Monthly Agenda / December

TUNE / NEED / MEAL / READ

After I started reading 'the happiness project' last month I was so motivated to start getting organised for the New Year, and I started making tiny little changes like cleaning up my bookmarks folder and going through all the links I had saved. I deleted a lot of the links/pages/blogs I no longer read or visit and made the list short and manageable. In the process I found a couple of really neat blogs that have become fast favourites and one in particular that I am getting well acquainted with is Elise Blahah's blog Enjoy It. Another blog that I've been loving recently is 'Oh My Veggies', a vegetarian food blog where I found this delicious looking brussels sprout and apple tart with walnut pesto recipe. I can't wait for Luke to whip that up on his next day off!

Today We..

started our day a little later than usual

after nap time we went out for coffee

and sat outside in the fresh air

with lots of daddy hugs

we did the groceries

and ditched our dinner plans to have Pimms cocktails and a cheese plate for dinner at home instead. 

Just wait one moment, November!

Romy & I kept ourselves busy throughout November, and without even having time to plan a 'what we did this month' type post, November closed up shop until next year. Time really does fly by when you're having fun! I started this month off with my first night away from Romy when I visited my cousin in Sydney for the night. It was hard being away from my little darling, but it was also a delightful evening catching up with my cousin. While I was in Sydney we had Indian for dinner and my cousin Jay doesn't eat rice with his so I tried it out too and I can't even believe I've been wasting so many good Indian meals mixing it with rice! Luke & I only get to eat dinner three nights a week together and we like to plan our weekly meals to make things easier, and Tuesday was our only night that we hadn't designated a dish. After this, we made Tuesday evenings our 'Indian nights'.

Romy had her first plane ride this month when we went to the Gold Coast to visit some of my family for my cousin's baby's first birthday and we all had a family Christmas dinner as we all won't be together this year. It was really lovely, and Romy LOVED being around so many people. I have an incredibly lovely family, and when we are all together so much is happening that we sometimes forget to stop and take pictures of the lovely moments we share together. That is why we are so lucky to have such a beautiful lady in our family Rikki, who takes the most delicately splendid photographs. She shared our weekend over on her business blog. Late last year I drew a custom illustration for her logo, you should check it out! And speaking of illustrations, last week I drew a custom illustration of a sweet little dachshund for Felicity's blog & website design business. 

Also this month my oldest friend Lara came to visit us to meet Romy for the first time, which was super duper exciting! Lara & I grew up in Gunnedah together, and rekindled our friendship when we randomly crossed paths in Newcastle a few years ago. Lara took some really sweet snaps of Romy & I on her fancy camera and it really got me thinking that I really really need to invest in a good camera and stop relying on my iPhone as the photos can be really grainy. When I visited my friend Ali & her baby boy Xander during the week we took a couple of iPhone snaps of us all together and they were really grainy unfortunately which only made me want/need an actual camera that much more, so that is one of the first things I need to save for in the New Year. 

During the month I also posted about four simple goals that I wanted to work on for the remaining weeks of the year and one of the priorities on the list was doing a couple of Romy's Firsts, which we did during November. The main 'first' I was focused on though was taking Romy on her first picnic, and this week we broke her picnic seal with our friends Renee & her baby boy Oscar. And they loved being out of their prams on the ground rolling around with each other. It was the only really nice day this week & so I'm glad we were able to spend it outside. I also made a start on a couple of my other 'simple goals' but I'm going to share those in the next week or so. So many lovely things happened in November, I can't wait to get stuck into a couple of our December projects and get into Christmas mode, starting with putting our first Christmas tree up!

Romy's First Picnic

Today Romy went on her first picnic, and she loved it! Every week we meet up with our friends Renee & Oscar for coffee and this week we changed things up with a picnic. For the past couple of months Luke & I have been trying to take Romy on a picnic to no avail. Either the frustrating Central Coast weather is an issue, or we have grown up commitments or appointments to go to and we can never quite make it happen. So when Renee suggested a picnic to get the babies out of their prams for our next coffee date, I was a little worried my picnic curse would get in the way. But today was perfect picnic weather! Renee baked some delicious banana bread and packed some berries,  and I brought the picnic rug and brought the coffees. Romy & Oscar loved being able to interact with each other, rolling around and sharing each others toys, it was so lovely to see them enjoy themselves. Towards the end of the picnic the wind was starting to get to Romy & Oscar so we cut the morning short, but overall it was a successful morning picnic! 

Little Bear Cubs

Today Romy & I spent the day in Newcastle visiting our friends Ali & Xander. Romy hit the 8 month mark over the weekend, and Xander is 13 weeks old as of today. When we visited a few weeks back Xander was catching up on some sleep and we didn't get much face time with him, but today we got to spend much more time with him. Romy was all over Xander Panda like a hot rash, she kept wanting to grab his face and hold his hand, it was all a little too cute! I can't wait to see these two little bears play & grow up together. It's very special when someone you're close with has a baby at the same time as you, it makes the experience all the more exciting!

Custom Dachshund Illustration / Pursuit Of Feliticy

Have you checked out Felicity's business website make over? If you haven't, I suggest you pop over and have a sticky beak at her new layout and see some of her recent design work. The cute little dachshund was a custom illustration I made for Felicity and I couldn't be happier with how he turned out!

Pin Of The Week

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My sister found these on Pinterest this morning and texted them to me.

Clearly Romy needs a pair of these for next winter, especially because she'll be up and about and and all good bears need warm feet.