Well, I wasn’t perfect… I missed weeks of posting updated photographs BUT I did take them! And I do in fact have 52 photographs of my wonderful boy growing up over the past year. I do intend to continue the project next year, hopefully this time keeping on top of my posts. I also want to get the old digital camera out a bit more rather than just mobile snapshots. To view the entire project I have created a category page here.
I am so terrible with keeping this up to date! I take the pictures just never upload them! Naughty mummy blogger.
Week 41
Week 42
Week 43
Week 44
Sadly, as a family we don’t get to spend many days out together. I have work, the Mr has work and rugby and the little man has his own busy lifestyle too. Luckily though the other day we found that we had the entire weekend as just the three of us! So we decided to make the most of it (and the dry weather) and head out for a bit of fun. The main part was entertaining the little man with something a bit different to his day-to-day routine. We headed over to the “Over Farm Market” to see all the lovely animals and see what they had to offer.
It was our first time at the Over Farm Market and I have to say we all really enjoyed. It was a fun day out for the three of us and even better it was free! Most of the ‘family’ outings these days nearly always cost something and well, money is tight at the moment as we are still doing up the house. We went wild at the Over Farm Market and spent 50p on some food for the animals, and £1.50 on a bit of chocolate fudge. A day out for £2! Amazing.
Jack really enjoyed feeding the animals, especially the goats as they followed us along to get some more food. It was also a day of firsts for myself as I had never seen water buffalo or ostrich before. My god the buffalo are HUGE. Very happy to see all of the pumpkins growing ready for Halloween, seeing as Jacks a bit older now he can appreciate it more.
Whilst we were there, they were in the process of putting up huge marquees in preparation for a their Halloween Festival, which I have heard are amazing. So we’re hoping to go again whilst the festival is on!
Woah I’m behind with these! So here’s weeks 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 & 39!
So, I’ve been slack with my posting recently. As you probably guessed from my previous post, it’s because I’ve started a part-time job in a pre-loved children’s shop. I’m not going to lie, it’s been a real shock to the system! I love working and keeping myself busy, I spend most of my time re-organising and re-stocking which I love! I could reorganise my sock draw all day long if the men in white coats wouldn’t turn up. What I’m finding difficult is getting the balance right. I now play a variety of roles from employee to mother to fiancée to friend to cleaner to freelance artist to blogger and probably many more I’m missing out!
It’s so hard to get the balance just right. I go to work, I come home, I’m tired. Much to the dismay of my 3-year-old. I haven’t even picked up a pencil since working at the shop, mainly due to the tiredness and lack of motivation. I’ve hardly written any blog posts and even though the house is generally clean, I’m afraid that the ironing pile is soon going to come after me.
One of the things I think is wearing me down the most is the struggle with Jack and his new nursery. It’s breaking my heart. Before, Jack was doing 3 hours a day at a nursery attached to a school and he loved it! I mean REALLY loved it, he got so excited to go everyday, it was such a positive experience. Since starting work I’ve had to move him to a nursery local to where I work and he does a minimum of 5 hours every session. The first week went O.K, he was a little shy but went in and was pretty happy when I picked him up. Success! Or so I thought… The second week was a disaster! Jack wasn’t well. I thought it was his hay fever playing up which affects his asthma so I thought I will send him in regardless (with his medication) as I don’t want his asthma to stop his daily life. I honestly felt as though he hated me. He screamed and cried every single time I dropped him off. Which is so unlike my usually happy, bubbly and sociable little boy! This has continued up until his 4th week, where he’s started to settle again (thank god!). Yesterday gave me hope, he went in not only with no tears but happily ran in to find some of his new friends! You won’t believe how much of a relief this was. It’s horrible seeing your little boy unhappy everyday because of a decision that you’ve made.
I’m hoping that it’s only going to get better, so at least then I can figure out some kind of routine and get into the flow of things! Any tips on how to make my little boy happier at nursery?
Mam, I Am 