Body Whip and Twitter Tips

Because I was rather late getting involved in Kate On Thin Ice's Getting Your Groove Back meme, I forgot to answer her questions for this week in my last post.


What song would be best to play a lot whilst attempting to get your groove back?
I'm cheating a little bit here, but I'd like to choose the album 'Lungs' by Florence and the Machine. Any song from that, I love them all.

What can you do to make your body feel better this week?
Shifting this rotten cold would be a great start! I feel awful right now, and I suspect it's only going to get worse over the next couple of days. As I don't have much control over that, I'm going to say moisturise. I always feel great when I have soft, smooth skin. I used to put on body lotion each evening, but sort of gave it up as I became too large and uncomfortable to do it during my last pregnancy. I don't have that excuse any more, so I've just ordered some body whip moisturiser from Avon which will hopefully have me silky smooth and smelling lush too.

I've also just made a Twitter account and I'm feeling a little bit lost over there. I've started finding and following some of the bloggers I read, but that's as far as I've got. My name is @mumofcurls so if anybody wants to follow me or give me some tips on what to do from here, that would be great :D

Lastly, I would like to announce that I have been breastfeeding for three months today! I'm very proud of that as it is the longest I have managed to breastfeed and we are still going strong.

Lenny Lamb has Landed!

Yesterday, after much deliberating about colours, I ordered a Lenny Lamb woven wrap from Love To Be Natural, and just this morning it arrived! I was so excited I didn't even wait until I got back up to our flat to open the package. The colour I eventually chose is 'Tikanga', and it is made of cotton and bamboo. I'm really pleased with my choice. As it is my first woven wrap, I don't really have anything to compare it to, but the fabric looks and feels gorgeous.

We found it super-comfy! Lucille slept in it most of the afternoon looking comfy and cosy. I love my stretch wraps for while she's tiny, but this woven felt noticeably more supportive, so I expect I will use this one more and more as she grows bigger.

Getting there...

Two months post-partum and I feel like I'm starting to get into my groove being a mum of three. Everything takes a lot longer than I expect, and I'm usually running even later than usual because I've forgotten to pack something, or had to change a poo-splosion, or had to stop and feed (I look forward to the day I get the hang of feeding in the wrap!) but I'm feeling less and less frazzled as the days go on, and thinking more and more that I can do this. It's just taking a little bit of adjustment.

I think it will be easier still now that school is back on as I have a bit more structure to my days, plus my eldest gets to let off stream with her friends so there is less excess energy to be used fighting with her sister or ploughing into door frames. That said, getting all of us up and dressed, fed and with hair done on time isn't easy, but they say practice makes perfect. We were only a little while late today and the hair looked fabulous.