tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330816587155206292024-02-19T17:32:06.132-08:00Tales of a Loved Up MamaR a c h e l http://www.blogger.com/profile/03675313499761506812noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-833081658715520629.post-80575276113449319752014-08-04T02:19:00.000-07:002014-08-04T03:52:18.730-07:00A Summer Catch Up <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I haven't been a very active blogger recently but my mid-year resolution [I like the idea of that! A fresh start with things in the middle of the year!] is to get my blog up and running properly and use it to the best of my advantage. I wanted to start blogging to network with other mummy's and widen my horizons as a stay at home mother constantly looking for new opportunities. I've kinda sucked on all those levels!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">July came and went, and I have no idea where it went to be honest! I cannot believe it's August already! Apologies in advance for the summer spam!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mid July saw us take our first holiday as a family. My first holiday in 5 years. Wow! Finances don't stretch too well now we are a family and I don't work. We had a little Monday-Friday break to <a href="http://www.pontins.com/holiday-parks/southport-holiday-park/?tmad=c&tmcampid=16&tmplaceref=Google&tmclickref=pontins%20southport&gclid=CjkKEQjw_tOdBRDv9tuvl7eAtNEBEiQA9Qm5Ii7JAPkAWDgmq8jM3PwOT3t2xxW_ZQ2q7eSZ-Mfsd0_w_wcB" target="_blank">Southport</a> with my partner's family who go there regularly. I have never been and didn't know what to expect, but I ended up not wanting the week to end. We had a lazy week by the seaside, swimming and going to the beach, sleeping in [to 7.30!] and having yummy food, seaside trips with ice-cream and nosying round the lovely shops. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We rarely spend quality time out and about as a family of three. In between family visiting, work, meetings, courses, house work, we have little time doing fun things or having days out as just the three of us. We relished it. I wish we could have that week over and over again. Evan keeps asking for 'holiday'. Oh, I wish I could give it to you again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The British summer is proving to be wonderful, and the long sunny days have been perfect for going to the park [super lucky to live so close to the wonderful Tatton Park], lounging in the garden and splashing in the paddling pool. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hope everyone is enjoying the summer! It's going by far too quickly ... next month Evan turns 3! I can hardly believe it. I'm trying not to think so far ahead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>R a c h e l http://www.blogger.com/profile/03675313499761506812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-833081658715520629.post-8093959875622846872014-04-28T04:21:00.002-07:002014-04-28T04:21:39.093-07:00Vintage lover!<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I <b><u>love</u> </b>vintage things. Not stylish vintage from the 50s or 60s. Bright, colourful, gawdy, cheesy vintage from the 80s. Nostaglic items from my childhood [born in 1983]. Sweet, wholesome vintage from the 50s. I have super long wishlists on Etsy full of items I wish I could buy! Care Bears, vintage Disney, old books, toddler clothes. Knick-knacks that remind me of my childhood that I would <i>love</i> Evan to have. I could spend all day on Etsy trawling through their vintage goodies. What do you all love to look at on Etsy? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are a few of my favourite things! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have a feeling I may be stuck in the wrong era! I'd love a home full of these kind of knick-knacks. I love the nostalgia, the memories, the simplicity. I've made a previous post about simplicity. I love enjoy the internet, TV shows and films and being able to fill up an ipod with my favourite music. However, I do love simpler things. Traditional things. I loved my childhood, playing with Barbies and watching a few of my favourite shows. The colours, the food, the excitement. Trips out were special occasions and not done every weekend. Holidays were something to look forward to once a year. Such wonderful, happy memories that I hope to create for my own family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last week was marred by hearing about the sad deaths of two people in the public eye, gone way before their time, leaving behind devoted spouses and children. I couldn't get the thoughts of their deaths out of my mind for days. It was all I could think about ... what if it happened to me? What if something happened to me? My beautiful little boy, who asks for mummy when he is half asleep in the middle of the night, growing up without a mother. Nobody should have to grow up without a mother. Do my family, my partner, my son know how much I love them with all my heart? I hope so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The thoughts have slowly diminished over the past few days. I embrace every day with my son, I always have. He is the most important thing in my world and I want him to know how loved he is each and every day. I sometimes want to stop time, but I love seeing the wonderful little boy he is becoming. I