the special bond...

one thing ive always wished for, and pray for, is that special bond for my children to have with each other. Seeing as there is 6 years between my brother and i we didn't really have that close bond growing up. i was just the annoying little sister that tried to keep up! but now that our kids are fairly close and will grow up with only 20 months between them i really hope they grow up as best friends.

the other morning my heart melted when i walked into the toy room and saw big brother reading a book to little sister. how precious. yes they fight, but they also love each other a lot. Xavier is quite the protective brother of his little sister and i truly hope it stays that way forever!

oh those little things that make me smile...

Motherhood...i love my being a mum, and there are just some things that make me ever so thankful for my little blessings when i find little things like this..

My dear little daughter left me a surprise in the washing machine. I often find her putting things in and out of the machine and she must of thought Mr Giraffe wanted to have a snooze in there for a while..

love my kids...

bit of yumminess...

winter...spring...winter... that what the weather has been doing to us lately. completely throwing me out. but the rain that we had this morning made me feel like hopping into the kitchen and doing some baking. Every monday we go to my parents house and my darling mother cooks us yummy dinner. so this week i decided to take dessert...an old favourite - apple crumble. hmmmm...

i recently came across a recipe that suggested putting coconut into the mixture, so i have tried that today. I'll let you know if it changes the taste.. my guess is that it'll be pretty good :) Of course best served with icecream...xavier is already hanging out to eat it! i think he just wants the ice cream though!!

spring has sprung...

Even though as i write this its bucketing down with rain... in the last few weeks we've been blessed with some beautiful spring weather! And all that glorious sunshine meant the kids spent most of their waking hours playing outside, meaning I could get some spring cleaning and organising done! I have way to many ideas and dreams i what i would like to do in our house, but as always money factors in and your have to think of what you can do cheaper! So far i've spring cleaned the linen, the pantry and have started on the playroom. I still have to make more labels for in my pantry, and trial where things are but for now i don't have to hear "Honey, where's the ........?" from the dear hubby because he can just look for the labels :)

sunshine and seagulls...

Well the sunshine was too tempting today so we had to go out and enjoy it. So we together with Grandma the kids and I headed down to Rockingham foreshore. We went for a nice long stroll and then had a nice play on the toys and grass. And i thought we'd be staying nice and dry but Xavier pleaded ever so sweetly to go down to the water so i got sucked in...and i could've guessed that we wouldnt stay dry! Xavier jumped straight in the water, no hesitation at all! And as for Eden - well that little raggamuffin has no fear of anything!! She ran straight to the water! And loved it! The kids had so much splish splashing as xavier called it :) So after all that splish splashing it was time for a picnic on the grass. It was a really good morning and the kids crashed out in the car 2 mins down the road! Sorry about the quality of the photos.. i forgot the camera and my phone must of had a bit of moisture in it!