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by Veronica on December 11, 2008

Also, I forgot to mention, I have a guest post up over at Jenni’s today! She’s just about to give birth to her second baby any moment now. Unfortunately, after planning a home birth, her baby flipped breech in late November and has since refused to turn. She is now 40w5 days pregnant and OH so ready to be done.

Head on over to read about my stresses for giving birth to #2 (which incidentally, is only 6 weeks away now).

AND… it’s only 14 more sleeps until Christmas. Are you panicking yet?

Anyway, here is the link directly to my post, go read!

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Christmas

by Veronica on December 3, 2008

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We aren’t buying gifts for anyone this Christmas except for Amy.

Now just let me read that sentence over again while I wait for the guilt to subside.

It’s taken me a while – and lots of whinging to Nathan – to come to terms with why I alternately feel compelled to not buy for anyone except our daughter and then within the same moment, feel incredibly guilty that we aren’t buying for anyone else.

Part of our decision came down to money. Nathan and I both have large families and to buy for everyone just ends up much too expensive for us.

It doesn’t help that I am notoriously tight with money, taking a long time to actually make a decision to buy anything big (it took weeks of contemplating a Dyson before I was ready to say ‘Yes, let’s buy one’ and then we bought it with money we had put away).

The other part of our decision came down to my annoyance with the commercialisation of Christmas. I don’t want to spend every year trying to outdo myself with gifts and decorations. I don’t want or need that kind of stress. I don’t want people to expect anything from me except good food and company, because good food and company I can always do.

I don’t want to make myself crazy making sure that no one is forgotten.

It’s much easier just to remember Amy.

Much easier.

I will still be making biscuits and truffles, wrapping them in cellophane and giving them for gifts. I will still be making something to take to Nan’s for Christmas lunch.

So really, everyone will still be getting gifts, they just won’t be getting things I have bought. Instead, it will be things I have made with my own two hands and sometimes I wonder if that is enough.

Common sense tells me that of course it is enough, but I worry that I will go to all the effort of making these things – while 9 months pregnant – only to have them pale in comparision of gift wrapped stuff from shops.

Am I being stupid? Probably.

But that doesn’t change anything, I’m still not buying presents regardless of how conflicted I feel about it.

What are you doing for Christmas? What are your plans for gift giving? Who do you normally buy for?

If you don’t celebrate Christmas I would be even more interested to know what you do celebrate. How do you deal with a holiday season that seems completely skewed towards a Christian holiday? Do you mind me asking?

(I’m not a religious person by any means, Christmas for me is about good food and good company and a tree and tinsel, not so much about the religious significance.)

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Neglected

by Veronica on December 2, 2008

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Now I know that I have been neglecting this blog terribly, but really, is that any reason for over 50 people to unsubscribe? Really?

Hmmph.

I will try and get something of substance up later today, okay? Just bear with me here.

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30w3d

by Veronica on November 16, 2008

in Life, Pregnant. Finally.

30 weeks and 3 days in. Only 9 and a half weeks left to go, right?

Please excuse my terrible posture, Nathan made me laugh just as he was taking the photo and I kinda threw my head forwards.

Ugh.

What to say about 30 weeks?

Has anyone else found that their fingernails grow twice as fast while they are pregnant? Seriously, what is up with that? I seem to be having to clip my talons every 2 weeks, rather than however often I used to do it before. Not as often as now though, I feel like every time I clip them, they need it again.

And let’s not talk about hair.

I’m all for my head hair growing twice as fast and twice as strong (or whatever happens) but seriously, everything else? Really? Do I need inch long pubes in order to give birth?

I think not.

And considering that I am having a hard time seeing anything below my belly button at the moment -where all my stretchmarks currently reside- how on earth am I meant to trim or shave my pubes? I’m not game enough to work blind with sharp implements down there.

So the hair growth? Feel free to slow down anytime now. I’m not sure Nathan really wants me to hand him the razor and say ‘go for it baby’ when things aren’t going to progress much past the shaving part. Poor boy.

On that note, how unfair is it that my libido seems to have returned? Just at the point where the actual logistics of getting laid are much more involved than the actual act?

Not fair at all. To either of us.

Leaky boobs. Oh the fun!

I had forgotten just how much FUN leaky boobs are.

I was examining my nipple the other day (as you do) making sure that everything was fine – I had cracks show up prior to Amy’s birth. Funnily enough, I didn’t get any after she was born, even though she spent all her time attached to my boob like a limpet – when, I squeezed a little too hard OBVIOUSLY and squirted myself in the eye.

Sure it would have been funny, if it wasn’t MY eye.

Plus, colostrum is much stickier than actual milk. I’m lucky that I had a sleeve handy or I might just have glued my eye shut.

[Wonder if I could glue Nathan’s shut the next time he pisses me off? Squirt him while he is sleeping and see what happens…]

Right, I think that’s just about everything covered. Fingernails, pubes, sex and breasts. Sound about right?

Hey, I never said I had any modesty left. At the end of all this I fully expect to push a baby out of my vagina and that isn’t exactly the kind of thing to lend itself to modesty.

So there.

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Real Mums

by Veronica on November 14, 2008

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Okay, I hardly ever do meme’s, but I like this one alot.

Jenty tagged me for this meme about Real Mums.

Apparently there is something about mutation too?

“Proponents of memes suggest that memes evolve via natural selection in a way very similar to Charles Darwin’s ideas concerning biological evolution on the premise that variation, mutation, competition, and “inheritance” influence their replicative success. For example, while one idea may become extinct, other ideas will survive, spread and mutate for better or for worse through modification.”

So we’re all about mutation and propagation here, people. As we’ve all already subdivided and had kids, let’s mutate! Add yours to the list.

1. Real Moms don’t flinch when they talk about boobs. They do make you laugh your brains out.

2. Real moms go on vacation. Real moms go on vacation and learn to play traffic cop.

3. Real moms brag about their kids

3. Real moms do not mince words when they present the truth.

4. Real moms juggle

5. Real moms “resist the guilt and embrace the journey”

6. Real moms don’t give a damn to media generated Mommy Wars

7. Real moms have kids with potty mouths.

8. Real moms sometimes forget about toddler-proofing

And then there is mine…

9. Real Mums sometimes forget to hide their ‘toys’ properly.