want to cherish these times, as hard as it is sometimes. This is the only life I am going to have. As each day passes, that day has gone forever. The memories we make each day are what make up his childhood, our lives, our memories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Life gets busy sometimes and things get in the way, but I love special times I can just spend with my family. I hope to grow old and grey with my wonderful man and have lots of lovely family memories to look back on. I hope to make new traditions every year and have a long healthy life. That's why I started this blog ... maybe years and years and years from now, Evan can look at it and see how much his mummy was in love with her little blonde boy and her little family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you all for your lovely comments on my last post. I think we have decided against pre-school for Evan. I'm gathering lots of info for teaching him pre-school from home at the moment. In my opinion, 3 is just too young. I am respectful of everyone's opinions on nurseries, pre-school and school. Every parent must do what is right for them and their child. I am not against pre-schools, I just knew that I wouldn't be enrolling Evan for every hour that the Government was giving them as a funded session. Little ones are so little for such a short period of time ... I want to soak it all in. I do not know if we will be blessed with another child. I don't want to have regrets. I have always gone with my instincts when it comes to parenting, and I don't want to stop that because it goes against the norm. There is nothing wrong with a little one being at home with their mummy and playing outside and learning letter and numbers over cereal and cuddles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't care how unfashionable it makes me sound, I don't agree with it. He is home with me for such a short amount of time of his [hopefully] long life. He will have years upon years of education ahead of him in which he'll learn so much and make lots of friends. Just let him have a few years at home with his mama, reading stories and baking cakes and playing in the garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Home schooling has such an appeal to me, and I think if we didn't have such a goods, small Catholic school just around the corner, it would be something I would very seriously look into. Have any of you opted to home school your children? I am eager to know all about it! Have any of you decided against sending your child to pre-school? I feel like how I feel is going against the grain and I don't want to hinder Evan in any way ... I just feel that he is too little to be heading off to school. I want my babies home with me!</span></div>
R a c h e l http://www.blogger.com/profile/03675313499761506812noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-833081658715520629.post-74900041310578298622014-03-18T04:14:00.000-07:002014-03-18T04:14:22.060-07:00Starting my own 'business'<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have a serious 'printables' addiction. I love them! I think they are such a fun, easy way to make a room different all year round. I found lots on Pinterest, printed them, bought some cheap frames and put them up around the house. I change them according to the time of year so it livens things up a little. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I found printables particularly great when decorating Evan's bedroom. I found some brilliant personalised ones that look great in his bedroom and make it unique and interesting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After a while, I started thinking of making my own. I made one for my other half for Valentine's Day of Disney couples, and made another with my favourite song lyrics. After I showed him, he said "you should sell them!" ... so I looked into it and opened my own Etsy shop! I was amazed to find there was a lot of shops on Etsy selling printables and there seemed a lot of demand for them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love making them in the evening, or when Evan is engrossed in an episode of Peppa Pig. It's also been fun connecting with other new businesses and Etsy shops, and I've already completed my first order for a mum of twin boys - I love customising one of my printables just how she wanted! And the prices range between £2 and £5 so they're really affordable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>R a c h e l http://www.blogger.com/profile/03675313499761506812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-833081658715520629.post-17134070304166020082014-03-18T03:52:00.001-07:002014-03-18T03:52:07.825-07:00Simplicity<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometimes I joke with my other half that I'd like to live in the American Prairie times. Or be Amish for a week. I love that traditional, homey, family-orientated life. I keep trying to put some of that into my every day like. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I realise this is not 'trendy' or 'super modern'. I'm bucking the trend! I love staying home with my son, I feel like there is no job more important that I will ever have in my life than being a present, loving mother. