I Heart My Body 2011

OK. I admit, I got lucky with my body.

Then I had 2 children and got even luckier.

It must be in my genes as my mother was a size 8 after 3 kids and my sister aka Veggie Mama has a 7 month old baby and she could still pose for Playboy if she wanted to! (NOT that she would.) It was my sister that also blogged her body for I heart my body which prompted me to join the club.

I love my body, flaws and all and you should too. (Your own, not mine.) If you don't, do something about it, you only have one and you have it for the rest of your life. Only YOU can change yourself. As Dr Phil always says "You chose the behaviour, you chose the consequence."

Just because i might have today's 'ideal' body does not mean i don't have body issues like everyone else.

I do. A lot.

There are days when i look in the mirror and I'm actually horrified at what i see. Sometimes all i see is the dark pigmentation under my eyes that have gotten darker recently, my freckly face (hence the makeup) my 'coco pop' mole on my back that i wont get removed because i am a chicken shit. My caesarean scar that brought my two children into the world when my body failed to do its natural thing. My *cough* saggy boobs that still have their E cup skin but not enough filling. My spider veins that have lingered since pregnancy and my gigantic feet. (No fair, I'm not even tall!)

But tomorrow is I heart my body day 2011 so I'm supposed to talk about what i DO like.

I love that my body has grown two humans inside it, all by itself. I like my legs, they look good in any outfit that i wear. I like my hair, i don't take care of it, rarely trim it and wash it in $2 ALDI shampoo and it still looks good. (Thank you GHD!). I love my eyelashes, i used to get in to trouble in high school for wearing mascara..... except i wasn't wearing any. I love my bum. So does my husband.

We should all love and be proud of our body. Show it off, accept your flaws and take care of yourself. Remind yourself just how amazing your body is and learn to love it.

Don't laugh at my dodgy bathroom. You are, arne't you?

Marshmallow Mum xxxxx

Happily Ever After

Today is our 4th Wedding anniversary and i woke up alone :(
Its hard with Andy out in the mines so i am going to go through all our wedding photos and share the love with you!
We had such an amazing day, amazing weather, amazing family and amazing friends xxxxx
 
 

Recipe for Love

Ingredients

2 Hearts Full of Love
2 Heaping Cups of Kindness
2 Armfuls of Gentleness
2 Cups of Friendship
2 Cups of Joy
2 Big Hearts Full of Forgiveness
1 Lifetime of Togetherness
2 Minds Full of Tenderness

Method

Stir daily with Happiness, Humor and Patience.
Serve with Warmth and Compassion, Respect and Loyalty.

~ Author Unknown ~

Such a beautiful photo <3

This is my favourite, it is hanging up in our loungeroom x

                          My wonderful bridal party

                           Gorgeous bridesmaids! x

                  The moment my $2 wedding knife broke!

                          Mr & Mrs Marshmallow

          Cant have a wedding without your best friends

                 I dont remember this part, its a blur!

 Marshmallow Mum without makeup folks!!! The  morning of the wedding.

                                 Reception fun

                       My little boy was so.... little!!

Ive taken my hair out, ive got my stuff and im ready to leave!

Happily Ever After xxxx

I Love Hello Kitty

Hello Kitty - Is there anything cuter?

I dont know how long i have loved this cute little feline but it has been a long time.

I thought id show you a collection of some of the things i want, no biggie, just a Hello Kitty house and car - normal stuff, right?

My dream house!

Ahhhh - Time to relax in my hello kitty lounge room.

How awesome is this Ferrari? Wouldn't mind picking the kids up from school in this! Not sure Zeppelin would find it as awesome as i would....

I would like these earmuffs please, its freezing at tafe!

Hello Kitty iPhone - Need i say more?

I want to relax at this bar every Friday night. Not sure my husband would join me though.

I would drink Hello Kitty champagne!

A nice selection to chose from!

If i can find these on Ebay i will buy them!

On the mornings that i have spaghetti on toast, this would be nice!

Andy bugs me to mow while he is away. I wont unless it is this mower. Nuff said.

Since i have to use the washing machine several times a week, it would be nice to use this one!

Same goes for the mop, my floor would be a whole lot cleaner if this is what i had to work with!

This is me on my honeymoon in Thailand.... Found the best shop ever!

WANT. I will trade the children.

If only i was blogging from this..... There would be a post everyday!

Jasmine might start toilet training if we had this... right?

I would seriously wear these. For those who know me will know I'm not joking!

I'm going to the Hello Kitty Maternity Hospital in Taiwan for my next baby!!!!!

I would probably want to steal all the blankets when i go home!

Why doesn't Andy wear these to bed? Stuff it - Ill just have this guy!

I would seriously die if i had these nails, why don't i live in Japan??? WWHHYYY!!!!

I'm wearing this grocery shopping - with the shoes.

