Mock my cheese and jam at your own risk.
Ok, I don’t cry, really.
Realise husband will be home any minute. I tidy my hair and put on some concealer and mascara so he doesn’t come home to a wreck. Set feminism back 40 years.
Dad comes home and reads a story and sings some songs too. I sit on the floor and yawn for 10 minutes straight. He offers to take baby on the walk I was going to take her on so I can get some rest. I flop face down on the couch for a while before putting the kettle on and coming to blog for a bit (hello!).
I get halfway through my tea and ten minutes on the iPad and they’re home. I drag myself off the couch and get outside for the first time in the day. It is to buy nappies.
Finally get to knit as I’ve been dying to all day while watching Roseanne. Get through about 10 minutes and realise I’m falling asleep. It is 8.50pm.
This is wonderfully honest. I have days just like this too.
They are very LONG! But thankfully, not all that common xx
Hpon the new look is AMARSING!!!! Your food looks delicious and your family are adorable! I love you. xoxoxoxo
LOVE your new look. Very you! Adorable. x
Aw thank you! You should know. It feels right 🙂
Oh Miss VeggieMama. HUGE love to the new look.
and special endorsement from Miss 4 (who was looking over my shoulder) “looks like yummy food”.
Love it.
xxx K
I love the new look, the doily and beautiful old tea cup are just gorgeous. And I totally get days like this, my Little Miss woke up at 4.15am today and then went back to sleep, but mummy is still awake. Loved taking a peek into a day in your life – thank you. Amy xx
Love your new blog! Suits you and your welcome / introduction is perfect. My days often go like this and you are absolutely right – good thing they're cute! My sister has four boys, a three year old, twin 5 year olds and a 9 year old. Her household is a spectacle that's for sure. She's a saint!
Loved this so much!
Seriously love the commentary on this, especially the MAC photo (can relate to having bells and whistles but no idea how to use many of them!)
There are definitely days when you do so much yet achieve so little…know that feeling! LOVING the new blog look! Did you do it yourself???
I love this post! I actually exhaled a sigh of relief when there was finally a photo of a sleeping baby.. I hope teething doesn't last too much longer! xx
hahah I'm pretty sure I felt the same way at the time! She seems like a different baby right now, back to her old self again 🙂
I took all the pictures and designed the header, social media and picture tabs… and the sidebar. Everything else is the talented work of Sass at MooZoo designs 🙂
I was just thinking of you! Was making a blog roll and putting you on it, only to see you've popped over and said hi. Hi!
Wow, a saint probably doesn't even cut it! she must be EXHUASTED.
I'm pleased you liked it! Yes, when they go wrong, they go seriously wrong, haha xx
That's hilarious, as it was the laziest food in the history of Veggie Mama. Hi Miss 4, thank you!
Love the new look Stacey! x
Your photos are always great, do you use a good camera?
Read this on my phone, in bed, this morning at around 8am and had to come back again now that I'm in the land of the living on a computer. I love this. What a fab insight into the glamour world of the Veggie household. Still gorgeous. All of you and your photos.
I'm struggling to decide in my own head what the new bub will be called, Veggie two? Veggie BabyS? That's a sad iPhone joke, but REALLY! Is there a fixed name? {Help! Am doing my head in here. Haha}
Thank you! I do… I have a Canon Rebel T2i, which is the American version of a Canon 550D. One of the loves of my life, but it's broken at the moment and I'm very, very sad.
You still did what you had to do:) Sounds like a bit of a 'slow down' kinda day. Hope your bubs gets over her teething quickly
Haha nope, I'm just going to go with Abby and whatever this kid's name is! I can't think of anything funny! I just oooze, glamour, no?! heheh xx
I love the flexibility of being able to ignore eveything and just hanging out with my kid when she needs me. Tomorrow is another day!
Loving the new look and this:
I tidy my hair and put on some concealer and mascara so he doesn't come home to a wreck. Set feminism back 40 years.
Made me laugh like a loon.
Those poor suffragettes. Worked so hard and all.