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I take my role as a mother and homemaker very seriously. I enjoy looking after my home and [attempting!] to work on the garden. I love to nurture my son. I love to bake and could happily bake apple pies and cookies with my little boy everyday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Like I have said in my previous post, I'm not a gadget and gizmos kinda girl. My phone is and old hand-me-down, as are a lot of things we have. I want to make sure I never lose sight of what is important to me and what I feel <i>matters</i> in this crazy modern world. I want my son to stay little and innocent for as long as possible, I want him to love his trains and playing sport and spending time with his family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This morning I read an article on breastfeeding which gave me a little food for thought. It was regarding caring whether other people's babies were breastfed or not. Do you know what? I <u>do</u> care whether other mothers breastfeed their babies. Do you know why? Because I believe that all mothers should be given the same information on birthing and breastfeeding so, in the future, no mother can say 'I wish I had known differently'. Of course you are still a good mother if you don't breastfeed. But I hope that mothers to be read wonderful books [I love Mayim Bialik's Beyond The Sling and anything by Dr Sears] and get advice and make your own decision. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another article I read was by Dr Cynthia Colen, declaring that the benefits of breastfeeding were hugely overrated. Bottle feeding and breast feeding are totally different. They can't even be compared, just as c-sections cannot be compared to vaginal births. We all want what is best for our babies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I suppose what saddens me is the women who are told they can't breastfeed or shouldn't breastfeed or not given the support they desire. As the World Health Organisation agrees, breast milk is best for a baby. Women need to be given support to breastfeed. If they have questions, the right people need to be there to answer them. Education education education. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">No, I have never bottle fed my son. I struggled with breastfeeding in the beginning [oh the pain! I remember wincing everytime he latched on!] but I researched, I got advice and I persevered. He never took a bottle and, because I didn't return to work and spent little time away from him, I didn't feel the need to keep pushing it. I love breastfeeding my son but I know the time will come sooner rather than later that he will wean himself off the breast. We need to support breastfeeding, protect it and promote it's wonder. With any future babies, I hope with all my heart that I can breastfeed them. But if I can't, I know that I did everything I could do and it doesn't lessen me as a mother. </span>R a c h e l http://www.blogger.com/profile/03675313499761506812noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-833081658715520629.post-90777179557253014232014-03-14T00:23:00.001-07:002014-03-14T00:23:17.859-07:00Being an old fashioned mama in a modern world<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now my son is 2 and a half, I have to admit it - I'm not a very modern, trendy parent. At all. I'm the old fashioned kind, and I don't mind that one bit. I dislike 'modern parenting' ideals very much, and I sometimes feel like I am the only one, which is why I love reading my favourite blogs. My favourites are by mothers who have big families, who love spending time with their little ones, who relish being just a <i>mother</i>. Women who don't feel they have to spend a fortune on their home or their children to be satisfied <i>(I certainly have nowhere near a fortune, but even if I did, I like to think that my son wouldn't have every gadget under the sun)</i> or jet off to exotic places all the time or have <b>everything</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My son doesn't have any fancy gadgets. He has toys of course, and he loves playing with his toy cars and his wooden train set. He loves playing football with his daddy, reading stories and singing songs. He loves getting out in the garden to play with his boat, his pull-a-long trailer and Cozy Coupe. He doesn't have a tablet <i>(not even a toddler one!)</i> and I plan to steer him away from these for as long as possible because kids have to grow up too fast anyway, without toddler knowing how to operate an iPad better than an adult. He has never been left with anyone other than his Nana, and no more than a few hours. We've never left him overnight and we have never been away on a holiday without him. I do not want a high-flying profession. I want to home, to be present. To be with my son and to remember his soft skin and his toddler antics and his endearing questions and comments. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I believe in enjoying your children and simply being a mother, and being ok with that. There is nothing to be ashamed of, you are not 'just a mother'. So much more! They are little for such a small amount of time. I always think about when I am old, and what I will regret the most. It certainly won't be not having fancy things. It would be not enjoying this precious boy as much as I could have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We live a very simple life, and I hope I get to be a stay at home mother for as long as possible. We only have one child at the moment, but we do hope for more in the future <i>(I have always wanted a large family of 5 or 6 but shhhh don't tell Paul!)