Big hello!

Can you believe my last update was nearly 3 months ago? The happy news is my morning sickness is totally gone and I'm just over half way through my pregnancy and I'm going to have a boy! I can't believe how fast the time goes, I experienced such terrible morning sickness for the last 2 months but I have seem to embrace my growing belly and I'm finally enjoying my preggy time now. I took this photo about 2 weeks ago and I can tell you my belly is getting bigger and bigger everyday and I started to have a pain in my lower back, it's not easy to be a mum!

I've started to search some inspirational images for my boy's nursery and this room is very close to what I had imagined. I've put a new skyblue striped blinds in his room and I'm getting new white timber shutters for the french doors in his room as well.

Today I ordered his wardrobe and changing table and it's on the way to our house now. I haven't found a perfect cot yet but I'm sure I'll be able to find one soon. I also found two lamps with blue and white gingham shades which I'm going to put on the top of that wardrobe. I'll start sharing images once everything's ready.

A part from the nursery I also ordered his pram, Maclaren techno xlr. For me the most important thing for a pram was for it to be light-weight and easy to fold. I'm personally not a big fan of a huge rocket looking pram which will basically fill half of your boot. This is all I've purchased so far, I'm going to get a bunch of his clothing during this sale season, see you this weekend David Jones!

I thought I was going to wear something like this when I was pregnant. But the brutal reality is my black leggings and whatever's comfortable for the top. Well, at least I have an excuse for my disfunctional fashion sense!

Stay warm xo

My life recently.

I hate neglecting my blog but with my current body condition, reading and writing is the last thing I want to do at the end of the day. I never felt this tired before and everyday I'm suffering with morning sickness badly. Poor Mr.R has to put up with his wife who has lost the passion for cooking, I haven't really cooked anything in the past 2 weeks, we are seriously relying on take-away every night. Yesterday my mother in law delivered a home cooked dinner for us. She made some dahl soup, lasagna and a garden salad, I know I'm lucky! Thanks K, you really made my day!

One thing I'm seriously into these days are these sour worms. Hopefully I can get used to my body changes soon, and maybe one day I'll enjoy being a pregnant lady (so far it's a nightmare!).

Nursery

As you can imagine, my pregnancy news was a big thing last weekend for our family. It's the very first grandchild for both of our families and everyone was just over the moon with our happy news. My father in law in Germany already started sending me all the possible names... lol

It's a funny thing. I'm telling you that I have never felt clucky or never visited the baby section in the department stores (oh I did once to buy my friend's baby shower present) since we got married. But after I found out that I'm pregnant everything has changed. I found myself at David Jones on the weekend window shopping for a possible stroller. Also I started gathering nursery images for inspiration.

Anyway below are some of my favourite nurseries that I found online. Hope you all had a great day x

My life recently.

How are you all!? I have millions of stories to tell you, so get ready. Where should I start? Hmm, let's go back to Valentines day last Tuesday. Did you all have a lovely Valentines day? I loved watching so many happy girls going back home with big bunches of roses in the city... yes, love was in the air everywhere! Mr.R also came back home with this beautiful big bunch of flowers.

Mr.R organised Valentines dinner at the cliffs restaurant at Kangaroo point.

Everything tasted good with this spectacular view... Apparently this restaurant only offers dinner once every month. Brisbane bloggers, it's not a touristy spot, it was beautiful and the food was so tasty, you should try!

My entree was yellowfin tuna with goat cheese and pea salad.

I had barramundi for the main.

I love everything about salted caramel... worth every calorie!

I'm revealing something very exciting here... this is what I gave to Mr.R as a Valentines day present. A card with a positive pregnancy test! Yes, I'm pregnant! Mr.R was beyond excited and so was I. We actually planned to have a baby this year but I never thought it would happend this fast. We're in the early stages and I have to be extra careful as I have a sore tummy, but thank you god for giving us a little angel!

I went to see my GP this morning and she told me I'm at 6 weeks preganant, my little baby in my tummy is now developing teeth and hearing. She asked me to decide whether I want to go through the process with public or private. I have my private health cover (and we can afford it too) but as it is a totally new experience to me I really don't know what to do. Any suggestions!?

I'm experiencing a whole new stage of my life now. Firstly I'm very sensitive with smells. I found this little organic skin care shop right next to the food market, apparently they are from Thailand. I bought the lemon grass oil to make my bedroom smell like a day spa. The oil came with those paper flowers and I just need to put a few drops on them. Smells good so far.

I'm also using my candle bunner to spread the scent everywhere in my room.

This is another find with a strong lemongrass scent. This is also an organic brand from New Zeland. I'm loving it crazy now, you can find it at David Jones.

I'm also experiencing big hair loss and pimples on my face, maybe it's got something to do with my hormones? I got freaked out and I bought a bunch of skin relief producs including this aesop scalp shampoo and treatment. Hope it helps...sigh!

My friend told me this is a preggie's best friend. I already started putting bio-oil everywhere on my tummy and hips, I hate to see stretch marks and I hope they never come to me NEVER!

I also purchased new swimming gear to prevent from getting FAT! I'll enjoy every single process being a mum but I'm still scared about gaining weight...

I'm waiting on another piece  of "BIG NEWS" which could possibly change my career, hope I hear some good news some point this week.

Well, thanks for reading my story, hope you all had a lovely day x

Happy Friday!

Did you know our prime minister Julia Gillard just debuted with her first movie called "The Bodyguard"? I laughed out hard when I saw this image today. I'm curious... do you think this happened because her bodyguard is resonably good looking??

I'm off to Mr.R's family home tonight. I was thinking it's been a while since I dressed up nicely to go somewhere on the weekend. My eyes have been busy checking some glamorous fahion websites, below are some of my favourites. 

My friend B rang me today with a super depressed voice and she told me her house got robbed. They took all her lifetime collection of designer bags, diamonds and even her Mercedes... I know... what scumbags! People in Pulenvale... lock your houses, apparently 7 houses got robbed yesterday.

Enjoy the weekend xo

My weekend action

On the weekend I catched up with my dear friend Becky at the Hillstone, St.Lucia golf club for brunch. I always thought Hillstone was a place for weddings or a local golf club but surprisinly they had a beautiful restaurant overlooking the golf fields. This is the view I had while enjoying my salmon benedict, I know what a view! I kind of had enough of the usual Brisbane brunch scene... small, packed and similar food.... at least when you enjoy this beautiful view everything tastes great!

We had a little walk after brunch, everywhere was lovely. Actually the most exiting thing was finally checking her gorgeous wedding ring ( she got married overseas last month and unfortunately I couldn't make it). Darling, you deserve it!

I just got a call from my friend who lives in Dubai. She is a flight attendant for Emirates and this is me stealing her uniform while she was here. She is stopping over in Brisbane soon again and I'm beyond excited!

Well, how did your Monday treat you? Hope you all had a lovely day xo