Mama Splatt!

So Much Mess

fluffyspace — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:17:42 +0000

Well I am as ever decluttering still and I am totally convinced this time with a little help from my blog I can keep up the momentum and actually finish what I need. Everyone is now well (or as well as you can expect to be in Jan) and my downstairs is pretty much in order although DS’s toys are still all over the floor. Also I am really cross with myself for missing the bins, I was so tired that I just fell asleep and then this morning I simply couldn’t get up so the bins look a terrible mess (I might put them in the garden until next weeks collection.

So how do I go about achieving what I want?? All I can think of is by starting a list but not just any list something about 10 items long so I can achieve those and then do another 10. Also to keep the house on a positive slant I am keeping my crafty task list over on my other blog. So lets keep it simple!!

Tidy Pan Cupboard
Clear-out last couple of things from behind the sofa
Sort random box 1
Tidy jam shelf
Sort bathroom baskets
Sort random box 2
Empty and review “important docs” folder
Drop off mis-sent post
Sort Random box 3
Transfer DVD’s and CDs into new disc folder!!!!

That’s me for now and I am sure a post about organisation should be better ordered but there it is!!

Thrifty Thoughts

fluffyspace — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:23:09 +0000

Well last night Asda’s website collapsed before I managed to make an order and so I have raided the cupboards and am feeling terribly thrift today. I have managed to conjure the following from the cupboard:

Dinner of Saute Potatoes, Eggs, Black Pudding (from the freezer) and Baked Beans (emergency back up)
Lasagne, defrosting a box of the random veg I cooked and froze before going on hols added to some frozen Bolognese, the half pack of Lasagne Sheets which fell out of the cupboard was a real bonus.
Smoky Chickpea soup, made simply by caramelising a load of onions, adding dried chickpeas and smoked paprika and cooking for an age.

So there is masses of food really and I am delaying the order until Friday so that is almost a weeks food eked out of the cupboard.

I should be super pleased with myself at this point but I am feeling a little down though, why? Well it is all down to clothes. We have been so lucky with being lent clothes but we will at long last have to invest in buying some and after F’s sudden growth spurt it is now quite urgent. So I have put a plea on Freecycle and am scouring ebay for bundles, but it is demoralising.

So I have experienced both sides of thrift today the joy and the stress, though all in all I think it is for the best and perhaps there is a shape emerging for this blog.

All in all though it has been a good day the decorations are down which I have found sad and I have been to visit a lovely friend so normality is returning, and all in all that is for the best!!

Fresh Bread in the Morning

fluffyspace — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:51:24 +0000

Well what better time for a resolution I shall blog more, tidy more, communicate more and generally be amazing but to kick start things here is some bread I made overnight.

The plain loaf is sesame and bran the darker one is a chocolate one, and that white bit on the fragment of chocolate loaf is the butter I hand churned yesterday.

Final achievement well … the kitchen is tidier now than when I started!!!

Here is the Bread

Nummy

Change of Use

fluffyspace — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:13:51 +0000

OK I am not keeping up with this blog, and why? Well there are 2 answers to that question, firstly I am lazy and secondly it is too restrictive. So I have chosen to write about anything and everything here. I will start posting this evening!

Moaning Myrtle

fluffyspace — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:50:52 +0000

Well I am back I have been hiding as the young man has been so ill and I didn’t want to sit here every day being a Moaning Myrtle. But now after another night without sleep this time throwing up I have decided I may as well show my face.

All in all we are having a great time, we have been walking in Snowdon, seeing people, going swimming etc. And he is advancing so fast just being knocked out by endless colds.

Poor Baby!

fluffyspace — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:31:36 +0000

Another night without sleep the poor little mite coughing so much he was sick twice. So to the docs this morning and we have antibiotics, now he is dozing on the sofa and fingers crossed getting better soon. He has at least eaten a tiny bit of jar food. Think I will make him some chocolate rice pudding to see if I can tempt him. Also having apple and raspberry crumble for tea tomorrow and sorting the base today so perhaps he will give that a shot.

See you later

Mama X

Sniffles and Sneezes

fluffyspace — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:39:59 +0000

Well there was a bit of a break there. We got the feeding sussed and still breastfeeding now with the 9 month mark approaching and we have pretty much followed BLW (Baby Led Weaning) all the way.

The little munchkin was an early crawler at 6 months and is now able to stand unaided for quite some time. He has 6 teeth the latest just through this weekend and has just got a handle on babbling.

Just now however the poor little thing is all skooched up on the sofa asleep with a nasty chesty cough. Saw the doctor last Weds when it had been rumbling on for nearly a week and will go again tomorrow if there is no improvement. I am totally terrified of chest infections after our start but I am sure it will be fine.

