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Menu Plan Monday 2008-08-04 15:18:24 Monday - Fish Finger Butties
Tuesday - Chicken Stir Fry
Wednesday - Tomato Soup with Cheese Toasties
Thursday - Fish Pie
Friday- Fish Pie (leftovers)
Saturday - In Laws are coming to stay and MIL bringing the food!
Sunday - My mum is coming to stay so might go out for dinner :) Read more:Monday
Tattoos! 2008-08-04 15:13:13 Hubby and I are both going to get another tattoo each… I’m so excited… I LOVE tattoos and am currently a little bored of the ones I already have. They are so plain… I’m going to get them added to and jazzed up a little… hubby is oing for a brand new forearm piece (itll [...] Read more:Tattoos
Talk About Tuesday: Papparazzi Brother 2008-08-26 03:00:45 For this week’s Talk About Tuesday
(hosted by Lazy Organizer) I’m going to talk about my brother’s paparazzi job!
He is currently just 17 but is already showing a flare for photography… something which he thoroughly enjoys… he may take it to the next level and have it be his career when he finishes school…
Anyways… he [...] Read more:Brother
My 365 project… 2008-08-25 11:50:49 is now going to be posted just once a week… still a photo everyday but I’ll post all 7 in one go on a Thursday :)
Packing for the move… 2008-08-25 11:49:06 is going ok…. were mad busy and this week we also have no internet. I am currently sitting in an internet cafe trying to write a couple of posts. We also have no digital tv. This week should be a boring one but unfortunately I’ll be too busy to notice hehe! So this is just [...]
I got an award! Yay! 2008-08-25 11:27:25 Whoop!! Oh I am so excited! I got this award from my blog buddy and real life penpal Jia over at Color Me Untypical
Jia made this award herself… I think it’s really cute! Go visit Jia… she has so many stories about her church, her dogs and hilarious stories involving her and her husband.
Here are [...]
77 and 78/365 2008-08-21 16:49:06 20th August
My friend Hannah came over today to keep me company while James was on a work night out. We spent the whole day together just chilling out. we have been friends since we were babies but lost touch over the years and then we found out that we were living really near each other [...]
Top 5 Tuesday: Movie Soundtracks 2008-08-19 13:39:54 Dana over at Supernanny Where Are You hosts Top 5 Tuesday
s…join in! This week is Top 5 Movie Soundtracks
.
I LOVE movies that I can sing along to… songs that I can sing while dancing around the house doing my housework… here is my list:
Dirty Dancing - Isn’t this on everyone’s list hehe… I just LOVE [...]
75 and 76/365 2008-08-19 12:02:19 18th August
Aptamil is the formula of choice for Ollie… he has had no problems with it and it seems to be easy enough on his little baby tummy. He goes through a whole box every week now though! Eek! Can you say chubby baby?
19th August
It is at moments like this that I get my housework [...]
Talk About Tuesday: Floods! 2008-08-19 11:11:36 Something topical this Talk About Tuesday
… floods! I am still currently in the South of Ireland (we are due to move next Friday) and thank goodness! Northern Ireland is seriously flooded at the minute. In my 24 years of living I can not really remember any type of natural disaster… Ireland is not the place [...] Read more:Floods
Whoop for Ollie!! 2008-08-18 17:43:28 As you may have read previously, James and I have been trying to establish a better bedtime routine for Ollie
. He previously went to bed at the same time as us… after his 11.30pm feed, but this meant James and I had no time to ourselves! We started a bedtime routine of feed, bath, massage [...]
boo… 2008-09-15 02:57:37 My lovely little man didn’t sleep through last night. He woke for a feed at 3… at least we got 5 nights in a row from him though… maybe last night was a one off and he will go ack to sleeping right through again tonight hehe. Fingers crossed… I was seriously enjoying it!
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Tagged again :D 6 quirks! 2008-09-13 16:30:28 The Rules:
*Link the Person who Tagged
you.
*Mention rules on your blog.
*Tell about 6 quirks of yours.
*Tag fellow bloggers to do the same.
*Leave a comment to let them know.
I was tagged by Chelsea to do this meme!
I don’t drink milk, eat cream or butter… unless the butter is melted on toast or melted on something else… [...]
