What They Didn't Tell You

A post for the future...

Having children changes everything, from your view and opinions on life and your home, your fashion sense, to your lady bits and tummy's !

The sleepless nights, the soggy potty training moments and the ceebeebies tsunami you will be in are a given but what no one warns you about are...

 Them times you said "children wont change me, I will travel across tailand with a back pack, holiday every year, and still make time to go for a weekly pamper...it looks unlucky my lovely chum

I will be a cool mum, my kids will love me always, we're be friends as well as daughter/mother - the deal is your be irrationally overprotective, that beauty of a child is your cub and you are a mother lion willing to destroy anything that may upset or maybe a danger to your baby cub...... and sometimes this will annoy your children 

You'll struggle to cling on to your lady like dignity.... your children will hide under your skirt or pull out your boobs as they jump all over you in public ..... or in my case you'll share a toilet cubical with them and because they think it is hilarious they will shout out over and over again "mummy why have you pooed your self ?! mummy why have you pooed your self ?! mummy you've pooed yourself!........... in fact I most definitely didnt my little madam just thought this was bloody hilarious to shout out in a Marks and Spencer's toilet packed full women. 

Never again will your handbag look like the inside of a glamorous women's bag..... your keys with a pretty, glittery keyring, your make up, some nice smelling hand moisturiser. Swap that for nappies, wet wipes, snacks and little sticky raisins hanging around the bottom of the bag and that nice smelly hand moisturiser will be a bottle of hand sanitiser because children will stick their hands everywhere and in anything!

Oh and your going to have to let go of that lovely idea that your little ones will much prefer their greens over their sweets, your only drive yourself mad trying to achieve this! 

However no matter what any one else thinks, of course your children will grow to be ballet dancers or famous Olympians

You'll loose hours of your life staring at that amazing little piece of you growing and changing everyday.

You'll laugh till you cry at just something they said that made them sound soo grown up!

You'llbe so unbelievably overwhelmed and proud of them

You'll love that little person so much, that it actually hurts, it really does!  

So having children changes everything, so apologies to those who I loose touch with or friends who we are no longer on the same level any more. We will meet again my lovely, maybe as two older mums pondering over these magical times in our lives :) so for now cuppa's cup and carry on you beautiful mummy's xxx

The Making Of The Princess Dress

My mum use to work in clothing factory  growing up, making everything from dresses to swimwear for Mark and Spencer's. So now that I have a free summer, mums going to pass on the talent :) 

If you saw my previous post you would have seen that lilah had a princess themed party to go to so my mission was to make her the ultimate princess Cinderella dress! I marched off to the haberdashery in town to buy up all the  lovely pale blue netting and material. I was lucky to have found any there as the man behind the counter said he has had so many amazing mummy's in there buying up everything pale blue to make Frozen dresses! 

It took a few days to make the dress as I am only learning but I loved being able to be so creative. I would love to be able to set up a little business making and selling these dresses and all things girly one day :)

Mums machine 

Sat in the garden sewing 

The finished Cinderella dress. 

Princesses in wonderland

Blogging from the garden today as it is the first nice sunny day in about 3 days! .....Sat with a cup of tea in one hand and Vogue in the other ( Victoria beckham looks so amazing on the front of this august issue)

Butttt today's blog post is about Princesses in Wonderland....when I feel pregnant with Lilah Beau before I knew she was a girl, I found this thing online, something like a Chinese birth sex chart. You had to find your age on the chart and then follow the rows along until you find the month you conceived your baby. When I did that, there was an entire row of all blue squares meaning a boy, but one small pink square in the middle which I landed on. I did hope for a girl secretly but I was happy either way and thought nothing more of it. Through the rest of my pregnancy everyone I knew who was pregnant was having a boy, even on my first night of staying in the hosptial after having lilah, the midwife was really excited to look after me and Lilah because she said on that night Lilah beau was the only girl baby on the entire ward. Soooo you never know maybe there was something to it.

However I did make it my mission to find another girl living near that was also having a baby girl ! And I meet keisha :) !

Both our girls are so so similar. They were both real big babies, they have always been taller then the other kids their age, people have mistaken them for sisters, even the girls themselves,  say they look alike, Lilah was looking at a picture the other week and asked me if it was her or Aurora. and obviously they are both outstanding beautiful :)  We use to joke that its nice when they play together because they look in proportion for their age hahaa :)  

It was Aurora's 3rd Birthday the other week, and keisha goes all out ! she spends weeks preparing and making everything and her birthday cake making skills are kick arse amazing hahaa ! Aurora wanted a Princesses in wonderland theme so it was a mixture of princess meets the mad hatter.

The amazing birthday cake Keisha made 

Aurora and Lilah 

Birthday Girl Aurora 

Lilah Beau