I can’t believe we’ve reached our fourth birthday. Some days I feel like I’ve been doing this forever, other days I feel like I am still so new to the game – but regardless, I bloody love this business and I love the team I’ve built – they’re pretty special!

I decided this year to treat them to a Vietnamese feast at Mama’s Buoi in Chadstone. I also had some big news to drop…

I am pregnant! You can just see the beginnings of a little belly growing under that leopard print dress of mine. It’s a little boy and he’s due at Christmas time – much to the delight of one of my best mate’s kids, who has already annouced that she will be his big sister, because he needs one. (I do agree with her, he absolutely needs a big sister, especially one who will keep him in line like she will!)

After all of the excitement and tears were out of the way (you know you’ve done something right when the people you PAY are truly, genuinely excited for you and want to celebrate and support you – they’re so much more than employees to me), we ordered a mountain of food and celebrated four years of this ridiculous little dream of mine.

Happy fourth birthday, Whipped Up!