Sleep Regression

I'm into my third or forth week of hardly any sleep (cant remember as seems like forever) due to Joel waking up several times in the night. He used to be an easy baby up until 7 months old then it all changed.

At the very point he hit 7 months he started to crawl, followed by pulling himself up to his knees and now recently to his feet. With this he's become very grumpy and fussy.

After last night I managed a full hour and half sleep before Joel woke up at 11.55pm I thought I'd have at least until 2am like the previous night. I tried to settle by rocking him, dummy and water but nothing would settle him so I took him downstairs as I didn't want him waking Ollie which is becoming a regular thing now and gave him milk which did the trick until 3.20am. Then it started all over again.

The health visitor said not to give milk during the night but if its the only thing that works what else are you to do let him scream the house down and get no sleep at all. I don't think so.

Sweet Innocent Boy

Anyway I've been reading up about 8 month olds waking up 3-10 times a night and apparently it's all normal as between 8, 9 and 10 months all babies go through sleep regression due to a developing brain so as they have so much activity going on it stops them sleeping soundly like when adults have a big event the next day it stops us sleeping. According to what I read it can last between 3 to 6 weeks so I guess at least I'm some way through it now. 

Normally this sleep regression stage is worse than when it happens at 4 months as they are also teething. 

I just want it to be over with now as I'm just too tired I can't cope with anymore sleepless nights especially when I also have a 2 year old to look after. My patience has gone out the window completely and I am very ratty.

Nails, Nails, Nails

As you may well have gathered from previous posts I am now an Avon rep, After seeing all the great nail varnish colours I have just started to get into nails, well I've always liked designs but never bothered much as with two kids nails tend to get chipped but my favourite nails at the moment are Nailwear Pro+ Coral Reef and the Opal Top Coat - Opalesce. 

So far they haven't chipped at all and I must admit having painted finger nails makes me feel pretty nice and feminine. I only used to bother with toe nails.

     

What do you think?  

Do you have a favourite nail colour or design?

Hair and Make Up Goodies

Now being an Avon representative I of course have to test the products so here are my new make up and hair products that I am currently using.

Make Up:

• ANew Vitale Day Cream. SPF 25, Leaves skin feeling and looking radiant all day. Great for fine wrinkles, fatigued skin and signs of stress.
• Magix Cashmere Advanced Foundation - Nude. Gives skin a natural, radiant look. Instantly minimises the look of pores, lines and shine. SPF15.
• New True Colour Eyeshadow Quad -Emerald Cut. Crease-proof eyeshadow and vivid colour.
  (New in camp 14)
• Glimmerstick Diamonds - Smokey Diamond. (Camp 13 offer)
• SuperExtend Extreme Mascara - Black. 



My make up bag

• New Ultra Colour lipstick Satin - Red 2000. Stay true rich colour. (New in camp 14)

Hair:

• Argan Moroccan oil shampoo and conditioner. Helps lock in moisture from root to tip.
• Daily Shine Dry End Serum. 100% shine, helps smooth dry damaged hair.
• Advanced Techniques Mirror shine spray. 

Other Products I Am Using:

• Skin So Soft Dry Oil Spray - Silky Moisture
• Rare Pearls Perfume 
• Opal Top Coat Nail Varnish
• Nailwear Pro+ Coral Reef

Check out my online brochure for all these products:

http://www.avon.uk.com/PRSuite/custonlineOrderEBrochure.page?acNo=MTUzMDMwNzE%3D&source=RFlNQ1VSTA%3D%3D&custRepOrdr=1&c=vbrochure&s=RepURL_vbrochure&otc=201314

Good and bad things in life this week

My Family

Life can be testing at times so here is a list of my good and bad.

Good:

• Family 
• Little man is on the move, so fascinating to watch.  
• Big man is chatting away and even saying some French. 
• I've now lost 2.5 stone (35lb). 
• Feeling better about me. 
• Meeting lots of new people. 
• Finally starting to distance from people that drag you down. 
• Having a little free time. 
• De-cluttering.
• Making things.

