Let there be blogging!

It's 2:30am and I decided about half an hour ago to start a blog.

Yup, that's an introduction to me in one sentence. My best ideas come when I should be sleeping.

I had actually been thinking about starting a blog for quite a long time, you see I like to talk, a lot. I have a lot of different things going on in my life and I like to verbalise them - don't care who too. For the most part my beautiful partner/fiancée/father of my children Matt gets the job of listening to me. I realised it was time to look for other victims tonight when he fell asleep on me mid conversation....we weren't in bed or anything, just talking in the lounge room....guess that doesn't bode well for how entertaining this blog is going to be, but try to bear with me I actually think I  have a few interesting anecdotes to tell.

Words to describe me - stress head, clean fanatic, wine lover, pink girl and mother.  

                                                                                                                 

These are my two girls, Alice is 5 and Madeleine will be 1 in July. I used to think life was pretty good, I was pretty content. Then I had these two little bundles of pink and I realised life was nothing before them.

I had Alice when I was 21. Matt and I had only been together a couple of months. She was a happy surprise, but boy did she change our lives. I don't remember much of the first three months after she was born...what with all the screaming (me not her) toy throwing (me not her) and not sleeping (both of us) it's a bit of a blur...but somehow we made it through it.

This blog might focus a bit more on Alice than on Maddie. Mainly because Alice has had many challenges in her short life. When she was 2 years old we started to notice she was different from other children her age. She was barely saying anything, a few random words and nothing consistently. My background is in childcare and I knew something wasn't right and so started a  roller-coaster of doctors, paediatricians, speech therapists and early intervention methods. We are still riding that roller-coaster and I don't think we will be off any time soon.

Alice has started school this year though and is loving it. She is the best person I know. Happy, loving and a lover of life. You cannot help but smile when you are with her. Maddie is much more sensitive than her big sister but she still has that cheeky smile, is into everything and has just decided she MUST start walking at not even 10 months old.

This is Matt and I. He is my rock. He knows how to calm my worries (and I worry a lot) and keep me sane - well relatively sane. We have been together 6 years and we are getting married in September. I do like to keep busy so when I'm not cleaning the house, attending meetings/therapy sessions for Alice, spending time with the girls/family, studying my primary teaching degree I certainly have time to plan a perfect wedding...right? Right! If there's one thing I know how to do it's plan and organise.

If my words aren't entertaining I'm sure my slow descent towards insanity will be.