I started this blog post in May. May, which already feels forever ago. I’ve been thinking to myself, I need to write a blog post… but first I just need to… and so now it is no longer May, not even June, but July. It’s been a big year. Here’s a quick update.

February and March saw a lot of cake. 3 of our family’s birthdays happen within 5 weeks and there was cake for those actual days and cake for parties and cake for daycare as well as cake for St Patrick’s Day and it was just so much cake. Glenn and I are not big cake eaters but I love decorating them. Actually, neither of our girls is a big cake eater either really but they are very keen helpers.

In order:

E’s birthday party (a Very Hungry Caterpillar cake)

E’s daycare birthday (cake pops)

E’s actual birthday evening at home

Glenn’s birthday

St Patrick’s Day

C’s daycare birthday cupcakes (Baby Yoda)

C’s actual birthday evening at home

C’s birthday party (Frozen themed – this one didn’t really turn out as planned but it still garnered oohs and ahhs from her friends).

Much to C’s disappointment, we have to wait until August – which seems further away than Christmas to her – for my birthday.

Which brings me to the next piece of news: we are expecting another baby girl in August! C especially is over the moon. Lately she has started singing a goodnight song to my tummy, followed by a goodnight kiss, then asking me if she’s settled down to sleep yet? Adorable. Thoughts on this pregnancy will be getting their own post soon.

And the last piece of news, which was very exciting and took up a LOT of my brain and time: my brother got married at the end of June. A wonderful, wonderful day, and we are so happy for the newlyweds. In a way, nothing much has changed though – his wife has been Auntie Alys to my girls for more than a year, and very, VERY much loved and adored by all of us. What took up so much of my time was C being a flower girl, and I ended up making the dress for her. This required a practice dress for fit and style options, then there were daycare photos sprung on us so a quick dress made for E to coordinate, then the actual dress for C, plus stockings and shoes and hair, then making a dress for myself. That one was thankfully very quick – I cut the pieces at lunchtime the day before and sewed it up that night. 

I had planned on posting this earlier (much, much earlier), but in my search for photos this evening I MAY have come across photos of when the girls were born and my goodness me. I have turned into a blubbering mess. So you see here some photos of some cakes from this year, and a promise of more of the stuff of our life to come soon. Promise.