Baby Shower!

It was a gorgeous hot hot hot last of the summer days day. March 12th and ma strung bunting through the trees in our back garden as I laid out plenty of rugs and pillows and Lou sliced up the worlds best home baked chocolate fudge brownie in the Kitchen.

Chris arrived in her usual whirlwind of energy and ran about successfully completing all the things us Tyler / Connolly’s (powles and harrows) unknowingly leave half done, while simultaneously baking sausage rolls and dutifully tasting my iced tea and strawberry punch and making much needed suggestions (seriously, sometimes I feel exhausted just watching Chris)

Clare arrived with Asparagus rolls and after telling her about my last run in with the midwife (The week before Diane had got me to place my hands either side of the babies head which is now thankfully down in my pelvis and no longer breech, at which point I just about died with fear because the head no longer felt like a cricket ball but a giant telly tubby) I unsuccessfully tried to get clare to feel it too so she could share my terror. Instead she poked and ahem’d until I said, ‘now I think you’re just prodding my vagina’, which made us both laugh and promptly stop. HA

  

My best friend in the whole world (except for all those other best friends!) was over from Australia for a wedding and the girls had expertly arranged it so she could be at the baby shower, yey! Little things like this really do make your day.

Opening some of the most delicious presents. We’d asked for “no plastic’ after reading this awesome woman’s blog who I call ‘sarafarmaramamumma’ (see link on side of our blog) who lives out on a 3 acre lifestyle block in Colorado and suggested that….

‘to work towards a more eco-lifestyle we consider everything that we bring into our homes and think of them in terms of – if there were no landfills would I be happy to have this item composting at the bottom of my garden?.

So, no plastic, or as little as we can. It does slightly detract from all the cool toys people can buy you for the newby but we received some excellent and well thought out pressies from everyone.

Ma and Cass relaxing in the hammock

My lovely sister and I.

Aunties, where would we be without aunties. I particularly like looking at mine, Aunty Sheryl, Aunty Christine and Aunty Dotty. They are all strikingly fashionable and well read and easy to talk to, such good role models.

Lou’s little Leo and his red balloon. 6 months old already!!

 

Cass and Sara’s boys Sebastian and Rueben.

As always, thank you to the wonderful women in my life that arrange these things for me, always with a touch of class, a heavy dose of heart and a good emphasis on relaxation and uncomplicatedness. How would my life work without any one of you?