the 21st September is world peace day, if you have any way to get involved with supporting the idea of world peace the 21st would be as good a day as any to get involved. down under a couple of film makers have launched million votes 4 peace with a view to raising awareness and collating a name and postcode for Australians who support peace.
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well they say that having a baby changes your life, but the funny thing is at the moment it really is hard to say exactly how much. I know a few of you will be going Mac loves his sleep so that is one obvious area, and py must be feeding every couple of hours which must be a big change. however when people make that statement I am sure they are referring to bigger things like the sense of responsibility, how this little thing has a complete dependency on you both as parents, how you don’t get five spare minutes to your self and how hard it is to say goodbye each morning when you head to work.
thing is we have had a couple of other things that, for Mac at least, have kept some of the enormity in check. the first is our tendency to do big things in twos and or threes - so having bought our first home so close to noë’s birth that has given us another responsibility to come to terms with. the second is the curve ball called life - a few of you know, but on the day noë came home for the first time Mac also got the news that he had been made redundant, his new employer having gone into receivership (that’s another story).
now a few people might start thinking house, newborn - no job ARGHHHHHHHH!! however as the title suggests Mac was actually far more philosophical about this extra responsibility. see as all the dads out there will know Mac wasn’t exactly looking forward to going back to work proper, that whole first experience of kissing mum and baby goodbye for the day not knowing if the studio might need him to work late… py I’m sure was wandering exactly how Mac was going to really react to this bombshell - indeed in over 8 years together the burden of money expectations has probably been the only thing that Mac can get overwhelmed by. but a few days down the line and Mac was quite firmly unfazed, barely a couple of emails and a posting to a design forum and connections and job offers were surfacing - including a couple of interesting contracts that could be completed from home.
And so it is after nearly 7 weeks (noë will be 7 weeks on sunday) Mac has had the chance to work from home and spend time with Noë and py for all but 4 days, has had a studio pay for flights back to the Adelaide for the whole family and has been on hand to help py out between Photoshop and InDesing files. for the meantime this is the way things are going to stay and who knows it might become a more permanent arrangement for the pyMac family if the contracts keep rolling in.
as they say everything happens for a reason and right now we are grateful for little curve ball life threw our way.
enjoy every moment while it is with us…
well py has just returned to Melbourne after a week or so in Adelaide showing Noë off to all our family and friends (Mac is to return on Thursday after he finishes work). we had a really great time catching up with everyone and look forward to sharing our photographs. look forward to seeing you all again soon xxx
before little Noë made his entrance i managed to read a couple of books which I can now highly recommend. the first, ‘The Ethics of What We Eat’ by Peter Singer and Jim Mason, covers all things food related and how removed most of us are from the process. it’s a very balanced but quite depressing look at the industry, generally from an American perspective, but they do discuss Australia too. certainly makes you think about what we eat and how that is affecting the planet and contributing seriously to climate change.
on a lighter note, the other book we can highly recommend is ‘Culture Club’ by Craig Schuftan. for those of you who are dedicated JJJ listeners you will know what this is about, but for those outside of Australia and those weirdos who chose to listen to some other radio station here in Australia not worth bothering about, this is a fantastic read about “modern art, rock and roll and other things your parents warned you about”. A very entertaining and easy read!
out of all the photographs we have taken since the arrival of beautiful Noë these two would have to be py’s favourites.
other pictures are available on py’s facebook page and we will be uploading a set to flickr next week when mum and baby are back home
Mac here, very quickly before heading back to hospital - well it finally happened 10.30 we had the most amazing little boy arrive into this world. I’ll let py share the details but it was a long slog for her but she was amazing, don’t know how women do it but to have been there was incredible if not also the scariest thing I have ever done.
He is 7.7lb lots of hair and big ‘kangaroo’ feet, he’s got a lovely little face with bit’s of both of us I think and the most messmerising eye’s - as you’d guess I had a few tears. Pictures tonight when I bring the memory card home from hospital and get a bit of time for a proper entry.
Well love to you all our friends around the world and hopefully some of you will get to have your first cuddles sometime soon
love the three of us
xxxx
here are some more photos of the house renovations. we still need to strip and stain the woodwork, but that will happen in a couple of months. the nursery is coming along nicely and we will have some more pictures up of that soon.
quick update on the nursery mural from the weekend.
i know pregnant woman on a ladder, but you try telling her to rest!! but at least py has somewhere to rest her pot of paint.
here are a couple of pictures showing our house painting in progress. Mac spent his week off before startinbg his new job painting the hall, master bedroom and preparing the nursery. over the weekend pyMac together started the mural for the Jellybean’s new room - more shots of finished rooms to come. ps for anyone interested the guest room is ready for guests…
we’ve been meaning to post this up for a while, made us laugh, kinda the equivilent of ‘Chav Bingo’ in the UK except Metal instead of Garage. Markskaaa this one is very much for you. the website is very funny, especially the bio’s of the bingo callers check it out here
the studio I am about to join - Rich Creative, have recently worked with Greening Australia on the ‘Breathe Easy’ intiative see more here
well this is our first entry from the new home. we moved in over two days last weekend, Mac had much appreciated help from Shayne (our Canadian contact - good friend from Spin) and py in best tradition did the van driving. the move was largely uneventful, after all we have moved from the UK to France and back in the past. however there was one potential catch - we had purchased a large pine linen chest some weeks prior - so big Mac can get his entire t-shirt collection in one drawer with room to spare.
the first attempt to deliver the chest to our flat had ended with said chest being taken back to storage by the shop we bought it from. we then had to have it delivered and stored in our lock up garage the week before the house settlement. py was certain getting it into the new house wouldn’t be a problem, but we hadn’t actually measured it at any point. so it was that we came to the task of getting our new linen chest into the house. a little bit of light push and shove made it very clear it would get in but that we’d have to remove the front door and so py went in search of a screwdriver, Shayne took the door off and the chest made it in safe and sound.
we have now been in the new place for a week and it feels great to have our own little home, we have a little unpacking left to do, and Mac is very excited about getting to work on the nursery in a couple of weeks - pictures to flickr coming soon.
well we thought now would be a good time to update you all with a couple of things that will be changing soon. Mac has manged to land himself a pretty exciting job at a creative agency called Rich Creative. not content with moving house and having a baby we thought hey lets get a new job at the same time. Mac starts his new job on 18th June. on the house front, we move in next weekend. we took the final house inspection today, all papers are signed from our side and keys change hands next friday. once in we are both looking forward to getting the paint brushes and picture hooks out.
