Sleep would be nice please!

So for the last few weeks bubby has not been sleeping so good, well actually it's us that hasn't been sleeping so good. Our bubba has taken to thrashing his legs and head while he's sleeping, which keeps us awake as bubba sleeps in a hammock next to our bed. So I'm feeling like someone has tipped a bucket of sand in my eyeballs!!

As for the diet, well it lasted pretty good for about 2 weeks then I kind of crumpled :( but I've found renewed enthusiasm because I measured my waist and I've lost 3cm!!!! YAY!!! So I'm on the protein only bit again, but I think I'll do it for 4 days instead of 3 this time. And try and keep a bit better to the other bit. We've booked the christening for bubba, so I want to look good for that, and it would be nice to go home at Chrissy and be looking good!

I must admit I'm a little chuffed at how organized I've been for this Christmas. Cards have already been sent (with christening invites) and most of the presents have been bought and wrapped. I'm just waiting for the last few to arrive. I've gone with a white and black theme this year. White paper with black twine and little tags that are a silhouette of a bird in a bird cage which look pretty (though I must admit not very christmas-ie).

Well I it's an early night to bed for me.....I've booked myself a massage on Friday and I can't wait......aaaahhhhhhhhh

In laws!?!

We've just had the in laws here for almost a week which has for the most part been good. I'm pretty lucky in that I have really good in laws, they are nice, easy to get a long with (for the most part) and family oriented which is good. Though like all in laws they do some things differently to my family. Also specific to my in laws, well more specifically my mother in law, she didn't have her in laws around at all, because her husbands parents were in uk (though both now deceased).
It was good for bubba having lots of love flung his way, but on the last day I was getting pretty sick of hearing "say hello grandma" over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. First time, kind of cute but the 5 million, 978 thousand, 452nd time is not so cute. Anyway rant over!

Bad thing about having a baby #257 the flabby tummy you get left with once bub is on the outside. Now I know we shouldn't compare ourselves to others but seriously, one of my good friends has just had her 3rd child (3 weeks younger than my bub) and you can't even tell! So unfair especially seeing I still look 6 months :( . So I have decided to do something about it and started body trim yesterday. I am on day 2 of the protein detox and well I'm sporting a wicked headache. 1 more day to go then I'm on the weight loss phase. I'm going to lose 20 kilos and look a great size 10-12. I am currently a 14-18 depending on the brand. So wish me luck and I'll be letting you know my progress.

Oh and did I mention.....

On the weekend my hubby made a fantastic discovery....... The strawberry plants that are wayyyyyyy down the back yard and were given up for dead have produced a massive crop of oober yummy strawberries!! Yay!!! It is quite amazing really, given that we haven't watered them, ever! Oh, and they are so sweet and yummy, small but oh so good. Yummy!! Can't wait to have some more.

What do babies dream about?

I've often wondered this, given that my bubba is 3 months old and hasn't exactly experienced a whole lot of things, what exactly does he dream about? Sometimes when he's sleeping he smiles, which is totally cute, and sometimes he suckles, so maybe he is hungry? But last night I think he was having bad dreams :( he was crying and whinging and grizzling even though he was fast asleep. I ended up getting him out of his bed and hugging him for ages. But what could he possibly be dreaming? Makes you wonder!!

Good thing, bad thing!

So one of the good things about being pregnant was that my hair got thick and shiny and grew heaps with minimal falling out, some of the curl even came back!
Now that bubby is well and truley on the outside my hair has started to fall out in droves. I seem to find it everywhere.....on my clothes, my pillow, my brush and comb, the floor and even sometimes wrapped up in bubba's fist!
At least my finger nails still seem to be growing long and strong!

So the reason for the lack of posts recently is that we got cought in Adelaide due to the Qantas fleet grounding. While it seemed to bother a whole bunch of people it didn't bother us as it meant we got an extended holiday with Qantas picking up the bill. How nice of them!! And as an added bonus we got an email today saying they'd like to send us on another trip either domestically or to new Zealand, which seems very nice of them!

I made an oober yummy and oober healthy veggie soup today but now have a blister on my finger from all the chopping!

:(

So I was at the supermarket today and a lady commented to her daughter (about 5years old) about the cute little baby, referring obviously to my bubba! Her daughter told me that her mum was having a baby and then asked when the baby in my tummy was coming out?! :( and I thought my tummy was shrinking.....obviously not :(

Things you only see living in a country town...... 2 ducks happily swimming in a (reasonably big) puddle on the side of the road!