Happy Boy

Ollie and panda at breakfast

Few bad:

• Constant tiredness.
• Rude, inconsiderate, shocking people. 
• Bad back.
• Not knowing what to do next. 
• Stressful situations. 

Tired, Tired, Tired & Rant

Oh I'm so tired, these past few weeks its either Joel waking through the night, been too hot to sleep or the neighbours have kept me awake. All I want is sleep.

I'm being very quick tempered with Ollie as he's being naughty especially towards Joel at the moment. Just this morning I had only got Joel back off to sleep when Ollie decides to kick Joel (not hard) to wake him up so I shouted at Ollie which made him cry then Joel cried I then didn't know what to do and it was made worse because hubby didn't even check to see if I was okay. Sometimes you just feel like you are on your own completely day in day out and for someone to ask if you are okay or need help would be nice especially from the hubby.

I think it's only women that have kids that truly understand its not all hunky dory being at home with kids. I find it very stressful at times and you feel you are just there for everyone else. All I seem to do is cook, wash up - oh that is getting to me as you clean and tidy then its back to square one again in no time, making sure you have food to feed everyone, clean clothes etc etc and I am actually fed up of myself moaning at Ollie especially when he's like talking to a brick wall.

Sometimes I wish I was a career woman so I wouldn't have to do this. I took up Avon to get myself out and do something for me but even that has got on my nerves this week as I've seen how shocking people can be when trying to deliver orders. I was told to deliver at a certain time on a particular day but they didn't answer so tried again half hour later still nothing so left a note and followed with a text to see when can deliver next and I had no reply. I left it two days and text again and got 'can you do tomorrow evening' no apology at all for messing me about and I have a feeling I won't get an answer when I deliver again. 

Another lady said she forgot so I went back next day and she said the same but offered to collect that night but did she turn up....no. What the hell is wrong with people, no manners and just no consideration for people.

That's my rant over :)

Busy, Busy, Busy

 

The past few days have been pretty busy with Kelly's Craft Box with some customer orders. 

A hanging monkey and three little thank you owls which will be given to teachers as gifts. 

I've also been trying to promote my Avon page Kelly's Beauty Box as well as getting out and about posting books and completing my very first order. I've even been asked to consider becoming a leader (scary).

Tractor Ride

 

It was also my husbands birthday yesterday so we had a family day out at Thurleigh farm, not really a 35 year olds ideal day out but now we have kids we have to suit them.  Ollie loved it and Joel was more interested in my camera case.

Orange chocolate heaven

I also stupidly said I would make Paul a cake. His favourite orange chocolate flavour. It took me ages to make but it couldn't have been bad as it's all gone now. 

 
It was shared with family for birthday celebrations in the evening.

Why Do I Do These Things?

A couple months back I decided to strip my hair as I've wanted to go blonde for ages so I used Colour B4, it worked but wasn't the light colour I wanted and ended up coppery so I added an ash medium blonde as that's suppose to tone the red tones down but my hair came out darker again so couple weeks back I gave myself highlights using a Jerome Russell kit which looked good as I had different tones of blonde/copper but no one seemed to notice so it wasn't striking enough so on Friday I lightened my hair with Live XXL colour - max blonde but it was so patchy 

Patchy Hair

with orange, blonde and brown so I rushed out (yes I actually went out like it) to get bleach as thought it would get rid of all the patches and give me a blank canvas.

So on Saturday I applied two boxes of Bblonde maximum lift blonding kit by Jerome Russell and the result was still patchy and very orange. Nothing like the picture on the box. It actually looks better in the picture but it is bad.

Ginger

I put a blonde Nutrisse colour on and hoped for the best, but as you can see from the pictures below it came out a lighter gingery blonde.

I went out like this but to my surprise a lady who was walking behind me said she was admiring my strawberry blonde hair as she passed........urm really!

 

My hair is now well and truly frazzled at the ends so now I'm thinking why the hell didn't I just pay out to a hairdresser as I've damaged my hair and will end up spending more to correct it plus I'm now thinking blonde may not even suit me. 

Sunday I put yet another colour on but this time a chocolate brown as I've given up on the blonde idea.