Sugarplum Mum

F I V E 🖐🏽

Our superhero’s birthday party was cancelled in May because we all got covid and we were sick for agesss. Then we found out Fletcher has to have more treatment so he hasn’t been feeling the best. But today he HAD AN ABSOLUTE BALL at his birthday party 🥰🥰

And now we f**k motherf**king cancer off once and for all so we can celebrate 90 more Fletcher birthdays.

Hip Hip Hooray 🥳

Loves of my life 🤎🤍

Extra long weekends are for fishing, crabbing, cooking with granny, Easter egg hunts, park dates, best friends and a kids carnival.

We’ve had a full on few weeks this end but the kids have smiled & laughed more than ever so mama has a very full heart over here 💕

Hope everyone enjoyed some really special family time this Easter break 🤍💛🧡💚

Mecca 🙌🏽

My goodness do kids just absolutely love this place hey! 🥰

We made a treasure map which Fletcher used to hunt for buried treasure… It’s been 24 hours since that & he’s spoke of absolutely nothing else since 😂 He literally can’t believe he found the treasure!
Mystery 🤭

We’ve got friends & cousins here too so the boys are in absolute heaven. Heaven I tell you ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Came out of my biannual cake retirement for a very special reason.
Caggie & Billie.
That’s it. Just them. They’re the reason. No huge milestone. No overly sentimental reason. Just because they’re Caggie & Billie and their mama is the love of my life.

The year we had has taught me to celebrate every single birthday with your babies & to make it the most special one ever. Too many precious people would give anything for this.

This family is my family. Ness is my “who would you call at 3am” “who is that person that would bail you out of prison” “who literally knows your insides”… Ness ….so her family is my extended family.

Cags chose a unicorn cake & B chose a dinosaur cake & to see his face light up made my world complete. It’s not just merely a dinosaur cake it’s B being heard. It’s B feeling comfortable in his own skin. It’s B getting all the boy themed things his little heart desires.

I love you my loves! Flavia Harris

*also. I am never making a cake again. Ever. Never. Fml. These damn cakes melted in this weather so B’s dinosaur cake ended up with half the backyard added to it to turn it into a jungle & I had 20 mins to redo the entire unicorn decoration. Did I mention fml?!

Starting school take 2🤩

This time around he’s happy, healthy, healing & was so excited he was ready 30mins early.

“Fletcher what do you want to be when you grow up?”

“A garbage truck”

(Not the driver, the actual truck)

Reach for the stars son. If you want to be a vehicle you study hard. Skies the limit 🤩🤣

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

said it best… if you’d told us this time last year that today Fletcher would be recovering from chemo for a brain tumour & Billie would now be a boy we’d think you were 7 levels of high.

But here we are with the exact same kids as they always were, with the exact same love for each other.

Well not exact same kids… they actually share really well these days, something they were NOT doing a year ago 😅

Thanks for doing motherhood with me & always always being able to say the right things to me this past year ❤️❤️❤️

First trim & tidy up post chemo recovery …. 5 trillion times more significant than his first haircut 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 bloody cute bloody bu**er!!! 😍

🥂 Forty 🥂

When our monkey got sick my sister dropped everything, her whole life, husband / son / work & flew down to Perth the next day. She lived at our house while we lived in hospital & took care of Sulli & came to the hospital every day to see us through the initial surgery. So to finally get on a plane to Karratha to have our Christmas with our kids together & completely chill out was absolutely bloody brilliant.

We went on an epic little adventure to a swimming hole while we were up there called Python Pool & remember how I stipulated to hubs that our next car needed 4wding capabilities so we could go on rugged adventures?? Yeah well guess what?! I get quite severe motion sickness & ended the day spewing my guts up 😅

So that was my first & last 4wding adventure & I’ll now just stick to mounting kerbs with my car ✌🏽

May we -Fletcher- the s**t out of 2022!…. Love our friends and family fiercely, make the most out of every.single.damn.day, find the joy where there ain’t any, slide through a mega s**t situation shouting “well that was fun!!”

