Last week

In the news this week...

We had the anatomy scan (ouch at R2000) and the little one is perfect. Yeah and it is a girl- well and truly confirmed. Ewan still says he is having a little brother. Apparently we can buy a clip on wee-wee afterwards if she doesn't have one:) Fun times ahead!!

Tomorrow is my birthday-ahhhh- another year older. We are just having a small braai with family and friends as we fly to the States the next day. So no big celebrations. Ewan insists we have a cake and that he will help Mommy blow out all the lots and lots of candles. The other day we asked him if he thought I was older or Andrew. He insisted that I am older. Hmphh. I am hitting the oil of delay with a lot more enuthsiasm now. Andrew is just laughing.

Andrew hits the big 40 in April but he still being vague about what he wants to do. Hopefully something easy as I will be well and truly waddling by then.

If I don't comment on your site I do apologise but for some reason cat@jugglingact and a few others no longer have name and URL. I have a self hosted site so I can't comment without that. Anyway I do still read your blogs I promise. I thought a self hosted site would be great but mostly its a bit sucky.

At the moment I wish all our workers would go back to work and that our politicians would shut up for a few days. R9 to the $ is seriously hurting my available funds for this trip. Let's go back to the R7.20 of this time last year.

Oh well at least I won't have to hear about SA for three weeks. It's an amazing magic trick you can do.. go to the USA and your own country just dissapears and that works for any country in the world. There won't be a single news item unless it involves the US declaring war on your country:)

I will do a quick post tomorrow or Friday before we go. All of you hold thumbs and fingers that we have a smooth flight. Turbulence- seat belt on signs and my constant need to pee will not go well.

Catch Up

I don't have time at the moment for a full post so here are some points of news around here.

* Ewan started Grade RRR on Wednesday last week. He was uber excited as his class is in the new room they built last year. I was excited as I needed to get back to the real world and work. I adore having him around but the last two days we really got on each others nerves. There are a number of new kids at his school and he has picked up some nasty tricks from them including screaming if he doesn't get his way. Somethings I don't like about school. There used to be a policy that the kids had to speak English or German to attend that school but ummm that doesn't seem to apply anymore. I can imagine there will be a big fight at the AGM. Thankfully we won't be here for it.

 

* Friday next week we fly to the USA for three weeks. I really can't believe I am giving up money to go back again but Ewan is so excited at the thought. Luckly little guy travelling so much as a child. So in two weeks time I will be walking through Disney again but I will have a smile on my face at my childs happiness.

 

*Monday I have an appointment with a fetal specialist for the 20 week anatomy scan. I still can't believe I am twenty weeks pregnant. It seems crazy as I have only put on 1kg and I am still wearing my normal clothes. Some days I have lots of aches and pains but others I have to stop myself from having a glass of wine with dinner.

 

*I have been doing a lot of swearing at the computer watching the Rand fall drastically thanks to all the strikes and unrest. I know my problem is small but really over R9 to the $. I did not budget for that thank you.

* Next week Thursday is my birthday. I don't think there will be much of a celebration considering I can't have a drink and the next day I have a 12 hour flight to get on.

* Since Ewan was born I have a crazy fear of flying. I am fine if its just me on the flight but I get very frightened with him on board. The what if something happens seems to fill my brain the whole time. I can't imagine his little life being cut short for a holiday. I know its crazy so I force myself to fly anyway. Part of the problem could be the Air France disaster happened the week he was born so I watched everything about it. So on Friday I get to be terrified again. The worst part is I used to love flying. I even wanted to be a flight attendent at one point in my life.

So I hope all is well in your lives. I will try to blog more next week before we leave.

2012

So 2012 finally came to an end.

There was a sad note to the end of the year. I wrote about Meredith a few weeks ago on this blog. She passed away on the 21 December. I thought about her small daughter a lot over the festive season. Christmas will never be the same for her again. It will always be the time she lost her mother. So sad. Her story made me think about what I would like to accomplish this year if I knew this was my last year.

So this is not the same as New Years Resolutions which we just forget about anyway..

I want to spend as much time as possible with Ewan. I don't want him to feel pushed aside in anyway when his sibling arrives in June.

Make space in my heart for my second child.

Write as much as possible. I want to really throw myself into something that makes me happy.

Cook more. I tend to repeat the easy dinners instead of indulging in a hobby I really love.

I have other goals, hopes and dreams for this year but I intend to focus on being happy.

So I hope 2013 will be a wonderful year for everyone. I have two weddings and a baby to look forward to so far.

What does 2013 hold for you?