Loving the peek into your life, and the blog makeover! xx
Love the new digs!!
Oh first trimester with a toddler… how I do not miss thee!! SUCH a killer energy-wise. But now that he's 2.5 and she's 1, I'm still eating cold food on the go, one-handed. Sigh.
aw thank you! I love change… sometimes 😉
Thank goodness I'm over it now! It's pretty killer xx
oh how uncool is it that we spend our time begging for extra sleep while they spend their time fighting it. when oh when will they realise how amazing it is?
Love the new look but please not too many pics of the Veggie Mama – we cannot compete with that 🙂
Are they mental? Sleep is the BEST THING EVER.
Haha, fear not, they will be a rarity. And probably with messy hair and unbrushed teeth, just like this one 🙂
God I am exhausted for you, that is most definitely a long day, especially with teething and first trimester fatigue to deal with. Heres hoping the teeth come through quickly. Love the new look blog and I am a huge fan of any cheese/jam combo particularly philli cheese and blackberry jam on toasted turkish, ooohhh yeah!
Oh my gosh, I have not tried that! I'm totally doing it this week. Yum 🙂
How snuggly does your cat look! I bet we all wish we could swap places with him 🙂
Love the new look to your site! xx
I am totally crushing on your new look, so adorable. And damn you, I do not know anyone apart from you that can actually look totally hot whilst brushing their teeth. If you weren't so damn nice I would be hating on you 😉 I am exhausted reading your day, feet up and relax hun…stuff the bathroom, youre baking a bub! Xx
Ugh, these days are the worst, & the best. I think people who work from home have excellent child care, I just don't see any other way. Hugs xxx
btw, my hubs loves cheese & jam on toast & we ALL mock him! 🙂
I would just really like to have read something like this before I became a Mama.
Just so I was aware of how exhausting {some} of the days can be. I realise this was a particularly exhausting one, but honestly {& I am embarrassed to admit this}, I went into motherhood BLIND of the exuastion.
And i am so bloody exhausted.
And I am NOT growing a second baby.
Kudos to you, you amazing human. Seriously.
Kudos.
exuastion is French for … exhaustion.
I'm comin' atchoo from night shift.
Hence the damn 'exuastion'. Say it with a French accent 😉
haha! what a day!
This cracked me up. All the different expressions you captured on Abby's little face are priceless, especially the first one in the cot, where those little eyebrows are all “maam, why you doin this ta me?”. And the part about her accidentally biting her own finger? I lost it. I suppose the fact that I found this post amusing is representative of the fact that I am yet to have a baby of my own. Thanks for sharing this, it's very sweet.
Ok, I wasn't laughing at the fact that she hurt herself when biting her finger, just the adorable things that babies do!
LOVED this post! Loved getting an insight into your day, and know that I am not alone on *those* kinds of days.
A day without knitting is a TOUGH GIG!
PS this totally cracked me up!
Oh when she sits with her little legs crossed, wringing her hands? I could die she's so adorable. I'd bite those fingers too haha xx
haha no, we are a community of harried mums at times! xx
I get a lot of rest on the days where she's not a mental case! I had a good idea I would be catatonic for the first year, but to be honest I've been very fortunate. She has not been hard work at all, so I take these days with a whole lot of extra patience… they don't come around often.
You, however, working nights must be a basket case! I do. not. know how you do it xx
You cruel family haha! Tell your husband I will stick up for him and we are awesome, and if the French do it, it MUST be good!
I'm so grateful these days are so rare, the kid has been a gem lately… back to her usual, placid, sunny self! And I agree, there must be something that entertains small children while parents work at home. That is a tough gig.
Aw thank you! My cat is fricken awesome.
haha OMG I was laughing SO hard at this post! It's literally what every day of mine and my daughter's feels like – especially as she's going through her second lot of teething. Can't believe I haven't discovered your blog before – LOVE it xxx
Baha! How different is this day compared to your work day! I’m at this stage now and I relate to everything in this post. Loving how you are keeping it real! X
Oh cute! That quilt is cute! xxx