Family | But I Smile Anyway...

Being Creatively Modest!

16 Jul 2015 49 Comments

by Ritu in Awards Tags: Acceptance, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Crative Blogger, Family, Thankful

It’s been another busy day in the teaching and parenting life of Ritu, and I came home to another lovely surprise from my Moon Blog Twin Sister, Erika, who has nominated me for the Creative Blogger Award! Thank you so much sis! Every award you nominate me for is a blessing! Pleas go check her blog out, it’s just awesome!

Here Are The Rules:

Nominate blogs and notify the nominees.
Post the link of the blog that nominated you.
Share five random facts about yourself.

Facts…

I am currently nursing a still sprained ankle, a iron burn on my arm, and a grazed toe… total clumsy clutz, me!
This time 2 years ago I managed to slice my toe on the bottom of a chair at school, walked around with a shoe that became a pool of blood, got it patched up, fainted, ended up at the hospital, fainted again, and now have a lovely scar for the memory! my BP dropped to 74/40…. But it’s ok, Peeps! I am ok now!
I used to visit the local A & E regularly as I used to walk into things on a weekly basis, and my poor little toes… they have really taken a beating from my awful co-ordination!
My first aid box has slowly turned into a large drawer full of plasters, bandages, antiseptic creams, as I am no the only clutz in the family… I passed the gene on to Lil Princess! At least she hasn’t had any hospital visits…yet!
I once gave myself a black eye, by misjudging where the sink was in our bathroom! I was getting up, after picking something up from the floor, and as I came up, nose made contact with sink edge… OUCH! I looked great! LOL!

Nominees…

This award, and nominations, I dedicate to my online blog family!

Judy

Rich

Rob

And thanks again to my darling sister Erika!!!! ❤

I’m In Love All Over Again!

04 Jul 2015 49 Comments

by Ritu in Children, Family Tags: Aunt, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Family, love, Nephew

The day I have been waiting for, for, well, 7 months was finally here today!

I was able to meet, hold, cuddle, play with, and generally love my baby nephew, our Finnjabi baby!
Oh how I have longed for this day!

They were over from Finland for a few short days, on the sad business of my brother’s best friend’s funeral, and stayed on a few more days, and we wanted to meet them all, so off we went to London today.

It was a most emotional day for me… I have countless ‘nephews’ and ‘nieces’ via my 6000 (slight exaggeration!) cousins, and their kids, but my Lil Finnjabi is MINE! By that I mean, my real flesh and blood, my brother’s offspring, and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a tad emotional the moment I saw him!

He looks at people he hasn’t met before, and the sign of approval is a touching of the face, and we all got that from him! But 6 hours wasn’t enough! That’s not even an hour for each month he’s been alive!

We were with him through 2 messy mealtimes, a trip to the park, and bath time.

I wish I could post a photo of him, but like me, his parents are not fans of putting personal pics of children on any media, so I can’t even physically share him with you, but I can describe!

Big, huge brown eyes twinkling from a cute little tanned skinned face, cheeks not so chubby, but enough for you to want to eat them up. A perfect nose and the gummiest smile, showing two teeth, flashing constantly! Shiny brown hair that naturally created a mohican and frames his beautiful face.

He’s a smiler, a giggler, and sitting in his bouncy chair, he waggles his legs manically to bounce himself, and he loves to growl like a bear!

The kids and Hubby Dearest are as infatuated as I am, and when it was time to go, we physically had to tear ourselves away!

But my high light was at the end when I got a few precious moments with him, no sharing, after his bath, and he kept on grabbing my face with his little hands, and pulling me down, so he could kiss/eat my nose, cheeks and lip! My brother managed to get a video of that, it’s so cute!!! As I said in my post title, I’m in love again!!!!

Counting down the next time we meet, which I know will be in October, unless we manage to arrange a trip out to them in August!!!

In other business, the scratch is better, but I definitely twisted my ankle in our dramatic rescue of the Cat Called Sonu Singh, last night, when I fell off the chair!

To the Father of My Children

21 Jun 2015 26 Comments

by Ritu in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Family, Father's Day, love

Wishing Happy Father’s day to my Pops wouldn’t complete the day for us…

I have a Father in law to say Happy father’s day to, but even more importantly, we have a daddy here in the house!

My Hubby Dearest, who has been the most amazing daddy to our two monkeys!

Taking the kids to the park

Fatherhood, like motherhood, and parenthood in general, is a tough job in itself. I know us mums feel that we are the ones who do all the running around, the disciplining, the, well, everything really, but I have to say, that Hubby is a fantastic father!

He has so much more patience with the children, than I do, probably because I am with them so much, and he isn’t around them constantly, so he can weather a few more niggles, and whiney episodes, or bickering matches. Whereas me, well, the inner banshee gets unleased, especially if I’m tired, or trying to do my work!

And he’s the one who does the outside duty too. I’m not a play outside kinda person, to be honest, suffering from hay fever as it is, I’d rather be sat with a book, not batting a ball around, or pushing the bike… but he does that, and loves it so much! in fact, I wouldn’t want to take that from him, that’s his thing! That and football training, GOD I HATE FOOTBALL!

But no, he faithfully trudges out with Lil Man, and Lil Princess, whenever they want to go out, and with our furry child Sonu Singh, he really does love him like another baby of ours. He takes him out in the garden, and helps him explore too!

We have days where he isn’t here due to work, and thank goodness for Skype, as the kids won’t sleep happily if they don’t see daddy!

So this is a huge thank you to the Daddy of my children, from me, and massive hugs, and squidgy kisses from the kids too!!!

We love you loads! Thanks for being Super Dad! ❤ ❤

Sonu Singh Had A Sting… Oh, And Poor Lil Man…!

17 Jun 2015 64 Comments

by Ritu in Children, Sonu Singh, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Cat, children, Cute Cat, Family, Injuries, Sonu Singh, Stings

Lil Sonu Singh was feeling affectionate this morning and voluntarily climbed on my Minionated Pyjama lap. I love those moments!

When I got home from work, he was outside with Hubby Dearest. I got outside, just in time to see him animatedly chase a bee, and pounce, then get stung…

Poor baby, he was constantly licking his paw, and wouldn’t let us look at it for ages…I saw a slight swelling and we cleaned as best we could, and now he is chilling, paw in the air, on my bed!

Talking of my babies with injuries, Lil Man was off school as he got a football kicked smack bang in the middle of his face yesterday, total accident, but basically he has mild concussion. So off school today, and probably tomorrow. He was up at 4am with headache and blurry vision… So now he is thankfully asleep again, but I have been up for 18 hours now, fitted in drop offs, a day at placement school , and the rest of mummy stuff, while Hubby Dearest had Lil Man, and took him to the Hospital.
Forgive me if I make no sense…!

A girl’s first love

16 Jun 2015 19 Comments

by Ritu in Family Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Family, Father's Day, love

One of my fave mommy blogs, The Champa Tree, asked me to write a guest post on the topic of Father’s Day, as it is fast coming up on Sunday 21st June. I hope you like it! 😊