us a family,which is fantastic!

Downside to being back in foggy Hamilton is the cold!My toes feel like they're going to fall off constantly! I've remembered why our heater used to be running non-stop when we lived here before (and why we had $700 a month power bills :p ).

So an update...

Steves busy at uni,has exams next week but he''s already passed all his papers,clever chicken he is.Next semester he'll be officially in his 3rd year!Yay!!!Only have 3 years to go from then :) He got a job late last week which is so awesome,working at Zinc Friday nights and Saturday during the day.Have to admit we're dreaming a lot about him having finished his study and working full-time,all the things we'll be able to do....

The girls are growing like little weeds,I swear they're going to be taller than me by the time theyre 5! (not that that would be a hard thing to accomplish).Isabella is loving kindy,unfortunately hasnt been able to go a'lot as shes been sick poor poppet. But from the time she has gone shes learnt shapes and colours and her manners are even better than they were. Siennas at a really cute age,even her tantrums are cute-well sometimes!Shes just started saying "cuggles"and wrapping her little baby arms around my neck and squeezing!Ahhhh reminds me why I love being a mum!

I honestly havent been up to a hell of a lot other then the normal day-to-day stuff that comes with being a stay-at-home mum. Have had some worrying news from the dr but will update once I know more.

For now we are enjoying life :)