My Best Friend #BEDAOutmumbered

My best friend is my soul mate. I believe your heart is split in two and your soul is 

split in two and you're set on this earth to find the other halves. Gavin may be the other half of my heart but Erin is the other half to my soul. 

I can't even say she 'gets me' because she is me. Everything I think, everything I like, everything I do, everything I say she thinks/likes/does/says too. I know she would do anything to help me and make me happy and I would do the same for her. She has been my best friend since we were 13 and I could count in one hand the days that have gone by where I haven't spoken to her. She's is my rock. If I haven't bigged her up enough go over and check out how wonderful she is at reviewing books. Her reviews are only so good because she has such a great editor ;) erins-choicee.blogspot.com 

A Special Memory #BEDAOutmumbered

Just the one?

Well I guess it's got the be the greatest day of my life, when my little chubster was born. What a chubby little darling he was. Greatest day ever. I remember hearings him cry for the first time as the midwife wrapped him up and brought him round for Gavin to hold as I got stitched back up. The moment I heard him I burst out crying, I was so happy and proud I felt like I was going to burst. Definitely the pinnacle of my existence. 

Where would you like to be in 10 years time? #BEDAOutmumbered

Above all in 10 years time I would like to be healthy and happy. I guess a few things I would like to have achieved by the time I'm 34 would be:

Be married

Have another child. Maybe 2 who knows!

Own my own house

Not a lot else really. I'm not a big one for planning years in advance. So I'll continue to live each day as it comes.

Favourite Quote #BEDAOutmumbered

'Love never fails'

I love this quote so much I have it tattooed on me. 

It's from 1 Corinthians 13. The 'Love Verse' and I just love the idea that love never fails. Whether it be from your parents, friends, partner, god or whatever you believe in. In my life I always have unfailing love. 

20 Facts About Me #BEDAOutmumbered

1. I have a 4 month old son

2. I have been in love with the same boy since I was 14

3. I have an obsessive personality. If I love something I go all out.

4. I named my cat after Minerva McGonagall

5. I have had the same bestfriend since I was 13.

6. I'm really close to my mum and I don't think my pregnancy/having a baby would have been so easy if it wasn't for her

7. Although I'm quite creative I don't have a great imagination.

8. I have 5 Harry Potter wands. See no.3. 

9. I have a horrendous fear of my 'stringy bit' the tendon bit at the back of your knee/leg that feels like a bit of string. 

10. I'm very patriotic. I love Scotland and I'd never want to leave.

11. I day dream about winning the lottery and what I'd do with the winnings a lot. I've only played the lottery twice in my whole life.

12. I'm allergic to oranges.

13. My memory is atrocious.

14. I have seen McFly live 17 times. See no.3 again haha.

15. My favourite book, apart from the Harry Potter series is 50 Shades of Grey. *ooh er ;)

16. I hate people that don't take other people's opinions/feelings into consideration.

17. When making decisions I always think about it from someone else's point of view. I think it's because I care too much about what other people think.

18. I have a freckle right in the middle of the sole of my foot. 

19. I get nose bleeds a lot when I'm stressed.

20. I believe 'love is all you need'

'BEDAOutmumbered Introduction

I'm late to the party but it looked so fun that I wanted to join in.


Blog every day in August was started over on www.outmumbered.com and it is a challenge to... blog every day in August (quite self explanatory really). Being a new blogger I thought it would be a really good challenge for me and a chance for you to get to know me better.


So day 1 is an introduction and a recent photo:

My name is Kirsty, I am 24 year old first time Mum to Logan and girlfriend to Gavin, best friend, daughter, sister and full on legend... don't have a clue why I said that. It seemed funny when I thought of it. *hangs head in shame* I live in a town outside Glasgow. I'm currently on maternity leave and I'm due back at work in late January. I wont give away too much just now as one of the first posts is 20 facts about me and goodness knows there's not that many interesting facts about me.

My Changing Table Set-Up

When I was prgnant I found this kind of post fascinating. Mainly because I'm nosey but also I found it really helpful to see other people's set up and start to plan how I might have these things.

So for all those like-minded people here is my changing table set-up.

We have the Rialto 3 drawer from Mamas and Papas with the changing table on top. We would never have had enough space for a seperate changing unit in Logan's room and I had seen a couple of set ups like this and thought this would suit us best. So I use the top drawer of his chest of drawers to house all his changing stuff. I used glass jars and drawer organisers from Ikea to help keep everything in it's place and so far it's working really well for us.

The changing mat is also from mamas and papas, it was on sale and I'm sure it was around the £7 mark. I did see loads of cute changing mats with towelling on them and pillows etc but I am so glad I went for a plain, wipe clean one like this. With the amount of times this been pee'd on one with towelling down the middle would have been ridiculously impractical.

I bought these 3 big jars from Ikea which hold cotton buds, round cotton pads and cotton wool balls. These are really good for keeping these little things together and great for seeing when you are running out. I had envisaged putting these jars on a shelf but we live in a rented flat and aren't allowed to put holes on the wall, and the work just fine in the drawer. We also have a pack of swim nappies which have yet to be used. Also a cotton wool pleat, which is just a big roll of cotton wool that you can rip off as much as you need. I thought this would be really useful for drying wet bums etc, turns out all the cotton wool just sticks to his bum and makes more of a mess, so now it gets used to dry the mat when it's had the 'sprinkler' treatment.

So here we have 2 square of the organizers. In the back one lives nappy bags. I was given ones from Tesco at my baby shower which are quite thick and seem quite good quality but I honestly prefer the cheap ones from Asda. They're something like 50p? They aren't scented they are just plain blue/green bags. Pretty thin but sturdy. In the front square we just have random bits and bobs, sudocream, a comb, a brush, a horrible hard sponge that needs chucked in the bin and a card thermometer thing that's never been used. Turns out I'm not as scared about bath temperatures as I thought I would be. 

In this long rectangle I keep muslin clothes. Just the small square ones, I keep his Aden & Anais swaddle blankets on the cupboard. We have a 5 pack from Marks & Spencers with blue or orange stars on and some plain white ones from Asda. These just get used to mop up dribbley chins and the rare baby sick.

And in the last rectangle we have wipes. I have quite a few different kinds even though we only use Johnson's. We tried the Huggies ones but they gave Logan a very red bum because they are a lot stiffer. So we just stick to these. 

And that is our set up. Hope you enjoyed this post. Do you have a similar set up? Or any other tips on how I could arrange things differently?

Kirsty x