Hello lovelies,
Hope you're all getting to enjoy the sunshine! Can't believe it's Friday AGAIN!
I'm feeling rather good as am finally ahead of schedule with work, have a deadline next Friday but it almost feels like a nice challenge now rather than me dreading it. This is mostly thanks to pulling an all-nighter (well, with a 3 hour nap between midnight and 3AM) the other day, and generally just working like a little monkey.
Must say having the MIL around helps in that respect as I'm far less likely to think of distractions and just immerse myself in work to have a break if you see what I mean.
Trikken Happy belated Birthday!
Sleepless How rotten to have to have a cold to contend with along with everything else! Hope you feel better soon.
Skorpion I've had the same funny fluttery feelings, sometimes they feel really weird, don't they? I read that the babies sometimes kind of have a shiver, something to do with neurological development, and that at times, they'll have been sucking their thumb and lost it - and will furiously move their head from side to side til they find it again. I also like your baked goodies for Xmas idea, might do the same this year, I love baking!
Lemon "relaxing trip to Ikea at the weekend"... good luck with that one! (To be fair, we find going on Saturday night really pleasant as there's never anyone there!)
Pavlov Oh yes, me too with the piles. And the shredding pile just grows and grows... but in my de-cluttering frenzy I've finally managed to get all the paperwork in order too.
Scarlotti That's funny, I always think of hamsters/guinea pigs when I empty the shredder, but wasn't sure if they'd enjoy it. Next time, I'll offer it to the guineas next door!
Erika at the man on the bus! What is wrong with people? Why is it that people can't just pass each other without aggro?
Mumsiebumsie How far along are you now? I think quite a few of us found that the MS came back around 28 weeks, so maybe there's a surge of hormones around then or something?
Just wanted to ask re: the iron levels... are you all still taking antinatal vitamins? Just checked mine (Pregnacare) and they seem to have 100%+ of your RDA of iron. I suppose as we're sharing our RDA with the babies, that might not be enough!
Also getting quite painful pokes and kicks. The other day I nearly dropped my mug of tea as I leant forward to sip it the Bean showed his heel or something right up underneath my ribs so hard and fast that I yelped (and got many concerned looks from people nearby... they must have thought I was about to pop!)
at all of you going to your antinatal classes, mine aren't until the end of October. I think that's way too late concidering the last class is about 5 days before the due date... think I'll be lucky to make it! (Oh well, Ina May will be my new best friend then...)
Right. Back to work. Not that MIL thinks I work anyway, as I'm sitting at home in front of a computer. Every day she asks me what I'll be doing today, and every day I tell her that I've got to work (like everyone else...) but she doesn't get it. I'm getting really fed up. In the space of a few days she's managed to have a lecture on working mums ruining their children by "farming them out" to Child Minders (think I already had a moan about that here...) and more infuriatingly, she heard me on the phone to my dad, asked DH what language I was speaking, and then proceeded to sigh and go "oh, your poor little lad". DH was like and she goes on "poor little thing is going to be completely confused, having to listen to all these foreign languages all his life".
Don't know if any of you remember, but a few weeks ago I was having a wobble trying to work out what language to speak to him as it's so important to me that he grows up bilingual. I was so angry I nearly walked out of the house. I've actually got a jaw ache from constantly clenching my teeth!
Anyway.
It's such a gorgeous day, can't possibly be grumpy!