Clothes shopping for myself......what is that again?

After shopping for an outfit the other day for an upcoming family friend’s wedding I realised that it was the first outfit I had bought myself in ages.  Realising how long it had been since I bought myself new clothes other than underwear and pyjamas shone a huge light of reality on the fact that I do not really bother much with my appearance.  Thinking about how long it has been since I bought myself some clothes I realised that it was in fact over 2 years ago when Bug was a little baby in my ever expanding pregnant belly that I last bought some clothes when I treated myself to some lovely maternity dresses.

When Bug was born I carried on wearing a lot of maternity clothes and soon found I could fit into my wardrobe of pre-pregnancy clothes.  As I could wear the clothes I had before my pregnant belly popped out I did not had a need to buy new clothes except nursing bras. 

Over the last 2 years I have not really had a need to buy clothes and with being a family on a budget I have wanted to use whatever spare money we have on buying clothes and toys for Bug as well as go on family days out rather than selfishly buy myself clothes when I already have a wardrobe of clothes that suffice.  Also since having Bug, apart from going out as a family for days out or to children-orientated places I do not go out, in fact Lee and I have not had a night out together for a ‘date night’ away from the house since I was pregnant.

A little card from my little man (Project 365 - 69/365).

Mother's Day

Last year I wasn’t even sure if my little man would have made his appearance into the big wide world or not for Mother’s Day.  My little man’s due date was the 30^th of March with Mother’s Day landing on the 3^rd of April. 

In the end my little man was right on time, being born on his due date.  It felt like a dream on Mother’s Day that I actually had a baby and I was a mummy.  It was lovely that he was born before Mother’s Day and that instead of still being inside my bump he was cradled in my arms.

Lee had been super organised and got two cards, one for Tristan to give me if he was born and another that said from Bump.  I also got a lovely teddy bear and cute mug set and some beautiful flowers.  It felt very special with it being my first ever Mother’s Day as a mummy.

With Mother’s Day tomorrow I just want a lovely day with my little man.  Even though all the lovely Mother’s Day gifts you can get are gorgeous I don’t expect anything like that as I think just like Valentine’s Day it really is just another day.  I get lots of love everyday from Tristan that makes me feel like a very special mummy to have a lovely little son every single day and Lee shows me that he thinks I am a good mum. 

I realise that as he gets older Mother’s Day will be important to Tristan, he will be proud to give me cards he has made with Daddy and at school and help Daddy make me breakfast in bed and I look forward to this as a cute, homemade card from my son will mean a whole lot more than anything expensive you can buy.