Call me irresponsible

Well not me personally, I just liked the reference to Michael Buble!

Anyway, who I would like to call irresponsible are dog owners who don’t pick up after their pooch. As a new puppy owner the first lesson in being a good mum when taking your puppy for a walk is to pick up after your little darling. It’s not that hard to take a plastic bag with you and scoop up any little eggs that your furry friend decides to leave on the footpath during your walk.

But of course there are numerous people, well basically bad pet owners, that just don’t clean up after their pet. I was totally gobsmacked, yes gobsmacked, when I got home from our walk yesterday & was informed by the other half that a lady had pulled up in her car down the side of our house and let her dog out to take a crap (sorry gross I know) on the grass, then drove off giving my other half a dirty look for looking at her like she did something wrong.

I’m sorry but that is beyond despicable. Having a pet is like having a child. If you’re not prepared to look after it and take responsibility for it then DON’T HAVE ONE. Plain and simple.

Well I’m glad I got that off my chest.

We have our dishes & towels for 2…

We have pots & pans, and oven mitts too. So what do you get for the Bride & Groom whose house is setup in every room?

No matter what type of wedding you are planning there are always going to be tricky situations when you may just offend someone. Not because you are a mean person, but weddings just seem to provide a plethora of situations where you just don’t know what to do.

Take the whole gift registry / wishing well argument. For those who don’t know a wishing well seems to be quite a new thing for weddings where couples ask for just money instead of gifts. I always thought that we would have a wishing well at our wedding. I’ve lived out of home for nearly 8 years now and future hubby he’s, well he’s much older and has lived out of home for oh nearly 21 years! So as I’m sure you can imagine we both have enough stuff to more than fill our house.

We have had mixed reactions to the question of money over gifts. Some don’t mind either way, other’s believe that giving a gift is much more personal and don’t like giving money and other’s can see the practical side of money.

I too like the idea of a gift from someone, however when sitting down to think of things to put on a gift registry I found my list somewhat blank.

Our house is full of everything we need and I wouldn’t like to put things on a list just for the sake of it. So I hear you ask, well what would we do with money instead? Glad you asked! Plenty of things! Currently we’re about to extend our house, not a cheap little exercise. And instead of a guft registry we could use the money to buy things for the bedroom and bathroom as we find them, possibly all at different stores.

Originally I wanted to say no gifts or money. The fact that people have made an effort to come to your wedding, with many people having to travel, I truly believe is gift enough, but once again we are back at that yucky place of possibly offending someone.

So, where to from here? Good question! Thankfully I have oh roughly 10 weeks to decide before the invites go out!
Oh the joys of planning a wedding!

Flicking the mummy switch

When is it that we actually make that decision that we want to become a mum?

For some people becoming a mum is just a given. From the time they could walk and talk and play with dolls there was no question they’d grow up to have children.

But when is that actual moment that you make a silent promise to someone who doesn’t yet exist that you will in many ways give up the lifestyle you have always known, become completely selfless and care for that little person 24/7.

For me, I was always one of the little girls who always knew I wanted to have children. As I got older I had decided in my head that 30 would be a great age to start having kids. Enough time to study, have a career and of course have some fun!

Now as I sit here and write this at nearly 26 I find myself thinking that maybe I am closer than I thought I would be to wanting to become selfless and sleep deprived!

The drive of working through the ranks and clawing my way to the top of the career ladder is slowly leaving me, and I find myself more excited about playdates with our niece, having a pretend BBQ with our nephews and hearing all about what my little cousins got up to at school.

I completely understand that having your own is entirely different but when that desire to be a mum switch is flicked on in your head and your heart there’s no going back.

Part of my early onset baby wanting I think can be attributed to the age of my future hubby. At 12 years older I am very aware of not wanting our kids to grow up with an ‘old’ dad. Which brings me to my next question, how old is too old to become a Dad for the first time?

I think I’ll ponder that and leave it till next time!