An image just like that...

one of my favourites at the moment!

It's Sunday

Well, I have done my translations! The relief I feel when it's done is very close to happiness actually. It's like I have written a book and now it's all done and it moves on to my editor (in this case my husband who proofs my work) and I can lean back for now and relax.

Sort of, I have to do housework now... I wish there was a day when I truly had done everything and could just sit down with a clear conscience and not do anything. I doubt though that this day will every come, so in the meantime I have to sit down and not do anything and feel guilty about it.

Breakfast time

As I mentioned before, mornings and hence breakfast can be very early here. I am not a morning person, never have been. It takes me ages to properly wake up, to get my behind in gear but when you have a child (and three cats) you sort of have to jump into action if you like it or not.

Organising breakfast is a challenge: I stumble downstairs, usually carrying my daughter since she refuses to walk down the stairs first thing. All the way she will call "Hoops, I want hoops", which means that round cereal which pretends to be healthy while in actual fact it isn't. But it is quick, she loves it and she eats plenty of healthy stuff in the day. That's my excuse anyway.

I usually stumble back into the kitchen, the meows from the three impatient feline creatures get louder and louder and stagger to my tassimo to make the first of many cups of coffee a day. I tend to feed the cats first, as I always have this slight worry that otherwise they might just gang up on me and god knows what they would be capable off.

I know this sounds stressful and believe me it can be - especially if a dead mouse/bird is thrown into the mix. Still, there is something lovely about my daughter first thing in the morning, she usually wakes up in a good mood, gives me a cuddle and we giggle and say silly things.

One of my favourite moments of being a Mama.

Potty training

Why wasn't I told how blooming difficult this is?

Today's highlights: none (regarding potty-training)

Low points: too many to mention, but the most definite low point was when she got up from the potty (without doing anything) declaring she was going to wee on the rug, which in fact she did and said "funny"... Arghhh

I got so desperate I paid and downloaded the 3 day potty training. But she said to stop 30 days and then start again. Not sure, how I would cope with a screaming toddler not wanting to wear a nappy!

Hence, tonight, I needed alternative therapy in form of some "grape"-juice and BONES season 2 (love Bones and first episode with Stephen Fry in it... yay).


Still, dreading tomorrow especially as I am going to see a friend and her new baby tomorrow...I know, I know you should stay in while potty training, but please I get claustrophic, I need to get out...

I love the weather!

and a picture

I am currently doing a photography course at the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham... I love photography and was able to take a decent picture, but it bothered me somewhat that I had no technical knowledge. I am not quite sure, why it bothered me, but it just did. Overall, the course is interesting and has been very useful to me, but it has to be said that if you start analysing pictures you love, you might end up liking them anymore... at least for a while. I've decided to like my pictures and not care if anyone else likes them. I take them for myself and my family, I am not getting paid to do it.

This picture is just playing about with my recent acquisition of a 50mm prime lens, I use a D40 so have to focus manually, which requires a lot of training. I found that trying to focus on patterns is quite good to get used to manual focus...

Gotta dash...

Melsa