Quote of the day

“Have nothing in your house that you don’t know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” 
William Morris

... now to find the time to make this happen!!

5 reasons this was a good week

1.  I got a distinction in a group asignment!  Yippppeee! (and thank goodness for clever colleagues)
2.  I got my first written assignment finished - and with enough time to get a full nights sleep before having to hand it in!
3.  The eldest Fairy Princess can skip!!  and has moved up a ballet class - Which means we get an extra half an hour in bed on saturday mornings pretending we are asleep and don't have two cheeky monkeys bouncing on the bed!
4.  I finally went to a meditation class and sooo enjoyed it - so calming and relaxing.
5.  I rashly signed up to ten weeks of running!!  - First session on Thursday (it seemed like SUCH a good idea at 10pm after a couple of glasses of wine!)

Fairy Princess Mummy
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Favourite new year quotes

“A new year is unfolding – like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.”  Anon

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”  Einstein

Fairy Princess Mummy
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Happy New Year

I’m a bit superstitious about New Year.  I like to have everything tidy and organised, but it doesn’t often happen.  This year I managed to get quite a bit tidied and organised but didn’t manage to get my essay finished or store away the outgrown kid’s clothes or get the girls room organised or get my hair cut or my eye brows shaped.  But I’m not worried – I’m being very calm about it all.

 … except for the essay … and felling like a hairy monkey … and the girls room … …

DAMN!! – I tried so hard!  If I keep telling myself I am calm will that make me calm eventually?  And at least I can turn some of these tasks in to New Year’s resolutions!

Taking stock of 2011

 I took a few minutes today to think about all the stuff that’s happened this year which makes me proud or grateful.

-          The baby Fairy Princess is over a year old now and doing all the cute, beautiful and funny things a toddler her age should be (I hope!).  She’s walking really confidently and often nods knowingly at us.  She loves ‘posting’ things, passing us her toys or socks and sitting in buckets/ boxes/ laundry baskets/ very small corners.  She chatters a lot and hums and best of all gives the cutest smiles and snuggles.  

-          The eldest Fairy Princess has started school and is sooo grown up.  She is doing really well with her numbers and reading.  She is very good at riding her bike and can finally skip properly.  She is a great big sister and she is just so funny!

-          My husband and I celebrated our 6^th wedding anniversary this year.  Not a hugely long time I know but I really appreciate how fab he is (although I don’t often tell him- I don’t want him to get big headed).  He has been so supportive this year especially of my studying now and also earlier in the year when I had PND and was acting like the wife from hell.  So a massive thank you to him for being so great!

-          The rest of my family are pretty amazing and supportive too.  Always there when I need them and good fun too!

-          I converted to Buddhism

-          I got a great grade on my first assignment of my masters

-          I still enjoy my job

-          Finally I have started on the egg donation journey that I had no idea about this time last year!

So all in all I have had a lot to get excited about over the last year and feel very privileged and proud of my life at the moment.

New Year’s Resolutions

-          To get the girls room tidied, organised and pretty

-          To get good grades on the rest of my uni work

-          To blog at least once a week

-          To do a journal/scrapbook with my Fairy Princesses

-          To meditate once a week

-          To exercise for 15 minutes every day and an hour 3 times a week (and lose two stone in the process)

That all seems manageable – let’s see how many I break before next week!!   

Hope you all have a fabulous and successful 2012!

Fairy Princess Mummy
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Nearly there

I had a lovely phone call from the hospital today saying they are hoping to start the egg donation process at the begining of February!  So I had a little panic about how soon that sounded and then realised that I am probably ready for it now. 
At the end of January/begining of February I will come off the pill to sync up my cycle with the recipients and I will have to have a couple of scans and start the injections.  The injections are delivered to my house all pre loaded (a bit like epi-pens) and I just keep them in the fridge!
So it's all very exciting and thankfully far enough away from Christmas to have recovered (especially from the mince pies and cocolate).

Happy days

Fairy Princess Mummy
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p.s. I know I've been really bad at blogging but getting in to the swing of studying again is taking longer than I thought - I will have it cracked bythe new year ... or not! :0)

Week 1 - lessons learnt

I don't know how but I lost one pound this week!  If I'd put in any effort I could have lost more.  This week I think I need to try to study without eating!
I am aware I'm an emotional eater - I eat when I'm celebrating, I eat when I'm stressed, I eat when I'm bored - you get the picture!  I think I'm begining to get a handle on it but I think I need to exercise more so that I can tackling this from both angles.  When I am at uni I have started parking about 15 minutes walk away which means parking is free and I have to do at least half an hours brisk walking once a week - it's a start!?
Any way - there is studying to be done and biscuits to ignore! :)

 

Happy, healthy days

Fairy Princess Mummy
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Food and exercise diary week 1

Week 1	Monday 21 November 2011	Tuesday 22 November 2011	Wednesday 23 November 2011	Thursday 24 November 2011	Friday 25 November 2011	Saturday 26 November 2011	Sunday 27 November 2011
Weight	12st 6lb
Breakfast	Banana red bush tea with milk	Yogurt Banana	Yogurt Banana	Biscuit	Banana	Yogurt and banana	Crumpet and banana
Snack	Yogurt, banana latte with sugar	Apple	2 satsumas	2 mini pork pies Baked crisps Sweet coffee	Too many biscuits
Lunch	Wholemeal pitta, ham, rocket and salsa.  Raw veg.  2 Satsuma’s	Wholemeal pitta, ham, rocket and salsa.  Raw veg.  2 Satsuma’s	2 slices ham Cucumber Bread roll	Half ham and cheese sandwich	Half ham and cheese sandwich Yogurt	Cheese and ham sandwich	Sausage sandwich
Snack	nothing		2 biscuits	Banana Sweet coffee		Too much cake	Latte
Dinner	Mushroom risotto,  Apple, Coffee with milk and sweetener	Mushroom risotto, 2 meatballs Chocolate bar	Chicken and veg 3 glasses wine	Chicken and mushroom pie And chips Reeses choc bar	curry	Chicken and potato and veg	Plaice and veg.
Exercise	2 x 15 minute brisk walk		20 minute walk				About 2 hours walking

Happy, healthy days

Fairy Princess Mummy
xx