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Firsts' Yesterday duckling gave me a round of applause for being amusing. :)
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I've now properly started my Christmas shopping.
Whoo me! Eek!
*frantic money transferring*
This time last year I'd started too and I was pregnant and sick and I'd already started playing Christmas music and films in a big hormonal search for happy Christmassy feelings. Think I felt Christmassy from late October till partway through January. Very strange.
This year I'm excited to start teaching our daughtr all about Christmas and traditions and ripping up wrapping paper.
This year Jon will have to do LOTS of the wrapping as I think it'd take me around a month with a nosey baby trying to help plus keeping scissors out of reach! It should be a lot of fun. :)
Whoo me! Eek!
*frantic money transferring*
This time last year I'd started too and I was pregnant and sick and I'd already started playing Christmas music and films in a big hormonal search for happy Christmassy feelings. Think I felt Christmassy from late October till partway through January. Very strange.
This year I'm excited to start teaching our daughtr all about Christmas and traditions and ripping up wrapping paper.
This year Jon will have to do LOTS of the wrapping as I think it'd take me around a month with a nosey baby trying to help plus keeping scissors out of reach! It should be a lot of fun. :)
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Well this snuggling a sleeping baby isn't getting the laundry out or the sitting room tidy
...but it's very sweet.
...but it's very sweet.
Happy anniversary, us!
3 years ago today at this hour... :) well shortly Jon and I would be eating Chinese food in our wedding underwear so as not to get stains on our clothes, then we'd be off to our evening celebration. :)
3 wonderful years and I never thought it would be possible to be this much happier than I was then or to love someone as much as I love Jon today - I would have said that day held the epitome of love, which goes to show I don't know everything! I never thought I'd be lucky enough, 3 short years later, to be holding a sleeping little girl who looks so like her wonderful daddy and whose happiness shines from her, reflecting our own.
V. read this at our wedding. It made me cry then, it makes me cry now. Thank you, Jon, for sitting with sorrow and joy, mine and your own, for doing what must be done and still loving me and your sweet baby unconditionally. For understanding the world but still finding time and hope enough to look on the moon and dance with me.
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3 wonderful years and I never thought it would be possible to be this much happier than I was then or to love someone as much as I love Jon today - I would have said that day held the epitome of love, which goes to show I don't know everything! I never thought I'd be lucky enough, 3 short years later, to be holding a sleeping little girl who looks so like her wonderful daddy and whose happiness shines from her, reflecting our own.
V. read this at our wedding. It made me cry then, it makes me cry now. Thank you, Jon, for sitting with sorrow and joy, mine and your own, for doing what must be done and still loving me and your sweet baby unconditionally. For understanding the world but still finding time and hope enough to look on the moon and dance with me.
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12 weeks today! Good grief!
And at 11w6d - 1st time that toe finally made it into her mouth!
And at 11w6d - 1st time that toe finally made it into her mouth!
grump.
Last night was rough. Certainly not the roughest night Izzie and I have shared together but firmly in the top ten. She woke at 2 hour intervals, having been up for quite a bit of the previous 2 hours every time. she found it hard to go to sleep and as I got more and more tired my smooth mummy to cot technique slipped further and further from acceptable and made it harder for her to drop of and... well you see where his is going. I may have got a 40 minute stretch at one point but I don't think so - I think it was 20-30 minute bits of sleep. Urgh.
She's asleep now. Hopefully that will continue. Bugger, she's awake now. I do wonder if her being disturbed from her evening nap left her too overtired to sleep last night.
I want my mum and I need a break.
She's asleep now. Hopefully that will continue. Bugger, she's awake now. I do wonder if her being disturbed from her evening nap left her too overtired to sleep last night.
I want my mum and I need a break.
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It's the weekend but Izzie doesn't seem aware that it should be a special, sacred time where mummy gets more sleep. :) 5 or 5.30am saw her giggling and squealing with delight (rather loudly) at her mobile, the cot bars, her own hand and the sheer joy of being alive, apparently! I gave up at 6.30 and brought her through so Mr. P could sleep a little more and we could pull faces at each other and play with the playmat. Purple giraffe rattle was very pleased to see us.
