Hormonal Friday...

Hello everybody,

Hop you are all well on this glorious January Friday. What a lovely day. Very seasonal down here in Devon, and it really is a glorious day.

So i had a dream the other night that i kept sneaking to the fridge when nobody was looking and eating scoops of pate behind the fridge door... i didnt bother looking this up as i know it is merely due to the fact that in my present condition pate has been banned from my diet and since New Years Eve there has been 2 packs of the stuff sat in our fridge which just happens to placed on the middle of the shelf at eye level. Being a MASSIVE lover of pate and cheese, particularly over the festive period, it has vexed me somewhat that i have had to resist. I was grateful of the dream and the naughty indulgence...i suppose i should feel a little ashamed, but i dont...so there!

Ive been a bit emotional today, not in a bad way necessarily, just the hormones talking. I seem to get choked up just by the smallest things. I asked a lady in clinton cards where the 'Bon Voyage' cards are kept and felt my eyes welling up! She must have thought i had anxiety issues or something! Poor girl, she did a good job. THEN i was standing in the bank waiting for my turn at the 'Position' if you will and i kept fiddling with the pens on the counter, a habit that i should have grown out of by now but i like the little holders and the long chain...i think the funky man in front of me with his north face cap and timberland boots was getting slightly irritated, i thought for a joke i could say to him 'Just give me a lollipop and ill be distracted' but i didnt and just stopped...eventually. THEN i noticed the cutest old man stood behind me, oh my he was so sweet and he looked just like a tortoise! He really did, so much so that when he started to walk i thought he might get on all fours and present a nice big shell...but he didnt. But just looking at him and seeing his dear face got me all choked up, ive got a thing about old men, i start to think about their lives and what they would have been through in the last 70/80/90 years, men whose parents lived through 2 wars potentially...or not and who might have possibly been in one themselves...you know...that kind of thing. He got all confused at the counter when it was his turn as well because he couldnt hear very well, i so wanted to invite him to join me for a cup of tea and a slice of cake, i like tortoises, but i had to get back to work and i dont really drink tea either. Anyway, when he was done i watched him walk over to his wife who was sat down on the chairs with her trolley thing. So that was nice. I wasnt just hanging around in the bank for no reason by the way, playing with the pens and staring at people, i was actually getting some banking done! Just FYI!

Anyway, back to work now, just thought the man deserved a mention as he was very sweet and im sure if he knew his face was cute enough to get a silly pregnant girl such as myself all choked up, he might appreciate it...or not! haha. I dont know, hormones hey!

On a more serious note...

...well, not that serious! I thought it would be a good idea to write a few words about myself, my husband and our little sprout.

Tristan and I got married on 08/09/2010 which makes for a very easy anniversary date indeed! It was a beautiful day and we were lucky enough to have been blessed with warmth and sunshine for the duration of our time at Polhawn Fort in Cornwall which is where we got married and spent the week with our families. I met Tristan 5 years ago in Bath, I was out with my darling friend Dora, who consequently is a Hobb Nobb, it was her 21st Birthday you see, so i suppose i have her to thank for meeting Tristan that night. Dora and I were busting out some pretty sensational moves on the crowded dance floor in Moles Club when suddenly this man appeared from nowhere and planted a big smacker on my lips...Id clearly rocked his boat! haha, or not, it didn't matter, i knew then as i do now that he was the one for me, even if he did lack a little bit of modesty! :) I went home the next day and told my mum and Aunty Pamela that i had met the man i was going to marry which at the time swooped over their heads, however, i live to tell the tale and probably will keep doing so until I'm old, grey and repetitive.

Our relationship wasn't the easiest, as Tristan was only in Bath visiting friends over the holidays after having completed a course in Scotland qualifying him as a ROV Pilot. He in fact, live in South Africa so this meant a lot of travelling backwards and forwards for both of us, not that i am complaining for we have so many wonderful memories from those first couple of years that we really got to know one another and some great adventures including trips to Mozambique, Ireland, Indonesia, France etc etc...Alas, with most long term relationships, a decision had to be made, a direction chosen, so on the 15th April 2009 Tristan took me to Cave Rock, his favourite surf spot on the Bluff in Durban (my husband is a VERY good surfer...hes better than a pro) and asked me to be his wife! And of course i said yes! It wasn't a one knee affair, as if it had of been he probably would have fallen off the side and plummeted to his death! So I'm glad he just stayed next to me on the rock! About 6 months after that we moved to Braunton in Devon, got a cat called Trevor and started to set up our little nest egg...

One year later, in September 2010 Tristan and I were wed at Polhawn Fort in Cornwall which is a venue i would recommend to anyone looking for a wedding near the sea. It is beautiful!

One month after celebrating our 1 year anniversary, i found out i was pregnant! That was back in October, and tomorrow i shall be 16 weeks gone! Tristan is alas offshore at the moment, but we have just had a wonderful Christmas together, getting excited about our new adventure and talking about it lots! There have been lots of smiles and giggles. It really is the most incredible feeling in the world and we cannot wait to meet the little sprout and see what he/she looks like. I am already feeling small flutters which is lovely. I've got me a little bump too and cant stop rubbing it! I don't know i am doing it half the time, but instinctively i cant stop touching it trying to send my love and warmth through whenever i can. Just cant wait for Tristan to get home so he can do some more of the same. I am getting in the habit of taking long baths and singing to it as well...which may or may not be to its pleasure! However, until it is able to tell me otherwise, i will continue to sing a medley of tunes when i feel fit! Disney and all!

My New Purchase!!!!

