So 2011 is almost over and is tradition for this time of every year, I have been reflecting on the last 12 months and looking back with the help of my blog as to what I got up to.
was a struggle being pregnant and so huge with it. I struggled to get comfy in bed and it was tiring during the day when spending time entertaining and playing with Burton.
I was excited but very anxious about introducing a new baby into our home and was worried how Burton would handle having a new brother or sister. Still he knew where the baby was going once it arrived!
March
Arriving 10 days early, on the 30th March Jenson was born and I had another beautiful baby boy and a little brother to Burton. We went from a family of three to four and all of a sudden my almost two year old seemed so much more grown up and bigger – almost over night Burton seemed to change into a boy.
April my blog celebrated it’s first blogaversary. I had my first Mothers Day as a mummy to two and Burton got on with life as a big brother.
I was still surviving on very little sleep and I was noticing that Burton was showing more signs of those terrible two’s and I was feeling the stress and guilt of being a tired mummy to two under 2! We decorated Burton’s bedroom with a Toy Story theme and to this day this is my highest viewed blog post (I get hits on it every day!).
I turned another year older and I held my first ever blogging carnival with Emma from A Matter Of Choice with the theme of potty training. There was also my breast feeding post which I wrote for breast feeding awareness week, where I was pleased to share my experiences of as it not an easy subject to tackle as it spurs very strong emotive responses. I also wrote about Burton and his assertive toddler behaviour.
July marked Burton turning two
and I also wrote about his birth story at last. At this time with him celebrating his second birthday I also wondered if his lack of talking was something to be concerned about. I also had a tweet up and my first blogging event at the Luminarium where I met ‘the Boy’ and ‘me’ from TheBoyAndMe and Karen and her girls from WouldLikeToBeAYummyMummy.
I also wrote about a subject which as it turned out seemed to strike a chord with a number of people about my lack of sex life following my second baby and how I had lost my ‘sex mojo‘.
August
Burton started his potty training and it was a success (yay!). I went to my first blogcamp at Bristol (where I met some lovely SW Mums – see my blogroll) and met up with Helen and her family from The Crazy Kitchen.
November
I signed up for NaBloPoMo and I have to say that this month was my best month for blog post writing and I feel I wrote some of my best posts to date. Posts ranging from rants about housework to my boys and their age gap and how I don’t want to try for a girl, to discovering I was pregnant for the first time to my struggles with parenthood to toddler olympics and a toddlers take on potty training.
December
I started the month by signing up to another month of posting everyday but it was a struggle with Christmas looming, illnesses, a trip to Butlins and all the other christmas preparations! In the end I stopped on Boxing Day and enjoyed a few days without blogging at all!
So here I am after a good year with lots of changes in my life and on my blog and all for the better, I am pleased to say. I have discovered that I can write about topics close to my heart and ones that other people can relate to. I have made new friends and met some of them through twitter and blogging and read some wonderful blogs and posts.
Thank you for stopping by and commenting and supporting Mummy Mishaps, and thank you also to my boys who inspire me to be the Mum I am and the kind I want to be and who give me ideas for posts!!
Happy New Year and here’s to 2012 I hope it brings you happiness, success and whatever you wish for.
Thank you xx
Happy New Year to you all!! Button and Jenson have grown so much over the year. I love the pic where B is stroking Jensons head 🙂 hope to read many more posts of your lovely boys!
Great summary of the year!
Lovely summary of the year, I was going to do one but I couldn’t muster the energy hence the cheat’s version with the photo slideshow 🙂
Happy New year to you xxxx
I love that picture of B in his nappy and wellies! You’ve had such a busy, fabulous 2011 and it was such a joy to meet up with you twice. Here’s to an even better 2012!
These are all such lovely photos. You’ve done well not to fall into the second child trap, as I have. (when you have millions of pics from your first child’s infancy, but way less of your second child’s.
Must rectify that this year.
Hi we are doing Johns room with a toy story theme so far we have duvet covers and curtains but you got anymore ideas as we are struggling to agree as tom doesnt want wallpaper so i suggested just the border and some stencil type things but tom aint having none of it any ideas on how you have done tours and i can see if can get tome to change his mind as john loves toy story but is starting to play up at bedtime and i think a toy story theme will cheer him up and hopefully help with the bedtime routines. Thanks xxxx
Such a lovely look back at your year and I love all the photos, especially the one of you all lying on the floor looking up when Jenson was tiny. Happy new year! xx