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December’s 4D Challenge
The last 6 challenges of 2012 sort of completed in the name of the 4D challenge. 1. Blog a photo montage - D is for dinky ickle AT-AT in the Lego Advent calendar. E is for explorer now I have a pith...
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Best Twitter Conversation Ever!
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What happened in January
So I’m pregnant – 14 weeks today – and as a result 2013 is going to be a very different year from the preceding ones. The app on Tom’s phone told him that I should record a pregnancy memory but the...
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What happened in February
February was a quiet month, still exhausted with the pregnancy meant that save for work and sleeping there wasn’t much else happening. This does make the 4D challenge mildly challenging. So what did I...
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Me: Who painted The Mona Lisa? S2 pupil: Leonardo DiCaprio Also overheard by a colleague, an S6 pupil asked “Is Gypsy a religion?”
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What happened in March
March was probably the busiest month this year so far, finally got to a stage of regular exhaustion – my pregnancy, save for the growing indigestion issue and my girth, all seems to be going well....
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“Miss, what does Fascism mean?” asks pupil A. I explain the meaning to pupil A. Pupil A then yells “I am not a fascist, you fanny!” across the library at the bloke who apparently just called her a...
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What’s be going on since March?
On one hand not much – still pregnant (due in the next two weeks) but on the other hand life has been pretty hectic. Clair and I decided to put the 4D challenge on the back burner, odds on we’ll do...
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Bears and Critters
June saw me stitch a pile of critters – a birthday pressie and five thank you’s for the library monitors. The needlefelted Cthulhu is a favourite of the batch I think, though I really like how the...
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Baby Shower
My sister threw me a baby shower – it was a lovely afternoon and basically was just a great excuse for tea, cake and for me and my friends to get together. At the end everyone decorated a bib for O....
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Pimping some Onsies
So after the baby shower I still had some onsies and bibs (the plan changed at the event so we didn’t use that many). So I decided I should pimp them so O has some awesome geek fun. I did some free...
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All set for O
I’m at the stage now where it’s very much just a case of sleeping and waiting for O to put in an appearance. We’ve even got to the stage that the spare room is now being referred to as ‘the baby room’....
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The Arrival of O
Well after 41 weeks O finally arrived after 16 hours of labour, forceps and an epidural, Tom was the one who revealed the sex – male – and got the first cuddle. Weighing in at 7 lbs and 9 oz, Thorfinn...
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4 Months of Motherhood
Right so it turns out it is really hard to do anything save care for Thorfinn. Not that he doesn’t sleep but the breaks are short. In the beginning I was too shattered and now he doesn’t want to sleep...
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Six Months of Motherhood
Motherhood continues to throw challenges at me. These past two months have seen me and Thorfinn go dairy free, he has start weaning and his interest and interaction with the world around continues to...
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