Karen's Journey

Gees another weekend over already! Boy they sure do seem to be going far to fast for my liking!!! Right what have we done.... not a lot but a fair bit at the same time if that makes sense :)

Yesterday, I decided to face the music and went down to Barbara's and got on those dreaded scales! Definitely more of a gain than I thought it would be - 3.1 kilos in the last five weeks! OUCH!!! So a total gain of 8.1 kilos now in 20 weeks - gotta keep a rein on my eating otherwise I will end up gaining a least 20 odd kilos and I certainly don't want to do that especially with all my hard work over the last 3 years and also for my health sake as well! Am going to make a real effort to go to weigh in every 3 weeks and keep a tab on this weight :) I would say approx 80% of my eating is not bad... okay maybe a bit less than than and the rest of it would be comfort eating (sausage rolls, chippies, ice cream). I am aiming to keep my total gain during the pregnancy to no more than 15 kilos so if thats the case - I am going to have to be careful.

Anyway, back to my weekend, after weigh in we headed out to the DVS shop in Nguranga Gorge - it was chocker with people - didn't buy anything but got brochures on some of the heating ideas we are looking at. Left there and headed to North City Plaza and did a bit of baby shopping at both K-Mart and Farmers (just getting some pink singlets and body suits) and had lunch at the food court. Home again for a quiet evening - joined up the video shop down the road and got a DVD out to watch. We got out "Long Weekend" - no big names star in it but it was well worth getting out and was a good laugh.

Today, we had to be up, dressed etc by 10am as my nephew (the sparky) was coming over to see the house for the first time but also to see what work we want done on it. 10am comes as does a txt from Rob saying he had been held up and would now be here about midday! So that gave us the chance to get the housework done and had just finished that when he rung to say he was almost here and needed some last min directions! So Rob came, took him on the tour of the house and he is happy to do everything we need done so sometime in the next few weeks we need to purchase the bits and pieces and then organise with him to come back down from Palmy to do the work. We popped down to the local bakery for lunch and then Rob left about 2pm.

After that, we popped down to Lower Hutt to check out carseats etc from Farmers, Baby City and Baby Factory. We know there is no rush for the 2nd carseat that our wee girl will need but we do need to get it whilst we are both working as we won't be able to afford to get it whilst on one income for those first 5mths or so. We are hiring the capsule from Plunket, and will make a decision sometime in the next couple of weeks or so on the other carseat.

Home again, and just blobbed out before Jo, Chris and Rhian popped in to drop off the Prenzels that I had ordered from their party the other night. Rhian was as gorgeous as usual and loved playing with my swiss ball :)

Just cooking dinner before winding down for a quiet Sunday evening - and will have my ususal Sunday night bubble bath before having an early night. Oh that homeopathic spray has really helped my sleeping over the last couple of nights! But my sore back is still giving me grief at times so hopefully it won't be long before I get my referral to the maternity Physio at the hospital.

Right time I was outta here - hope you have all had a good weekend and kept warm. Catch ya all later