Back soon

Mama X

Insanity Returns

fluffyspace — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:20:39 +0000

Or normality might be a better way to put it. I have after all never considered myself to be ordinary or by another name completely sane. The point is that I am returning to myself, and with the added bonus of a decent nights sleep from the young man I am feeling pretty good.

With regards to sleep it was marginally better on Friday night and improved again on Saterday, with the minor detail that my hubby and I both stayed up stupidly late and missed out somewhat on the sleep slot. Then last night he was nearly back to normal with a solid sleep of 11pm to about 7:30am. Having said that I now hear jaws everywhere dropping at how good that is for not quite 5 month old, and it is, so what my friends was I complaining about having a sleep free week, well I guess the point is its all about what you are used to. Way back at the beginning I remember that 3 hours felt like magic, but now I have got used to much longer sleeps going the othe way was painful. I guess I was also getting desperate because with all the stuff about starting solids at 4 months I wondered whether his hungry feeding with zero sleep was going to last all the way until we started to introduce solids. This does not appear to be the case. The second issue was the sudden feeling of being totally alone on realising I didn’t know anyone who had got this far on exclusive brestfeeding. Ironically it was actually someone who had had to introduce a bottle feeding at 3 days. She for a whole host of reasons had been caused to doubt herself and just reinforced that I do know best and should believe in my self because I am his mother. She also said I am doing a good job which was a really important boost.

So I went into Friday afternoon feeling much happier. After a successful trip down to The Mall to get his BabyDan highchair (review to follow but impressed so far) I trundled across to darling hubby’s work and onwards to a friend’s for the weekend.

Saturday was the young master’s first Bonfire Night, for those of you reading from foreign shores this is the celebration of a cheery chap named Guy Fawkes who several hundred years ago had the bright idea of blowing up the king and parliament. Unfortunately for he and his chums the plan was foiled and they all met an untimely and rather unappetising end. We brits commemerate this event every year with large bonfires and accompanying firework displays all around the country and ranging quite frankly from the sublime to the ridiculous. The display we went to was at Christian Malford a little village in WIltshire and is one of the best village displays I have ever seen finishing this year with a galaxy of stars which floated through the sky taking at least a minute to finally fade.

The young man at only 5 months old was transfixed by the beautiful patterns and complained only when I tried to cover his eyes from one of the more intense strobe effects and with his earflaps down and my hands over his ears the bangs didn’t faze him at all. All of this was a huge relief as I love bonfire night and would be disapointed if he hadn’t too.

Well I think that is it for tonight I am off to do some tea got calamari from Morrisons yesterday so that is a bit of a challange. I will let you know how I get on.

Mama X

Waverings

fluffyspace — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:44:20 +0000

After another sleepless night I have begun to wonder whether to consider adding a small amount of formula to our evening routine. I felt so desperately tired and feel exhausted by the amount he is eating. I also feel alone as I do not know anyone who has got past 4 months on breast-feeding alone with many introducing bottles by this point or starting on solids.

Now with all my reading on Baby Led Weaning I am totally convinced that until he is 6 months and sitting up he doesn’t need anything but milk and that of the various milks on offer mummy milk is the very best. So to introduce solids goes totally against what I believe is going to be right for us and there seems little good reason to switch to formula except for my sanity. This means that considering formula makes me feel weak even though I have actually come quite a long way.

I might give MOBS (support for breastfeeding mothers a call) and talk it through I think the big problem is that I don’t know if there will be light at the end of the tunnel because I haven’t found anyone else further down the same path as me.

There should be a page appearing on early month essentials by the end of the day and I am considering putting together my own hospital bag recommendations. But first I need to get a little sunshine on my skin.

Mama X

Sleep Deprivation

fluffyspace — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:34:27 +0000

The little man managed to eat almost non-stop all night and didn’t sleep long enough to be put in his cot once. I think it’s mostly teeth. The thing is I am totally set on Baby Led Weaning for a whole host of reasons and part of me is thinking “6 weeks ’til he can have a go thats not long!” especially the way the days seem to zip by. But then another part of me thinks that if he is sleeping badly because he is getting more hungry then it could be a long 6 weeks.

I am thinking at the moment about trying to introduce some routine to get him down at a reasonable time, but he is such a happy and confident boy, and fits so well into our lifestyle, that I am not sure of the benefits. I guess it would be nice to know reliably when he might go to bed but equally its good that he deals with changing environments and daily routines without getting upset or mithering.

I have also started to use some bits of baby signing since picking up the book yesterday. It is a bit early for him to be learning but I don’t see the harm in using it when I talk to him. Besides which it makes him giggle.

This morning we did the Kingswood Mum and Toddler Group in the village hall, it was good although he was the youngest baby by about 11 months this time and people were being a bit cliquey. But it was good to get out, especially after the broken sleep it made me feel human and slowly but surely we will get talking.

Anyway I think I am going to start working on some of the review pages this afternoon and suss out how it’s all going to be laid out.

Tatty-bye for now.

Mama X