I guess we now have a new unit of measurement. 1 :glass half full. 2 :glass half empty. 3 Fletcher :when the glass is completely empty or filled with manure but you act like it’s brimming with French champagne 🙌🏽

What a god damn superhero and What an inspiration 🥰🥰 I’ve never set NY resolutions but my intentions for the NY are being shouted out loud. May my baby be filled with an abundance of health and happiness long into his old age 🙏🏽💞💞💞💞

May you all be blessed with healthy families my beautiful support network. You mean the world to my family # # # # # #

This is our next generation, the Borges legacy. (Just missing my sis & nephew 😭)

I grew up with my cousins being my best friends (and they still are!) and now Fletcher is just as besotted with his cousins & man do they have all the time in the world for him 💞💞💞

Gingerbread house decorating with the cousins 🥰

If yesterday wasn’t one of the funnest days ever I don’t know when was 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

A warrior kneels in prayer and anchors his sword to the ground to help him stand up and face the biggest fight of his life. He demonstrates he will not back down from the fight.

Mamas new ink for my warrior ⚔️ chemo didn’t smash you kid, you smashed it. Mamas kneeling right beside you saying the same prayers. ⚔️

This year will definitely be a BEAUTIFUL Christmas with my angels ❤️❤️❤️

“It’s only hair, it’ll grow back”. Yep. We’ve all said that & we’ve all thought it. When a cancer diagnosis hits you close to home hair is the least of your concerns.

Except it’s when not just hair. It’s loaded with meaning.

We shaved Fletchers hair off before chemo started so it wouldn’t fall out in a mattered mess & maybe so it wouldn’t be so confronting. Leigh & I bawled like babies in the barber shop, it hit us like a freight train.

It was a pointless exercise because when their hair falls out, no matter how short it is, it’s EVERYWHERE and it’s sudden & it’s confronting.

It’s not just hair. It’s “my baby has f**king cancer” and that’s why his hair is falling out. He is as sick as a little person could be 💔

And then when their hair grows back, even a prickle of a hair follicle you’re again on the floor flooded with tears because it means healing. It means your baby has finished chemotherapy for a f**king brain tumour and his precious little body is healing. It’s rejuvenation and healing and hope & health.

These strands of things that have irritated the bjesuz out of my husband our entire relationship 😂 now means the world to us to look at sprouting all over our baby’s head, face & body.

Here’s to my baby growing to be a wooly mammoth of a man with a long ponytail, beard & a hairy chest his wife will hate 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽❤️❤️❤️

“Mummy. When I get out of hospital I want to go fishing at granny’s holiday house”

He must have said that 789 times in the last few months 😞

So we’ve ticked another to-do off our list of rejoining society 🙌🏽❤️

And you thought Fletcher was obsessed with garbage trucks? You should see how his obsession with trains was reignited in hospital. We took him on the Hotham Valley Railway where he lost his damn mind when the steam came out of the train & he made Choo Choo noises as it took off & shouted ALLLL ABOARD… Hahahah this kid cracks me up 🤣

I dreamt of the day that Fletcher would guide his little sibling around his beloved playcentres and now a mamas heart has officially exploded 💕💕

He’s just over here living his best life, making memories & giggling his lil heart out all day every day. Every. Day. 🥰🥰😍🥰🥰

He’s got intensive physio once a week and the rest of the time it’s my life mission to heal my baby & help him walk unafraid….. And run and ride a bike & generally find his balance again. We turn every exercise into a game & our house looks like a toddler gym obstacle course most days.

Once his last surgery wound has healed we’re diving straight into a pool! He’s been begging to go for a swim the poor little nugget! How this kid has just eased straight back into regular programming is amazing.

Onwards. Upwards. That’s the only direction for you my baby ❤️❤️❤️