november love

Disclaimer: I've been in the process of writing this post for about a month so it's all over the place, I guess it comes with being a new mum. Or I'm just really disorganised. Oh well, onward and upward!

My favourite time of the year has come and gone! The weather has started to warm up amidst rainy days, plans for christmas celebrations and gift giving are on my mind, and I've celebrated turning 25 years old as well as 9 years together with Adam (we started dating in 2001 & married last year).

I am so amazingly blessed to have such a wonderful husband and gorgeous little girl. Adam is such a great support and help to me, always loving and sweet and forgiving (yes, I do dumb stuff sometimes!) and supportive, that I could not imagine my life without him. And Nova is simply flourishing, smiling and giggling, cooing and blowing raspberries, and about to cut her second tooth already!

I loved the idea of having a list of things I'd like to do before my next birthday and was inspired by Elsie to do the same. Here's my list: 25 before 26 (work in progress).

Often I feel that if I don't have any pictures to post that I don't remember anything of importance to share here (or I just don't remember). I have definitely been taking photos though, some on my Diana Mini but most on my iPhone and posting them on instagram. If you're on there, please friend me! Username: owlette. Instagram is seriously the best photo app I've come across ever. I've been using it to take photos of Nova daily, I'm hoping I'll make it to 365!! I'm also posting them to my twitter and flickr accounts. Here's a few previews:

Introducing Nova

I'm listening to the rain outside and our little girl breathing lightly as she sleeps. It is music to my ears. I think it's about time I introduce you to her:



November Rain
Wednesday 7 July 2010
at 12:52pm
weight 3.29kg, height 50cm


Now let me explain the name. During the pregnancy my husband and I decided we wouldn't find out the sex of the baby. We started making a list of both girls and boys names to have ready once our little baby was born, complete with middle names too. As for passing on a name, if we had a boy Adam wanted to pass his name on as a middle name like his father did with him. I didn't want to pass on my name, it was MY name! I didn't want to share. ;) But I did want to pass on something about me.

For as long as I can remember, November has been my favourite month in the year and for various reasons. My birthday falls on this month, it's close to the end of the year which is full of family and celebrating, the weather starts to warm up, and my husband and I started dating while back in highschool. And as for Rain, I also just love it! It makes everything look and smell fresh and new, it's relaxing to listen to and feels great on your skin, but most of all it's a blessing and brings life on a parched dry land. It such beautiful imagery!

I have to admit, much to the disbelief of most people who know us, we honestly didn't know that there was a song by Guns n Roses with the exact same name. Absolutely NO CLUE! It was only a few months before she was due that I thought to google her name to see what came up when I was directed to the music video on youtube. But we had already fallen in love with it, and figured that Nova would make for a great nickname anyways. And if she becomes famous she'll already have an awesome name :)

I just absolutely LOVE her! She is such a little blessing and has enriched our lives more than I could have imagined. I just love watching her spend time with her daddy, and all the little smiles she's started giving us are simply amazing.

'afternoon tea' challenge: lemon meringue pie

Last Thursday I had my first run at making lemon meringue pie. The recipe was actually pretty easy and consisted of three parts: the base, the filling and the meringue. I was a bit worried how it would work out as I'd never made any of these before but I found them all really simple to make and the result was surprisingly really yummy! This is definitely something I want to bake again. The best part? My non-lemon-loving hubby liked it so much he had seconds.

It's 2am, I feel wide awake and hungry (crazy pregnancy). Scary things happen when staying up late in Aussie summer! I'd forgotten how many flies and bugs will swarm towards whatever light is kept on in the dark of night. The last time I remember experiencing this was back in high school days, which is over six years ago. Now I feel itchy and paranoid that they're crawling on me..

On a happier note, my sister-in-law gave birth to adorable Abigail Jane yesterday! Despite attempting a natural birth, after 24 hours in labour she had an emergency C-section. I had expected this to scare me but instead, after looking at her baby's gorgeous little face and watching her yawn, I absolutely cannot wait to give birth and meet my own little baby despite all the pain that comes with it. You can see a photo of baby AJ here.