Last night I found a badge/button/pin (what ever you want to call it) that said "sometimes I laugh so hard the tears run run down my legs!" it still makes me laugh thinking about it hahahahahahahahahahahHahahahahahahaha :)

Cat naps and in laws

So I am very grateful that my son sleeps at night and has done for a week now! But during the day we have now such luck :( He seems to only want to cat nap, for say 10-20 mins which doesn't give me a lot of time to do anything. In fact if I manage to put washing on then that is a miracle, needless to say I am dreding the moment that someone comes knocking on the door unannounced!!

Speaking of visitors, we've just my MIL and grandmother in law here for the weekend. I'm pretty lucky that I have great in laws and neither of them had anything negative or annoying to say! Though I didn't get to see my son very often, only for feedings. Though it was great for him to have someone else to interact with.

Ooohhhhh I saw a lizard on our walk today!

Pram hands!!

I've just discovered that I now have what I have termed "pram hands"!! The tops of my hands and the first section of each finger is tanned and the bits around my nails and up to the second joint of each finger is quite pale. It's like I'm wearing fingerless gloves!!
I'll have to try and do something to make the tan even. Though I have to point out that I have been putting on sunscreen for my walks since the first time when I got sun burnt.

2 months today!

Well my little bubba boy is 2 months old today. I can't believe it, it has both gone so fast and at the same time so slow!! I am also very pleased to report that he slept through the night!! Yay!!

Down side to having a baby...... Putting on weight and saggy tummy :(
So I have decided to do something about it. I want to lose about 15 kilos and tone up. But have been finding it hard with a baby that only cat naps during the day (more on that later), so I have decided to walk. It's something that we can do, I put him in the pram and off we go. I've been 3 days in a row now, and we've done about 9-10km each time and I'm going to go at least 4 times a week and on the other days we'll go for a shorter 2-3km walk.

Well time to ready for today's walk.....

Midnight rumbles

So last night I was laying in bed, almost asleep when suddenly a massive noise erupts from my son's bottom!!! He sleeps next to my side of the bed in a hammock and last night he obviously had gas. It was SOO loud that both my husband and I burst out laughing. Luckily Bumpy stayed asleep and luckily there was no follow though poos! How can such a loud noise come from such a small person?!?! Babies are funny!!!

Good thing about today....
Went for a long walk with a friend which was great.
Bad thing.... I got sunburnt :( will have to remember sun screen tomorrow

Ok so....

Ok so I'm not that good at keeping up with posts!! In fact I've been pretty darn terrible, so I am going to start to try and add a few thoughts every days or at least a few times a week!

Today was a great day! Bubs slept through til 4:30 before needing a feed, I then got woken up with breakfast in bed, homemade pancakes, strawberries and maple syrup all very yummy! We then went for a walk to the other end of town, which is a 10km round trip.

Good things about yesterday... Finally it was the right time to plant most of the veggies in the new veggie garden. I do all my planting by the moon and yesterday it was just right for plants that produce above the ground. So we planted 2 types of zucinni, yellow squash, snow peas, sugar snap peas (yummy!!), beans, spinach, celery, red chilli and wombok. As well as the veggies we planted a range of herbs, flat leaf parsley, mint, Vietnamese mint, chives, basil, thyme, coriander and oregano. Next weekend we will be planting below ground things like leek, red onions and carrots. I can't wait til we can start harvesting and eating our very own organic home grown veggies. Just have to keep the dog off the garden!!

Funny mum thing......
As I am writing this, my husband had just finished bathing our bub and was bringing him to the change table to put on his clothes when he spewed ALL over himself and needed to go back in the bath! Ok, so you probably needed to be here for it to be funny!

Well it's now time to get dinner ready, til next time xx

Catch Up Time

Ok, so, yes, I have been slack in writing, but I thought I'd get back into it! Here is a brief summery of what's been happening over the last 6 months.....

September:
Before heading to Canada for the site visit it was off to London to be a bridesmaid for one of my very good friends. London was lovely, and the wedding was beautiful, simple and elegant and a true statement of love. I'm honored that I was able to share their special day. Seeing I was over that end of the world I decided to head to Berlin for a few days to visit my aunt that I haven't seen in many years. It was great until I got a call from someone I know in Scotland saying that my dad had collapsed and been taken to hospital in Glasgow. Dad had been on a motorbike trip around some of scotlands choice distilleries with 2 of his mates. I'm sure I don't need to say that hearing news that dad was I hospital was a bit of a shock.

