Between You & Me

Tonight we went to this Chinese Restaurant with Pauline, Ashley, Miranda & Emma, it is a really traditional Chinese Restaurant and the food was quite good, we had all never been there, even though its been open forever. Its one of those restaurants that never advertise and you don't really know if its still going or what. But it was good. We went to Cold Rocks afterwards for some icecream (mine was chocolate gelato, with snickers, mars bar and oreos) and I am waaaaaaaay full. I read that during the next 4 week the baby will double in size - the way i've been eating, i wouldn't be surprised if it tripled in size!!!! I'm such a pig. :( i know i kinda have an excuse, i mean, i AM pregnant, but shouldn't that be a reason to eat a lot more healthily and in moderation? i have no self control. especially as Easter just passed and i seriously indulged in chocolate. there are still quite a few left in the fridge too, they just need eating up.

today i went and visited a girl from our church, Emma who just had a little boy 3 weeks ago. He is so tiny and cute. it was great to go and help her, i was able to do some stuff around the house like folding up, vacuum, etc. I know how hard those first few weeks are! she is having feeding problems too, so it takes more of a toll on you. i can remember that time so well, yet it is a big blur in some ways too. a blur of extreme tiredness, confusion, pain with feeding, uncertainness amongst other things. but things are looking up for her and her baby and i hope they keep getting better. keeley went to grandmas (meema's as she calls her) today and they took her to the beach. she tripped over Dad somehow and landed on the bitumen, has a big egg and graze on the side of her head poor thing. :( she's a tough kid though. for not even 2 years old, she sure is amazing. her speech is getting to be so good, she catches onto things you say immediately, just repeats them. she says heaps of words now and puts some together. sooooo cute seeing them learn to talk. :)

so helping Emma today with her little baby boy, it just really hit me that I'm going to (God-willing) have one of those precious bundles in a few months......i really am looking forward to it. even the birth, i feel a lot more confident now. I am having a doula with me at the birth, as well as my hubby, and I think (hopefully) i should feel a lot more in control and able to handle things better. the doula is coming tomorrow actually for some antenatal appointments with Andrew & I. Andrew doesn't think a doula is really necessary for the birth, but he's letting me have one (good guy :) ) as he knows how much it means to me. i can't explain it but i just really desire that this birth experience is different to the last one, that I feel more in control and that I am able to let my body do what its been made to do and birth as naturally as possible. i am actually kinda looking forward to hopefully experiencing birth in a more positive empowered way.

i was just thinking today about my good friend in Canberra...i sent her a snail mail letter a week or 2 ago but haven't heard anything. i hope she got it. we haven't been in touch FOREVER. I miss her. we used to be penpals, but as life gets in the way, you gradually go on different paths and even though the friendship is still there, it is different. not in a bad way, but we don't keep in touch near enough. my fault mainly.

well i gotta get to bed. sweet zzzzzzzz's

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So i found an old blog i had on yahoo....forgot i even had it! there were only 3 posts on there so thought i'd post them here...bearing in mind they are from May/June 2006.

27 May 2006
Well here's my first blog for my website...hmmm, what to say? Well, had church this morning. It went pretty well, we were late as usual and someone had to hand out the newsletters I had printed. Seems we never get there on time...sigh. Oh well, no biggie. Keeley fell asleep on the way home from church, she is soooo cute. I love her so much, I am SO blessed!
Keeley�had a big day yesterday - Ash & Gen were up and we went skiing/wakeboarding. Keeley had her first ride in a boat! She seemed to enjoy it. It was such a nice day and very relaxing. Good to see Ash & Gen & the boys again. We don't see them near enough. We should visit them more, but don't get the time, or when we do, don't seem to have spare cash to take a weekend trip!
Well we've got a Contract on our house, only took a week. We sold it for $182,500 which was ok. We had $189000 on it to start with. I can't wait to move into our new (old) little house (actually, its quite a bit bigger than the one we're in!)...I love old houses and looking forward to doing it up, at least in the colours we want. I'll have to get Kresten to make a window seat for me in the bay window. I love bay windows, so glad we have one.
I'm pretty proud of my little website, its kinda a new project for me, never really created a website before. Its not the best, but it'll do. :)
We have family night tonight, I am sooo tired though. I might have a sleep this arvo so I'm not like a zombie at church.
Well cheerio till next time.

