mammajoy

Hello!

Has it really been 3 months since my last post?  How quickly does time fly when you are busy.  We've had two family weddings since April and I must say that is more than this mamma can handle!

At the moment I am between head colds and grateful for whatever bursts of energy I get.  There has been so much to do in preparation for our new baby - due in 5 weeks!  Where did those 35 weeks go?  Matt has been busy attending to my 'must get done before baby comes' list - which of course contains all manner of crazy items like build a linen cupboard, move that heavy bookcase and completely change that room around.  He's so patient with my pregnancy crazy.

My next step?  Find and wash baby clothes.  I have tonnes of cute little boy outfits that Joseph only wore for 1 -2 weeks because he grew so quickly - it's so nice that I get to use them again!

And as a completely random photo because I just.can't.post without a photo - my lovely little flowergirls and myself at my sisters wedding.  It was such a gorgeous day.

17? 19? Any further guesses?

So I got a phone call early this morning from the radioligist people cancelling my ultrasound appointment.

Pregnancy Rule #32 - Do not cancel a pregnant mammas ultrasound appointment, especially when they are so.darn.looking.forward to seeing that little being that is keeping them up at night either hungry or sick or both.

These people obviously haven't read the rules.  They said that according to their records I am only 17 1/2 weeks along and I need to be at least 19 weeks to get a good morpholgoy scan.  According to my dates and my GP and the hospital I am already 19 weeks.

If we could all just agree on how far along I am we can all get along m'kay?

My appointment is now for next Wednesday at 1pm.

Trying.to.be.patient.

the holiday blues

I always seem to find myself in a funk around this time of year.  More commonly known as the school holidays.  I guess it's because my kids aren't in school yet and so while heaps of familes around me are having a break from school I'm not having a break from anything.  Unless there's a break from real life which I haven't discovered yet.

If you have, email me m'kay?

But the thing that I am craving at the moment (besides banana sandwhiches) is my usual routine.  It feels weird not going ANYWHERE during the day except to the shops for bread and milk.  I miss my mum's group, the story reading at our local library and the music group at the local nursing home.  I miss having somewhere to be.

It was nice being able to stay home in my jammies when I was having a DEEEE-LIGHTFUL time with the morning sickness, but now I'm feeling a bit better and am ready for these holidays to be over.

So bring it on I say.

someone stop me, please

 

• I found myself late the other night obsessed with the need to find an appropriately non-cheesy Christmas CD to play during December.  Really, I did.  And no, I couldn’t find one.

 

• I have a to-do list for when family arrives on Christmas Eve that has 15 items on it, so far.

 

• My Christmas cake?  Smells like pure brandy.  I may have put a tad too much on it.  We may be eating it one crumb at a time.

 

• I have not bought one.single.Christmas.present.yet.

 

• M and I can’t decide between a fake or a real tree.  My main concern?  I have to keep a real tree alive all year around.  A fake tree I can take out of a box and put it right back in the box come new year thankyouverymuch.

• I put my back out again yesterday and so at present am feeling quite high on painkillers.  This does not help with the whole planning thing.

 

I think maybe, just maybe, Christmas is meant to be more relaxing than this.