The Big Belly

Here is the big belly.

And here are the baby clothes drying on the washing line. Don't they look lovely?

Nests and whatnot

Just in case you are wondering, it is possible to experience empty nest syndrome, while you are 36+ weeks pregnant. S headed off to university yesterday, very excited, and with a huge smile on her face. :-)) I am glad she is so looking forward to it. It makes me remember how exciting it all was for me, and I am genuinely happy to see her looking forward to this new stage in her life.

Still, M and I sat and cried for a bit. And even though I don't FEEL sad about it, I do keep crying a bit. I imagine the hormones are playing a bit part in this, but all the little things that make me think of S, like shopping at Unicorn, frying up some potatoes and onions, Marmite on bagels, just bring tears to my eyes. Funny how all of those things are food. :-) Then again, there is always the West Wing DVDs as well. The last night she was home, neither of us could sleep. We were up at 4am watching a couple of episodes of West Wing series 4. Game on!

M wants to get started straight away on taking over S's old bedroom, which looks very forlorn and sad. Apparently we need pink paint...and lots of dusters!

I also have a few things I still want to do before the baby comes. Must finish study, tidy living room and keep kids toys out of it, and sew together a couple of baby jumpers. I would like to do the washing of the baby clothes this week as well. I have ordered some nappies from The Nappy Lady, and look forward to getting them, and seeing if I remember how to fold nappies! Must use some teddies to practise on.

So not funny...

Boil number one has healed, but number two was incised on Monday, after 7 hour wait in hospital. I am getting a bit fed up with this, and just hope it is all healed before I go into labour. I am also getting pressure to go into hospital to have this baby, which is shaking my confidence a bit. I have had 3 home births, no problems, why do they have to start now? Will talk to midwife tomorrow.

In the meantime, have finished knitting bits of a baby cardigan with Sidar denim dk. I don't really like that yarn as it splits a lot, but I think it will look nice. It is size 1-2 years as we have plenty of little stuff. I just need to sew it up now, and do the collar etc, which will take a while.

I am also working on a pair of leg warmers for S to take to uni. She heads off on Saturday. It doesn't look like I am going to be able to take her, which makes me soooooo sad, I just have to not think about it. I can't believe she is taking this huge step, and I am going to be sitting here, trying not to bump my wound, be sick, get worn out. :-( I want to see her flat, take her shopping, and say goodbye properly. Oh well. I will just have to send a pair of leg warmers instead.

Gross!

Ok, so the district nurse came yesterday to clean my wound and change the dressing, and it hurt me so much that she couldn't do it. I sobbed, she was lovely. I was told to rinse it out today, and go to the clinic, with a plain dressing on it. Which means that I saw what it looks like.

I had rather thought that lancing a boil meant putting a couple of slices in it so stuff could seep out. It seems that rather than being sliced, I have had a hole cut out of my ass. It is about 3 cm wide, 1 cm tall and a couple of cms deep. And sore. But according to the lovely nurse, it isn't that bad. I just have to keep dressings on it for 2-3 weeks.

Blech.

Poop!

I have just been looking at Ravelry, and loads of other people's blogs, and now I feel crap that I am having such a hard time finishing anything, or doing much of anything. I STILL haven't sewn the Debbie Bliss baby cashmerino hoody from a couple of months ago. And I am STILL working on Al's socks that were meant to be my Feb Violet Green KAL. Well, actually, I am not working on them, which is the problem.

What I am doing, is reading loads of pattern books from the library, and making a list of things I want to knit, without actually doing much knitting. I am still trying to work on S's hat, which I had to start over on slightly larger needles as it was very small. I hate trying to convert American patterns. And I will probably have to start it over again. But every other time I have tried to make S and hat, it has been too big!

And now, I get to choose between heartburn if I do eat, and throwing up if I don't. If I had the money, I would buy this to cheer me up! But then, I would probably not be able to actually make anything with it. I have loads of my lovely Lorna's Laces sock club stuff I could do, but I want to make things for Baby, and/or S, as one of them is leaving to go out in the world, and the other will be introducing herself to us in about 8 weeks.

In the mean time, I just have to try to get through today!