Fluid dreams...

So I soldier on with detoxing my body...so if you remember the first week I have cut out all beverages except water, herbal teas, and vegetable juices.  As good as it is fluids are VERY important for your body Your body needs water;

• to regulting your temperature
• as means for nutrients to travel through your body
• to transport oxygen around our body
• to remove waste from your body
• to protect your joints and organs
• to think, sleep, eat, breath and live.

Basically without any water we die...but most of us know that, our body tells us that.  What we need to learn is that without enough water we cant think properly, organise our lives and juggle our tasks.  We cant digest our food properly and we need to be able to get the most from everything that goes in our mouths. We cant regulate our hormones properly so we dont sleep soundly, have issues with our moods and enjoying our lives.  Our bodies cannot effectively remove TOXINS from our body. So increasing water intake could only be a good thing.  The best way to work out how much water you should be consuming is...take your weight in kilos and convert it to pounds...so I weigh 69 Kg that in pounds is 151.8, half it (75.9) and this is how many ounces of water you should drink per day...you can convert ounces to litres with a calculator on the web or use this conversion (1 ounce = 0.02957352953125 Liters) therfore I should consume roughly 2.25 litres of water a day.  If you exercise or drink alcohol etc you need to consume more.

I struggled this week a little, generally crashing at about 3-4 pm and having some lollies...I hope having more water will help curve the yuckness in the afternoon.

The next task will be no snacking...goodbye lollies.  No snacking is not entirely true...I can eat nuts, vegetables, fruit, dips and with veggies or low cal biscuit or wraps...oh no!!!!!

Cleansing dreams...

It's time to start clearing out the body.  I am dreaming of a healthy clean and balanced body. It all starts with elimination, just like when you cleanse your mind you have to get rid of all the negative thoughts before you can move on.

Last time I cleansed myself in preperation for pregnancy it was 1 week before I tried to conceive.  This was a crash course removal of ALL sugar, refined and natural...needless to say I nearly died! This time around I am going to cleanse slowly over 6 weeks...

I start by removing coffee and any other beverage from my diet except herbal teas (particularly dandelion and nettle tea which is great for cleansing), vegetable juice (no added fruit or sugar) and of course water.  This just covers the first week.  Once my body has adjusted to that I will move on to the next thing, baby steps baby steps.

Today was my first day and I must admit I crashed at about 4:00 pm and ate a few lollies...tsk tsk. 

I dream of being filled with energy, allowing my body to do what it needs to do to function.  I am not going to slow it down with things that are hard to breakdown and hard to use.  All in good time.

Sweet cleansing dreams.

One who dreams of linen...

I have never been in to buying clothes for an unborn baby let alone a child that is not conceived yet...however months before I conceived my daughter I bought a bib (a pink one) and booties...a lot of people said it was a bad idea, that I was setting myself up for disappointment.  However I did it and everything was fine...I got pregnant the first month of trying and I had a healthy baby girl.  While I am still not in to the idea of buying clothes for a child that is not yet earthbound I am attached to the idea of that special outfit that a baby has before they grace as with their presents...for a lot of people that is the coming home outfit...for my first baby it was a kimono style, wheat coloured sleeping gown...I shouldn't wait to get her into it...once I got over the whole 'why are we trying to dress her she has just come out leave her alone' thing!

Anyway I have been dreaming about what my two items might be for this future baby who is waiting above, never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be a piece of clothing...let alone a pant...these must be wilder then wild dreams as I could not take my eyes of these beauties.

These linen pants from Purebaby

I can imagine these on a little new born, fresh to the world with no top...skin rolling over the top...just lovely.  I gravitated towards the blue but we will have a surprise so you never know.

Hmmmm maybe the fact that I have picked clothes is a bad sign...in my dreams there are no bad signs so there!

Wedding dreams....

While it seems that the wedding dream will not com true first maybe soon after bubs is born though, I still have dreams of my wedding...here the wedding of my dreams...

Co-sharing dreams...

So as per my last post I am hoping to have bub in with me for a LOOOOOONG time, that is if bubs wants too of course.  That being said this time around I wont need to plan a nursery, I still however want my bedroom to be a santuary for baby and I...and for daddy too.  Currently my bedroom has;

1 Double bed
1 Chest of drawers
1 Bureau
1 Television
1 Very tiny built in robe

Things that need to be changed.  For our health I would prefer to upgrade beds...not to a bigger one as we will need the space for bubs but at least a better one.  The chest of drawers will be given to my eldest and we will get a set of drawers to go in the robe.  We have a spare room so what I hope to do is turn the spare room in to an adults retreat with the bureau and television and also use the room for guests (as we have another double bed) and as a bit of storage...I think that is a great plan...that way there will be heaps of room for bubba in our room and the change table.

So the two room will become retreats and I want to decorate them as such...most of the focus will go in to our bedroom...just decals and nice lighting etc.  I would also love this for when we bub is ready for their own room we can leave the room rather then them going to a new one??? we will see how it goes.

So how to design our retreat, hmmmm I tried looking on the web but of course that is planning and there wasn't anything dreamy about it...so I will have to dream about it and see what comes...here are some ideas anyway.

Okay so they are all decals but they move my heart.

Dreams involve shopping...

So I have already started dreaming of what 'things' I am goingto buy for myself and bubs next time...here is a visual...

Not exactly pretty but I love the idea and it means bubs and I can sleep close...max weight is 13 Kg...considering my daughter is nearly 16 months and not quite 10 Kg I am sure to get use out of this.  It is call the 'Arms Reach Universal Co-sleeper' will look around when the time comes. Here is a utube vid on it...just love it particularly the 'toodler bed' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzGpJuSYRG0

and

HOLY MOSES...a little baby basket.

Just devine...I want to carry little bubba EVERYWHERE my daughter and I go!  I think red would be fine for a boy...what do you think?  This is a custom made basket from sleepispaces

The first dream....

Well it seems the first dream is going to come in the form of a baby...it has just fallen in to place that way...the pieces are coming together slowly to form a family of four...while have set a date for said baby to be welcomed to the warmth of my womb we are leaving it up to the powers that be to decided when is the perfect month for this to occur...my ticker will give you an indication of the time line but I dont want to focus on that here as this little blog is for dreams.

This month I am dreaming of a healthy and happy place to house and nuture the next soul I will be caring for, guiding and loving. I want to cleanse the environment inside and out. First step is getting rid of addition. Coffee, medications, sugar etc so I will be blogging about that for sometime...who knows after that.

The journey has began, a new relaxed and free journey...a dreaming journey...I have let go of the what ifs...that being said I am still going to do my best to make a healthy and comfy place for the future soul.

Until then...sweet dreams.