BABY DOS - 17 weeks
MUMMY's BUMP - 18 weeks
Big news from my little corner of the world is that our second child is due in September. I'm so excited to be having a spring baby. Every year we bunker down for the winter chill and prepare for and eagerly await the spring months. We plant out spring bulbs, prepare the vegie beds for spring vegies and prune the trees and shrubs in anticipation of spring rain and warm sunshine that will bring forth fantastic new growth in the garden. This year we are also preparing inside the house for the arrival of our new little bundle of joy. I love being pregnant, well once you get past those first few months of feeling tired and sick every minute of the day. It's a great time to declutter and clean and put all those crazy nesting hormones to good use! Now if only I can channel them into some crafty, creative moments I'll be overjoyed!
1. WALKING. I've actually been on a few walks lately - not so much the "get fit and lose weight" ones I originally planned for this year but more the lovely pregnant woman strolls with a 2 year old, just to keep the body moving. Yoga classes start next weekend I'm so excited and ready to start "striking a pose"!
2. CRAFT. Ahem...well yes...I have lots of ideas...but today I actually cleared off the dining room table and designated a little corner of it to my sewing machine, which has been dusted off and pulled out of the cupboard :D
3. Another page completed in the scrapbook today :)
4. The library is still hiding from us...but I did resist buying a book the other day thinking I WILL go to the library and borrow it instead!
5. Decluttering has been going fantastically - 3 bags of clothes gone to goodwill, 2 boxes of other kitchen things and books to goodwill as well, one old CD player, one old video player, one old receiver and one old tape deck(why we kept this is beyond me) ALL GONE, 2 more boxes of books ready to be taken to and hopefully sold to the secondhand book dealer, and one shed full of cardboard boxes cleared out and gone to the dump!! And that was all within the last week!! PHEW!
6. The garden is slowing down - we've got spinach and spring onions doing well in the garden and we put in both dwarf peas and snow peas on the weekend so hopefully these will grow and produce for us too. Daffodil shoots are sprouting up through the soil already and we've been madly fertilising them in the hope of a good display in a couple of months. I really want to get out a prune but for most things its best to wait a couple more months. A few things have suffered the wrath of my pruning shears though - I just couldn't resist and I know in a few months I may not feel like clambering through the garden with a big belly full of baby!!
A few boxes didn't make it to the dump yet...we couldn't resist building Alex a house with some of them...
