This Saturday I’m having a baby shower. It’s not a female only affair I’m afraid as I really like the company of men so why leave them out? This Saturday will be much more of a gathering. A gathering of family and friends and part of ‘The Season’ which runs in our family from Easter [...]

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook you’ll know that yesterday we had our penultimate scan. I remember the hospital making all of the scan appointments in advance months ago and thinking that by the time we get to this week we’ll be so close to actually meeting the babies. We are close to [...]

Gosh, thirty weeks. Actually today I’m officially in my thirty first week so I’m even further along but I write this from last week’s perspective. We got the news last week that the little boy was head down again, which is very good news but he still has until week thirty six to flip around [...]

I weighed myself for the first time in this pregnancy last Saturday. There were two reasons why I hadn’t weighed myself before this time despite my mutterings about Robert the Husband buying me a cross trainer earlier in the week and they were…. I wasn’t that interested I wasn’t that interested We found out at [...]

Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be. – Carrie Fisher Hello Meatballs! It most definitely feels like we are on the home straight now. Have I said that before? I feel like we [...]

Hello Meatballs Meatballs, you and I turned a corner this week. For the past month Mummy (that’s me) has been very uncomfortable and in a great deal of pain at certain times of the day due to a trapped nerve caused by a baby’s head in her tummy. This pain was still there last Friday [...]

I had a dream on Friday night that was so vivid I can still remember how I felt in it. I was walking along a street in a town just outside of Pasadena, California. I had shorts and a white t-shirt on and could feel the sun on my face. I was walking down to [...]

At this time in my life I feel like I’m just a head. A head, that I know is my own, attached to a body that came from a place far, far away. I can’t remember if I told you this or not but one of the babies is sitting on a nerve at the [...]

“May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future” Although it’s been cold here the sun has still been out. Sometimes the light falls on certain places in the house that makes it look like it could be summertime. Do you have that in your house? Over the past week or so [...]

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and [...]