Showing posts with label Company Girl Coffee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Company Girl Coffee. Show all posts

Saturday, 10 January 2009

It's Coffee Time!



Well, it's mostly tea that is on the menu in this house - but there is a small jar of coffee for those who prefer it.
What has been happening in my part of the world this week. Well, I am now 30 weeks pregnant, and feeling it. (so great to hear the news that Rachel Anne is joining the Hot Mammas Club again!). It is still hot, but at least the monsoon rains have started which does cool things down a bit (although bringing with it the frustration of entertaining a nearly 2 year old indoors all day!).
This has been my first week without daycare children, or a husband, in the house all day! On the whole, I have enjoyed being able to potter around and do the housework without 4 children under the age of 3 to entertain as well. Naomi loves to help Mummy do housework - I am going to have to get her her own spray bottle with water in it, because she gets upset that I won't let her spray the cleaning products!
On the down side, I was somewhat shocked to find out that I failed the Diabetes Exclusion Test that I took at 29 weeks. I shouldn't have been so stunned (my maternal grandfather had Type 2 diabetes, and one of my older sisters was pretty close to gestational diabetes in her last pregnancy). I now have to do the full 2-hour Glucose Tolerance Test to determine how serious it might be. Ick - having blood drawn 3 times in 2 hours.
The hardest part is that my wonderful husband is a Type 1 diabetic. I know the will power and lifestyle modification that requires. I am just not ready to give up chocolate!! Even as I received the phone call from the doctor's surgery, I looked in the fridge and saw a peppermint Aero bar, half a packet of chocolate Tim Tams (the world's best choc biscuits), and the box of Lindt chocs that Brad gave me for Christmas!! Does chocolate freeze well??? How can I stare them all in the face for 10 weeks without breaking down?!?!?!?
Anyway, I could rattle on about Naomi's broken sleep patterns (see this week's posts). But I won't bore you all any further -- what has been happening at your place this week?

Sunday, 14 December 2008

Company Girl Coffee



I have a confession to make. I have been lurking on Rachel Anne's blog, Home Sanctuary, for several months now. I don't always do the Small Things challenges, but I do THINK about doing them (ha ha ha - how bad is that!), after I finish working with the Family Day Care children, at the end of next week.
So anyway, I have decided to come out of the closet, have emailed Rachel Anne and asked her if I may please become a Company Girl too. Please please please please, pretty please!
Perhaps for my first Company Girl Coffee session, I will tell you about our own special part of Paradise. I am a wife to Brad, and mum to Miss Naomi (nearly 2). I am also pregnant with our second baby, due in March. And I am hot... darn hot. You see, we live in tropical North Queensland, Australia. Where it is currently summer, and monsoon season as well - so hot, humid and driving me crazy!
But I do love Christmas, and am looking forward to having my sister and her family of 4 kids stay with us for the next week. Am hoping to get the rum balls and Christmas cake made today, so that is one less thing to do before Christmas. I do looooove rum balls!