Excuses, Excuses.....

I'm running out of these to keep me home from here!

First I had just had a baby, so there was nooooo way I could work out, then I just couldn't find the time, then everyone  was sick, after that my baby was waking up 10 million times a night! but now that my baby is sleeping from 6.30 'til 6 yes you read right! through the night! and then goes back to sleep at 6 'til 8 - I'm a lucky mamma! I have run out of excuses to tell myself!

 Every Sunday night I say to myself, 'this is the week I'm going to try and get back into to shape' then it just never happens. but I just got so sick of never going through with this particular promise with myself. So this week I was determined to make it happen and try and make it a habit! I'm 2 days down. YAY!! So yesterday morning before the crack or dawn I was not only up, but I was up and at the gym working out! and this morning I was down there doing the same thing again. even though Ocea was up during the night sick - No excuses remember!


6am seems to be the only time that works out and I have to admit once I'm up it is a great start to my day! So I've dusted off my running shoes and committed..... now I just need this habit to stick!

Birthday Boy

It's this boys birthday today!

(Old photo can't find the cord to upload a new one, so I thought a old birthday photo is better than none at all!)

I Love him lots!

New addiction

Have you ever been trawling through blogs and seen an awesome tutorial that you love or a cool thing to do with the kids, recipes, idea for the house, places you want to visit, craft ideas, the list goes on right??
Well I have recently discovered with help of some facebook friends.....

It is so cool, it basically is a network of people who all have 'pin boards'. and when you find a cool idea, or recipes etc, you pin it on your pin board for later and can share your ideas with everybody else. I've found lots of inspiration from friends pin boards and have re-pinned them on mine. I'm not very good at explaining so you'll have to look for yourself!

Start Over...

So can I have a do over and start again?? I'm not very good at keeping up with this whole blogging business! I've just been busy, or maybe just not organising my time very well.... but I'm back, and I'm going to try and do better! (I sound convincing right!?)

This last month has been full of colds, vomiting, more colds, getting teeth and more vomiting, so it has been fun, fun, fun! But in between all this sickness we have been to free Dora concerts, gone on car rides in the 'rumble rumble' car, making bears with Aunties and Uncles, gone to school fetes, played with cousins, had a broken heater, dressed up like Michelin men, got gas connected and got a new heater, yay! And a whole lot more. (it's hard to remember all the stuff from a month ago!)

So I'll just write about what we did on Saturday!
Rudi went motorbike riding with one of his brothers and some friends at one of his mates tracks. This place is amazing. While the boys ride, there is stacks of stuff for the kids to play on. So we headed down a little later than Rudi and met him there.
 Ocea was in heaven. There's Timber Town, pretend boats to drive, a swing set, volleyball net and court, an outdoor bowling alley, and old truck to drive and play in and on, a mini rugby field, needless to say we had so much fun!

Watching their Dads trying not to hurt themselves do massive jumps!

One of those days!!

Ok, to start with, I have been very slack with blogging, it's been really bugging me, but i have been finding it hard to find the time to blog. or not organising my time properly - either one.
I don't know why I thought it would be any different to journaling, I've never been very good at being a consistent journaler! (is that even a word?) except as a young teenager when my friends and I were avid journal keepers and would write about which boy(s) we 'loved' at the time :) anyway..... back to blogging I have to start blogging at least once a week!! That's my goal, I really do want to record the moments of our kids, my thoughts or feelings at the time etc.

So that's it, at least once a week I will be here!!!

As the title says today is one of those days!! My 'awesome' day started at 12.30am - yep AM! when Harper decided she was not going to sleep! My poor little girl is sick, so I was up with her for most of the night trying to soothe her and get her back to sleep. She did eventually sleep for a total of 3 hours straight though which I was so grateful for! when we 'woke up' (did we ever really go to sleep?) it was pouring rain out side and freezing!! Yesterday our heater decided to stop working, so that was another awesome moment! we don't have any insulation under the house and we have floor boards which doesn't help the warmth situation. We did decide a week or so ago that we are going to insulate under the house and get gas put on in our house - YAY!!! - warmth! so while we are waiting for that to all happen the kids and I look like Michelin men all bundled up!

I put on some washing later in the morning, when it was done i chucked in the dryer put it on and thought that this might help heat up the house! anyway, about 10 mins after I put it on our stupid smoke alarm started blaring! and wouldn't stop for 45 minutes!! I was fanning it trying to get it to stop. I couldn't reach it to disconnect it, trying to figure out what it was that caused the alarm to go off, then finally realised it was the dryer! crazy I know! anyway after 45 minutes it finally stopped and our house was back to 'normal'.

I don't know if it is lack of sleep or what, but today is a horrible day! - only 8 more hours 'til the kids are in bed and I can go too! ( I wonder what is in store for us this afternoon) In saying that though, my two little bundled babies are being so good today and making up for me feeling blah! i hate having these days, but they do make me appreciate the good days!

I can't wait for tomorrow!

London Living

I was going through some old photos on our computer the other day and came across all our old London photos and it brought back memories of how much we loved it there!

We loved everything about London. We loved the people we met, the things we saw, the places we travelled, it was such a different life to the one we had been living at home in Coolum on the Sunshine Coast!

Rudi and I often talk about moving back and we would do it in a heartbeat if there was a job for Rudi over there. I would love to take my kids for a play in Hyde Park or for a stroll through the Portobello Markets, catching the Tube to church! It was all such an adventure!

I'm so glad Rudi and I took the opportunity to live in London and to travel to parts of Europe. We didn't get to do all that we wanted (I don't think you'd ever get through all you want to do and see in Europe!) and our time was cut a little short, (I fell pregnant) but we were there for a year and what an awesome time in our lives it was!

 

                    

My name's Brooke

.....and I'm a chocoholic.

I heard that admitting you had a problem was the first step to recovery, so here I am admitting that I have an addiction! An addiction to that deliciousness that is chocolate!!!!
I realised that I had a 'problem' when I found myself eating a chocolate Easter bunny like it was an apple , eating 2 blocks of chocolate in one week, eating all the left over Easter eggs, the list goes on (disgusting I know!)

I'm trying to think back to when this 'habit' really came to be. I thought maybe when I was a young girl and Mum and Dad used to put their stash on the top shelf of our huge fridge and I used to get so antsy for it that I would make the desperate climb up the slippery shelves to get my 'hit'. Or was it when I was older when Mum could no longer put it out of our reach, so she would buy Fruit and Nut - seriously who likes Fruit and Nut chocolate? Anyway I began to eat it, just so I could have chocolate! Or was it when I moved in with my sister and her husband, where it was like a ritual to have chocolate after dinner - yep I think it was then, the daily dose got me hooked and I blame my sister. No actually I blame her husband who actually got her taking it daily!

Anyway now that I've admitted this big little problem, it's time to go cold turkey! Yep you read right, no easing into this. When talking to my sister last night she suggested this to me so we're both on no chocolate for a week!

Aggghhhh, how am I going to get through!???