A bun in the oven :D

Well......

First things first. To all those people who, over the last 7 weeks or so, we've lied to, hidden from, fobbed off or otherwise.... my sincere apologies! And now it's time to come clean....



Heeheeee!!! 12 and a half weeks gone, only another... um... 27 to go?!

Anyway... that's why there's been such a lack of writing recently. Everything I've wanted to blog about has been so intrinsically wrapped up in how sick I've felt or not felt, what I've been able to eat and the food that's been in front of me at various "do's" that I've not been able to eat either because I don't fancy it at all or because I'm just not allowed it at the moment.

Still can't quite believe that this is really happening. It was an amazing moment yesterday to actually see the monster that has been causing all this sickness, thankfully there was no bitterness or resentment towards it. It was pretty awesome to see what an incredible amount of work has been going on over the last 10 weeks. I've not felt anything towards this bean, Steve's been talking to it and that's made me smile but I started to get really depressed about it a couple of weeks ago and I've not felt able to talk to it or really acknowledge it very much. It's hard to think nice thoughts about something that's had you feeling so awful for so long. But when we saw it on the screen... it was finally a reality, the bean took shape and form and was accepted into my consciousness as part of me.

It's a proper little wriggler, dancing away to its own little beat in there. Wouldn't keep still for the sonographer to take its picture! Measures in at 6.6cm head to bottom, not including legs, and is about the perfect size for my dates. Due date 3rd November...

Spring cleaning: the aim, and the reality

Today we promised ourselves that we would spring clean. What with one thing and another cleaning the house has kind of taken a back burner over the past few weeks, and travelling has meant that I've been achieving only the absolute bare minimum needed to keep us in clean clothes and dishes. Today was also the first day in a couple of weeks that we've actually had a chance for an actual lie-in, albeit Steve needed to be up in time to catch the butcher before they closed at midday so it wasn't the usual Entwistle lie-in until 2pm. Even so.

Steve managed to, um, spring clean the area around the keyboard so that we could move it from its temporary stand (the filing cabinet) to its new real keyboard stand, and we have actually hoovered in the bedroom which is an achievement. We still need to put everything back on the floor from where it is currently sitting on the bed, which could be tricky when it comes to going to bed otherwise. I also managed to put a load of washing in this morning (well, Steve did, on my behalf, but I emptied the suitcases - yes I know, we got back Tuesday evening and yes, it's Saturday today - and sorted out the clean clothes from the dirty) but it's still sitting in the bucket waiting to be hung out. I have got an excuse for this, and by that I mean an excuse other than I just haven't done it yet, and that is that the drying lines were occupied until about 5 minutes ago and this morning the stuff on the lines wasn't dry so I couldn't have taken it down any earlier.

And we've been shopping, to the supermarket, to get stuff that we can't easily get from the high street. Like... um... a barbeque. Which has been quite fun watching it get put together, and despite it only being £40 it's not bad at all really. So now that's sitting in the garden by the shed covered in a plastic sheet; and the other bit of tat that I bought (a big yellow spotty mushroom thing) is also planted near the bay tree to make me smile when I look out the window.

We forgot to put the casserole on before going to the supermarket sadly. That was the main reason Steve went to the butchers this morning, for a pound of chuck steak. But it's being cooked now, and tomorrow before we go to church we'll stick it in the oven and hopefully when we get home all we'll need to do is potatoes and we have a good hearty lunch to look forward to. Sounds like a plan, Stan. Steve then announced that if we wanted to invite people back for lunch we could - although that means a whole lot more "spring cleaning" tonight, if we want that opportunity!

Right... must hang out that washing...

Toodlepip :)