Life is What Happens When You´re Busy Making Other Plans

My great wardrobe reveal is delayed…

Baby picked up my eye bug and we haven´t had a very happy household today. I feel so awful that he got it from me. I spent most of today just holding him as he was crying a lot and think it will be a long night cleaning his eye as he wakes.

I hope to resume normal service asap.

Oh, yes, I´ll still do my Wednesday weigh-in though I have been eating loads from stress today.

Here´s to counting my blessings and a night snuggling in bed with my little sweetheart as I try to make him feel better.

Filed under: Family

Minimal Baby

I started sorting out mountains of baby stuff today – I feel after three children, I should have a handle on what it means to be minimal with children. A handle on what I do need and don´t. There are a lot of things I bought for the other two, and resold again on ebay nearly new – at least I have those mistakes out of the way.

I also know that I can make do with what I have and don´t need to buy a new solution for every problem. I rushed into buying a lot of things in the past thinking they were going to “change my life/ my parenting” and they didn´t of course

I have a washing machine, its spring and things air dry quickly so I don´t need thirty or forty outfits for him at this age. Nor twenty blankets. Nor twenty or thirty rattles and baby toys. I wonder where they all came from….the answer – most of them were in storage and a few things received as gifts. However, I can honesty say to people that I don´t need anything and mean it

I feel positive about continuing to declutter even with an extra body in the house – I can run a tighter ship, I can, I know I can

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Baby is jaundiced and we had a very distressing blood test today with another one scheduled for Thursday morning. Hopefully the reading is better in two days so we don´t have to do it again. Otherwise all is well – he is very chilled and so am I

Filed under: Family, Home Matters

Little No-Name Baby….

I am now on the hospital´s wifi system since an hour, which is nice as I am staying another 48 hours here to “rest” . I am lucky I am not in a country where they are going to try and get rid of me early, however I can stay the full five nights.

I am fine now except for a lot of pain getting up and down. The first 30 hours after the c-section was pretty awful though, though the care here has been wonderful except for the lack of painkillers freely given out- no morphine drip like I had in Australia, just Voltarin! But I am managing without anything now. I would love to go home today in a way, but know it would be chaos and also no bed with remote controls to go up and down to lessen my pain on rising and sitting again.

One of my friends took the above photo at just over 24 hours old, he´s still not opening his eyes much though. Needless to say I am head over heels in love.

Thank you for all your good wishes!

Filed under: Family

It’s a Boy!

Just a quick note from my phone . I had a boy this morning at 9.29 German time. 4.25 kilos, 9.3 lbs. 60 cms long. No name yet. Thank you for all your kind thoughts, I read them on my phone as well. I am very sore and need more pain medication, not given out too easily here… I look forward to catching up on all your blogs later in the week.

Filed under: Family

Baby Shower Saturday

I received these beautiful spring flowers from my husband and daughter today after they returned from shopping. My daughter picked them out herself and she told me they only cost 1 Euro! I questioned that and she said, no, it was written on a leaf….I suspect a digit was missing.

I am off to my baby shower soon and quite excited, though I have a bit of a problem in my head about the fact I will be bringing things home without having completed all my baby based decluttering yet. Not that I am expecting a mountain of things (its a small shower with my Munich friends), but I need to do justice to my soon to be new arrival by having the baby corner and drawers “nice”.

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UPDATE: Had a wonderful day with my incredible friends who spoilt me rotten. I feel very blessed and loved.

I received an equal amount of useful and beautiful baby things as well as consumable, non-cluttering pampering things for me .

Filed under: Family, Friends

Does Anyone Else Not Get Anything "Done" on Weekends?

I just know I won´t get anything done this weekend with the family “home”. My husband is usually only here on weekends and with the kids home too, I can´t seem to manage anything more than keeping on top (just) of the kitchen, picking up toys (or rather directing the kids to do so) and doing laundry. I have little incentive or motivation to declutter anything with lurkers or helpers (not). Decluttering is something I like to do alone.

Having said that though, I am training my daughter to not get upset if we need to throw something away (trash or broken) or put it in the charity or sell pile. I want her to learn good habits from me (but why didn´t I pick them up from my tidy and organised mother? hmmm, maybe its a lost cause). She can help me declutter her belongings and learn we don´t need to/can´t keep everything for a rainy day and its nice to have space to see what you have and “play” (that goes for me too).

A random shot of my bookshelf which I struggle to keep neat- I love books, but I am not allowed (my rule and some of them are my husbands) to own any more that will fit double stacked on this shelf- then I purge.

Filed under: Decluttering to get my life back, Family, Media storage