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Living a Truly Blessed Life · 16h ago

The cold wind blows

It seems Melbourne has turned the corner into winter. A short few weeks ago we were still having sunny days in the high teens/low twenties. But yesterday was a day of steady rain and winds. Hello winter. Of course, with winter comes illness. This week has been a doozy for that at Chez Thommo. It [..
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Living a Truly Blessed Life · 1d ago

Sleep and babies

There’s been a bit of debate at the moment about the ebook “Gift Of Sleep” and to be perfectly honest, it makes me sad. First up, I have NOT read the book so I do not know what strategies they use so I am not even going to discuss it. What I am going to [...]
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Living a Truly Blessed Life · 6d ago

Bloggy mum bliss

Yesterday I attended my very first blogger event, if you’re on Twitter you may have seen the #big4mno hashtag flying around. Obviously I don’t have anything to compare it to but wow, wow, WOW! First of all, the accommodation and facilities at Big 4 Bellarine Peninsula are far and away the best I’ve
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Living a Truly Blessed Life · 1W ago

Poor Dad

Every time I go somewhere with 1 or none of the kids and I’m asked where the others are I get “Oh poor dad” or “aren’t you lucky”. This happens at the doctors, at kinder, at the hairdressers etc etc etc. And it gets riiiiiiiiight up my nose. No one says “oh poor you” every [...]
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Living a Truly Blessed Life · 1W ago

A Birthday and Mother’s Day weekend extravaganza!

Phew. It’s Monday. I can sit on the couch for a bit. We had an amazing weekend but it’s been quite a busy few days in the Thommo house so I’m relishing having nothing to do. Well, that’s not entirely correct, there is plenty of hosuework to do (isn’t there always?) but I’m ignoring that for [...]
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Living a Truly Blessed Life · 2W ago

Online shopping

I’ma  HUGE fan of online shopping. I first tried online grocery shopping when Lew was a babe, just seemed easier than taking a 2 under 2 to the grocery shopping. Yeah, I laugh in the face of my old woosy self. When I was pregnant with the twins I converted. I could barely walk to the toilet [...]
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Living a Truly Blessed Life · 2W ago

Good School Hunting

Sigh. I cant delay it any longer, Jack is 5 on Sunday and will be off to school next year. So I really need to take my head out of the sand and you know, decide which school I’ll be dropping him at each day. I’ve been avoiding it. Quite frankly, it scares me. It [...]
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Living a Truly Blessed Life · 3W ago

Post dinner crazies

Each night after dinner my children go a bit crazy. It’s like they have to burn off every last possible ounce of energy, it’s noisy, it’s boisterous, there’s running, squealing, jumping…general drive your parents nuts-ness. That’s why I jumped at the chance to do a review of these 2 bath products (p
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Living a Truly Blessed Life · 3W ago

Mother’s Day hinting

Mother’s Day is less than 2 weeks away now. The pressure is definitely on Thommo thi syear to make it special.  You see, this year is the first year since Jack was born that Mother’s Day and Jack’s birthday coincide. Jack was born on Mother’s Day. Yep, I became a mother on the day we [...]
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