Things I Know - Addictions and Failed Cupcakes

Linking up with Singular Insanity for this post about Things I Know.


How does one stuff up a simple cupcake?  Even with a store bought box of cake mix, it seems so impossible to stuff up.  But apparantly I score a big fat FAIL in that department.

No amount of icing will hide this mess

So here's what I know, I know which brand of paper cups to NOT buy in the future! To me this clearly looks like the cupcake holders fault, it was too weak and just gave in:-(  It's not even an inferior brand.
There are one or two salvagable ones, although they may not look like your average cupcake:

I'm so disappointed...but they're still 100% edible!! Woohoo.


Another thing I know, everything iPhone is extremely addictive.  In another post about Things I Love I mention applications and all the time they consume.  Its an addiction when you constantly think about it, its the last thing you do before you sleep and the first thing your finger touches when you wake up.  I could Instagram my day away...


I know me and my son are deathly afraid of lizards...and my daughter has no fear!  While he and I run in the opposite direction, she'll stay to make the lizard her pet.  I wish I could take a photo of it, but like I said, I'm running away!!

I know that I miss my family terribly!!  I get teary everytime I think about them.  It's been 7 years!  But in a months time we're going to South Africa for a bit of a holiday! I know I'm excited, and I know I will cry a lot when seeing them and then leaving them again. (motherhood has turned me to complete mush)

And this last one goes to my 'lovely' husband (note sarcasm?).  I know I'm a bit soft around the edges, there's no need to make jokes about me getting to join my elephant and whale relatives soon.  I know I've gained a bit of weight OK!!  I'm working on it. 
WHAT A TOOL!?!!!

Make sure you head over and check out Singular Insanity,and the things she knows about cat food.



A Wiggly Skinny Mummy challenge

Sound strange? Perhaps, but it's really so straight-forward once I explain.

Most of you might know who The Wiggles are, No?  Here's a picture with a link to a website to get an idea of who they are:

The Wiggles Website

Well my two little ones are absolutely in love with The Wiggles, like most children their age.  So much that I'm subjected to knowing E.V.E.R.Y single one of their songs and moves that go with it.

Every afternoon it's the same thing for about 3 hours.  First it will be one or both of the kids giving me their best wiggly finger Wiggles wave.  What does that look like?  A little something like this:

So they both give me the finger...

And on goes The Wiggles show, I don't know which one, I go with a bit of random selection.  Or Mr3 tells me what he wants, usually the Big Red Car!!

Now after about a year and a half of almost everything Wiggly, it was irritating and annoying at first since I would have the bloody songs in my head all the time, worst of all at night when I couldn't sleep.

You know that feeling when you have an irritating song stuck in your head?  Yes, that was the Wiggles in the beginning for me.

I have to say it's gotten easier and more tolerable, or maybe I've developed selective deafness?  Nothing against The Wiggles at all, I love them the most for keeping the kids occupied while I make dinner etc.  But there's a reason why there are childrens shows aimed at children and then our adult ones.  Yes??

So sometimes if I'm in a good mood I find myself having a bit of fun with the kids, singing and dancing away to the Wiggles (I'm not lying when I say they watch it everyday). 

I wasn't lying when I said we (the suckered-in parents) end up knowing all the songs and dance moves!

One day, just the other day, I found myself after 20minutes of non-stop Wiggling, sweating like a goddamn pig.  Jeez, I must have gone completely crazy to have worked up a sweat?  We had so much fun, the kids absolutely LOVE it when I get like that, when I play with them.  NO LIMITS!  They laughed and screamed, so did I until my tummy hurt!

Well that there was a workout, a fun one at that! 

I've been talking to myself the last few weeks, all because my jeans are getting tighter.  I've been trying to arrange with myself a day or two that I would get out of the house, with kids in pram or not, and go for a walk to get some form of exercise.  As I don't get any whatsoever.  And how many times have I gone for that walk? ZERO.

Something always comes up, or someone always needs me for something.  Or it gets dark too early, thanks Winter.  Or it rains all day for a few days.

So starts my daily workout with the kids, and I think it really will have an impact.  If I can do half an hour of this fun, then I think I'm set.  Something's better than nothing.  And I can't wait for afternoons to come up now.

This is not an official challenge, just a fun thing that will benefit me (my aim is simple, to be a size 10, I'm a size 12 overflowing into a size 14 which I'm not happy about).  Think I can lose some weight doing this? I think so :-)

I give you, A Wiggly Skinny Mummy TO-BE.

Watch this space...

P.s I wish I had some balls to do a bit of a VLOG but I don't, sorry!