Greetings all,
Yay, 500 posts on this modest little blog of mine, thank you all for joining me on this ride.
I blog for different reasons at different times: to share sewing projects; to record children's milestones; to prove to myself i can cook; to play around with decorating ideas; & far too often, to throw up aspects of my daily life to keep my husband up to date with what we're doing, as he's far far away from home. Sure i could email & send photos privately but he likes the atmosphere of this blog & reading your friendly comments.
Yay, 500 posts on this modest little blog of mine, thank you all for joining me on this ride.
I blog for different reasons at different times: to share sewing projects; to record children's milestones; to prove to myself i can cook; to play around with decorating ideas; & far too often, to throw up aspects of my daily life to keep my husband up to date with what we're doing, as he's far far away from home. Sure i could email & send photos privately but he likes the atmosphere of this blog & reading your friendly comments.
So i'm a 36 year old housewife & mother of 4 children aged 8 to 13, i've spent collectively 6 years (& counting) raising them completely alone, no grandparents on hand to help & most often 4500km from my home town of Sydney. My husband has missed 12 of our 14 wedding anniversaries so far & we have 2 more years of living apart to go!!
Please don't feel sorry for us, we have big plans & a wonderful future together. I learned to be incredibly independent young mum, trust my choices, rely on myself, i am strict with my children so behaviour is widely predictable & i am a drama-avoider. It's a lot of work, especially as our children have strong personalities - they do challenge me & since they were tiny babies, they've asked a million questions about anything & everything - my key - i answered them all (6 years of university has been useful afterall). I have bucket loads of patience.
My cheeky children saw the photo of the barbed wire from my husband's base in Afghanistan & said "you can be honest Mum, is Daddy really in prison??" If nothing else, we have plenty of laughter!!
My cheeky children saw the photo of the barbed wire from my husband's base in Afghanistan & said "you can be honest Mum, is Daddy really in prison??" If nothing else, we have plenty of laughter!!
So what is this blog - Army wife?? Large family?? Crafter?? Home maker?? Mummy blogger?? It's a bit of anything & everything as i'm all of those things. While i ride out the Summer with swollen hands waiting for a thorough diagnosis on my carpal tunnel syndrome & surgery confirmation (from an orthopaedic surgeon, not that moronic neurologist) i am stitching some hexagons together for a quilt top . . .
along with lots of slow cooking from scratch, it's not a trendy new movement to me, it's how my mother rolled, only she didn't invite children to help her, where i encourage my children to help. My first born aced non-elective cooking in year 7, so she has mad skills in the kitchen. I do still have a crappy Army issue oven in our Defence house to cook with, so hardly the dream kitchen.
Of course my blog will include more & more action & antics from the children, like our 3rd girl here doing her best Anna Wintour (US Vogue editor) impersonation. Ok, all of my children need hair cuts but that can wait until first week of school in February, Summer holidays are for swimming & unkept hair.
Now, what better way to celebrate this bloggie milestone than by heading off to a birthday morning tea with a platter of banana bread, for a gorgeous girl i met through blogs & our love of textiles. I used a French banana bread recipe as i know she covets provincial flavour & style. Have a gorgeous day & happy blogging out there everyone, it's the nicest place in social media. Love Posie