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Some contracty goodness last night. Am going to go for a walk and see if I can get it to come back as it's buggered off AGAIN.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this place yet but it feels like a little haven of calm and peace. Mmmm, peace... *drool*
Still waiting. Somehow posting here about it feels calm and just fine. Posting over on LJ feels more fraught. There is no stress here. It is the bubble bath of journals.
Still waiting. Somehow posting here about it feels calm and just fine. Posting over on LJ feels more fraught. There is no stress here. It is the bubble bath of journals.
Eurovision or dinner?
Since this could be our last Saturday before we're parents should we go for dinner and appreciate one another? Or should we stay in, eat curry and let me watch eurovision and let Jon giggle at me?
Waiting...
I feel like I'm waiting for something to happen and I can't quite remember what it is.
Of course I'm fairly sure it's that 'giving birth' thing but it feels so elusive, like a half-heard song on the other side of a meadow that reminds you of something.
If the duckling were to arrive tomorrow evening we'd manage. Though I wish I had a tidy gene in my body it's essentially clean in all the places that matter. I'd just need to send Jon to Asda for munchies for us and the midwives.
Of course I'm fairly sure it's that 'giving birth' thing but it feels so elusive, like a half-heard song on the other side of a meadow that reminds you of something.
If the duckling were to arrive tomorrow evening we'd manage. Though I wish I had a tidy gene in my body it's essentially clean in all the places that matter. I'd just need to send Jon to Asda for munchies for us and the midwives.
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Guilt!
Argh! I feel horribly, horribly guilty that I can't put up my 'other mother' for the night when she's in Scotland as I'll be expecting a sprogling to appear any day around then!
Yesterday was productive but very tiring so today will be more gentle poddling around the place doing small bits and bobs, and less with the trying to get everything done.
Typically the sun's out today, after having neglected to be so yesterday, so all my baby clothes are slightly damp and finishing drying inside due to the rain. Hmmph! I don't want to hang them all out again though so tough really! They'll be fine.
Might or might not order more nappies today. I do find it very hard to spend chunks of money, even when it's set aside and budgeted for as this is. I keep second guessing myself. I'm pretty darn sure I WANT these nappies and it won't be the end of the world if I find they don't work as well as we'd like to be honest as they sell on quite well, but handing over that much money is just scary! Need to reframe it in my head - I'm not spending it on me, I'm spending it on duckling.
Must get more icons. Neither of mine are really appropriate.
Yesterday was productive but very tiring so today will be more gentle poddling around the place doing small bits and bobs, and less with the trying to get everything done.
Typically the sun's out today, after having neglected to be so yesterday, so all my baby clothes are slightly damp and finishing drying inside due to the rain. Hmmph! I don't want to hang them all out again though so tough really! They'll be fine.
Might or might not order more nappies today. I do find it very hard to spend chunks of money, even when it's set aside and budgeted for as this is. I keep second guessing myself. I'm pretty darn sure I WANT these nappies and it won't be the end of the world if I find they don't work as well as we'd like to be honest as they sell on quite well, but handing over that much money is just scary! Need to reframe it in my head - I'm not spending it on me, I'm spending it on duckling.
Must get more icons. Neither of mine are really appropriate.
*seethe*
Ok, this goes against the 'don't slag off LJ' thing but seriously! I just pressed 'refresh* on a community and my own journal (2 tabs, I do this all the time) and got this message;
Access Forbidden
You've been temporarily banned from accessing LiveJournal, perhaps because you were hitting the site too quickly. Please make sure that you're following our Bot Policy. If you have questions, ... etc.
How bloody rude!
Access Forbidden
You've been temporarily banned from accessing LiveJournal, perhaps because you were hitting the site too quickly. Please make sure that you're following our Bot Policy. If you have questions, ... etc.
How bloody rude!
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Cost of nappies.
Just so I've got a little content here and I'm not posting to LJ twice in one morning.
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Wheeee! New journal!
I have a shiny new journal, and I snagged my 'real' (social) name before anyone else could!
If you want to be added to my contacts let me know. I make no promises, but I'll think on't. :)
If you want to be added to my contacts let me know. I make no promises, but I'll think on't. :)