Wordless Wednesday - Race For Life

A Post In Which I Appeal To Your Generosity

Tomorrow for the first time I am doing the Race For Life, to raise money for Cancer Research UK.


My target is £300 and I have raised £200 so far, so I am appealing to your better nature and asking if you can sponsor me, it doesn't have to be a lot £1 will be plenty.


I'm really looking forward to tomorrow, I am told they are very emotional days so I will be taking lots of tissues with me.


Enjoy the rest of the sunshine and I will post pictures on Wednesday.


I am thanking you all in advance.


NM X


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The Gallery - Emotions

The subject for this weeks Gallery is emotions, now its a special Gallery this week as its teaming up with Sleep Is For The Weak Writing Workshop, which means only one post to do this week! 

Its a tough trying to put words and pictures together and me being a dumb blonde came up with a great idea then realised that the word I was thinking of wasn't actually an emotion so I'm kinda cheating!

I feel frustrated, sad, depressed, worried, despair, angry and miserable when I am tired. 

I feel happy, gleeful and loving when I am tired.

I'm quite often tired, almost everyday. 

Today I am tired,

I was tired yesterday,

And I will be tired tomorrow

Today I am a Mum,

I was a Mum yesterday,

And I will be a Mum tomorrow. 

That makes me happy,

And the tiredness slips away.

Don't forget to visit the Gallery on Wednesday to see everyone else's posts. 

Birthday Surprises, Germany, The V&A, Jamie Oliver and Bon Jovi

That was my week last week, no wonder I feel like crap this week! I’m not used to all this running around.


So last Saturday (the 12th) I turned 30 and OH surprised me with train tickets to London. And when I say train tickets that is about as far as he had thought (no typical man jokes please). So after a quick look on the internet and a run around to pack a bag for BG we were off. We decided to go to the Natural History Museum as BG had been to the Science Museum a few weeks before. BG loved the Dinosaurs, she now has a soft one that she growls at, that the sound she thinks it makes!!


To be honest after the Dinosaurs BG got a bit bored, at 18 months she’s probably a bit to young to appropriate it so we took her over the Science Museum as we know she loves the Garden there (children’s play area in the basement) and of course the trains and cars. Time seems to pass so quickly in London and it wasn’t long before we were on the train home.

Do you want to know how I spent the night of my birthday? It was really exciting; we watched the football, ate Chinese and drank champagne. OK not that exciting but nice all the same.


On the Sunday we had a small BBQ for friends and family and my youngest sister surprised me with a visit from her, her OH and my niece. It was by far my favourite present! It was the first time she had been to my house so it was lovely, and all three sisters where together, all that was missing was our brother. It was a lovely day, a great way to spend my birthday. My 
younger sister even baked cupcakes for me!!

Tuesday I flew to Germany for a PR trip, I will give you all the details on that soon on New Mummy’s Tips.


On Thursday we were back down to London, me and OH spent the day with my sister V at the V&A. I wanted to see the Grace Kelly exhibition but they had sold out of tickets for the day, (note to self pre-book exhibitions at the V&A). However that didn’t stop us having a good time walking around and spending money!! I bought this book....

And this great bit of material that I’m turning into a scarf.

We had a hotel booked for the night as we were off to Bon Jovi at the o2 that night, you can see my full review of the gig on my new (yes another!!) blog For Those About To Rock. We meet my dad and my sisters OH at the hotel, then went for dinner at Jamie Oliver’s Italian at Canary wharf.


I would like to say it was the best meal of my life but I would be lying, it was all just a little bit disappointing. The food was fine, I had Meatballs which where lovely and a to die for brownie for dessert but the whole experience was a bit lacking. When we arrived it wasn’t very busy, we were sat at the back by the window (I assume to make the place look busy from the outside), we were right by the disabled toilet, staff point and office. You can’t book if there is less than 8 people so we didn’t have a table reserved. The music was horrendous, really bad 70’s and 80’s music, I do not want to listen to the YMCA when I’m eating my dinner, it was also quite loud. I had such high hopes for our meal and it just didn’t live up to it.


Bon Jovi was awesome and we had a really good night. It was nice to get back to BG who I hadn’t seen since Tuesday; I really, really missed her!


This week by comparison as been quite and for that I am truly grateful. Though I am off to London tomorrow, but I’m going to be thoroughly pampered!!


NM X

BG Meets An Elephant

 

This weeks theme on The Gallery is Creatures, now I'm not really a pet person so we don't have any at the New Mummy house. I'm allergic to cats but BG has fallen in love with them. OH's sister has a cat and BG goes mad every time she sees it and chases after it. 

The nearest she gets to a pet at home in the random cat that appears in our garden most days, it sleeps out there and keeps BG amused by trying to get in the patio doors. 

BG recently meet an elephant, if you look closely you can actually see her saying 'Ahhh'

Don't forget to pop over on Wednesday to see everyone else's pictures. 

When The Darkness Comes

I'm cheating slightly this week with my Writing Workshop post as its a poem I've already written, but I would like to share.


I choose prompt 2. What does depression feel like to you? This is what it feel like to me 

When the Darkness comes I can't breathe,

My head pounds and my mouth goes dry.

When the Darkness comes I just want to hide,

Loneliness is my friend.

When the Darkness comes I cry and cry,

I don't always know why.

When the Darkness comes I am scared,

Panic rises inside me.

When the Darkness comes I am paralysed,

I wish I could run away.

When the Darkness is gone I am free,

Until the next time it appears.

Hello I'm Carol

The lovely Carly from Mummy's Shoes is putting together a meet and greet for Cybermummy, so we have an idea about who we are meeting.


Here is my bio 


Name:  Carol Smith
Main Blog:   New Mummy http://mummynew.blogspot.com 
Twitter ID:  @Caroljs
Height:   5ft 3in
Hair:   Short/blonde
Eyes:   One brown and one green 
Likes:  Music, Gigs, Theatre, Blogging, Reading, Eating, Wine


I'm not adding a picture of me, instead here is the dress I'm going to be wearing, its my birthday present. 

 Can't wait to meet you