Wow, has it really been that long since I last posted? If you are wondering what I've been doing, so am I!! LOL
I did take my son to the Sydney Royal Easter Showon the 17th April. It was a great day out and I haven't been for years due to living in the UK so this year I really wanted to take Oliver along. I think he is old enough now to enjoy it more too. He love it - apart from getting lost (gasp!). He wasn't worried at all and headed for the ferris wheel which he wanted to go on all day. I believe he was trying to enter the Haunted House without a ticket and by this stage, everyone at the show was looking for him, so a security guard found him and called it in (phew!). It was towards dusk and the lights attracted him so he just headed off down the street and Oliver being Oliver probably blended in amongst the crowd and looked like be belonged to a family when he didn't!! My heart was in my mouth and luckily I'm only 4 months pregnant and not 8 as I think I would have gone into labour right there and then! When I was reunited with him, he said he missed me with a sad face but no tears. We stayed for the fireworks and then went home. I was waaaaay past his bed time and fell asleep 5 minutes after getting in the car. I know to do things differently next year as I will have a baby in the buggy and he will be walking around. I don't want another lost child.
I am still struggling to get over this cold I have and while I feel so much better, I am still coughing all the time. Not much I can do about it but just wait until it goes away. So I have been going to the doctor having and baby scans (18 week one). Everything is good with baby but we couldn't find out the sex as baby had legs crossed......must be shy! We think it is a girl but I guess we will have to wait to find out. I felt the baby move on Tuesday so apart from my ever growing belly, I feel this pregnancy is more real.
I have done no stamping at all over the past week or so apart from making a wedding card for Rob to take with him for our friends wedding in the UK. Rob leaves on Wednesday afternoon for a week as he is the best man. In one way I am glad I am not going as 1 week is not long enough to fly all that way (22 hours), then turn around and fly back home again. In another way I am really sad not to be attending Neill & Kath's wedding. It would be great if you could just blink and you're there (like Samantha in Bewitched). I will miss not seeing Neill & Kath and catching up with our other friends there.
This weekend is the Australian Stampin' Up! Convention in Canberra so you know where I will be!! LOL My parents offered to take care of Oliver for me so I could go. This is my very first convention and I'm really looking forward to it. You talk to so many people via email and forums, it will be so great to finally meet them in person. At convention, there is a card swap - so I started making mine YESTERDAY!! Yes, I said yesterday. What was I thinking?! With my in-laws being here (not a good time for me!), my mojo left me and I wasn't exactly in the right mood to sit down and create something nice. So yesterday, I got my inspiration from the Idea Book & Catalogue and off I went. I've made 10 so far but I will need to crack on and make some more. I will post lots of photos next week.
The weather has certainly changed here in Sydney over the past week......brrrrrrr! The mornings and evenings are chilly and some days have been nice when in the sun but a cold front has come and we are all going to get our winter woolies out to keep us warm. Canberra will be even colder this weekend and I don't exactly have a coat that fits around my tummy anymore (I was pregnant in the summer with Oliver).
It was also my birthday on Thursday but with some news from my dad about my mum, I forgot what day it was and spent it in the hospital with her. Luckily she was let out by early evening and the dinner I had planned went ahead with mum there too. She is having a procedure done tomorrow with the possibility of having a pacemaker put in soon.
So there you go......that is what has been happening. I should be posting the wedding card tomorrow (once I edit it) so stay tuned for that. I'll also photograph my swap card to show you too.
If you've read this far, I applaud you! LOL
Happy Stamping,
K.
