Saturday Style / Be My Guest

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After a short moving-house-hiatus from these weekend style posts I am glad to get back into the swing of things sharing my thoughts on the guest room. Now, while not all guest rooms I have stayed in have been a home away from home (I once slept on a mattress near someones pet lizard enclosure - which was an overnight hell for me because I hate reptiles!), I have stayed in some pretty impressive ones and that little bit of extra effort in the guest room made all the difference. Your spare room doesn't need to be decked out like a motel room, but having a thought out space & some extra manchester can go a long way. 

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The Friendly Month

Luke & I have declared this month as 'the friendly month'. What is 'a friendly month' you ask? Well, this month we are not going to bicker, or argue and we're making extra effort to be more considerate of each others feelings. And most importantly, spend more quality time together which at times can be difficult with a baby. It seems simple enough, but when you haven't had enough sleep, you have a crawling 11 month old trying to climb up on you screaming whilst you're trying to make breakfast - it is easy to lose your cool and snap at each other. Somedays I'm so focused on Romy I have to remind myself to be considerate of others & not just talk about Romy, because all day everyday she is my entire world & focus.

We're almost a week into our friendly month and there has only been one small impatient retort so far. It is not as though Luke & I are heading for divorce court - don't get me wrong we're still best buddies, we're just tired and cranky best buddies. So there will be no snapping, no raised voices & no short answers. We will be making more time for each other to sit and talk together rather than sit and watch things together, and not let silly mundane things bother us because we're tired. Let's get friendly!

April

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April is going to be a busy and exciting month! Romy will be turning one (so will her little friend Oscar Boy!) & we will be having a little birthday party for her, we have family visiting, it is my best friends birthday so I will be visiting her later in the month for a date in city with cocktails, Luke will be finishing up at his job on the coast, there are lots of house projects I would like to throw myself into, there will be lots of re-nesting and then there is getting back into the swing of things on here! After a stressful moving period I'm going to be glad to be the good kind of busy again.

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"a portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week in 2014"

This moving business has thrown Romy off her game a little, but not off her food thankfully! This afternoon she snuck an extra sneaky hour onto her midday siesta & woke up with a roaring appetite. While I put together her lunch she snacked on some super healthy banana bread that her Aunty Ash made, and then I almost lost my hand when I put her plate on the highchair tray! At the moment her most favourite thing is cheese. I usually cut one slice of cheese into smaller bits for her so they're easier to manage, but lately she has putting them all in her mouth at once! If she is eating something else and notices something more appealing on the plate, she will spit out whatever she is eating and replace it with whatever caught her eye! 

See You Next Year March!

This month I shared my love of the peacock chair,

I received a total surprise blast from the past in the post

I shared some things I'm currently doing and into

I reviewed these WaterWipes

And we soaked up the autumn sun at the park.

March turned out to be a busy month for us. I'm not going to lie, I was feeling quite defeated at the start of the month after we didn't get approved for a house I really wanted, and as much as I tried to remind myself it wasn't meant to be, I couldn't quite believe it. So I took a break from looking for houses and after a week or so more rentals were listed and on a last minute decision I viewed a town house that we got approved for the very next day! So our luck made a major turn around and after a few stressful weeks we are finally unpacked in our new place! Let the re-nesting begin!

March Links

I loved this post, and as a compulsive list writer I completely understand those kinds of days where your heart wins and your to-do lists become tomorrow's problems.

There is nothing more motivating than a post like this to help you step back and reconsider certain aspects of your life and what you don't want for your future. I wish I had found this blog sooner it is so incredibly motivating and inspiring. And not the picture perfect styled by sponsorship inspiring, the real kind.

March proved to be a great month for finding new blogs, and I even found myself following a couple of beauty blogs which I don't normally read. I really liked this one, and this one.

It is so refreshing to read brutally honest parenting and lifestyle blogs where you can completely understand what they are saying because it is happening to you now. Romy is starting to get serious about this teeth business and there have been some really bad nights and hard mornings. And I get what it feels like to be tired to your bones with a small, teething baby relying on you to keep their day going when you can barely think straight yourself, so I could relate to this post.

This month a group of incredibly creative mommy bloggers who have joined forces launched a new collaborative blog earlier this month, Wholehearted - a journal, which Practising Simplicity contributor Jodi describes as 'a celebration of motherhood'.

You just never know what treasure you might find at an auction, you might even discover a little bit of history!

Luke came across this wonderful website filled with healthy family friendly recipes & I can't wait to get stuck into making a few of them for Romy.

This AMAZING site never fails to interest me, and the more I scroll down, the longer I put off doing real things because I just want to keep reading on. If you like to read tid-bits about other peoples lives, you'll LOVE this!

Three questions to determine your long term compatibility with your partner. I guess I should have told Luke straight away I don't & will never like horror movies before we got married. 

My Happy List / March

This month Luke & I spent a considerable amount of time looking for a new rental in Newcastle, and after countless viewings, and driving back and forth from the Coast to Newcastle we finally found one! And to make the transition easier, our new rental has an almost identical layout to the house we live in now! I am really excited about our new beginning! 

Things that have also made me happy this month:

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