Saying Goodbye. My 2014 in pictures!

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So we are saying goodbye to 2014….

and hello to a shining 2015!

And I can not believe how quick this year has gone by!!! I mean it is going by so quickly, and I haven’t even finished my Christmas Shopping yet!! I have 12 months notice and I’m still racing around like a lunatic 3 days before!

When I look back at 2014, I think about all the wonderful things that have happened. It was the year I tuned 40! I got to spend the whole weekend in a hot tub in a Cottage up in Barry’s Bay with my favorite people! It was marvelous!

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I spent time in the summer with my wonderful family in England and surprised my mummy on her 60th Birthday! Her face was so magical when she saw me standing in the doorway, I will always remember that moment forever! photo (2)

During my visit in England I also conquered two of my greatest fears, heights and water….at the same time! I went on a Long Boat trip on the Llangollen Aquaduct in Wales. I will be doing a blog post on this day in the New Year but here are some terrifying pictures of it to give you the idea! And yeah that is a shear drop off the edge of the bridge! Lets just say wine at 10am was needed that day!

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What else happened……Oh yeah my youngest daughter started Junior Kindergarten, how did that happen?!photo (3)

It’s been quite the year! And of course my business could not have been the success it is without you! So most of all I wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you! Thank you for your comments, photos of your little ones and most of all thank you for supporting handmade. I am looking forward to 2015. There will be new products, new offers, giveaways & more, I can’t wait to share these with you all.

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So I am sending love from my little family to yours! I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a fabulous New Year!

Love Dionne, Barry, Ellie, Lottie & Alfie the furbaby!xoxo

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The day my Bra exploded!

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Reader beware, this week I am talking crap….quite literally!!

It was just an ordinary weekend. We were out doing a bit of shopping and browsing around. It was late August and I was 8 months pregnant with our second daughter at the time.  I was big, hot and just downright miserable and not really in the mood for looking at shit for the sake of getting out of the house! I wanted to stay at home sitting on my fat ass eating cheese, but my darling husband had other ideas. Our first daughter Ellie; who had just turned 3 was with us and was still in pull ups at the time (this little nugget of info comes into the story a bit later!)

As we are walking around I notice a funny wet looking stain on my shirt. My heart stopped; ‘oh my god I’m lactating!!!’ I thought. I was starting to think maybe I brushed against something in the hardware store we were in. But now the stain was getting bigger! ‘I must be leaking!!’ I thought. I had to change. So I went to the nearest store, bought a t-shirt and went into the family change room. My little girl wanted to come in with me. This was fairly typical every time we went anywhere. She was just learning to use the toilet like a big girl and every dirty germ infested public toilet seemed like a great place to put her put newly found pooping skills into good practice! Although encouraged by the prospect of not having to buy friggin pull ups anymore, it could be a little frustrating. Especially when we would get into a store and get all the way round to the opposite end of where the washrooms are and she says ‘I need the toilet Mummy!’ Oh gawd!!

Once I was a meany green beany and asked if she could hold it till we got nearer to the toilets. She said yes. She lied. I ended up cleaning shit out of her rain boots all afternoon. I learnt a very valuable lesson that day! But I digress!

So I get into the toilet take my top off and realize, MY FRIGGIN GEL BRA HAD EXPLODED!!! I’m covered in this horrible gel substance from tata’s to tummy! Holy numchuks, so now I’m trying to wash my floppy udders in the sink whilst my lil girl is swiftly getting on the toilet. Little knownst to me she had already macaronied her pull up and has painted herself in it! I mean it was everywhere! All over her legs, the seat, the bowl everywhere!! I’m going crazy at this point, I’m standing here in a public washroom half naked covered in silicone and toddler shish! I’m freaking out, how am I going to get this all off??? Then the little monster turns the light out on me! Oh great, now I’m naked, covered in excrement, in the dark perfect! Once I finally find the light and get cleared up and get out of there I realize I must have been in the there almost 45 mins!!  It was a nightmare!

I apologize for sharing this level of detail with ya, but I’m sure you can understand my anxiety! Its a day I will never forget and quite the story. In fact its one of those stories. You know, the ones that ya bust out at parties and totally embarrass them when they are older. Yeah I’m looking forward to that! What’s worse I had to throw out my bra and spent the rest of the day subjecting everyone who looked my way to my great big pregnancy boobs flopping about all over the place, yikes!!!!

As a mother I have many poop stories in my repertoire, what mother doesn’t right? We all have at least one that springs to mind, but I promise to only share this one!

If you have any stories that are stressful, funny, ridiculous, unbelievable, supernatural or crazy, then please feel free to share them here! I’d love to know I’m not the only one going slowly going cray cray out there!

Dee. xxx

Back to School already??!!!!!

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Its been a while since my last post and I apologize! I have no excuses. Its not like I was away on a dream vacation in the South Pacific or I won the lottery and have spent the last few months travelling the world. Nope! Sorry is all I got!!

But I know that all us Mums are probably not looking forward to starting the school lunches again!! What is it about them that drives me so crazy!!? I mean I’ve been making my lunch every day for the last few months but now I have to make extra it just bothers me!! So to make it a little easier I’ve found these great ideas of 32 school lunches!

http://www.food.com/slideshow/back-to-school-lunch-box-ideas-111

And the winner is…….

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LOUISE VUKAS!!! Congrats Louise and thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway!!! Next month I will be doing a ‘like & share’ style giveaway on my page for a Valentines Stroller Strap Cover and Belly Bar set so don’t forget to keep checking my page for updates. Also coming soon (which I’m really excited about!) my first newsletter!!

Till next time,
Love Dionne xoxo

Have you ever had one of those moments when…….

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You look out the windows to check your kids are playing nice with each other, only to discover they are eating dirt?!!! Yeah…this was the scene one day earlier this year when my little toddler beast fell in the most soggy muddy part of the garden!! Cool.. Now those pant are ruined and there brand new!!!  And I’m not sure what’s wrong with this picture, that fact that she is getting more dirty by lying there, or the fact that we as parents felt the compunction to get the camera out first before we helped her!!!!

But, I pre-soaked and washed them and got the stains out!!!

What was your moment? Please feel free to share your kids funny stories l’d love to hear them!

Love from the Mad House!

 

IT’S A BOY!

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The Royal Baby finally arrived and it’s a boy, congratulations Kate & William.

So the winner of the ‘Guess the sex of the Royal Baby’ giveaway is………………

JULIE ROBEN!!!

Congrats to you too Julie, you unisex toy tether is on its way to you! Thanks to all that played!! Lets do it again soon!