disney-rapunzel-merida-vanellope:

Let’s give a moment to those mothers that can not have a child…

foggypebble:

In both instances there are old kind midgets that the princess goes off to live with, the princess’s whole deal is her beauty and sweetness, and she eventually gets put in a coma by her stepmother and a prince’s kiss wakes her. and then there’s the whole singing-in-the-forest-with-birds thing. The only difference might be that Aurora and Philip are more intelligent/skeptical people than the naive Snow White and “oh look at this lady I found passed out in a field who I don’t know I’ll go kiss her because she’s so pretty” Charming. Keeping in mind I haven’t seen either movie in like a decade.

Because they’re not. 

Snow White is about a girl who loses her mother at a young age and gains a step-mother that only married her father for power. The step-mother then kills the father, blames snow white and then orders her to be killed. She flees and comes across a cottage of miners (who aren’t always depicted as dwarves), where she lives with them and in exchange for her safety, she offers to cook and clean for them. Before eventually being found by the step-mother and then saved from death by her prince.

Sleeping Beauty is about a girl that is the long waited for daughter of a king and queen who’s presentation to the kingdom is attended by a number of fairies (between 3 and 12). All but one manages to bestow a gift upon her before maleficent (an evil fairy and no relation to SB) turns up and curses her to death by spindle prick at 16. The last fairy bestows the gift of sleep to be broken by true loves kiss.

In the original, she stays with her family and all spinning wheels are banned from the kingdom, but maleficent manages to get one in on her birthday.

In the Disney on, she lives with the fairies who disguise themselves as normal sized peasant women and then she is found out and pricks her finger anyway.

The ONLY similarity between the two stories is the true loves kiss awakening the girls

When I first moved into my house 4 years ago, I decided (during the inspection, before we were even approved) that the bedroom beside the front door would be the nursery.

It’s in the middle of the house, so we could hear the baby from any room, but it’s far enough away from those rooms to not wake the baby. It’s right beside the front door with a large window that leads onto the veranda, so that if there is a fire or some other emergency, we can grab the baby and get out (because with 3 cats and a child, we need one less labyrinthine route out of danger.)

It’s the 0,0,0,0 spot of the house.

But because of all the issues we’ve had and what not, it first became my office, then the junk room and the other bedroom, with it’s hill-like floor and every present dangers became the nursery. Which was fine, because it was only being used by our niece for sleepovers and she is in a crib.

Except her parents have moved her to a big bed, and I’m worried that she won’t sleep in her crib any more, which means we have to convert the crib into a toddler bed. I don’t want her in the crap room if she’s able to freely get out of bed.

So now begins the laborious task moving all the junk into the other room and finally setting up the nursery. But I still don’t know if I want to do it. That room was meant to be for my babies. I’m being silly. She needs a proper, safe room when she’s here and she’s the only baby regularly in our life and home.

If I make the change, I’ll post before and after picks.

For the last week I’ve been super sick with Gastro (had to have an injection to stop vomiting because I couldn’t hold down water. I also think I bruised my ribs/sternum vomiting… that shit was powerful). Ended up dehydrated and now that I’m finally recovering, I find out my period is due. So I’m exhausted and achey and hungry like a monster.

First real food I’ve eaten in a week and I’ve already eaten crap (including a box of 100s & 1000s oreos). So much for keeping the weight off! I’ve got less than 200 days till the colour run and I am going to be under 100kg for it.

Also, my blue leopard print tights are fabulous! (I’ll post a pic later)