I was heading to Glasgow (from Berlin) the next day as I was supposed to be meeting up with dad to go to a whisky festial. I had a look, but I couldn't get an earlier flight, so spent a pretty somber evening with my aunt! I got picked up from Glasgow airport by a friend and taken straight to the hospital and was told that visiting hours didn't start for 20 minutes, well do you think they could keep me out?? Hell no!! So in I went, found dad and was told that dad had had a stroke. Not cool at all. I came home (back to Oz) so that mum could head over and be with dad, who was very lucky that it was a minor stroke, and with rest and an over haul of diet and stress levels would make a full recovery.

I was only home a few short days before heading to....

Canada:
After a long and squishy flight we arrived in Winnipeg for a night where it was great to sleep in a bed instead of a chair and have some real food!the next day we boarded a tiny airplane, and headed for a tiny mining and fishing town in the middle of Canada!

Looking out the window as we flew down through the clouds I was surprised that that area was so flat, just a few gentle rolling hills, no mountains, no snow skiing! Lots of trees, some already turning lovely autumn shades. We were met at the airport by one of the geology girls, and she gave us a quick tour of the town and then then it was off to one of the mine sites for induction. We then got a brief tour of the other sites and met a few of the people in the geology department. We then got dropped back to the hotel for a quick break before dinner with a bunch of the geology department and their partners. Dinner was great, I chatted to the girls and they were all keen to sign me up for ice hockey, curling (?), and other groups. Everyone seemed really nice and friendly.

Day 2 started early for J, he had to be up early to get the mine for an underground tour. I had a more leisurely morning, wandering through the town and was then picked up by one of the guys and taken on a tour of the town and surrounding areas. We even went to see if there were any bears in the dump!! No such luck unfortunately, though I would have liked to see a real bear. Then to the golf course for lunch with the rest of the crew. After lunch J went back to the mine for interviews and I went back to the hotel and another look around town.

Dinner that night was with some of the big bosses from the mine. It was an 'informal' BBQ at one of the lake houses, but wa ps obviously an informal interview for us both as well. I thought it went well, conversation flowed and we seemed to get along well with everyone.

Day 3 (final day) started with more interviews for J and then we were dropped off to the airport to catch the planes back home. 4 flights and many hours later we arrived back home and played the waiting game to see if they were going to give J a job.

:( 2 weeks later got an email from the mine saying that unfortunately J didn't get the job. It was very disappointing especially as they didn't give any reason or any feedback or anything. So after all the excitment and hope that we were moving to Canada it was a huge let down. We were both extremely disappointed.

Things returned back to normal, though J was still looking for a job overseas, but with the global financial crisis in full swing and countries reluctant to hire outside people it seemed that finding a job in Canada or some other interesting place would not happen. So the job search was switched to interstate, residential jobs. By mid November J had a number of interviews and a few site visits.

We discussed the optiions and decided that county NSW would be the best option and would be the job that J would enjoy the most, and having him home every night would be great. So contracts were signed and start dates were set for mid January.

It was then I discovered I was pregnant!! Not something that we had specifically planned, but as I had been off the pill for a few months it was something we knew would happen eventually. Just not that soon, especially as J is away for work most of the time! So I guess I was meant to be!!

We announced the news to family at Christmas and as you can imagine both of our families were super excited, but a little sad we were moving! It was then the morning sickness struck! Though 'morning' is a bit of a myth! I was sick all day, and couldn't get out of bed (except to throw up!). I couldn't eat or drink much and even had to go to hospital to get re-hydrated. Not much fun and apparently I am in the 1% of women that get really sick and I can tell you it wasn't much fun.

Lucky for me I have a great husband and some great friends! J did most of packing up the house and did a great job of looking after me. One of my good friends K also came round and helped with the packing as well.

I was supposed to be working all January but it didn't happen at all. Toasted the end of the month I was able to get to work for a few hours a couple days a week to get things sorted before i left.

The house was finally all packed up and cleaned (and looked pretty good too!) and it was finally time to leave. We packed up the car and the dog, waved goodbye and headed up to devonport to catch the ferry to Melbourne. The drive up was leisurely and we were lucky that the crossing was pretty clam (thank goodness, as I still wasn't feeling the best!). The early morning call came to get up and get to our cars and that's when things started to go bad......

I'll sign off there for the moment before I go into all the drama that has been our move! Somehow I think Canada would have been much easier!