5 days to go

5 days until my surgery

I have done my pre op bloods, and filled in all my paperwork, so we are on the final countdown now.

I'm feeling really excited, but also quite nervous  a its a major operation.  I'm more nervous about how I am going to cope with a very active 2 year old ...

I'm sure I will be fine, I will just need to take it easy.

Looking forward to being able to go bra shopping....

Consultation

Today I had my first consultation with the plastic surgeon.  He is lovely, and I feel very safe in his hands.

Because I have already had a consult with him 4 years ago, there wasnt a whole lot that I didnt already know.....

Except that after 4 years, and 1 pregnancy my boobs are 4.5cm lower than they were...... (not a pretty thought)....... Even less pretty in real life..

I am a HH cup, and I have asked to go to a C or D cup.... Whatever he thinks is the most suitable for my body.

Surgery booked for the 20th November.....  Yes that is less than 3 weeks away....... Scary? I think so!...... 

Old Gal's

As usual, I am totally slack at blogging.
I do however, religiously check my blog reader and follow other peoples blog, but considering I have no followers, and very few profile views, I guess no one really minds..... Which is ok with me, because this blog is more a diary of my life (when I remember to write) so that I can look back when my children are all grown up and think.. wow... so thats what I was thinking back then.....

Anyway... I am going to be blogging about my new little journey I am about to embark on.

I'm getting new boobs.....

Anyone who knows me personally or on FB, will know I have ENORMOUS boobs. 
I have had big boobs since I was about 13/14 years old.   I was always known at school as "the girl with blonde hair and big boobs".... Something that I was not particularly proud of... but hey... you get what you're given right?

A few years ago, before I got pregnant with Harry, I applied to my health insurance company for partial cover for a reduction... and after a bit of confusion.... I eventualy got declined.....

1 pregnancy and 3 years later and I have VERY large... HH cup breasts that point to the floor... and I HATE them. 
I refuse to go through another pregnancy again with boobs this size, and although I had plenty of milk, breast feeding was very challenging.  Trying to be discrete in public while breastfeeding with J cup breasts was impossible...
I lasted for 6 months, and then gave up, as it was just so much hard work.

Today I have an appointment with a plastic surgeon. 
It is the same surgeon that operated on my sisters boobs, and the same surgeon that I saw initially when I thought that health insurance was going to cover me.

I am going to blog my journey through my reduction....  I am going to share before and after photos....  (afterall.. who hasn't seen a pair of boobs)?

See ya later old gals..... time for a new pair!!!

Home sweet home....

Moving overseas is no walk in the park

We have finally arrived here in NZ. 

I AM SO HAPPY!!!

It has been a hard few weeks, with so much logistical crap to sort out.....

You never knew you had so much S*&$# laying around, until you get packers to come into your house and remove everything. 

We are looking for a new place to live, as we are currently staying with my folks ....  which is lovely of them.... Im sure they will get pretty sick of a mad 2 year old destroying their house soon, and they will be nudging us out.. ....

Hoping our shipping arrives within the next 6 weeks... Im not particularly fond of living out of a suitcase

So I am still trying to loose weight... I have managed to loose 4 kgs since our holiday in Noosa, and so far I have kept it off...

I still have about 10kgs to go, before I will be ready to have my breast reduction...... woo hoo... bring on that scalpel!!!!

Home we go...

Farewell beautiful Australia... We have had a wonderful time here.

We fly home tomorrow, and I couldn't be more excited!!  Going back to what I know, and the familiarity of where I grew up .

E is looking forward to his new job, although he is fairly nervous....

Harry has had terrible behavior as he is so unsettled but hopefully that will ease off when we get back and into a new routine.

Will post plenty of pictures of our new life when we get back.

Official

Well it's official.  We are moving home on the 1st September!!!

I am pretty happy, and cannot wait to be back around family!!

I will be sad to say goodbye to all my lovely friends I have made here, but I am really looking forward to sinking my teeth into settling in NZ!!!

Can Opener

Never in my life have I owned a decent can opener....

We have for 5 years, struggled with a crappy can opener, yet we have never gone and bought a proper one.  Actually, I did buy Elwic one for our anniversary this year.... go on... laugh..... it was a whole $5 from Kmart, and it broke on his first try... (this was his only anniversary present by the way)


Some of you may speculate that we are at fault with our opening style, but this is not the case..