Feast your eyes on this bad boy! I have had the pleasure of purchasing one of these delightful pillows from http://www.pregnancypillow.co.uk/. I havent tried it out yet, but as soon as I do I will let you know how it feels. It does feel super comfy though. I have a white and pink gigham cover, but I think I will invest in some material more to my taste and see if Mumsie would like to help me make a custom cover to go with it instead! I would say that a pillow such as this does wonders for pregnant women who find it difficult to sleep or who have back pain, but also for anyone who could do with a comfier and cosier nights sleep! :)

Strawberries, Expensive Beef and Johnny Depp...

Sooooo, I should probably start this blog by writing something serious to you all regarding Little Sprout and how I've been feeling etc etc. However, what I am really dying to share with you all my last week in dreams! (So for now I shall entertain myself as I am my only follower! Hoorah!)

Well, now then...where to start! OK, so around a week and a half ago I had a dream that I was a very teeny person, almost like a borrower if you will, and I was walking through long grass. It was almost like a scene from Honey I Shrunk the Kids, when the 'Kids' are in the garden and everything is massive! Like grass stems and ants etc etc...although, I didn't see any ants! Anyhoo, suddenly, I found myself venturing into a strawberry patch! And me oh my, were they healthy looking strawberries. Huge, red, juicy strawberries wearing velvety green hats just ready to be picked and devoured...but of course, I was so teeny I couldn't pick them, or enjoy them...but they did smell sooooo sweeeeet! I don't know why I didn't just nibble one, but I guess it doesn't matter now. That was pretty much it, I was about the size of a greenfly walking through a strawberry patch! NOW THEN...this may seem like nothing extraordinary, after all, strange dreams are not a rarity, HOWEVER when i looked up the meaning of strawberries in my dream dictionary...this is what it said...

To dream of strawberries denotes to a pregnant woman a straightforward delivery of a boy!

WEIRD!!!

A few days passed and there weren't any dreams that jumped out at me nor that I specifically remembered. Until last Thursday when I had the most peculiar dream that I kept visiting a local supermarkets meat counter to look at the beef fillet! I mean, strawberries, a bit random, and even that time i dreamt I was a thimble was weird, but beef fillet!!! Where on earth did that come from, I havent even eaten beef for ages...Back to the dream, I kept going back to this meat counter, always at night to look at the beef! It was very lean i noted and  did look really rather nice as far as beef goes. The problem was it was really rather expensive! However, the man behind the counter who was a large man and very friendly, often stood sharpening his knives, was very chatty and happy to let me loo at the beef...time went on and i finally decided i would buy some of this beef, so i pointed to the piece i wanted, which the butcher kindly weighed for me...and do you know how much it was??? It was £120! And it was only big enough to feed about  5 people! Im not even a big meat eater for goodness sake! I almost fell over for shock of it! SO what I did was i asked him to just cut me a little piece off which took it down to £40 which was better so i bought that instead. I cant tell you how i cooked it or what it tasted like because i woke up. Due to the bizarreness of this dream, i looked it up before work and this is what my dictionary said...

To dream of eating beef is a sure omen of the death of a friend or relative. 

!!! I was glad that i didn't have the pleasure of tasting the expensive beef after reading that, as because i didn't, it makes this invalid! So i think i shall be safe...but it does teach a lesson to you all, if you dream of beef, try not to eat it! 

Now then...LAST NIGHT i did dream of Johnny Depp...If you are reading this Tristan (husband) I'm sorry, i didn't know it was going to happen...it just did! I was quite chuffed though because sometimes you can dream of famous people and you know its them but they have different faces which is a but rubbish really. However, this was the Johnny Depp as we all know him. :) So there i was in this living room, i dont know whose it was, and there were some people in the room, i dont know who. I was sat on the carpet in the corner minding my own business, when Johnny Depp came along, what was strange was that he had a red blanket which he was holding above his head! Walking sideways to get past all the people, he came over to me, so i stood up...because you would really if Johnny Depp walked over to you holding a red blanket about his head wouldnt you? And then...Teeeeeeheeee...he kissed me! Aggghhhhhh! It wasn't anything too elaborate, but he did! He gave me a little kiss! Awww, bless him. Nice man! haha. And that was that really, I woke up to the cat washing himself next to me! So the illusion was soon shattered...

I didnt bother looking up Johnny Depp up in my Dream Dictionary that was written by Edwin Raphael rather a long time ago I should have thought...and to be honest, i think i ony dreamt of him because my friend was telling me his relationship to Vanessa was on the rocks yesterday on my way home from work...a bit more explanatory than Strawberries and Beef Fillet! And i would imagine Johnny Depp is quite high up in the world of dream subjects...This has absolutely nothing to do with my being pregnant really...so i shall bid you all a good night! :) 

HELLO AND WELCOME...

Come join me on my new and wonderful journey that is PREGNANCY! It's all very weird and at times seems a bit crazy, however, at the same time it is just the most magical, happy, warm and fuzzy feeling I have ever experienced. My husband and I are skipping around like excited children as we learn more and more about our Little Sprout every day...At almost 16 weeks gone I am looking forward to sharing the next 25 weeks with you, filling you in on what’s going on, how I’m feeling, how we are preparing to be parents and what I’m eating! And if that all sounds a bit BORING then I’m sure I can entertain you all by giving you a running dream diary which, to even the hard to please, I am sure will raise a few eyebrow! For I am having the wackiest dreams EVER!!! From Fillet Beef Steak to snogs with Johnny Depp...You name it, by the time this baby arrives, I would have dreamt it!