Hello Again!

I've been having a blogging break while getting to know the newest addition to our household.  It's a bit exhausting, this baby business - especially since I havn't done it all for a while.  But lovely at the same time.  Things are beginning to settle into kind-of-a, sort-of-a, somehow routine now, so hopefully I will be able to get back to blogging a little more!  I've missed it.

Here, by the way, are some pretty poppies that Miss Seven grew (yes, she's been a Miss "Seven" for a while now...just shows how slack my blogging has been!).  Poppies are by far her favourite flower to grow, though unfortunately we had a bit of a heatwave that killed many seedlings and we only ended up with a few adult plants.  They still put on a pretty display for us though and it was extra exciting to come down into the garden in the early morning each day to see whether any new poppies had burst open at first light.

 

Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012

How do you feel about 2011?  I generally have mixed feelings about every year, but this one in particular seemed to be falling on the not so good side of life.  So much so, that I was pretty well wishing it away.

But then, at the last minute, here came this little fella - to remind me that there is always a fresh start, that nothing is ever all bad and things can always be redeemed, even at the last minute.

 

Happy New Year, everyone.

Here's to new beginnings.

The Reason

HELLO!

So obviously I've not been around for a while and I have to say that I have a very good and perfectly just reason for taking such a long unannounced blog break.  You see, there's been quite a bit of pain, some nausea, a scary moment (or should that be, 12 hours), a whole lot of absolutely debilitating exhaustion and this...

I'm currently 18 weeks, the exhaustion has lifted and I'm trying to get as much done as I can before the exhaustion from the third trimester arrives!

I'd personally like to thank the lovely people at the IVF clinic for getting both mine and my husbands respective contributions to cooperate, my gynocologist for putting up with me for the entire past year, my uterus for behaving itself (mostly... we shan't discuss that 12 hours again now, shall we) and my new growing bub who started as a very well behaved egg which did presicely as it was told.  Lets hope that good behaviour continues until said baby is, ohhh, I don't know, 26 at least.