30 May 2006
Well, we went and saw Andrew off at the airport this morning. He had to go to Brissie for work, they are closing the Brisbane office down and he had to go help train some employees who are coming over from Perth or something. Should be home tomorrow night hopefully. I think I'll go stay at mum's tonight...will be good to catch up.
The Building & Pest man came yesterday to do the inspection, apparently there is some moisture damage in the wall near the shower, I really hope and pray the Buyer doesn't pull out because of it. She is quite a fussy lady i think so she very well could. or ask for a price reduction.
We are planning on going to Canowindra in July for open week at Cornerstone...I can't wait! Reegan, Andrew's brother is probably coming for a looksie too. Should be GREAT! I really hope it works out...
I have been reading up about dairy lately and how it really isn't that good for you...found this site - http://chetday.com/ismilkgoodforyou.htm very interesting indeed. I don't have much dairy at all anymore and I reckon I feel heaps better off milk...not sure that I want bubba to have it either but haven't made up my mind.
Went to Crazy Maze cafe yesterday with Alita & cousin Lydia...I think bub enjoyed herself. Lydia was scared of the ball pit, but she came around and started enjoying herself. It was nice to catch up with Alita, we are going to try and do something once a week.
Well betta go do something before we have to go to Mums...

10th June 2006
You are an ISFP!
As an ISFP, you are Intraverted, Sensing, Feeling , Perceiving.This makes your primary focus on Introverted Feeling with Extraverted Sensing.
This is defined as a SP personality, which is part of Carl Jung's Artisans (Sensation Seeking) type, and more specifically the Composers or Artist
Because you are in touch with the inner-artist, you see things heavily in relationship to your feelings and their beauty. You may not be as likely to have a public site, because you feel better sharing with only those who are closest with you.
My Bloginality is ISFP!!!
I did a Bloginality test and it appears I am supposedly the above. It seems fairly right I think...
Its been rain rain raining most of the day, beautiful soaking rain. The carpet in the rumpus room is getting wet though, which is NOT good...
Today we got a quote from a restumping guy to restump our new house. Not too bad, about $4,500 which is okay. He can't do it till middle of July though. I am looking forward to moving in our new house. I'd like to paint it though but Andrew doesn't want me to...thinks its a waste of money seeing we're prob going away next year anyway and won't be living in it.
I was soooooo tired today, had 3 hours sleept his arvo! Andrew watched bubba for me. We had Youth group last night so had a bit of a late night, then Keeley woke up at 1am or something, then 6am...so was up early. She was really tired too tonight, poor thing.
I am getting so excited about going to Canowindra in July...only 3 weeks! It should be awesome. I am looking forward to a bit of a holiday, but not only that, the opportunity to take some time out of our busy life and spend some time growing with God and others. That's why i can't wait for next year either, I really hope and pray it works out to go to Cornerstone. I am looking forward to the opportunity to really grow in my fiath, grow as a family and do something worthwhile with our lives. It will be an adventure! http://www.cornerstone.edu.au/
I've been thinking lately, I wish I was more....i don't know, just more passionate or artistic or something. Its hard to explain. But I know what I mean. I just feel sometimes that I'm too laid back and I wish I knew meanings to amazing words, wish I was politically minded and got riled up about certain things, wish I had stronger convictions...wish I had a way with words. Oh well, guess its just not me.
Not sure how I feel tonight...I'm tired and feel a bit bored or something.
Night


SO there you go.......some of my random thoughts from last year. just thought i'd share.