The opener does not grip properly, and slips all over the place.... I end up with major indents in my fingers from gripping the basterd so tight..... I then call Elwic in to help me, who proclaims that he has had a hard day, and he cannot cope with the opener tonight.....  (its like dealing with a tantruming child)

Tonight I really wanted tin fruit......

This was the end result.....  It took 2 of us, a fair amount of cursing, stabbing the tin, and me telling the halved apricots in juice that they should feel pretty flattered that I have gone to so much effort to eat them....
Elwic told me that I have to go out to the shop tomorrow and spend $50 on a new opener... he can't cope anymore...

Can opener.... you can go to hell......

Can anyone help?

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get my header ^^^^  to line up properly....

Is there anyone who could help?  It would be much appreciated!!!

Change of plans

Well we decided that we want baby number 2...  Thats great, and that is decided.... but we have also decided to just wait a little bit long until I get my breast reduction.

Yes a reduction.   I have  incredibly oversized boobs ( since I was a teenager) and they cause me so many problems....

Although its not totally ideal to do it before we have another baby, I just couldn't fathom the 9 months of back pain and extra pressure on my upper half from too much boobage... lol

So I am going to try and loose some more weight, and then once we are back in NZ, and settled I will have my reduction.  CANT WAIT!!!!

Really need to do a post on my little Harry... Who by the way is being the most gorgeous child in the world, and totally nothing like a terrible 2...... I am NOT complaining ;)

No #2

We have decided to try for baby number #2...

How on earth did this come around so quickly?..... Where has time gone?

If we fall pregnant in the next few months, there will be a 3 year age gap with Harry, which we think will be nice

I still need to loose a bit of weight... so hopefully I can still manage to do that before we conceive!.....

Sleepless nights, here we come

Noosa Holiday

So last week we went to Noosa on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, for a family holiday.  It was Magical!!!

We had a slight mishap on the way up to Sydney airport at 8 in the morning, when we were driving along the road and drove over a big block of metal in the road (we couldnt go around it) and it hit the underneath of our car, and burst a massive hole in our fuel tank..... which left us stranded on the side of the road... Not happy....

Fast forward an hour, a  lovely friend came and picked us up and drove us to the next town, where we paid $300 a ludicrous amount for a one way hire car to the airport, and made it with 5 mins to spare for check in.......

It was certainly a dramatic way to start our holiday.  Anyway, we made it finally, and we had a blast!!

Ate, drank, partied, relaxed, laughed, toured, explored, chatted, slept...... A true family holiday!!

 

Elwic and I on the shuttle bus from Sunshine Coast airport

Mum, Chloe, and myself at Noosa Beach

Dad, Chloe and myself

Steak and mushroom sauce with salad and potato salad for dinner. Was delish

My beautiful sis

Isn't my boy gorgeous?

Harry loves his Nanna!!

More photos to come..........

The monkey

I think I have the cutest child around.......  Decide for yourself!

Riding on his "wee-aww" with mums oven mitts

Hi!!!

Looking at the bats out the kitchen window.

Poser

Babies

I really want another baby

hmmmm

How did this happen?

Sunday Morning Breakfast

This morning I slept in late.. I needed it, as I didnt get to bed until after midnight....
Elwic got up early for Harry, and then woke me at 9 saying he was STARVING and we had no breakfast food in the house. He wanted to go out for breakfast...... I obliged!!

Opened the curtains, and what a glorious day.... Not a cloud in the sky! Beauty!

We decided to go to what is known by the locals in this town as "The Muffin Shop" at Mossey Point, which is about 15 mins drive down the coast from us.

We stopped by our friends house to turn off their electricity at the mains, as they have gone away on holiday and forgotten.

We drove to the Muffin Shop, which is set amongst bush in a little unsusupective suburb next to Broulee Beach

The Muffin Shop

They do the most divine sweet and savoury muffins, and the best coffee.

We sat in the sun, drinking coffee and watching Harry play, and had the best muffins we have tried in a long time.   I really wish I could get the recipe for their savoury spinich and feta muffin. 

One of the best Sunday mornings I have had in a long time!!

Out and About

                                       Harry and I, at the waterfront in Batemans Bay

The view from Elwic's office.......

