Category: General

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

— Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872 – 1918)

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

and my next little journey is going to involve a list. A list of things I wish to accomplish between now and when bub is born in February.

1. move the office into the new room
2. work out if we want to repaint the nursery
3. work out what furniture we want in the nursery
4. breastfeeding & parenting classes
5. buy some bub clothes
6. have a 3d ultrasound – booked in for this next week.
7. work on our birth plan
8. pack my hospital bag
9. have a baby shower

 

I may add more to this list when I think of other things that need doing and as things get done I’ll be updating here (& on bub’s blog)

Yup that was taken today (bout 10 minutes ago at 3:30pm) Nearly 30! and we’re not even in summer yet.

Midwife appt went well. 26 weeks & 2 days 🙂 All is good & healthy.

Off to find somewhere cool

Just thought I’d share some of the gorgeous freebies I’ve found while surfing the net today.

I Heart Scrapbooking by Shimelle @ 2Peas

some gorgeous digital frames @ JessicaSprague.com

This gorgeous Christmas freebie @ Malina’s blog (check out the rest of her blog while you’re there – gorgeous!)

want some more freebies? Check out this post at DigiScrapTalk

Feel free to link me up to your favourite freebie from this weekend 🙂

Hope you’re all snapping up a bargain & grabbing some awesome freebies (don’t forget to leave some thanks for the awesome designers).

The weather here is gorgeous again and I’m really starting to enjoy it although I’m not sure I will if the bub belly gets too much bigger.

Speaking of bub, someone’s been very active over the last few days especially with the warmer weather.

Hope everyone’s having a great weekend.

P.S. I’ll be back with some freebies to share later.

Location: our bed

Time: 4pm

Why is it cats have to sleep on clean washing? especially when they are shedding their winter coats.

Not much happened today but it’s always these days where I seem to notice something interesting.

today I decided to paint my nails and I noticed how much my nails have grown.

I used to bite my nails (seriously I bit them for years) but stopped a couple of years back. I’ve never been able to grow them very long cause they always snap or break. hubby on the other hand can grow his nails really long and they are super strong.

anyways back to my nails and what I noticed today. I’ve grown my nails! and they are long and they are strong.

(oops forgot to add the pic yesterday)

hmm must be a pregnancy thing.

so yeah that was the most exciting thing that happened today.

Got home last night and just crashed. I was sooo tired.

The appointment I had at 1 was cancelled because the guy was sick but they forgot to ring me & let me know so we ended up spending a couple of hours just wandering around town, ended up meeting up with my MIL (we had FIL with us) for tea before hubby & I went to the Ante-natal class (more bout that on bub’s blog). and then when we got home hubby wasn’t feeling well. so it was an interesting wedding anniversary LOL Gonna do something special for him 2morrow night if he feels a bit better – like cook a candle lit tea.

So in Shimelle’s class yesterday we discussed what we put on our blogs & scrap pages, and what we choose to share & what we choose to keep private.

There is lots I don’t blog about especially when it comes to family. I guess the same is true for my scrap pages. I’m not very good when it comes to journaling. I’m trying to add more hidden journaling to pages now so I can tell more of the story.

The prompt for yesterday was to choose a story I’d like to scrap about (not today but in the future) and share a little bit about it here with you all. The rest will be hidden journaling that I won’t be sharing. Things that are more personal and stuff I guess the world doesn’t need to know

So what picture do I want to scrap about????

I’m slowly working on bub’s album (the little wolflet) so I might share the story of the day this scan was taken. (All the journaling in bub’s album will be written to bub.)

“This is you on October 22nd and you behaved beautifully for the ultrasound technician.

The funniest thing happened during the scan. We were chatting away to the tech while she did the scan and she turned and said to me “did you feel that too?”. Yup, you kicked the bit she was scanning and we could see it.

Both your grandmothers were there for the scan too which was nice.”

I plan on adding some hidden journaling to the page sharing our hopes and dreams for our little one. Something they can read when they are older.

Just a quick post this morning to wish my hubby a Happy Anniversary.

3 years of putting up with me LOL. Love you heaps hun *hugs*

Will be back later with all the interesting info from our first ante natal class 2nite. still thinking bout my response to today’s prompt from Shimelle.

Hope everyone has a great day!

I did a survey for Colorbok and got sent this amazing pack of goodies in the mail yesterday.

 

I’m looking forward to scrapping with this lot – not sure what I’ll put in the album yet.

in other news, we bought a second hand car – it’s a 2001 Commodore. Hubby has a head cold. I’ve got a nasty case of hay fever (can’t take anything for it either) that seems to have developed into a head cold today ( i hate having a cough – it hurts my throat, my chest & the bump is sore – bub seems oblivious to it all thou & is moving around quite happily). that’s bout it really. off for another scan on Thursday.

Before I go thought I’d share this cute pic hubby took yesterday – it’s Cola lying with her head on my bump. she loves padding on it and starts to purr when bub kicks or moves – I can see those two will be friends when bubby is born.

Okies heading to bed to see if I can sleep off this head cold.