Thank Goodness for the Easter Holiday

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It’s Amazing how in such a small space in time your world, your perspective, your attitude and your aspirations can change. Forever.

In one month I have left the stay at home circus to get on board the career train and oh my, it’s a scenic and eventful trip. The kids are loving their kindergarten days and we are all cherishing the moments that we have together.

I have just done my first week of placement and I know that the worst is over. I will be going back to a familiar place after the holidays to teach students that I have already met. Big weight off.

The only real downside is that I temporarily burned out. I was a zombie for 3 days and I am now suffering an eye twitch, sinus infection and general feeling of brain fog.

Thank goodness it is Easter. I am sure that chocolate will fix this condition.

So anyhow, I have decided to post some images of the things that we have done at home. To take me back to that time, only 4 weeks ago, when I had no idea what ‘busy’ really meant.

I hope that you all had a fun and restful holiday x

cardboard cubby house

Cardboard cubby house x

meeting my new ‘niece’ LOLA x

Peace x

Peace x

ok I admit it I have been avoiding you!

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ok Blog, heart-shaped radish, however you prefer to be addressed, the thing is… I have just been so busy. I will make it short as I am sure you do not want a long-winded report on the ins and outs of Robyn world. I’ll apologise as I have to admit, its me not you and truthfully I have been avoiding you of late.

So … where to start

life changing events

I am booked in for a tummy tuck in March next year, yes a tummy tuck. I have had confirmation from the plastic surgeon that I have done all I can do to improve my condition and now it is up to the surgeons to fix it all up and make it pretty again. Now I know that you might ‘tut’ and roll your eyes and say why can’t you just be happy with your saggy skin and your beautiful kids but honestly I have tried.

I am attending university again. I am now a postgraduate doing a diploma of education in visual arts secondary level at Monash university Melbourne. 

So I am embarking on a new journey, one which will lead me to being a confident and energetic Art teacher!

I have abandoned my MOMprenuering although I am still running the beautiful toppers wedding and celebration cake toppers with my mum. http://www.beautifultoppers.com.au 

The children are in full-time day care.

There is a lot of adjustment going on at my place at the moment and things are well lets just say… A BIT CRAZY!!! 

But once I am happy to be exhausted because I have found my path, the kids are not traumatized by day-care and my husband is proud of me.

So bring on craziness I say and just do it, even if it rocks the boat and hurts a little bit.

PS. I promise to be a better friend in future. Oh and just one more thing, I am still on a mission to create tasty and nutritious treats (that are easy and quick as time is more precious than ever now)

Here is a picture of a tomato that I grew in my garden. I thought that you of all strangely shaped things would appreciate it.

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Here’s to a healthy and stress free Christmas x

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This year my family have decided on a healthy, no cook on the day approach to christmas lunch. Platters and salads all round. We are all striving for a healthier lifestyle at the moment so this will be great. This takes away so many negative factors as well. Such as Dad trying to prepare raw meat with a hangover ( this has been a disaster in the past, I wont go into it) Kids running around Mum’s feet whilst she is trying to prepare hot food on the day, most of the day being taken up with prep and cooking and lots of dishes to be done. Plus a lot more of the food will be raw and bursting with fresh, nutritious flavour.

Being a try hard organised house wife I have started the preparations already. Cherries are super cheap and awesomely sweet at the moment so I have tried out a new cherry and sour cream muffin recipe today for the freezer. (but if they turn out really yummy they might not make it to the freezer) they are in the oven as I type, fingers crossed.

I’ll come back to this post after the taste testing!

A FEW DAYS LATER!…

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Well its taken a while but here I am. There are no muffins in the freezer, they were delicious! The house has been decorated, post has been sent overseas and now I am a working mum again! A job just in time for starting the new year. Such a blessing. I will be working from home as a graphic designer for an e-learning company. I am so excited.

Plus three new veg box’s full of seeds!


http://bulladairyfoods.com.au/recipes/r790_sour-cream–cherry-muffins.php
  click this link for a great recipe x I put cinnamon on top for a more christmassy feel and I used stevia sugar (natvia). Plus I used a natural light sour cream.

I also left out the choc chips.

