It's the 1st March.  I have completed my first ever Photo A Day Challenge.  I have enjoyed planning and shooting my photos each day. 

Here are my favourite photos from the month.






















I think I might just have to do another month soon!

I listen to my children more than anything else.  Even with music in the background it's hard to hear anything other than their daily goings on in my house.  I think when you become a mother your body adjusts your settings to a new default:

THE DEFAULT MOTHER SETTINGS

• You don't sleep as well- any mother with a coughing child will hear every cough, all night! 
• You worry more- big things, little things, most things!
• You hear everything- Quiet children are plotting trouble so it's best to hear everything
• You see everything- My children call this super Mummy Vision and it is basically the ability to see through walls, you need this, trust me! 

Today me and Alfie have been cutting and sticking!  What better than shiney coins to add a bit of bling to the collage. 

I have never understood how people stick to diets where carbs are a no no!  I love pasta.  My family love pasta and I use this to my advantage.  A packet of 3 minute cook capellini can soon solve a dinner time dilema and there is something quite special about that feeling where your middle is full (not too full, thats just uncomfortable) and happy with a tummy full of pasta! 

Don't get me wrong, I love spending time with my children but I also love it when they are asleep!  They don't cause mess, noise and trouble when they are asleep.  The look angelic, peaceful and perfect- right up until 6am, when they wake up and stomp around the house demanding things! 

It's green under there- somewhere! 

Organised chaos is how I describe my bathroom cabinet.  I don't wear makeup everyday.  Most days I simply reach for the pomade to ruffle the hair and tinted moisturiser to make me less English Rose and more Sun Kissed Goddess (who am I kidding!). 

The lesson of the day is don't leave your flip flops on the floor when you own a puppy! 

My work is my home.  I am a mother, a wife, and a home maker.  I enjoy my job.  I sometimes miss the conversation of adults during the day and I certainly miss being a Butcher, but I know I will do it again, one day.  I am just not willing to miss my kids growing up.  I am very lucky that we are in a position where I can be at home with my children. 

The photo is of my book case.  Every book you see here is a cookery book.  Obsessed, me, no way!  You should see how many my Mum has! 

I am just married in this photo, posing in the trees outside the Church.  I loved my hat, I loved that it was different and I suit hats.  It was an amazing day!

It's never the cooking for my family I find difficult, its the planning.  Its being inventive, different and not falling into a pattern of same meal, same day!  I write my weeks meals and base my weekly shop on my plan so I can hit the supermarket only once a week (in theory). 

This is the view as I peer out of my bed.  I don't hate much in my life but getting out of bed with my early risers (kids and puppy!), is up high on my unhappy list.  Oh for a lie in!