The one where we built a fort

Hello everyone! After work this afternoon, I decided to take Lily to see the swan family living in the brook we live opposite. However, what I thought would be a lovely little visit, ended up in a huge tantrum because Lily wanted to climb into the brook and stroke the swans. Oops! When we got back inside, I needed to find a way to entertain and calm her, so I decided to make a fort. It isn't the most impressive fort you will have ever seen (some of the ones on pinterest are amazing!) but Lily absolutely loved it, and spent ages in there flicking through her books, cuddling her bunny and rag doll, giggling and playing peek-a-boo! She did take a quick break to take a very important phone call, but all in all I think she was pretty impressed. It made for a lovely afternoon activity, and I will definitely be doing it again! Maybe in my 6 weeks off work (school holidays! Yay!) I will build a slightly better one, and perhaps fill it with snacks and colouring in books as well as other toys and books.

Have you ever built a fort? What did you do in yours?

x ♥

Hello

Hello everyone! It has been so long again! I have been so desperate to blog over the past few weeks, but life has a habit of getting in the way sometimes. I have been so busy this past month. The wedding planning is suddenly getting very serious as we have only 5 months to go now, and I've had the end of year exams at work, and Lily is getting more and more active, and technology hasn't been my friend- but I've finally had a fairly quiet Sunday, and time to pay some attention to my blog!

Sorry for such a picture heavy post, but I'm trying to catch up then (hopefully) resume regular blogging as normal again. Life lately between working, housework, and wedding planning, has involved family trips to parks and rivers with Lily and our nieces and nephews, trips to London, silliness with Lily (her new game is putting her toy balls up her sleeves!), little Laura Ashley shopping trips, reading in Lily's book corner, enjoying my parents new garden, buying cute lamps, having gel nails done by my sister now she is a qualified beauty therapist, Lily being all grown up and getting her first toy baby and buggy, and eating lots of yummy food in the garden in this gorgeous weather we've been having!

As you can see, I have also redesigned and renamed the blog! I have never had a blog name I've been happy with. It started as Rosie Posie Rosie which I never liked, but was playing around on blogger not really knowing what I was doing when I started and never expected my blog to come this far and be so important to me! Then I changed it to just Rosie but really wanted to come up with a proper name for it. Peppermint Rosie has been a name I've been considering for very long time now but was worried I would change my mind and be unhappy again. But as I've liked it for so long, I've decided to take the plunge and finally do it! I am also looking into getting a custom domain, so I will let you know if and when that happens. I'd love to know what you all think! I was a little nervous about making the change.

The name peppermint Rosie comes from my addiction to peppermint tea, my love of peppermint creams and mint being my favourite colour. I do hope you all like it!

♥ x

MY ATTEMPT AT A 15 MONTH UPDATE

Hi everyone! 

For several months now I've been wanted to do one of my usual Lily updates. You know the ones where since she was born, I've taken pictures of her in similar places/ poses so you can really see how she is growing and changing, and the most recent ones being in her little white chair? Well, I've been trying to take more recent ones for a new update, but it just isn't going to happen! If I sit her in her chair, she gets up and walks away. I try and take pictures of her standing, facing the camera, and of course that is extremely boring no matter what I try to distract and bribe her with, so she walks away to play with something else. It is impossible! I end up either with pictures of her back, or pictures where she is just a very happy blur! So I thought I'd share some of these with you- a little selection of photo's from several failed attempts at Lily update posts!

Lily is now 15 months old. She walks, she talks, she sings, she dances, she plays, she giggles. She throws tantrums. She draws & colours. She feeds, cleans & cradles her baby dolls. she knows the theme tunes to her favourite programs & sings along. She kisses & cuddles, she explores, she copies, she uses my makeup brushes to her makeup in the morning, she brushes her hair, she tries to put her shoes on the wrong feet. She dusts the living room with me, feeds the rabbits & pets them gently. Her hair is still a vibrant red, her eyes are a deep blue with flecks of green & gold. She knows her own mind, but is affectionate & loving. She is funny & sweet & will always be my baby, though I'm realising recently she has most definitely become a little girl. I am so proud of her & love her more than I could possibly explain. 

I think I will do a proper Lily update when she turns 18 months now. Like the others, with proper update pictures & a letter to her. But this is the best I could do for now!

x ♥

I SHOULD BE OVER ALL THE BUTTERFLIES

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I am a terrible blogger. I absolutely love blogging, but I'm finding it so hard keeping up with my blog, working full time, being a mummy, David working long hours, doing the housework & cooking. I rarely get a spare minute to sit down and write a post! 

We are trying to change our lifestyle a bit though. We had got into bad habits. Getting up as late as possible in the morning, skipping breakfast, rushing off to work, then when David comes home after his long commute, not being as organised as we could be & going to bed late. We were both feeling tired and just a bit 'urgh'. So we've started planning and organising a bit better, planning meals, housework, going to bed at a decent time, getting up early to work out (!) and have breakfast. We both feel much better for it, so somewhere in our week I want to schedule 'blog time'. It's not very realistic to expect to update more regularly than once a week, however much I'd like to, but once a week would be better than hardly ever like I am doing at the moment!

For now though, I thought I would just share a few pictures of our life recently. We went up to county Durham at the start of the month to visit my Grandads birthplace and scatter his ashes. It was beautiful! So much snow and so much sunshine! Of course, we have had easter too. David got me an amazing giant kinder egg, Lily dressed up as a bunny and had chocolate all over her face for most of the day and we had some real life bunny's to help us celebrate! 

We got two baby bunny's, and they are so lovely! So sweet, affectionate and gentle. Lily adores them! The few words she does know are mainly used when she's talking to rabbits instead of people ('Hi! Hello! Dada! Golly! Dog! Buh-Bye!'), and she loves sitting having cuddles with them, and they seem to love her too. The only slight problem is their gender is not 100% certain yet. 90% certain they are both girls, in which case, the black one is Coco and the ginger one is Kitty. However, if they do turn out to be boys, the black one is Milo and the ginger one is Ronnie!

How are you all?? I feel like I have been away forever. I am also looking for some new blogs to read as I feel like I've been a bit out of touch with the whole blogging world lately, so do leave me your links and I will have a good read of yours!

x ♥

SO DANCE ALONG TO THE BEAT OF YOUR HEART

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Dress: Primark // Cardigan: Matalan // Necklace: Ebay // Bracelet: Ebay

Hello everyone! 

I'm having a cosy afternoon in with Lily, so I thought I'd do a little outfit post. I bought this dress a little while ago from Primark. I loved the shape and the detailing, and thought it would be really cute for summer, so as it was only £5 I got it and put it away, waiting for the weather to warm up. 

I then got this cardigan from Matalan this weekend. This is now easily my favourite cardigan I own! It is so soft and cosy, and such good quality! It feels so much more expensive than it actually is. I love the specks of colour running through it too, and it goes with everything! However I had got into a bit of a rut lately of just wearing jeans & jumpers, I think because of the weather & having to run around after Lily all the time, it had just become my easy choice. But I had a little brainwave today while feeling a bit miserable that instead of some spring sunshine we have snow, and decided to pair this cardigan with my summer dress & a pair of Primark super cosy tights, & voilà! A pretty, practical and warm outfit! It's definitely lifted my mood a little!

Do you have any tips for dressing when its super cold & your feeling lazy?

x ♥