Here’s to a healthy and prosperous 2013 x

Stepping up my game!

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Ok …I fell off  the fitness wagon

I was doing so well and then my baby turned into a toddler and then I had two very busy very time-consuming excuses not to work out.  Apart from a weekly zumba class I have been mostly imagining myself as a fit person.

I have not lost the muscle repair that I gained from doing physio so at least I have that.  But this mama needs a flatter stomach! I am only 65 kilo- and 5 ft 6 so that means any protruding abdomen is going to make me look preggers and prevent me from wearing the clothes that I love.

So anyway after a long whine to a friend who runs a cosmetic surgery clinic and dreaming of winning the lotto I  stumbled across something life changing. I can’t even remember how now. It feels like a divine intervention.

This something or someone is Lynsay Brinn and she is my new best friend.

She is a real mum (mom) with three real kids and a she is a fitness expert. She has tailored workout DVD’s for diastasis recti.

Why didn’t I find this 12 months ago!!!!?


http://www.lindsaybrin.com/

So anyway I have made a vow to work out for 365 days and if I am not happy with my tummy by then Hubby is going to pay for me to have surgery. I have a review with the original surgeon to discuss this.

here I go, day one done. I am feeling really proud of myself.

If you are looking for an inexpensive plan that you can fit in around the kids you should go and check out www.momsintofitness.com which is the company that Lynsay put together.

You can find out more about her journey to fitness at her blog.

And finally…Thank goodness to for those little things that kick you in the behind, get you out of a cycle of hopelessness and make you step up your game.

Thank you Husband for being honest and supportive, Thank you internet for introducing me to moms into fitness!

 

http://www.lynseybrin.com

http://www.lynsaybrin.com

Life is Scary…

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So happy Halloween…….and welcome November.

New month new beginnings for me.

I took a long hard look at my life today.  My health, my relationship and my dreams for the future.  It was intense. I got stressed so I aggressively kneaded pizza dough and then
ate a whole pizza for lunch….phew. I dragged myself to the chiropractor and found out that I have been ignoring some serious issues for 10 yrs. Gave my self a smack on the hand for neglecting myself and vowed to get it sorted. I also sent off the final part of my application to return to study next year so that I can teach visual art.
My 20′s were for reckless abuse of my body, mind and heart and now my 30′s are going to be the decade of recovery, re focus…rehab basically!
It’s so easy to get lost in your efforts to please everybody else and to live up to their expectations. You forget yourself. When I turned thirty in september I stopped and thought, hang on a min, what do I want?

So I applied for a uni course, took up zumba classes, made some new friends, re-connected with some old ones, saw a chiropractor about the problem I have been ignoring, and some other positive things. It feels good.

Some issues are so deeply woven and engraved that they can not simply be described on a tick list and therefore can not be solved by making a simple change. But all we can do is acknowledge them, face up to them and try to either build bridges or cut our losses and move on.

Life is scary.  Making decisions is scary. Facing the truth is scary.

You have to take charge.

I love something that a friend of mine said recently when consoling someone about their anxiety issues. She said “you have to take charge of it before it takes charge of you”. So true

ahhhhhhhh anyway that’s all a bit heavy.

I hope that you all enjoyed your witches brew and worms spaghetti and you got treated, not tricked.

The poor pizza dough that got a beating!

Nobody Fabulous or extra ordinary was ever completely sane… Agreed?

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Well that’s what I tell myself when I am having a day of well lets just say, the crazies.

Anxious, hormonal, sensitive, depressed, clumsy and a little bid mad.

I am writing this post so that next time I wake up on the wrong side of the bed in a world that frustrates and upsets me, I can come back to it and be reminded that in order to be fabulous and maybe even a genius, there has to be dark days or diva days if you like.

I have to accept that although I am doing all the right things and taking responsibility for the effect that my moods have on others, there are days when it all goes a bit pear-shaped and I want to hide.

So all I am saying really is if you have days when you just cant pretend that your feeling awesome and everything is great. The days when you can count all of your blessings and still feel fed-up and frustrated then …I hear you. I just had a day like that.

Dont worry, it’s probably because you are really smart and a little bit fabulous x

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn

Imagination

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

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