About

Hi & welcome to Messy Rainbows, a blog where life is celebrated in all it's beautiful, colourful & messy glory. If you love having funny & honest conversations with friends over a cuppa (or something a little stronger) about everything, including all of life's weird & wonderful moments, then pull up a seat & join me.

I'm Lorien, but I'm sure we'll become friends so you can call me Lozzie.
I love sunsets & rainbows, fresh flowers, snail mail & pretty stationary. I have a thing for clocks & am loving all things donuts at the moment too, both of the eating & decorating variety.
I love taking photos & would love to learn how to use my big girl camera properly (not on auto mode) although most pics I snap on my phone as it's always with me. I love a good cuppa, am partial to a chai latte & have a terrible sweet tooth, which is bad as I haven't been to the dentist in years! I'm a catalogue queen & shopaholic, with champagne tastes on a beer budget. I'm a romantic at heart, a dreamer & very indecisive, a typical Pisces. 

Hello

I live in Australia on the central coast of Nsw, together with "hubby" (although we're not actually married & have no immediate plans) & our boys, "Peanut"- 4 yrs & "Pumpkin"- 11 months. Although to the outside world we may look like a family of four, we are a family of five. Our second son Ryan was born VERY early & although he fought hard for 2 weeks, he unfortunately couldn't stay with us & grew his wings. He is our Angel baby but still as much a part of our family as the rest of us.

Our Family

I'm currently a stay at home mum, but hardly your typical housewife. I hate cleaning, I'm disorganised & messy & am not much of a cook although I'm trying to work on that. For the last 11 months I've been living in a sleep deprived haze as "Pumpkin" is a terrible sleeper. Seriously bad! It's like I've had a newborn this whole time. There have been many emotional nights with tears & tantrums & days I've felt like chucking it all in. If you know me, you know I love my sleep, so surviving on very little for this long has been torture. "Peanut" is also pushing boundaries along with all of my buttons & some days it feels like Groundhog Day here. This parenting gig is hard work, but it is also very rewarding. I love these crazy kids sooo much even if they do give me heart attacks daily & lots of grey hairs.

My Boys

So why start a blog? I love reading & following other peoples & have had fleeting thoughts about starting one before, but self doubt always crept in & I wondered if I'd have anything new or interesting to say & even if I did, would anyone actually want to read it? But one night whilst up feeding Pumpkin for the millionth time (it was probably more like the 5th or 6th time of the night, but you get the idea) I had a few ideas come to me, as that's when they usually do these days, (inspiration strikes at crazy o'clock when I'm not sleeping & delirious) & so I thought, why not give it a go? I've been spending too much time lately feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, cranky, tired & emotional & decided I needed to do something for me. I needed to have an outlet, somewhere to document the everyday moments & things I want to remember. A place that celebrates the good but that also allows me to vent & share the not so great times too & hopefully connect with others who might be feeling the same, people that want to talk, share a story or a laugh & celebrate or commiserate over all of  those little moments in life.

So Messy Rainbows was born as my place to share it all. The good & bad, happy or sad, weird & wonderful. More often than not I'll focus on the bright & positive things & try to keep looking for the rainbows after the storm, but this is real life & it's not all sunshine & rainbows. Sometimes... it's just messy!!


Thanks for visiting my little corner of the web, I hope you like it here.
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Lozzie x