I CAN TAKE DRUGS

On Sunday morning I woke up to find I had pulled my back, don't ask me how, I thought I had slept funny or something. Yesterday it got a lot worse, not being helped by lifting Alice in and out of the car. It was agony actually, I could have cried with the pain (if I hadn't been so tough of course)! Sitting down hurt and lying down was almost impossible, normally you would take loads of pain killers and use Deep Heat and stop moaning but being pregnant you're buggered, you can't take anything. Well this morning was no better so I phoned the doctors and yippee I can have some paracetamol! I also have to sit inside on one the first nice days we've had all summer with a hot water bottle on my back, but it's actually feeling better!

As you can probably guess (with such a dull post), not much is happening at the moment!

CLEVER GIRL

After many weeks, discussions and refusals, Alice has finally weed on her potty!!
Today has been our third attempt to start potty training and I think she's finally ready. We have had more hits than misses so far today (currently running at 7 hits to 4 misses), so I don't think we're doing too bad for day 1. More news as it happens...

EVEN MORE BUNS IN THE OVEN!

This weekend a friend of my Mum's had an open garden event in aid of the Sheffield Children's Hospital, it had been postponed from 3 weeks ago when Sheffield had the floods.
I did some baking for the cake stall so last week I was actually baking buns both internally and externally! I made a load of muffins (chocolate chip, double chocolate chip, raspberry & white chocolate and carrot & walnut), a carrot cake and a lemon flower cake. The lemon cake was a"guess the weight of the cake" competition, 50p a go and it took £18, which wasn't bad as I was going to sell it for a fiver!
We all bought a load of raffle tickets as the prizes were actually really good! I'll update if we win anything.

I'M MASSIVE!

I can't believe what I've just seen! I am now 13 weeks pregnant and I have just measured my waist to find it's 38 1/2 inches! That's ridiculous. I've got another 27 weeks to go, what the hell will I look like by Christmas! I still haven't put any weight on though - as a friend of mine said "You'll be putting baby weight on and losing all your fat at the same time" (thanks).

A BRIDDON BUN IN THE OVEN

It's official, after 2 miscarriages earlier this year, we can finally announce that I'm pregnant again!!

Today Christian and I have been to the hospital for my dating scan. I am currently 12 weeks and due around 18 January. Everything is going well, the sickness is stopping and I can stay awake until nearly 10pm! I am showing already though, as I wasn't particularly skinny to start with, the baby has pushed all the fat forward so I have a round tummy! Great excuse anyway!


Above is the scan picture, it was so reassuring to see her heart beating and to watch her wiggling around, she's quite a mover for one so small!

We are all very excited and I'm sure we will both keep you informed as different stages occur. What a brilliant start to a great weekend - Christian & I are off to Silverstone for the grand prix weekend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM

Today is my Mum's 65th birthday. I made her this cake, idea and recipe pinched from the Sainsburys magazine and slightly altered by me! But I must say it's really lovely.



Alice (still a bit poorly) and I went round this morning to open presents and her many birthday cards - she always gets loads, it makes everyone else look quite unpopular!!
Mum's friend Liz popped round and we all had lunch, a very delicious asparagus quiche (made by me!!), ham, cous-cous and sesame seed rolls, then a massive piece of the above cake - delicious!

After, Mum, Alice and I went to town to spend money!

What a lovely day, happy birthday Mum!

POORLY GIRL

Alice is a very poorly girl, she is currently going by her Latin name - Pukus Maximus! She has a "viral infection" (the name given to most illnesses by many doctors), following a cold she had last week. It is a very sorry state of affairs, mainly as she won't be sick in anything - bucket, potty, towel etc she will only be sick on things - carpets, me and Christian's side of our bed! This is very unfortunate for him as he can't cope with the smell (justice I suppose for a certain couple from York!).

Anyway we've been told to give her plenty of fluids, she can eat bland food, we are to ride out the vomit showers and be prepare for the rear end to join in! lovely!! Following that last piece of information I have decided to postpone Mum's birthday dinner party on Saturday night!

YOU THINK YOU KNOW SOMEONE...

Christian and I were having a very important conversation this weekend about jelly babies. After all these years (14), I found out that he doesn't really like black jelly babies! He'll eat them just like everyone else eats the yellow and green ones but they aren't one of his favourites - what a weirdo!

I'M HUMAN AGAIN

For the past 3 days I have had a really shitty cold, passed on to me by my beautiful daughter! It was really bad sinus pain, where your whole face aches, your nose streams and you have to breathe through your mouth or not at all. I hate this, I can cope with anything, toothache, D and V, childbirth anything but sinus pain! But it's gone (hooray!) - I have my appetite back (maybe not such a good thing!) and I have energy! Now I can go and do the past 3 days of washing up that my husband has kindly left for me! Oh well.

FINALLY, A CAKE!

As I've had my blog for 6 weeks and not mentioned cakes on it at all, I thought it was high time to publish one of my creations!


Some of my friends have been for coffee, cake and gossiping this morning (we all met a couple of years ago through our children and meet at each others houses every Friday morning). So I made a carrot cake as they go down both very well and very quickly - all diets are strictly off on a Friday!