Category Archives: Personal

So I Am Now Fully Kitted Out

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with clothes to last until I have this little one.  Trousers, tops, sweaters, all bought.  Okay, so I haven’t bought any undies yet, but I need to get a bit bigger first, as the ones I have are working fine!

So I did my part to stimulate the economy today.  Go me!

Tonight Simon and I are doing our usual of dinner and a DVD.  We hate going out on NYE.  Its so expensive and crowded.  Would rather stay in the comfort of our flat, eat a nice meal and snuggle on the sofa.  I’ve even promised myself a sip or two of champers!  Such a party animal, that’s me!

So what are everyone’s plans for the evening?

15 Weeks Today

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And today I am aching like crazy.  Lower back, across my bump, just not a nice feeling.  I think baby is stretching in all directions at once in there!

Have a diabetes appointment this afternoon.  More blood gone!  My numbers have been, for the most part, excellent.  One really high high, caused by over compensation for a low.  Other than that, right on target!  Go me!

Tomorrow I am off to the shops.  Everyone appears to be having huge sales.  Like 50 – 75% off!  And I have Topshop voucher from Xmas.  They do baby and materinty, so I’m off to buy!

Have been looking more closely at nursery furniture.  Since the rocking chair is dark wood, I am thinking we will do that for the rest of the furniture as well.  Now we just need to get our landlord to remove the single bed in the baby’s room, and I’ll be ready!  Well, and find a place for four bookcases and all of their books!!

In an interesting development, both my dad and my brother have sent the baby stuffed lambs!  Dad’s has a rattle in it but is very squishy and brother’s is just very squishy!  I think we may have to go for a lamb motif for the baby!

Safely Back Home

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Had a lovely visit and a very nice Christmas.  Mostly received things to make a pregnant woman pretty, like lotions and a voucher for Top Shop, who sells maternity clothes, as well as baby things.

Still have a week off until I go back to work, so going to try to start organizing the baby’s room a bit.  In-laws are giving us a rocking chair, I am so pleased.  They bought it when MIL was pregnant with Simon and it was an antique then!  Now 35ish years later, it is still in great shape, very comfortable.  And considering all of the rocking chairs I’ve seen are at least £400?  Very very happy to get it!  They will be bringing it down with them in the next month or so.

GP wanted me to try to go off my trazodone, only now I’m not sleeping again, so I don’t think it will work.  She is concerened that the baby will be born addicted to it.  I can see her concern, but I need to sleep!  I think I’ll give it a few more nights and see what happens.  I know it is the trazodone because I had actually started to sleep like a normal person before I started stepping off of it!

I Am Reading the Most Interesting Blog

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A Nun’s Life

Obviously, as a person who was raised Jewish, I have not had a lot of experience with Nuns.  I do not think I’ve ever actually met one, to be honest, although I might have through my sister in law who works at a religious university, but I don’t remember.

So I find this blog fascinating.

Not only does Sister Julie write well, she explains well also.  She has many entries about what it is like to be a nun in the today’s world.  She’s also made it part of her remit to depict modern nuns from all over the world, with the weekly Nunsday, where she posts pictures of nuns doing, well, regular things.  I especially like the picture of the two reporter nuns from Vatican City!  Who knew nuns could be reporters?!?!

So I strongly encourage my readers (all 3 of you :)) to give her blog a go.  You might learn something.  I certainly have!

And OMG an entire post that doesn’t mention my pregnancy at all…darn, blew it! 🙂

So I Keep Getting Asked For Belly Pics

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Which I would be happy to supply, only our digital camera died on us while we were in Tuscany.

However, Simon pointed out this morning that we have a Flip, which you can pull single shots from.  So we’ll do a photo shoot this weekend and see what we get!  Because the ‘OMG how much pizza did you eat girl?’ has most definitely turned into ‘OMG there’s a baby in there!!’

In other news, 8 more hours and I’m off for 2 weeks.  During those two weeks I will be: –

  1. Going to In-Laws for 5 days for Christmas
  2. Clearing out the closet in what will be the baby’s room, to see if I can organize it better
  3. Clearing out the closet in the guest room, ditto above re organization
  4. Sleeping
  5. Shopping
  6. Eating nice things
  7. Sleeping
  8. Sleeping
  9. Running to the loo every 2 minutes

What’s everyone else’s plans for the holiday period?

10 Things No One Tells You About Being Pregnant

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  1. When you sneeze, the muscles across your bump pull.  So you sound like this: ACHOO OUCH!!
  2. Even early in pregnancy, the loo is your friend.
  3. Your lower back will hurt from practically day one.
  4. You become the Queen of Burps (TM).
  5. Worrying starts from the moment you get the positive HPT.  And apparently never goes away.
  6. Morning sickness can last all.day.long.
  7. Your skin gets so dry you should really buy stock in Body Shop for their Shea Butter.
  8. Except on your face.  The pregnancy glow is actually oily skin which leads to
  9. More spots than you’ve had since you were 15.
  10. You will never be so happy in your life as the first time you see your baby move at an Ultrasound.