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3 Years Ago Today

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15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

The 3rd of August 2007, what a special day that was :) I married the man of my dreams, a warm hearted, compassionate gentleman who I love more and more each day. 3 very happy years of marriage later and I can’t be thankful enough for what I have got :)

Below are a few photos taken by friends of our wedding day :)

The Gallery – Revealed

2
15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

OK I won’t leave you in suspense any longer.

There were some great guesses – my favourite being:

“a banana leaf hanging over a piece of paper and the bottom of a saucepan” by OwainDodo which I thought was an inspired guess!

2 people did guess correctly, these people were:
Matt
and
Jumblymummy

It was of course:

My Kitchen Clock :)

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Can’t resist showing this off!

2
15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

I’m going to write a review of Zara’s new dress once we’ve had a chance to wash it etc to see how well it stands up to day to day life but I took this photo today and couldn’t resist showing off Zara in her new Sophie4Sophie dress.

and the other side

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The Gallery – Holidays

7
15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

This post is this weeks entry for The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers. The theme for this week is holidays.

Now this prompt really got me thinking, should I go for a photo of my year living and working in Australia before I went to uni, should I post a photo of family holidays with my parents and family, should I post a photo of my honeymoon…choices, choices, choices.

In the end I opted for this photograph:

This photo was taken in 2006, about 6 months after I met my husband and it was on this holiday he proposed to me. We went to Lindos in Rhodes and late one evening we went for a walk up to the Acropolis in the dark and up there he dropped down on one knee and proposed. I said yes and almost 4 years later here we are, married with a baby. I look at this photo and it’s like looking at another person, I look so much younger there and so full of life – compared to how I feel at the minute having had a lot of sleepless nights over the last 7 months.

The only holiday we’ve had since then has been our honeymoon and since then we’ve been so busy moving house twice, both of us starting new jobs, being pregnant and having a baby – that holidays have been kind of neglected :(

I have a feeling our next holiday will be slightly different with a toddler in tow and it will certainly add a different focus on what we do – but I think I’m ready for one now :)

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I’m lonely and it’s all my fault

13
15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

Today I’m feeling down, today I’m feeling lonely and it’s all my fault.

It’s my fault because I don’t make friends easily.

It’s my fault because I was once betrayed by my closest friends and since then I don’t let people get close.

I don’t have a single close friend up here in the north-east, nobody to just talk to, nobody to go out for a drink with, nobody to go to the cinema with – yep nobody. I’d have loved to go to the cinema to watch SATC2 but I had nobody to go with and I didn’t dare go by myself.

I’ve 128 friends on facebook, 358 followers on twitter but I’m lonely.

I am lucky if I speak to anybody except my husband in any single day. I think my only interaction with an adult today was to order a coffee in Starbucks. I sat there drinking my coffee with Zara and looked around. I was the only one by myself. There were couples talking, groups of friends chatting over their coffee and I had Zara to talk to.

I stopped going to my NCT groups meet ups because they clashed with Zara’s nap time so she would just get overtired and scream.

I thought I had a close friend up here, we set up a business together and then when I was 8 months pregnant she decided to move abroad and dumped me in it, leaving me to carry on the business by myself. I was doing VAT returns for a client two days after giving birth.

I miss my family, I miss my horses, I miss having people to talk to, I miss being able to go out for a drink.

 The only thing that makes me smile today is knowing that Zara will always be there for me to talk to. She may be tired and grouchy today, she may have just thrown up her entire bottle over me, she may be teething and super grumpy but at least she listens to me. She doesn’t understand a word I’m saying and she’s too young to realise that mummy’s crying because she is sad today – so she looks at me with that cheeky grin and it makes it all a little easier to handle.

And because this is a miserable post I’m not even going to bother tweeting it because if nobody reads it I don’t really mind – I just wanted to write something seeing as I’ve nobody here to tell it to.

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The Baby Cage

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15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

I’ve been questioned a few times on twitter as to what is the baby cage that I keep referring to. So I thought I’d better clarify that I do NOT keep my baby in some kind of pet cage, please don’t send around social services just yet.

The baby cage is in fact a 2mx2m wooden playpen that I bought which gives Zara plenty of room to roll around and play in. I’ve put down some nice soft foam matting in the bottom of it and we now have a great area for her to play in where she won’t keep banging her head on our hardwood floors. It also keeps the baby on one side and the cats on the other which is an added bonus.

It is called the baby cage after a “helpful comment” I received from someone about how cruel it was to cage babies in playpens and I should let her follow me everywhere when she can walk – which is a lovely and romantic idea until she follows me into the kitchen and ends up with a cup of tea on her head.

So there we have it – the Baby Cage explained! :)

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Am I wrong to be appauled by this…

3
15 years ago
by dawniebrown in

Now I know I’ll never be the perfect parent and I’m not usually one to judge other peoples parenting techniques but on a shopping trip to Toys R Us today (we were searching for a couple of toys to encourage Zara to crawl), both myself and my husband stopped in shock and amazement when we came across a range of toys from McDonalds – a drive through set, a happy meal set and a couple of other things.

Now how on earth are parents supposed to encourage healthy eating when fast food restaurants are now branching out into “toys” which encourage them to play with happy meals, fries and burgers etc. Something about this just seems so so wrong and I’m surprised toys like this are allowed to be honest.

Maybe I’m biased because I don’t like McDonalds or fast food places anyway because both myself and my husband are vegetarian and will be raising Zara veggie aswell but I just don’t understand this at all. Would a parent really buy this for their child?

I admit I’ll give Zara the odd chip if we are out having a meal somewhere – like today for instance, we are doing baby led weaning and so she is used to eating what we eat, which at home is healthy meals mainly vegetables but if we go out we’ll occasionally get chips and give Zara once to munch on to keep her quiet whilst we eat our meals – I know shocking parenting ;) But at least if she grows up knowing that chips aren’t forbidden things or a special treat then she will accept them occasionally as part of a healthy balanced diet.

Sorry my little rant is now over – hope I haven’t offended anyone, each to their own and all that :)

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