Pondering Ponteuf

I'll take a few more hours in the day please!!

With every child that comes into our lives comes tens times the blessings,ten times the memories and ten times the happiness.Along with that abundance of joy comes ten times the output of energy,love,nurturing and patience needed.

I feel very blessed right now.As the nesting instinct is kicking in,I am looking around at my family and feel such a bursting of pride and love in my chest.You just want to bottle up the feeling.You know,for when you are so overwhelmed by the mountain of tasks and chores,that you just want to be alone,somewhere.You could reach into your treasure closet and pull out the bottle,take a hefty swig and instantly you will be reminded what it is all for.A little tonic if you like,to get you through the tough times:0)

I could have done with that the other night when faced with the whole bathing three children,helping them with their jammies,reading stories and kisses for everyone,alone.I just couldn't seem to get in a groove.

Poor Ollie,just couldn't wait longer and fell asleep in his towel on the bedroom floor.As I walked into his room and saw him there,that bursting love broke through.I scooped him up and savoured his surrender to sleep.Another sweet memory to file away for later years,

sorry for the cluttered ramble,I am sure you get the idea:0)

Have a great day,

cheerio.

We interrupt this forced hiatus

with a little crafting show off.

I have been having serious trouble with my teeth this pregancy.In the past fifteen weeks I have had three root canals,two root infections and an extremely painful extraction from which I am still recovering!

Not fun and not the way I was hoping to spend my last pregnancy.Hopefully the worst is behind me and I can now concentrate on the fun part like limbs poking the belly and the excitment of our little ones impending arrival.

I did manage to finish a couple of projects throughout al of this.My first attempt at Amy butler's kimino pj's came out quite well.The instructions are well written and the pattern pieces were easy to trace.

I listened to others on the concerns of the pants being a small fit and added and extra 1/2 inch all around.We are going to be using cloth diapers from the start with this babe and I certainly don't want to make some outfits with my much hoarded stash only to have them not fit.That would be very upsetting!!

 When I started this I thought that seeing as the elephants were small that the purple would be unisex.

But once I added the solid purple linen (essex from robert kaufmann) it became clear that it was definately on the girly side.Papa made it pretty clear that he thought so too!!

So,if this babe isn't a girl and none of my still pregnant friends have girls.We will be having a very nice giveaway here on the blog:0) Stay tuned.

and here's a little bump pic to tide you over:0)

not very in focus and I look like I have been dragged through a bush backwards,but you get the idea!

I am about 23 weeks here.

I promise to get a more up to date one on here soon.

28 weeks this week!!!Arrgghhh

cheerio