Hi guys, happy new year to you and your families.
Lately I’ve lost my blogging mojo but maybe with the new year and all I will regain it. I’ve also been super exhausted lately. Siobhan comes back from maternity Monday, though I’m off all week and I feel a certain duty to make sure everything is up to date and in the same way she left it. I’m not looking forward to going back to my old role at all. Time for a new job me thinks. Oh to not have to work for a living!
Plenty of things have happened so I will catch you up briefly. Saran, Sean’s sister, had a beautiful baby boy on the 17th of December a full day after she was induced! Mother and baby are doing well!

Introducing Jack Patrick Milane
Sorry about the poor photograph, I didn’t take it obviously *cough* Sean *cough*, he wasn’t so happy to be photographed, but I was happy to be holding him.
The next day, a full 8 days late, Nelia Lubar entered the world! Pics are to come but she is absolutely adorable. We went round to the birthing center when she was just 1 day old and again this evening. Lisal, the new mommy, is a much better photographer than Sean so will let her photo’s do her daughter justice. She put on the hat I made for her and apparently it’s a big hit. It’s the go to hat as it fit’s so well so I’m so glad. It’s a newish pattern for a new baby hat that will stay on a wriggly babies head. Think a cross between a bonnet and beanie. I didn’t think to write down the pattern but I am going to do her another, babies grow so fast! Once I do I will share the pattern.
I’ll round off this brief post with cupcakes I made for Lisal and Lee’s New Years dinner today….


…because everyone loves cupcakes
Pssst I made those flags. Real easy, rub-offs, ribbon and double sided tape attached to lollypop sticks.
Let’s hope theres another post from me this year hehe.