</i> and I would love nothing more than a bustling home full of little children. We haven't been on holiday for a long time, our home is small and we spend frugally. But we have loads of love. Loads and loads of it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course, this is not a post against mothers who work, or who have gadgets and pizmos for their children and who have exotic holidays in the sun. This is just me, expressing what <i>I</i> want out of this little life of mine. What <i>I </i>desire most for my little family. What matters to me the most is the happiness of my little boy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mornings are one of my favourite times of the day. My little one wakes up super early these days and we snuggle on the sofa and watch cartoons. He presses his little cheek into mine and I just love the feeling of being so close to the most amazing little man who is my <i>son</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My beautiful boy turns 3 this September. School is looming and I am grasping at this little time we have together when he is so small. He is growing into such a gorgeous, caring, loving and polite little boy but sometimes I just want time to <b>s t o p</b>. I want to shout <i>stay two and a half forever</i> because it is just the sweetest age. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My fulltime 'job' is being his mummy. Although it's not really a job ... it's a wonderful experience, and it's the most important thing I'll ever do in my life. It's something you think about all day, and something that never leaves you. It's not something you leave behind at 5pm, it's something that is constant, something that needs your full attention at 3am or when you are in the middle of showering or cooking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For me, it's bigger than any profession could be for me. I had a stable job for 7 years before I became pregnant with what my man and me call our 'miracle' baby. I had always wanted to be a stay at home mummy and I'm so glad that I can do that right now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>R a c h e l http://www.blogger.com/profile/03675313499761506812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-833081658715520629.post-10888719017401605192014-03-05T23:40:00.001-08:002014-03-05T23:40:51.517-08:00My online shop<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I don't know about all of you, but I have a slight addiction to Pinterest. I love finding new recipes, crafts and ideas on there. One of my favourite things to find on Pinterest is <u>printables</u>. I have printed off many lovely quotes for free and framed them and up them up around our home. Evan has many up in his bedroom! They are so easy to swap around to match the time of year, as well. We have a few 'love' themed ones up in our living room at the moment that can easily be changed around for spring, Halloween and Christmas themed ones. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many of the prettiest wall art I've found has been digital art on <a href="http://www.etsy.com/">Etsy</a>. Inspired by ones I have seen on there, I started making my own. I even made a Disney couple themed one for my boyfriend for Valentine's Day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I showed my boyfriend a few of what I had done he mentioned that I should try and sell them myself - so I am doing! I have set up an Etsy shop selling digital art - once purchased, the print is emailed to you and you can print and frame as you like. You may like to just print it at home and pop it into a poundshop frame [like I do!] or get it sent away to a photo site to be printed properly and frame it how you like. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spotted Becky Higgins' Project Life at my local Hobbycraft store and was so happy when I got the 12 x 12 inch binder, pocket protectors and Jade core kit for Christmas. The basics of Project Life are easy: get a 12x12 binder and the plastic wallets and a core kit of card inserts [you can also find amazing free printable cards for every occasion all over Pinterest!] and a stack of your favourite photographs. It's super quick and easy and in the matter of a month, I've managed to log all my important pictures from when Evan was born in 2011 right up to his 2nd birthday in September 2013! All I have to do now is get some more photos printed and I am up to date!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello everyone! This is my new blog and I would like to introduce myself here. My name is Rachel, and I'm a 30-year-old mother of one. My little bundle of joy is called Evan, and he is 2-and-a-half. I can't believe how time flies once you're a mother! I live with my wonderful partner of 4 years, Paul, and we love spending time as a little family. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am a stay-at-home mother and I take that very seriously. I love spending time at home with my little man. I love to bake and read and spend time snuggling on the sofa with a Disney movie. I'm looking forward to recording lots of little memories on here for the future!</span></div>
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