Tutu

I wanted to share these photos of Poppy from yesterday, after seeing Mia embrace her new tutu (another story, another lot of photos to come), Poppy insisted on having a spin (excuse the mess in the background!).

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Happy Anniversary!

Exactly one year ago I started this blog.

I know I've been a little slack of late but nonetheless I'm pretty pleased to have been able to keep this going for a whole year!

So much has happened in these 12 months, mostly, the girls have continued to blossom and I'm now back at work.

On the other hand, some things never change, like my decor disorder and real-estate obsession... that's a whole other post...

On the whole though, it's been fabulous and challenging, funny and sometimes unsettling, it is nice to be able to flick back and review it almost week/week, month/month

Recent highlights: Taking 2 days off work to spend with Luke. Re-bonded with the house, sorted wardrobes one day, spoilt ourselves the next. Headed to the city on the train, wandered around, lunched at Gingerboy (noted by Sara, the Ginger-nut lunched at Gingerboy, ha-ha), got high (forgot was on sinus antibiotics, had wine.....) and received a beautiful Tiffany bracelet from Luke (a belated Mother's Day gift).

Mia has been extra divine and her speech has improved considerably, not to mention her drawings. This is a piece she drew for her friend Kayla, it's Kayla and her little brother Thomas wearing bunny suits, and the big triangular thing on the side is ice -cream..of course. She's continuing to ask wonderful questions and confidently display all her hilarious quirks. Food porn is still high on the list (has been knows to sleep with dessert cookbooks) and she has thoroughly enjoyed Master Chef. We've broken the no TV post dinner rule and allowed her to watch it with us. At the finale, she disappeared to her kitchen and returned with a large bowl of (playdough) 'cookies'. She placed it delicately on the coffee table in front of us and cautiously stood back, hands linked behind her back as she explained her 'dish': "chocolate cookies with cocoa". She requested we taste and listened anxiously for our response.....

I should note here, that Luke has developed a man-crush on Matt Preston (giant judge on right), they've even exchanged emails.

Mia's shorts obsession is also continuing, we were so desperate the other night to find a clean pair of bed shorts, I just took one of her PJ pants and cut them off, she was so pleased as she stared at her reflection in the mirror (and once again declared, I'm a boy!). Still she can't hide her girliness and has taken to cross-dressing with all her little sparkly accessories.

Poppy meanwhile is barely walking now, more running, always on the brink of teetering over her un-coordinated petit feet. She loves to chase Oscar and be chased by Mia, who is, in no exaggeration the best sister in the world. She protects her, feeds her, cleans her and truly loves her. In fact, the only way we can get Mia out of bed in the morning is by bringing Poppy in to her bed, then they cuddle and get up.

Poppy is delicious, funny, playful and mostly grotty. We had friends over for a lovely brunch one Sunday morning, so glad they weren't disgusted by her 'look' : texter-snot-chocolate face.

Made for a very amusing morning/arvo with lots of bubbly and laughs and also an embarrassing trip down memory lane: Luke showed friends my old skating footage....agghhhhh! Stopped it just before my appearance on ''Good Morning Israel'' came on. Still on theme, some of my old costumes also came out (a selection live in the dress up box)...I love this photo of little Thomas, his choice.

Wish I had photos of the cupcakes I made for brunch, decorated with my new favourite food: Edible glitter!

On the work front, actually really enjoying myself at the moment, both the work itself and the people, but aware of the fragility of that status...Am spending a healthy amount of time laughing & lunching with my gorgeous work husband Andrew and his other glamorous wife Lisa. What do we laugh about? I can never remember, but there's definitely a lot of work geek stuff, truly ridiculous, any who, what I do know is that while I sometimes reflect on the past 20 years, and think about how I've matured and grown, I now doubt those reflections and instead wonder how is it that I haven't changed at all, still giggling like a 16 y.o school girl?