Hands up who wants to make these for my birthday?

Last but not least

Marshmallow Hello Kitties!

I just want to bite her little head off!!!

2 Weeks Until Easter!

 

I am just so excited!

I am a HUGE chocolate fan so Easter is one of my favourite times of the year!

I have been so busy lately, April is my busiest month (besides December of course!) Lots of people have birthdays in April, its Easter and its also my 2 children's birthday's which always means a party of some sort!

This year, Andy will be away for Zep's birthday - but home for Jasmines... They are 10 days apart so smack bang in the middle of that is Easter Saturday and Andy will be home so i thought it would be PERFECT for a combined Easter Birthday Party! So exciting!

I have been busy planning and buying and organizing... I love birthday parties, probably because Ive never had one. I'm 27 this year!

We will be having an Easter egg hunt and a jumping castle this year, so excited about the castle... last time i had one i was heavily pregnant so i couldn't get in, now you probably wont get me off!

You know what else is awesome about Easter?

Chocolate coated marshmallow eggs......

I just saw one at the shop as i was buying bread and milk.... it took all of my strength not to eat it in the car on the way home! Its only 9:30am and its gone....

It tasted amazing too.... I recently brought myself a packet of pineapple lump chocolate coated marshmallow eggs for myself for Easter, but i saw dark chocolate mint ones today! I will have to buy them too. Oh yum, i cant wait!

I am home with Zeppelin today. Yesterday he woke up with a few spots and a couple of hives so i took him to the doctor and it turns out he has a mild case of chicken pox.... Lucky its mild (because he has been immunised) because I'm sick today too, have the worst cold and feel horrible. I can taste though, woo hoo!
So Zeppelin is contagious and off school till Monday, which means that i cant go to tafe, I'm sick anyway i guess. Jasmine is in daycare still so i will take this time to rest, she has been waking up well before 5am lately and i am just so run down. I thought 5:15am was damn early but id give anything for her to go back waking up then!! that would be a sleep in, haha.

Id better go get some homework done and try and have a sleep if i can. Good luck to me.







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Operation Tadpole!

Last week while hanging out the washing, Zeppelin and i found about 400 tadpoles swimming around in the smallest puddle ever in my back yard. The puddle was drying up fast so we rescued all that we could (about 200!) and made them a home. The next day the puddle was dry and the remaining tadpoles had gone to froggy heaven.

Google became my best friend for the next half hour as we found out what to feed them and how to take care of them. I thought back to my childhood when my cousin and i would catch them while my uncle would go fishing and we would take them home.... that's all i remember.

So it was off the the shop to buy a lettuce to boil and freeze for the little guys. We also went to the pet shop and brought fish flakes and a little net. Zeppelin loved it and kept asking when they were going to grow their legs... i told him it would take a little while!! He wakes up every morning and says 'hello my little babies' then we feed them and they go nuts! They love food! All they do is eat, well, they have nothing else to do i guess. Because there are so many, we feed them a few times a day and all the kids in the street come to watch.

I will update this post as they grow, they are actually quite cute, i cant wait for them to get little leggy's!!

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Here they are with tiny little legs!! Some of them are progressing much faster than others, there a quite a few with little legs and still a lot of them have none.

I must admit, i am very fond of the little fellows. There was a day when i noticed that they were very slow and sluggish and some of the big ones had started to eat the smaller ones! (eugh!).
I freaked out and jumped online and found out that when they get their legs, the change from herbivores to carnivores and need to eat insects and other foods.
I went straight to the pet shop to pick up a plant for more oxygen and a block of frozen blood worms. Since i have been feeding them blood worms, they have been perfect! I sit and watch them at feed time for so long, they are really amazing to watch.
I must admit..... I accidentally killed about 60 of the poor little guys!! I thought that the tub was over crowded and decided to move a few into another tub. Well, the next morning when i went to feed them, all the ones i had moved were stone cold dead. Not half dead, not some of them dead, ALL OF THEM COMPLETELY DEAD!! I felt so bad and i have no idea why they died????

Fast forward a week and i am watching them eat (They get fish flakes at 6:00am, boiled and frozen lettuce at 12pm, blood worm at 3:30pm and fish flakes again for dinner.) I spy a rather strange skinny looking tadpole and think he has arms.... i haven't even seen arm buds yet! Anyway here is this tiny little frog sitting in the plants, i was soooooooooo excited!! I scooped him out and put him on the rock while Andy ran for the camera, a few seconds after this photo he hopped back into the water, HIS FIRST EVER JUMP!

It wasn't until i saw him here that i noticed he was turning GREEN! A green tree frog! YAY!!
After a couple of days i counted 5 frogs. (almost frogs....) Some are still brown but 2 nights ago i came out to give them dinner and saw this little green guy ready to make his escape!