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Well its been ages since I've written in this blog, like almost 2 years!!! I've never been good at keeping blogs, though I used to keep a written diary when i was little, it has gradually faded out though as I've gotten older. i think its a good idea blogging as i'm more comfy typing than writing, my writing is so messy.

so i fixed my blog so it looks all pretty now, well it looks ok anyway. i didn't have much colour or personality before.

well 2 years has passed......last time i wrote i was 39 weeks pregnant. well i since had a baby girl (4 days after my last blog actually!). Her name is Keeley Elise and she was (is!) so beautiful. She is now 22 months AND we are expecting #2 in August! How exciting. So yes, i'm again blogging when i'm pregnant. seems to be the time to do it.

i think my blogs are fairly boring compared to some of the blogs i see around. i wish i was more of a "free spirited" sort of gal, with a philosophical mind, full of new and wonderful observations about life and things to share. i'm just not really. i would love to be like that but i don't know how. i'm more of an easy-going whatever goes type person, quite logical thinker really but i guess in some ways i am into philosophy. i think i'm a bit stupid to understand it all though. :/ some of the things people come up with, i can't even understand. yet i know my mind works pretty strangely and i'm sure i've got stuff in there noone can understand. just getting it out, that's what i have trouble with.

like i hate writing stuff down, like for assignments etc. if there is a blank space i have to fill in, it scares me to death. well not really, but i get all frustrated cause i can't think of what to say - well i can think of it, but to put it into words on a piece of paper, that's another story.

Andrew & I started doing a C-BTE course on Wednesday nights recently (CBTE stands for Church-Based Theological Education) - its good so far but we really have only been doing sort of an introductory study to the whole course but it'll be good to get into deeper study of God's Word. Well anyway, doing this CBTE course, its made me realise how soft and mushy my mind has gotten since having kids, or maybe its since leaving school, i don't know. it is just not very sharp at all, i feel quite dumb at times to be honest....i guess as we get more into the study it will become easier. well i hope it does anyway. but we are learning if you want to see growth and change in your life you have to be willing to put a little (BIG) effort in, you can't just expect growth to just "happen". You can't just expect God to do it all for you because He requires that we actually do something as well, we have to be willing to grow and change and put in the hard yards to do it. i hope i'm willing, i think i am. i know i want to be willing, i want to grow and change into the person God wants me to be.

more than anything, i wish i was that kind of person now, but i guess it is not something you ever really attain, we will always be growing and changing and there is never a day (until heaven) whereby we can say we have reached our growth level and that's where we're staying. there will always be something to work on. i think God shows you things in your life, you (hopefully) work on them with Him, but then something else will come along that you have to work on changing with His help. Thank goodness we do have His help! We don't have to do it all on our own, we couldn't actually, but we do have Him there to help us. We have to be willing though.

so today was Good Friday. i did thank God this morning for the sacrifice He made by sending Jesus to die, etc. but apart from that, I had a pretty heathen sort of a Good Friday. We don't go to church on Good Friday even though we are Christians. Yet that is the one day of the year a LOT of people go, even if its the only time of the year they do! I haven't really spent any time in God's Word today (apart from reading a few verses in the toilet - well sometimes that's the only time I get to myself!!). I should read some when i get to bed. Which by the way should be soon, i am tired.

i think because i'm tired i've been feeling rather flat and unmotivated all day. this morning i felt okay, i had the music pumping and was cleaning the kitchen and everything, then as the day progressed i got flatter and flatter and felt quite depressed to be honest. maybe it had somethign to do with the chocolate mud cake i ate for morning tea and the lollies and easter eggs i devoured to follow. they say sugar can do that to you. it was Andrew's birthday yesterday, so we had leftover yummy stuff - it had to be eaten. :) but at a price....

i'm quite afraid of becoming really fat with this pregnancy....i'm 22 weeks and already put on 6 kilos or more. if i'm to put on the "ideal" amount of weight, that only leaves around 6 for the rest of the pregnancy and i'm only *just* getting into the middle of the trimester where you put on the MOST weight.......oh no. i don't think i have to worry TOO much though, last time i put on 12 kilos, but lost 24kg with breastfeeding! amazing. hope that happens again....

speaking of breastfeeding, i have been quite worried that things won't go smoothly again this time. i'm trying to be positive though. i guess i have heaps of experience if nothing else. could use lots of prayer that's for sure.

well better get to bed really otherwise i'll pay for it tomorrow.

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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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