Monday Giggles

Hello! I hope you are doing well on this Monday, 12 September (already!!).

Enjoy today's funny!

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10 Awesome Things About the Winter Magic Festival

Last year I shared with you a post about a local event called the Winter Magic Festival (see here). Unfortunately I missed the festival this year as I had to attend an ante-natal class, so that was quite disappointing. However, I've created a very simple scrapbook layout outlining ten awesome things about the festival:

Credits: Background pp from In The Groove by Shabby Shoppe; Fonts - Kingthings Petrock, Wendy Medium.
This layout was also created as part of the My Album of Awesome Big Picture Class.

You can click to enlarge, however, here are the ten awesome things:

1. The Grand Parade
   
2. The exciting festival atmosphere
   
3. The amazing and varied market stalls
   
4. The diverse and delicious food stalls
   
5. The entertaining street performers
   
6. The infectious Samba music and dancing
   
7. The interesting costumes
   
8. The huge crowds
   
9. The colourfulness of everything!
   
10. The awesome fireworks ending an absolutely awesome day!
    

Hopefully I'll be able to make it to next year's festival and show you lots more awesome pictures! :D

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LSNED - Day 10

We finally used up all the Huggies Newborn size nappies yesterday and started using some Aldi Infant ones as there is a bit of a gap with the Huggies ones from Newborn (up to 5kg) to Crawler (6-11kg) size (plus they're a bit cheaper than Huggies!). The Aldi ones have nothing printed on them whatsoever and I realised today that I miss seeing the wetness indicator strip on the Huggies nappies (I also miss the really cute Pooh Bear graphics, but that's another story altogether. LOL). And that brings me to today's lesson: I found out that the wetness indicator strip only appears on the Newborn nappies and none of the other sizes. Darn - that's a good invention as it means I don't have to go rooting around in her nappy to see how wet it is! LOL

Finding out all these small things about baby products is quite amusing. Never in my life would I have imagined making such a fuss over a nappy "wetness indicator". LOL

Have you learned anything amusing lately or is there something in your life that you find amusing right now?

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LSNED - Day 9

Thank you Monika & Sian for your lovely comments and great encouragement after my post and awful day yesterday. It means so much to me and I'm glad it's normal to feel awful some days! Today was much, much better and I learned quite a few things today. :D

* I learned today that the same situation can turn out to be a hugely different experience for different people. I went to the first New Parents group meet today and we talked about our birth experiences. Each and every story was different and unique - some went through absolute nightmare labours, while others had a totally trouble free labour (like mine).

* I learned today that it IS possible for me to go out alone with bubby (further than just a walk up the road) and not run into disaster upon disaster! In fact nothing much happened at all except for the fact that I actually ENJOYED the experience!!! Getting her in and out of the car and to each destination wasn't a problem, even in the rain! And just the two of us having lunch? Awesome! :D

* I learned today that a cute baby really does draw lots of comments from other people. LOL

* I learned today that I really should learn more about the equipment I'm using. My mobile phone has two cameras - one in front and one in back. Little did I know that the front one is used more for video conferencing and thus doesn't take good pictures at all. :( I ended up with only two usable photos (the one above being one of them). After complaining about the terrible photos to hubby, who then explained WHY they were terrible, I then remembered that our point and shoot camera was in the backpack I was carrying with me. DOH!!

What a very fruitful day of learning! Maybe I should store some up of those lessons for those days when I don't learn anything. LOL Have you learned anything noteworthy today?

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Thankful Thursday

Some days finding the Positive in the everyday or finding something beyond the basics to be thankful for is really easy. Other days, it's almost like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Today is one of those latter days.

However, as I started to compose this post, God made me realise that I actually have it good and all the complaints and negativity that I was going to write just all disappeared. On the whole, Jasmine really is a good baby and if on days like today she screams (not cries) for a solid hour and a half, well, that's nothing compared to some other babies. And I'm just thankful that I don't have multiple babies (sorry Ali if you're reading this!).

Yes, I may be extremely exhausted.
Yes, I may feel frazzled beyond belief because of her crying.
Yes, I may feel like I'm at the end of my tether.
But hey, I did manage to survive today and I'll be able to survive other days like it. I just needed to take a step back and be thankful how Jasmine is now for it could be a lot worse.

Are you going through trying times at the moment and find it hard to be thankful? Or are you the opposite to me today and have upteen things to be thankful for?

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LSNED - Day 7 & 8

Source: xruamariex on DeviantArt

Day 7 - Today I learned (but not yet accepted!) that no matter how frustrated I get, circumstances are not going to change or things aren't going to get done if I just sit around hoping and wishing!

Winnie, PROCRASTINATION is thy middle name!

Source: dailyclipart.net

Day 8 - dealing with a non-stop screaming baby really does take a lot out of me. I'm soooo exhausted. :( (edited) I really can find something to be thankful for, no matter how bad my day may have been (see today's Thankful Thursday post).

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LSNED - Day 6

My first day at home alone with bubby again as Gus is back to work. I discovered today that it IS possible to cook something for dinner whilst looking after Jasmine by myself! A definite and much needed self-esteem booster.

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