After 3 months away in Penrith and Erina/Terrigal (Sydney) for work, we are finally home.
Its time to celebrate!
This was our view from our hotel room in Sydney on our last night before we flew home. Pretty cool huh. Nixie was obviously very excited. I think she dreamed of fireworks "Boom boom, twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle...' :)
It's a relief to be home in many ways - things I wont go in to on a public blog. Let me just say that as I had written about in an early blog post - social media makes it so easy to portray a very different image to what the reality is. By all appearances in our pictures it looks as though we have had a wonderful time - the reality is far from this unfortunately.
For our family's health and sanity it was definately the time to come home.
Since coming home though it was straight in to bathroom reno's. We had peeling paint in the shower that had to be stripped back, sealed and fixed while we had the opportunity of the bathroom being dry for 3 months. We bought some paneling for the walls and a new spout and shower hose - small changes to make a BIG difference to our grotty bathroom. When we have some time and money we really need to properly renovate the bathroom - but this was a cheap, necessary temporary fix that makes a world of a difference for now! I am so looking forward to a shower tomorrow night - I've been having sponge baths for 5 days now... eeek. I really gotta wash my hair. /:-/
While Simon was renovating the bathroom I have been sorting out Nixie's room. She and coconut #2 will be sharing a bedroom!
Introducing coconut #2:
So - I have been cleaning and moving and fiddling about. I have yet to steam the wall paper border we have on the wall which Nixie has so kindly picked at.........
Once I see what is underneath I will decide if I put a new border up or paint the room - Mum? Wanna help? :)
She now has a king single bed which she will be using once I have found some bedding and a guard rail so she doesn't fall out.
Her room looks much nicer now that I have moved storage boxes out and made a very small play area in there for her too. I moved the baby swing out and next thing I know I find Nixie like this, so pleased with herself:
I can not believe she will be turning 2 this month!
Last night she did her first poo in the potty too (sorry for those that think this is TMI - but this is my blog). She must be happy to be at home too and has settled right back in. She came running to me last night (just before bed) saying "poo poo". I asked her if she needed to go she says "yes" I ask her if she wants to use the potty, normally she runs a mile when I ask her this, she says "yes". So we go to the potty (she has two) and I go to put the toilet seat on the toilet for her and she says " no no laughing potty". She wants the little free standing Elmo one. So we plonk her down on the potty and proceed to have a very lengthy conversation amidst many pop offs about all the different animals that do poo poos. It's getting quite a deal past her bedtime, but I don't want to rush her because it seems as though this time she will go. Finally, success! She was so pleased and we are so proud, haha
So, now that we are home and settling back in - its onwards and upwards for us. Moving on from the negative and hoping and praying for an amazing second help of the year. We have so much to look forward to - birthdays x3, baby, Christmas, new year, bring on the good times. So happy to be back with family and friends again too!
xxoo
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