The latest addition to our family has arrived
Introducing Indiana Lucia
We are so blessed to have another beautiful daughter
She weighed in at 2.83kg and is 49cm long.
I will post more next week - enjoy your weekend - I definitely will!!
~ Signing Off for a Few Days ~
This is my last post before life takes our family on another big adventure.
The sign in the maternity ward at the hospital did say that they have free internet access in all rooms so hopefully I will get to post news soon about our new addition - I know the next 5 days will most probably be the most relaxing I will be getting for quite some time so I intend to make the most of it!
Stay tuned ......
Life Is LIke A Winter's Day
I was sitting at my desk this morning, looking out at the climbing rose, admiring how much it is flourishing under the blue winter sky - no clouds, just fresh winter sun. Thinking to myself how funny it is that a plant could reaffirm to me so many life lessons.
I then got busy on my computer and in my study - still sorting out stuff - my life seems full of stuff.
The next time I looked out the window I was surprised to see a grey sky instead of blue - no real clouds (obviously high ones that blended together to make the grey) but not stormy at all just grey. Probably only 15-20 mins had passed and yet the day took on a totally different hue.
This got me to thinking about how life is like a winter's day - one minute sunny and one minute grey. But rather than let the grey get me down, I gave thanks that more rain was on the way, we so desperately need it here in Perth. It is also warmer when there is cloud cover and we have been having some cold nights that play havoc with my old bones. But I also looked forward to knowing that the blue will come back, something to look forward to. A bit like eating the veggies you don't like knowing that you are saving the good part of your dinner for last.
Life is like that - one minute good things are happening, the next some more difficult one may appear, but the difficult ones can allow you to achieve things you didn't think you could, and for most of us there is light at the end of the tunnel - your blue sky so to speak.
Who would have thought that moving my study into a new room would give me the opportunity to become so philosophical on such a regular basis.
My wish for you is that I hope your life is giving you a good balance of fresh blue winter skies to outweigh the grey ones.
xxx
~ A wonderful cause ~
I am sorry I missed my post yesterday - life got very busy and I had to head out to a meeting for the wonderful charity I am one of the founding members of. So I thought now would be a good opportunity to blog about this wonderful cause that I am so passionate about.
As some of you will know from reading past posts our first daugther, Laura was stillborn. She arrived on the 11th March 2003 - she would be 6 if she was still here with us. The grief and disbelief that consumed my husband and I following this tragic day was hard to comprehend. Thankfully we were to meet some wonderful people who helped us through this rough time and it is through the amazing support network that I met a group of equally passionate mums who decided that we needed to do more to prevent the tragedy of stillbirth happening to others.
In 2005 we launched The Stillbirth Foundation.
Stillbirth is when a baby dies whilst inside its mother and can occur at anytime from 20 weeks until immediately before birth.
1 in every 140 babies born in Australia is stillborn
In Australia, each year, 2000 babies are stillborn and this number has remained steady for over ten years. It is disturbing that, in an age of enormous technical and medical advances, the death rate of stillborn babies is not declining nor well understood. The Stillbirth Foundation has been established to encourage and fund research to ensure that the stillbirth rate begins to decline.
On the 25th July we will be holding our 4th annual Little Feet Taking Big Steps Ball at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney. We had great success last year in raising much needed funds for research and hope that this years event is a huge success as well.
I would love you to visit our website to learn more about this wonderful cause - www.stillbirthfoundation.org.au
This week is such a big week for our family with the impending arrival of our fourth child this Friday (unless it makes a sudden appearance before my booked ceasar). I am excited but also so very anxious as I know too much about what can happen, so it with fingers and a positive outlook that I pray that Friday will be full of joy and I will be able to post about new bundle of joy to you all next week.
Bird hooks
My enchanted bird coat hanger hooks were a Christmas gift and I had been saving them until we decorated our cloakroom to put them in there. In the meantime, we finished decorating our bedroom and the wall opposite the bed seemed like the perfect place for them instead.
To get the look see my Polyvore set below:
Bird hooks by Torie Jayne featuring Monsoon accessories
Enchanted bird coat hanger hooks from Dot Com Gift Shop
Animal print bangle from Accessorize
Enamel bracelet, vintage find
Sequin cape, vintage find
Bird necklace from French Connection
Beaded necklace from Accessorize
~ Clever idea ~
I love this fabulous idea of hiding the printer in the drawer - neat and no visible cords and means there is more space on your desk! Will put this on the wish list for the new study.
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