Photohunt: Wild 2008-09-13 04:50:54 This weeks photohunt theme is Wild…
I was unable to pick just one photo of wild animals from my trip to India, so I just included them all.
The first monkey was outside the window of our hotel. There are bars on the windows so the monkeys can’t creep in. The monkeys in the second photo were [...] Read more:Photohunt
…he did it again! 2008-09-12 01:55:32 I think were onto something with Ollie sleeping through the night. This is awesome. I feel so rested!
Tagged 2008-09-11 16:10:41 I was tagged by Lauren over at Testing These Wings….
Basically I must take the first answer that comes into my head for the second half of each sentance.
I am… sooooo scared about dentist tomorrow :(
I want… to cuddle my boy but he is in bed
I wish… hubby and I could afford a holiday
I hate…. when [...] Read more:Tagged
sleep little baby! 2008-09-11 15:54:55 My boy Ollie did it again last night… sleeping right through. What a clever and angelic little
guy! You must have been crossing your fingers!!! Keep them crossed because I’m enjoying these nights!
Week 5 September - 11 September 2008-09-11 15:51:17 5th September
My little man sleeping on his play mat. Actually he isn’t sleeping. He is peeking sneakily! He kind of sleeps with his right eye open ever so slightly. I think he is afraid of missing something!!
6th September
Ollie’s very first pair of shoes. He never had any shoes, I always just put him in socks [...]
Something to think about… 2008-09-10 15:56:30 One of the search terms from today that led somene to this blog….
Pregnancy and baby poking out….
em…. what does this mean? My mind boggles! Read more:think
Sleep 2008-09-10 02:53:06 Oh my goodness… what a difference a whole nights sleep makes. In… em…90 days I haven’t really had an entire nights sleep… completly unbroken and deep… but last night little Ollie slept the whole way through! Recently he has been going to be at 8.30 - 9.00 and I give him a dream feed (when [...] Read more:Sleep
Talk About Tuesday: Our new house! 2008-09-10 02:05:40 So… as some of you may know I moved back to Belfast last week. My husband and I had been living 100 miles away in Dublin for the past 2 and a half years and we decided it was just time to come back. We got engaged while we were living in Dublin, married and [...] Read more:Tuesday
Ollie’s growing up! 2008-10-02 07:25:08 Not reeeeeally but I am so surprised at how fast time is flying and how much he has grown and developed in that short space of 4 months!
My little baby is big… now weighing a whole stone (14lbs)!! He is now able to lift his head, neck and shoulders CLEAR off the ground in tummy [...] Read more:Ollie
Week 19 - 25 September 2008-10-02 04:30:41 19th September
We put proper bubbles in the bath for Ollie and he loved them! He loves the bath!!
20th September
On Saturday, my mum came and collected Ollie for the day. We had originally planned that he be babysat so that we could finish sorting out the house but instead we went out for lunch and had [...]
oops… 2008-10-01 16:53:51 I did not know that I had put that many photos in the last post! Sorry about that! I hope the page loads ok! (You can click them to make them bigger!)
Ollie’s first holiday! 2008-10-01 16:51:48 Our first family holiday was a success. Were back from 4 and a half lovely days of relaxing, eating lovely food and viewing the amazing Scottish sights and scenery! It was great to have James for a long weekend instead of just the normal two days and Ollie
kept quite happy almost the entire time! [...]
“My First Baby” Meme 2008-10-01 03:06:10 I pinched this from Cassie over at Southern Domestic Goddess…
Me and My First
Baby!
1. Were you married at the time? Yes… we started trying quite soon after the wedding.
2. What were your reactions when you found out you were pregnant? We found out in October after getting married May. Reactions were disbelief, fear and excitement.
3. [...]
I’m more nervous than I thought I would be! 2008-09-24 09:26:53 Ollie is spending his first night away from home with my mum tonight. I’m not nervous about my mum minding him for the whole night… I’m just nervous about missing him dreadfully… I don’t know. I guess the first time is supposed to be a bit scary. I just wonder does he know he is [...] Read more:thought
My blog keeping skills… 2008-09-22 15:27:34 of late have been a bit more than awful…
I promise promise promise promise I’ll make a little bit of time for myself to blog in the evenings.
Life has been hectic since we moved back here… we LOVE it and since moving back and seeing family and friends again… our social life has just exploded. I [...]