Between You & Me

Well I haven't been able to sleep since about 4:30am, so thought i'd get up and do some stuff...made myself a hot milo as it is freezing cold!!

yesterday was a good day, i can't believe i slept in until 10:20 am though, i must've needed it. i woke up when andrew's alarm went off at 7:00am, and next thing he was saying goodbye, i said "you going already?" - i had fallen back asleep, then after he left i fell asleep again until 10:20!! i don't normally like wasting the day away on sleep, but i think being 39 weeks pregnant is a good enough excuse really. :)

yesterday my brother Ashley came from the Sunshine Coast to pick up his boys - they have been staying with Grandma for a week. I had the family and Ash and the boys over for tea - mum helped me cut up the veges for a roast meal, and i cooked a roast chicken. it turned out quite well actually, i'm quite proud of myself!! it was great to catch up with Ash, he really is an awesome brother. I can definitely tell where the kids get their character from. :) It would just be so great if they lived closer though.

i got an email from Kathryn, an old friend who used to come from church. it was just saying hello and asking how i am. it was nice to hear from her, i don't know if she is ever coming back or not, but would be good if she did.

i had lunch with the girls from work on Wednesday, we had indian. i haven't had indian for ages, as i went totally off it after i was about 16 weeks pregnant, just couldn't stand the smell or thought of it. but i actually did enjoy it, had the chicken Tikka Masala, very yummy with Naan bread.

I am very over being pregnant, i would really love this baby to decide to come, i really would. But i guess it would be worth a couple of days late for an extra $1000 from the government - the maternity payment goes up on 1st July. i'm not that worried, but andrew wouldn't mind if that happened. I just wish it would hurry up, i want to meet my little darling! I am so big and have to waddle everywhere and with this cold weather just about every joint in my body hurts...

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well today is a bit of an anti-climax to my birthday.....i had such a special day yesterday and today its like, oh, now i don't feel special anymore. :( lol. not really...its just people made me feel EXTRA special yesterday.

i did have a great day - enjoyed morning tea at mum's - dad couldn't come as he was at work, so that was sad, but he rang up while i was there to say happy birthday. lunch was great with the girls, i really enjoyed it and it is great to have such true friends. andrew & i ended up going out to Sizzler for tea - we were both so stuffed afterwards!! literally, full of food! andrew was worse than me though i don't think he ate as much!

i woke up at about 5:50am this morning and couldn't sleep, so have been up ever since...:( i hate when i can't sleep, but i have to get used to it i guess with the baby coming!

well today i am having lunch with the girls from work around 1ish and then have an afternoon of stuff to do in town, like go the library, drop a dvd off at the video store, go to the post office, go to target (got to get some baby stuff) and go to the council to get a rates notice for our block of land. we FINALLY sold it!!! it is exciting, goes through on 18 July. it will be great to get it out of our hair...and have the opportunity to pay off a lot of the loan on our house.

anyway, must off - have lots of housework to do before i go out to town.

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Well today is my birthday and I can't believe I am 23.........how the years have flown by. Was contemplating my birthday yesterday and how quickly time really does pass you by and how our lives are certainly not long at all - just a passing moment - and how I have to use the time I have to the utmost, using it for God's glory and not wasting a single moment...

I think of what I really do every day that brings glory to God or would bring Him pleasure and that would not really be much....we are doing 40 days of purpose with our church in August, it should be good to go over the principles of what we are really doing here on this earth...

my birthday has been great so far - woke up with andrew when his alarm went off this morning and he gave me my pressie - my beautiful ring! He also gave me a card with some really sweet words in it -

"...Dear Nina, my lovely wife, happy birthday to you. you deserve to have a great day. thank you for all the stuff you do for me, I appreciate it all more than ever. You'll make a great Mum and we'll have a wonderful family together you and I. With love from Andrew...

How sweet is he. I think he's the sweetest husband in the world and I am so blessed... :)

Aunty Priscilla picked me up and we went over to Mum's for morning tea - it was really nice. My sister and 2 nephews also came. Mum gave me Coldplay's new CD, X & Y - it is awesome. She also gave me a gift voucher from Kmart. My sister gave me a book on sisters, it has many beautiful and sweet sayings in it about sisters - one favourite is "Sisters are nuts from the same tree". So true!!!

Aunty Sil gave me some Gardenia powder and a washer.

I went to the mail today and had 2 parcels - one was a giant card from my friend, Miranda and another was a beautiful baby cardigan and booties my good friend, Rachel made for me. She lives in Canberra and sent them up by express. She is very clever, i could never make something like that. She tried to ring twice on my mobile, but I missed the call both times!!! I don't know how I didn't hear it. I would have sent her a message, but my credit has run out. :(

I really have felt very special today - some friends from church, Miranda, Pauline, Nerida, Emma and my sister Bec took me out for lunch, which was fun. Then Andrew is taking me out for dinner tonight. I was thinking of Pizza Hut, but maybe somewhere more romantic?? I don't know. Pizza Hut is value for money and lots of food if you get the works bar...but then some nice restaurant down the beach could be good. Hmmm.........

When we were out for lunch, i bought 2 finches for the aviary - named them Brett and Betty Finch. :) Miranda (roosters fan) of course thought of Brett Finch for the boy. I just hope the cockatiel doesn't eat them...

Am getting very impatient to have our baby...i know i have to appreciate these quiet times now though, as i won't get many for years to come! i just want to meet my little darling. :(

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Well this is my first blog, never used one before really..........i had a kind of journal online that i never updated. But i saw an article on Sunrise this morning about Blogs and thought I might try it...can't hurt.

Well I'm home today, its Monday and only now 1 week and 2 days until our baby is due...i can't believe how fast it is coming up, yet also how far away it seems until we hold bub in our arms. i am dying to find out what sex it is, absolutely everyone is telling me its a boy, i wouldn't mind it being a girl just to prove them all wrong...though i really don't mind either way. i guess deep deep down inside i would love a girl, but that's mainly for the sake of my parents, who have 2 grandsons and no grandaughters, and also my husband who would like a girl. But I don't really mind - i think as long as bubby is healthy and happy and everything goes well with the birth, it just isn't relevant really.

i couldn't sleep last night and got up for an hour or so and went on the net, then played card games on the computer...got to bed about 11:30, but still couldn't sleep for ages...just thinking about everything and everyone...my mind kept ticking over and over, though I can't even really think what I was thinking about now.

i got up about 7:20, even though I was absolutely exhausted, i felt i should help hubby get ready for work.......he is very capable himself and usually irons his own clothes and stuff, but i do feel bad when he has to do everything while i sleep in. though i know he understands...i can always go for a sleep later in the afternoon.

well its my birthday tomorrow - 21st june...i am looking forward to it, i still get excited about birthdays. :) which i think is a good thing, it helps maintain childlike qualities in yourself. i know what i'm getting from my husband, an eternity ring, though he always thought it was "maternity" ring. which in this case, it really is i guess, with the baby coming and everything!! i always think its cute how he got it mixed up. so we thought, well there's 3 reasons to get me a ring, we have been married over a year, having a baby and also its my birthday. so i convinced him. :) its really beautiful, i can't wait to get it...i will wear it as a dress ring on my right hand, as it doesn't fit in with my wedding/engagement rings...they are sort of wiggly and hard to find a ring to fit in with them. i've been invited over for morning tea at mum's, then going out for tea with andrew...not sure where to go yet, will have to have a think about it...

till next time...

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Me pregnant around 37 weeks.. 

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