Lunch with Nan and Pop when they came up to visit last weekend

Pop taking Harry for a walk down the waterfront

Elwic and I

The hunk-a-lovin I am married to!!!!

So much to do

There is so much to do when it comes to moving, but alas I am a pro at this now, so pretty well know what needs to be done.
This move will be the first move where we pay a moving company to do it all for us!....  It will be such a releif to know that people will just come in, pack everything, and take it away, and then it will be delivered to our doorstep in NZ!!  Fantastic !!!!

I'm tempted to get cleaners in to do a final clean so I dont have to trudge through 3 storys of house with a toddler who likes to make things dirty

We are in the process of sending all our forms and papers away for the visa.  We are hoping it all happens really quickly, and we can just get over there.

Going on holiday next week, which will be really great.  We both need a holiday, and are so looking forward to seeing the whole family!!!

The monkey is being a gorgeous boy.....  trying hard to please us... although he really knows how to put it on!!...

Looking forward to him spending a bit of time with the family too..... They miss out on so much, not being able to see him regularly. 

I have eaten way too much chocolate today... I blame it on stress.......now I am full of regret!....

Finally

Well it has taken since Feb, but Elwic has finally landed a job back in New Zealand.
I am so grateful, and the job he has landed is a really great one

We are now going through the visa process again, which I can't say Im too excited about, but looking forward to being back and being settled.

I wont continue on to study this semester, I will take 6 months off, and work part time when  get back to earn a bit of money and get ahead....

Looking forward to Settling, once and for all.....

Sick.... again

I have had a terrible run with head colds this year. 
Harry started daycare in Feb.. and he did not get sick once up until 3 weeks ago, where he caught a chest infection and had antibiotics.... I thought that was a pretty good run considering daycare is full of sick, snotty and coughing little mites..... 

Me on the other hand.... I have had a cold nearly every month.   I can't even say I am run-down or overworked, because I'm not...... lol
I have finished Uni, and now Harry is in daycare and I have time to myself to rest, and.... well..... do nothing for a while.....
And just aswell, because its no fun having time to yourself without a gremlin pulling at your leg, when you are sick

Here's hoping that's me done for colds for the year.....

Someone else can catch it next time.......

Another update

Summarised update of our life:

- Decided in Feb to move back to NZ
- Still currently looking for work
- Had 3 lots of vistors come and stay
 - have completed my first semseter at Uni
- I LOVE studying commerce!!!!
- Harry is getting so big, and talking lots
- He has snapped out of a terrible tantrum throwing stage (thank goodness)
- We are going on holiday to Noosa in 5 weeks

Here are some photos of Harry at 20-22 months

At the Zoo with Nana, who came to visit. Harry 22 months

Harry and Nana at Mogo Zoo

Having snuggles with Nana while she is on the phone!!!!

Being super cute!!

Another week down...

Well what a week, it sure was fun, but chaotic and full at the same time. We said farewell to our beautiful friend who came to stay with us. We celebrated and remembered the ANZACS who dedicated their lives.... Spent the day with Nanny and Poppy, which was lovely despite an unbearable child who made my day living hell.... I completed a major management presentation that weighted 20% and think I did really well, and spring cleaned the house, as it's for sale and we had an open home today. So now Harry is in bed, DH is watching a movie And I am enjoying some time to myself. I would really like to do some baking, but the kitchen is so spotless and clean, I can bear to make it messy again,so I might pass on the baking today. It's only calories I don't need anyway. Looking forward to normality this coming week. I have a few major assignments due over the next couple of weeks so I need to knuckle down and get some work done. Still really hoping that DH lands a job with this company he has applied for. It's really hard not to get your hopes up, as it would be perfect...... Buti am going to try and not think about it for now, and just take what comes. I am always a believer that if you don't get something, then something better is out there for you. I was planning on blogging today about my challenges I have been having recently with Harry, but he has been so sweet today, and all the bother, and headaches he has caused us in the past few weeks all melts aWay when he giggles and plays, and says thank you and please and is just generally really sweet. He is a good child, and I know that. He is just outrageously strong willed.... And the continual resistance gets me down sometimes. I'm so grateful for such a great husband. We are a good team, and think we are both catching on to this parenting gig pretty quickly..... I'm off to hunt for something sweet!!!