oh what a beautiful morning

Yarrambat

sunrise this morning, just glorious

yesterday afternoon

gumtree bark

plenty of firewood to keep us warm

ready to flower

ah - the 'bad' dog shows her cheeky little face

I know BooBoo won't be happy but the boys had fun on the tractor

We're having such a lovely time up here, house and dogsitting. The air feels clean and crisp and the wide open space calming and liberating.

The sunrise this morning was just beautiful. It crept up over the ridge and lit up the house with the most beautiful golden glow. It's chilly this morning up here but so warm in the sunshine. Right, back for some more Vitamin D!

For my Mummy

Ned and Pippy

Two 'good' puppers!

The 'bad' one was chasing bunnies under the fence and into the next door field. She did come back, eventually, and absolutely in her own time. I promise I'm looking after them all well Mummy. But as gorgeous as Lexi is, she is also pretty wicked. I'll try and catch her in a 'good' moment and then you can see her too.

Miss you Ma and Tim but we are having a lovely time looking after things here!

xx

9 months.

Our little Twinkle is growing up so fast. We can hardly believe we have been together for two months. She's learned so much in so little time.

She can clap, wave, blow kisses, sit up, crawl, move around the furniture and eat lots and lots of different solid food.

She's also learned to dance a little, which is SO sweet. She nods her head and bobs up and down.

Although she looks like she's standing by herself she's actually leaning against the chair but she's pretty stable up on her little feet.

Who knew such a little girl could bring so much joy??

Cuddly presents for sweet boys.

Most of Tiggy's friend have birthday's in the first half of the year. Tigs and I thought these fleecy cushions would be great to cuddle up to. We hope the boys agree!

Mother's Day

This Mother’s Day was a very special one for me. It’s not that we did anything special, in fact we did nothing at all. It was so perfect because at long, long last I have my two precious children.
We ate, toasted Marshmallows on the fire, read, walked in the field, watched DVD’s and relaxed completely. I kept wondering why it felt so wonderful, well obviously I have my two gorgeous children but I realized that it was so special because it represents the end of so much waiting.

I am not waiting for, police checks, financials, health assessments or social worker visits. I am not waiting to have documents translated, notarized, authenticated, checked, couriered, tracked, assessed, and approved. I am not waiting for the department to ring to tell me that we have been approved, accepted, allocated. Nor am I waiting for the first court hearing, the first decree, the final decree, the call to travel. We are no longer waiting in airports, in transit, in Hong Kong, in Taiwan.

I feel liberated and wonderfully, blissfully happy!!! We are done. Well, we have a few little things to complete here over the next 10 months with the department but they are all bearable. We applied to ICAS 7 years ago to adopt our first beautiful baby and now at last we are finished.

I still find it hard to believe that I am actually a Mummy, a Mummy to two such lovely children. It really is a miracle and I am so very grateful that I am theirs, and they are mine. How lucky I am!

To all the Mummy's I know (including those who have fur-babies!!) I hope you had a really happy day!

Pretty girl things

a little pile from Spotlight becomes useful baby girl things

Tiggy's old socks prettied up for Twinkle

cute little bloomers for next summer

Snuggly, snuffly sheets to go at the top of the cot. They catch all sorts of baby yuk without having to change the whole cot. My Grandma knitted the blanket on T2's cot for me when I was a baby, way back when!

The gorgeous soft Japanese cotton is destined to line a little pair of dove grey cords for Twinkle to match a pair that are on the machine for Tigs! I think they'll look so sweet together.

Look at her go!