The Blog is Back!

Well, it has been a good few months since I have written anything in my blog, for a number of reasons, mainly I have been busy busy busy with getting a house, moving house, getting ready for and enjoying Christmas and of course preparing for a baby!
I kept thinking I should write in my blog about this or that but somehow days turned to weeks and weeks to months... time has a habit of doing that don't you think?! So today I have made an effort to re-read all of my old posts and after feeling really sad about not being in Sicily where I obviously had a great time I remembered that I have been wanting to write so much lately because once again I have lots of happy thoughts to share!

So today I will do a quick catch up and in the following months I wll try and find time between baby things to keep up to date!

Well, I came back to Winlaton after a wonderful time in Catania and a fab holiday with Steph in Rome, Florence and Venice and found that getting a job while pregnant was virtually impossible in the current climate (I will try not to go into how much I HATE the ConDem government - how they seem to be trying to make me mad every week with news abut cuts that effect me!! aggghhh)so I have not been working at all since Italy, I was a bit stressed about it at first but as my pregnancy progressed it has been nice to have the opportunity to take it easy! So how have I survived, well mainly thanks to Stu! Stu has done everything I could ask and more to support me, emotionally and financially, he grew from my best friend in Catania to my best friend in the world. He has moved to the North East and after 2 months of saying with my Mam we move in to our own home together (just down the bank in Blaydon) and we have been busy sorting that out. Our house is so nice, really big and now we have got most of the things we need it is comfortable and I enjoy being here and looking after the house and Stu (I am much better at being a housewife than I had thought but I am not good at cleaning bathrooms!!!). The last room to be done was the nursery which is all but done now, just a few finishng touches needed. Stu is getting quite handy and has even been using power tools!( a bit scary at first but with supervision he is doing well!!!! hahaha)

I am now very pregnant, the baby is due this week, my due date is Sunday 23rd of January so I am counting down the days! I am feeling very excited and very scared (oh and very huge!!) I can't wait to meet my baby and to be a mam! Every day now I wake up and wonder if today is the day! I have had lots of moments where I think she is coming and it is nothing, maybe Braxton Hiks, and I am both relieved and dissapointed!
Pregnancy has been great, yes there are some bad points, heartburn, backache, emotions all over the place etc but I have really enjoyed it for the most part, it is so amazing to know there is a little person inside of you and from the first days when I felt movement I loved it, seeing and feeing little arms and feet move inside of you is quite freaky but really special and nothing I have experienced before can come close. That is why giving birth is so scary, not just the fear of pain but knowing that everything will change again, my body will change again but then every minute of my life will be full of a beautiful baby! So wonderful and we are so excited and ready, Stu is so cute, he will be great as a dad and I can't wait to see him holding our baby.

So next time I write I will hopefully have had my baby and can tell you about my experiences of motherhood (not of birth unless you really want to know!!!)
I have forgotten my sadness and am looking forward to his year with my own little family, and with my family and friends who have all been so supportive and helpful during the last few months, thanks everyone. Maybe I am not laughing as much as when I was in Italy but I am more content and have found a different kind of happiness. I love my family, Stu and I; now we are just waiting for our new addition to make us even more happy