Long time……..

Heehee! Look, it’s me, in writing-on-OD shocker!!! I’ve been writing loads in my other blog – every other day in fact!! – but I thought I’d better catch up on here too!

So what’s been happening? Well, it’s been nearly 3 months, so quite a lot.

1) My mother in law died 3 weeks ago. Horrid, horrid time. It’s horrible hearing your husband crying with inconsolable grief. It was a shock – she’d had an op to get rid of a tumor in her lung, and seemed to be recovering well, and then died from a perforated bowel. Very slowly, over 3 painful days. No-one really knows how or why it happened. Mike’s doing ok but it’s still weird thinking we’ll never see her again.

2) I’m 25 weeks pregnant now, in what is the fastest pregnancy EVER, and found out 5 wks ago at my scan that I’m having a little GIRL!!! Well, that’s what they think anyway. I still can’t believe it and won’t actually believe it until I hold her and don’t see a willy………..

I’m BIG now. I feel absolutely enormous. Bending over the cot is hard and uncomfortable. William squashes my bump when he sits on my lap and it feels yuck. It’s hard to imagine getting much bigger………..*cringe*

3) After multiple tummy bugs, and hurting my back so badly I couldn’t sit/walk/lie-down without agony for a week, I’ve had no yuck pregnancy ailments for a while – fingers crossed that’s the last of it.

4) 5 weeks til we move! We’re bidding farewell to Maidenhead, and moving to the seaside – Whitstable, in Kent, which will be very close to my parents. I can’t wait. I’m fed up of Maidenhead and I really want to be near my mum & dad so I can get a bit of support with baby no.2. I’m so excited about our move! yay!

5) William is unbelievably cute at the moment. He’s such a happy chappy all day and his vocabulary is GINORMOUS! He can repeat pretty much any word we say *beams* and is starting to put sentences together (‘night, night mama!’). He has his feisty, stroppy moments, as any toddler does – but he’s a lot of fun to be around right now.

Well, that’s it I guess for now. There’s more, obviously, but I’m on a time-limit with William & Rebecca both about to wake up probably. I’ll try and write in here a bit more -promise.

love Clare xxxxxxxxxxxx