The very busy household!

No posts for a while, as life seems to have got very very chaotic! The last 2 weeks we seem to have had something on every night during the week, and a couple of the weekend nights too.... all very tiring! We have progress on home improvements! As well as a new very big bookcase that Steve and I put up last week, we also have a plasterer coming at the weekend to plaster the baby's room. This in itself has caused more chaos, as Steve had to finish taking paper off the wall, his brother needs to come and over board the ceiling, and his cousin is coming to take radiators off walls so that holes can be filled behind them!! Along with all that we also have a new cooker coming on Thursday, to replace the ever breaking one we bought when we moved in. Technical hitch at the moment is that we have no-one to be at our house for delivery! Steve had booked day off, but realised he'd got his days mixed up, and so can't be off.... .which leaves us slightly stuck!!
Anyway, it's all systems go at home, and school is on the crazy side of mad too, as it's my turn to do a Christmas production, so our whole life at school seems to be spent rehearsing, or sorting out!!
25 week midwifes appointment tomorrow. Not really sure what happens there, but guess they'll tell me about antenatal classes and the like. Baby is kicking like a trooper now!! Morning, noon and night, although not enough to keep me awake. The kicking sometimes starts as soon as I wake up, so I do wonder if she's kicking while I'm asleep.... I am a heavy sleeper, so she'd really have to go some to wake me up!!
Will take pictures of new cooker, and plastering when completed!! Then it's on to choosing paint for the baby's room!! And puttting a false ceiling in our room!! That bit will NOT be fun!!

Power cuts are us!

Well, we had one almighty power cut here on Saturday evening. The power went off about 5, whilst I was at Tesco! Most bizarre, as they have their own emergency power, which kept coming on and off as the electricity flickered on and off for about 5 minutes! There was no power in the town centre at all, which made leaving Tesco difficult, as you just couldn't turn right because of the traffic. Detoured all the way round Bury to get to the Manna House, where we had a youth event due to start at 7.30. Cafe, full band, the works! Took them torches, but obviouslly no more setting up could be done in the darkness, incase it stayed dark! Contingency plans were in place for cancelling if the power didn't come on by a certain time, but it came on in time, so the set up went on! I went home, expecting the power to be on, and it wasn't! So Sheba and I sat in the gloom with some candles and torches. She kept trying to sniff them.... Steve phoned me about an hour later to say the power had gone off again and they were cancelling the event, and packing up what they could. The electricity helpline number was reporting faults in Bury, Radcliffe, Little Lever, Farnworth, Prestwich, Whitefield, Unsworth, Ramsbottom, Tottington and surrounding areas! Because of an underground cable fault they said! As someone said at church yesterday, you mean the cable under the sea that supplies everywhere!?! We got power at home about twenty to 8, although I left the candles burning for a while incase it went off! The Manna House got power just before the last person got picked up, which meant that there was still packing down to do before church yesterday morning!! All fun and games! And something to post about I guess! If I'd have been organised I could have taken dark and grainy photos of our house without electricity, and the Manna House, and posted them...... but obviously I didn't!

Scan picture

So, here are the scan pics. Have managed to scan and print copies to send to various family members, and small ones to go in my purse!

Baby news!

Hello all.
Just wanted to post quickly to update on baby. We had our second and probably final scan on Monday, and all was well! Baby is measuring properly for dates, and all the things they check are ok. However, baby wasn't behaving! Obviously very comfy as didn't want to turn round for the sonographer!! I eventually had to have a coffee and a walk and a trip to the loo before baby would even consider turning! The sonographer thinks that baby is a girl, although they say it's not 100% definate! So our bump is a pink one! Think we'll probably do neutral bedroom etc just incase when baby pops out our little girl is a boy!! The search for a nice name, with a good meaning is now on.... any suggestions to us please! Picture will be up soon, not got the energy to try to scan and sort out now. God bless. h.x