Dummies are for dummies

And thankfully this week Thomas has all but kicked his dummy habit!

On Tuesday his chin had come up in a bit of a saliva rash, and drooling with his dummy in place was not helping! So Tuesday night I popped him to bed as usual, but couldn't see a dummy on his dresser and couldn't be bothered hunting one down, so tucked him in, kissed his head and closed the door. Not a whimper, grizzle or trip out of bed all night! Fluke?

So Wednesday I had his carer put him down without his dummy for his day sleep = same thing!

Wednesday night, no problem. Same goes for Thursday day sleep.

Speedbump on Thursday night - a 45 minute performance of crying, screaming and hopping in and out of bed! No dummy tho, we left his door open as a compromise, and it worked!

So we're 3 days and dummy free - amen!

Time for an update!

Now that my little boy is rapidly growing into a big boy, I decided it was time to update his bedroom!

He's been in a single bed all year, but it only had a neutral duvet because originally it was just our spare guest bed.

In the latest Kmart mailer there was the cutest bedroom set, and it was nice and cheap, plus the colours would work with the existing thermal backed curtains (our budget doesn't stretch that far!). So we trotted off to Kmart and picked up the matching sheets, duvet and wall canvas's. I refrained from getting the lamp, cushions and wall hooks (for now anyway).

It should look a little something like this:



Cute huh??

Change is in the air

I sat down last night and had a good hard look at our family budget.

Its been about 6 months since I did this last, and our situation has changed substantially (mortgage decreased, wages increased), but we're just not making headway with achieving our financial goals.

So after punching in all our expenses into the Sorted website, we discovered where we really should be heading in the coming months, and its pretty damn exciting!

Discipline is required, and we both suck in that department. So we'll be leaving our cards at home and using cash only, to remove temptation for unnecessary spending!

And after checking out the fruit and vege market in the city last Sunday, we're officially converted! Today we braved the rain and gale winds and for less than $20 got:
* Brocolli
* Potatoes
* Carrots
* Courgettes
* Spring Onions
* Pumpkin
* Capsicums
* Oranges
* Bananas
* Cherry tomatoes

The quality was awesome, and I reckon it was about half the price of the supermarket. So not only is this going to be good for the wallet, its going to be good for the body too!

Can you tell I'm excited?!