 yellow roses for each other. They remind us of peace and each other and with growing family’s and age and everything else that comes around that is a nice thing to have. Right. Reminders?
Darling Beth, I think I’ve finally grieved all that is Lance Armstrong and “Livestrong”. The colour yellow was all everywhere in the blogging world about 8 years ago and we were all making yellow things in the honour of Lance and other cancer patients and I think if you gave me this bag I could finally put it all behind me and love yellow again!
Years ago I went on a girls day out to the races. I made my dress and decided to match my shoes and bag. Found a yellow clutch and could not for the life of me find matching shoes. After weeks of searching I ended up finding some cream shoes and painted them the colour I wanted. Beautiful bright yellow! Of course at the end of the day, the paint I used had coloured my feet, stockings and there was minimal paint left on the shoes. But it was an awesome day and I looked smashing!!!
 I fell inlove, which means maybe I’m cured!!!  So I’m really excited that maybe I’m cured, despite whether I win the bag or not! Hip hip hooray!
its yellow – tick love it … But really after the last few days here on the Sunny Coast there’s been nothing doing but rain, rain and more rain. So this bright happy sunshiney yellow gorgeous bag could be just what’s needed to keep everyone’s eyes off my messy and muddy shoes n toes – you see I like alongside a little creek at Eudlo that twice broke its banks and created a new watercourse through my backyard. The only way out is to trudge through it – yuk yuk yuk! Ok I’m done cause you will pick someone else anyways – happy Sunday To you all!
Wow Beth – glad it you and not me picking the winner!!! It is a funky bag and it is great to see women promoting other women that are having a go – so often it seems that women are succeeding in dragging down someone who is having a go!! Thanks for the opportunity to win the funky yellow bag!!!
Yellow to remind me of the sun that has been M.I.A in Sth East Qld for the past 4 days or so!
Love the bag! I’ve been looking for a new crossbody bag…love them because as a mummy, I feel that my bag is safe when wrapped around me. The colour is bright and funky. I’ve been told I’m ‘mumsy’ lol, so this would be a great change for me.
This bag is gorgeous! Thanks for being a kind soul and thinking of us. I too love the colour yellow (who doesn’t.) It adds a splash of happiness wherever it pops up, and we could all do with happiness popping up around us during our busy days!
Yellow. I adore you.
I have yellow shoes, yellow hair (so my youngest tells me) and a yellow splash back in my kitchen.
Oddly and perhaps rather morbidly, at around aged 10, I wrote a will requesting that my ashes are to one day be scattered through a field of beautiful yellow sunflowers in France of all places! How very ‘on trend’ was I back then!
So, It’s clearly in my blood, hence my absolute necessity to have this beautiful yellow bag!
Stunning! Love. Want. Need. And…….it’s YELLOW!!! My fave colour! If I won this I would be the shizzle! Let’s face it….my daughters Cotton on Kids bag is just not cutting it for me anymore!!!
Oh, I love this bag. It’s like a little POP of sunshine. I would love some sunshine in my life at the moment. It is my 40th in three weeks time. I really wanted to plan something special for the big four 0, but my husband was retrenched a couple of weeks ago, so a nice quite birthday it will be. Thanks for the opportunity to win something so special. You rock Beth!
Yellow reminds me of my childhood. Daisy chains, seasaw, slippery dips, slip and slide, lolly snakes and sherberts. Would love to bring those happy memories back to life!!!
Your posts always cheer me up, even this one and I never win anything, I’ve got other skills, it’s cool.
Yellow makes the heart sing!
Yellow makes compliments!
Yellow is friendship!
I Love that bag!!!!
Reminds me of my 21st where the theme was a touch of red. So I wore yellow to stand out!
it’s a little morbid, but i now realize that i’ve gone through sort of a grieving process regarding a’s breastfeeding/my lame milk supply. there was denial, bargaining, guilt, and plenty of anger. most recently, there was some depression and i shed more than a few tears over the issue. but i think that i may have finally reached acceptance.
my supply is not going to magically double.
i cannot keep up with her needs 100%.
my freezer stash is dwindling.
she WILL need supplementation.
i haven’t clicked ‘subscribe & save’ on a big case of enfamil just yet, but i see it in my future. and IT IS OKAY. and this time, i really mean it.
even though it pains me to walk past this sign on the way to the lactation room twice daily, i am going to continue to get what i can for miss a.
i am still going to try to breastfeed as much as possible.
i am still going to take expensive herbs that probably make me smell like IHOP.
but i am NO LONGER going to beat myself up when it’s not ‘enough’. i’m going to stop the mental tally of oz drank vs. oz produced, as i’m always in the red and i don’t think that’s going to change.
instead, i will applaud myself for the fact that a) annabel got 6 months worth of ALL b-milk and b) i will still be providing her with benefits even if it’s just a portion of what she gets each day.
and i think that having one of my trusted colleagues reassure me that she is thriving and that i already ‘won’ by getting through 6 months really helped. she is happy and developing so well. and she will continue to do so on a mix of breast milk, real food, and yeah — formula.
dress credit: expertly knitted by my mom with yarn from my sister’s store.
finally, i’m just realizing how fast this all goes.
i do not want to look back on this time and just remember being sad/obsessive about this issue – which admittedly i have been – especially since it is SO tiny in the grand scheme of things, anyway! a. is healthy and beautiful and everything i could have asked for. she needs her mama to be happy too — and focused on HER beyond just our breastfeeding relationship.
i love my little muffin.
and she will love me back no matter how i provide her nutrition over the next 6 months. when she is 5, i won’t even think about all this for a second. and so, it’s time to move on. i’m ready. i’ve reached acceptance, and it feels... good.
 Also, you’ve stuck with what’s been a really hard and frustrating situation for longer than most people could. A. is healthy and clearly very happy and you’re the reason for that. Don’t beat yourself up…you’ve done and are doing a great job!
You really have "won", and then some. Glad you have reached acceptance- don’t be surprised if you sometimes relapse a little; I certainly have! I love the picture of her in the dress- what a wee beauty!
Happy to hear you’ve gotten to a place where you’re feeling better about it. Annabel is absolutely adorable!
Yay for not beating yourself up!! So proud of YOU!
You will completely forget the whole ordeal the first time she draws a picture of you… in red sharpie… on your med school diploma :). You are doing a great job.
You’ve done great. Breastfeeding (oops, I wrote "breakfast" first) is not easy and there is no right or wrong way to do it. She’s doing great and I think you’re right about letting yourself be happy and just enjoy her at this age instead of worrying about milk supply.
Six months is something BIG to be proud of, mama! Way to go!
That poster makes me cringe. My son was a preemie and spent a while in the nicu and they had posters everywhere about how breastfeeding was EASY! CONVENIENT! FREE! which I found particularly obnoxious since most (all?) nicu moms pump and pumping is none of the above. You’ve done a great great job so far and A is too cute for words.
I exclusively pumped for my son for 9 months and it was such a relief to (recently) stop and switch to formula. We still have frozen stuff at home but send him to day care with formula because it’s 100x easier.
Rock on! Miss A. is lucky to have such an awesome mamma! You’ve done everything you could and have given her such an amazing start in life. You should be proud!Vig