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This week…

8 November 2014 by Naomi 3 Comments

… has been sooo much better! I mean really I can hardly begin to say how much better this week has been… for all of us I hope!

So here some highlights of our first week in November 🙂 (Week 15 of pregnancy if you’re counting 😉 )

(I’m afraid once again these are all phone camera snaps… it’s just easier at the moment!)

We took an early evening trip out at the beginning of the week to Bedgebury Pinetum, it was so peaceful and beautiful. It was also so we could take a stroll through the deep, dark wood…

…and look what we found! Emma was so excited… convincing her to say goodbye was an interesting manoeuvre! (If you have no idea who the above character is, you must check out this book!)

We explored local places that we had still never been too. This is our local museum & art gallery, it is small but an interesting visit full of all sorts of things and even Emma loved it. Admittedly this was largely helped by the little dinosaur exhibit as she is having a bit of a dino phase?!

We have also had shopping trips out to Ashford, got ourselves organised financially ready for December, enjoyed the restart of my bible study group after the half term, finally started reading a new book, and despite starting yesterday with an absolute horror of a headache it ended with our yarn lovers group meeting at our house which was always guaranteed to perk me up!!!

Today has been a quieter day but we have succeeded in getting out of the house as that has been the theme of the week – not being house-bound! Emma and I decided to take a walk and braved the elements to head to the park… Honestly our local play park should be entered for some sort of award for being the UK’s most windswept, I am sure it would win.

You wouldn’t believe how hard those gulls were trying to fly off and getting absolutely nowhere. Also that little 2 year old up there is super cute (most of the time!) and will be 3 in less than six weeks. How can that possibly be right?!

Dear readers, I hope you have been able to find the positives in your week too! Enjoy the rest of your weekend 🙂

Hello November!

1 November 2014 by Naomi 2 Comments

Goodness, where is this year disappearing off to?!

A fortnight ago I shared our wonderful news and explained why hadn’t been around so much, but also declared I was getting back to normal and should be around a bit more….

Two weeks later that doesn’t ring quite true in some ways! I am feeling a lot better some days, able to come off the anti-sickness medication for days at a time even… then out of nowhere I am hit by a couple of days where I can hardly get out of bed or the bathroom… rinse and repeat. So I still haven’t quite been getting back to things I enjoy doing in the way I want to.

Baby Wade is still beautifully healthy though which is of course more important, and at our last scan even gave us a little wave!!!

I am praying that this roller coaster pregnancy will start to level out soon but it could be that this is how it is meant to be for the next 25 weeks or so. In the mean time I am going to make the best I can of my good days and focus on these last few months of just Emma and I at home together. With illness, pregnancy hormones and already being prone to cry quite easily, I’ve realised it is too easy for me to spend a good day feeling negative about the bad ones and essentially ruining my own day unnecessarily… not to mention setting the tone of mood for the rest of my little family. I am resolving to cut that out. I can and should pray over it then leave it with Him and focus on my blessings for the rest of my day.

I am also going to use the start of the new month, and that I am in fact in my 2nd trimester now, to reboot our day-to-day family routine. Whilst there have been weeks where I truly have needed to ‘take it easy’, ‘put my feet up’, ‘get plenty of rest’ and go into parenting survival mode. I am finding that there is only so much of that I am able to take… and I feel I have reached my limit. Compared to 4 weeks ago I really am hugely improved but I find that my daily activities are perhaps still reflecting my illness 4 weeks ago. Bad habits have crept in to our house, I’m not as creative or productive with Emma as I could be, my wonderful husband is still picking up too much of my slack when I could now be doing more most days, and I am finding myself taking it too easy at home.

The truth is on the days I have been able to make myself get on and get out I’ve felt better than when I haven’t. So below are a few phone photos from some high points of our October and here is to a better, more active and more positive November no matter what pregnancy throws my way!

(I know this one is blurry but I still love it and it is probably just as well!)

Saturday Summary

6 September 2014 by Naomi Leave a Comment

Hello lovelies, I haven’t been around too much lately have I?

I just haven’t had quite as much time on my hands recently and as usual my poor blog is the first thing to slide (*ahem* if you don’t count certain aspects of housework!). So I just thought I would stop by to share a little of what we have been doing this last week.
::: The weather has been decidedly more autumnal the last few weeks, but on Wednesday we woke up to gorgeous clear blue skies and sunshine. It was decided this shouldn’t be wasted so we headed into town and treated Emma to an ice cream and a trip on the miniature railway along the seafront. Most lovely.

::: The same outing also involved Emma’s first go at miniature golf. We chose the pirate themed course and lots of laughs were had. Emma was much better behaved than I had dared to hope and only ran into another couples game once, and they were very nice about it! She also decided early on that it is clearly much easier to throw/roll/place the ball in the hole over hitting it… I was inclined to agree….!

::: On Thursday we took a trip to a lovely little village park with friends. It is always a highlight of my day to see Emma having so much fun with other children. It also usually means I can have some grown up conversation!!

::: We have of course had plenty of time spent at home doing all sorts of things. The most frequently requested being play-doh and painting. The above is Emma very happily painting shells she has collected, in her pyjamas… because that is how we flow. We also had a very lovely play-doh play date at our house this week but I somehow managed not to take a single photo.

::: Potentially my favourite thing in the last week though is how much Emma’s imagination, specifically for role play, has developed. She loves pirates and has had that hat for a while but this week she really became that little pirate and needed an eyepatch to go with it (which I very quickly crocheted for her as she played!) She also adorned an empty cardboard box and declared herself a robot, doing a very good impression of one that I do not know the origins of. I did offer to cut some holes so she could see, thinking we could decorate it it to be more robot-like, this was met with an absolute refusal however! Playing doctor has also been a favourite this week, it turns out the tape measure I use for sewing makes an excellent stethoscope. 🙂

This is a very child-centered post isn’t it! But then most of my days are… and I wouldn’t change it for a minute. In fact we intend to live pretty child-centered lives over the next few years. But that is not to say I don’t have any time to myself at all and there has of course been plenty of crochet in between all of these moments. I will get around to sharing some of it with you soon!

I hope you are all having a lovely weekend. Ours has started very well and as it is my birthday tomorrow I am hopeful that it will only get better! 😉

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

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