little happinesses

in no order, just leaping around the room:

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the new nappies work, and work fantastically! i won't say what they are except that they're an all-in-one with a pocket opening to add more, and velcro up.
i left one on him literally from 9am to 8pm... because i am a bad mommy and also to see if it would work. well, it did, with no leaks or wicking, although his skin was damp where normally it'd be dry, and he had a bark chip inside from the playground.

i can't believe i've finally found what seems to be the perfect nappy.. after all this time, and only for $18 from an ebay store.
it goes on stupidly easy (as easy as a disposable, as people like to say), is no fuss to stuff/boost, fits comfortably and easily and well, and doesn't leak even potentially overnight.
if i were impulsive and irresponsible, i would buy a full stash of just these for the next few remaining months of nappy use, and chuck my million other assorted nappies into deep storage. but would i be that foolish a consumer?
only time will tell.


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i had the most beautifulest day yesterday..
- a fun toddler music session (including laughing at a very un-alfie session leader who literally said to a baby "Good Looking at the carpet!"),
- a brief playground spell, (a brief sookiness at leaving the playground early, but let's not record that)
- a cafe-ing with lovely mama friends (and i do mean so lovely),
- a buying of 3 (3!!) tall and bushy and confident blueberry bushes (at a mere $11 each, which is a joy in itself)..
i have a good track record with blueberry bushes - as the one i put in 2 months ago is actually alive and even growing... this is how i know i should buy 3 more right away. and i lovelove blueberries. to me the appeal of a self-sufficient life is having a pigful of blueberries to live on, i imagine anyway.

and then, a long luxurious lovely lie around on a bench under olive trees in the empty ceres marketplace, while my boy talked to chickens (and a crowing rooster, and an asthmatic sheep), a whole 80m AWAY from me for easily 10 minutes at a time (as clel said today, i didn't even know what to do with myself).
it was a beautiful moment, and it made me feel/see that my life was beautiful beyond words.

i live in a very paradise. have i said that already? what could heaven be if not a world of sunshine, trees, chookies, loving friends, and baby kisses?

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and i have holidays to look forward to...
there's a tassie camping trip on the cards, DH and I's first one ever post baby.
and another one with mama friends soon..
and in just a few weeks, a friend who works in tourism has organised a cheap deal at a fancy new resort in phillip island, lots of floating on a pool while the menfolk take the children golfing, i imagine. and we'll get in some lovely walks, i hope, maybe at churchill island or something (there's a farm there too?!).
and my favouritest beach of all time, a wild surf beach at the foot of rocky cliffs. my friend died there years ago, when a large group of us ran right into a rip tide when on a camping trip. it's an emotionally intense place for me, maybe hence my favourite place in all the world. when i sit there, i feel like i am at the beginning of the world, where life and time began. and i can feel something recharging my soul and core (ions?). there's something eternal about sitting alone beside a wild ocean.