Life, Love and Lilly Jade.

This is the blog of two people; Jake and Bella. We are engaged and currently coping with loss and gain in our little family. We lost our twins in late 2010 when they were 22 days old, and we recently lost our baby boy at nineteen weeks along. Our little ray of sunshine is our daughter Lilly - and this is where it gets complicated. Lilly is Jake's daughter from an earlier relationship. We were recently granted full custody of her. This is a blog about having a little girl who always had nothing; and giving her everything :)

September112012

September 11 happened eleven years ago today.

I’m not American. I’m a proud, born and bred, live-here-until-I-die Aussie girl.

But god dammit, I think there should be a hell of a lot more awareness in Australia about what happened. Lilly didn’t even know what the Twin Towers were until last night, and when I told her what had happened before she was born she was horrified.

More profound things from Lilly today;

“couldn’t everyone have just listened to them? Then they wouldn’t have needed to crash the plane.”

Lest we forget <3

September102012

Lilly had a “boyfriend” at school. It was adorable, all they did is sit together at lunch and pick each other first for sport teams, I thought it was cute.

They broke up today. Lilly was very cavalier about it all, when I was kidding around going “oh no, he must be DEVASTATED! The prettiest girl in the world dumped him.”

She rolled her eyes at me and said “mum, I’m only five, he’s got lots of time to find another girlfriend and be happy.”

Most. Profound. Thing. Ever.

September72012

I facepainted at Lilly’s school carnival last night, which was pretty cool.

Among the three billion requests for cats, tigers, Spiderman and butterflies, I got:

Iron Man
The Hulk
Nemo
Nick Fury
Deadpool
Moustaches
Scar from the Lion King

and a few other awesome things.

Faith in my daughters generation restored.

I bloody love the Avengers.

September32012

loving-e-xo:

Giveaway Time!

So because y’all are awesome and every time I post about my eyeshadow people always say they’ve got product envy I’m doing a Naked Palette giveaway. I decided I’ll let the winner choose between the original and Naked2(thus the pictures that don’t belong to me), although I prefer Naked2.

The winner will receive one palette of their choosing and a few random goodies(if the winner happens to be one of my momma/dad followers I’ll also throw in something for your little one).

The Rules:

You DO NOT have to be following me to enter.

Only one like and ONE reblog will count as an entry, anything more will immediately disqualify you, no one wants their dash flooded.

I will ship anywhere.

No alternate/side blogs used solely for giveaways.

The winner will be chosen via a random number generator September 14th, if I have not heard back from the winner by the 17th, I will choose a new one.

Winner must have an open ask so I may contact them.

May the odds be ever in your favor!

Mama needs some new pretties for mah face! :)

6PM

No makeup Monday (even though it’s Tuesday over here) (and you guys have never seen my face before) (IT’S MY DAY OFF AND I’M STILL IN BED OKAY)

September22012

loving-e-xo:

Girl, all you need to do is poke a couple holes in the condom every time. It’s what I always do and so far it’s been really effective.

Just lie and say you’re on the pill, that’s clearly what I did. *rolls eyes*

8AM

Having a bad day.

thelilystories:

I feel like such a failure. Lily deserves better than this.

We all have days like that lovely. Just remember that you are always going to be all she’ll ever need. You were born to be her mother just as she was born to be your daughter x

(Source: lauraandlils)

August312012

Whoever wrote on my university website that my advanced creative writing course only requires three hours a week is a dickbag.

Though maybe my eight hours of procrastinating a week should count.

August302012

Life Doesn't Always Ask What You Want: Bragging rights....

loving-e-xo:

So once a week I think I’ll make a “brag post”. Tell everyone what I’m proud of that week, for myself, my kids, my relationship, whatever…I’d like y’all to reblog with your own “bragging.”
A shameless way to talk about whatever is just really awesome in your life at that moment.

This week I’m…

My daughter’s therapist says that she’s progressing so well that we can move her visits from weekly to fortnightly. I was on the front page of the paper yesterday for my “tattoos for veterans” initiative. (not as crazy as it sounds, will explain later.) my fiance is almost at the point to take over the store, meaning much more time at home with us and a LOT more money. My wedding is now officially less than a year away. GO T!

August292012

babyhazelgrey:

babyhazelgrey:

So last night hazel was having her fit again and on a whim, I mock swaddled her in her blanket. Just her arms. And he passed out instantly.
Um. Anyone else swaddle and almost 7 month old? What’s the deal with this?

This got buried because of all the other crap I have been posting today.

Anyone else swaddling an older baby? Is that crazypants?

Dude, I had to swaddle Lilly until she was almost two. ALMOST. TWO.

It’s not crazy, some babies just get really overstimulated because they can move their arms and that distracts them. Lilly used to deliberately smack herself in the face when she was tired because she was fighting sleep so much. Whatever works!

(Source: ourlittlealaskanfamily, via ourlittlealaskanfamily)

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