Count down.

My maternity leave starts when I'm 32 and a half weeks pregnant. (Pregnancy has 40 weeks.)
I thought at the beginning that I'd be able to work until a couple of weeks before my due date, but I was SO wrong.
It's Friday, I'm 29 weeks and it feels like it's been the longest day ever. I've just sat down on the train on the way home from work and I'm exhausted.
The last 2 weeks have been hard. My feet have started getting swollen and not only does it look horrid but it's really uncomfortable.
My eyes have been tired and gritty all day and my back's sore. I can't imagine what it's going to be like carrying this little lump, in a months time.
This weekend I'll be:
Walking the dogs, doing a bit of retouching / drawing, going to see my dad and meeting my friend Kate to do a bit of shopping.
It'd be nice to do NOTHING. But then I'd hate that I'd wasted the weekend. And I always have to walk Rat and Bear no matter what.
Boo.
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Monday 14th March 2011

Welcome to the 1st post of my new blog.
Hopefully I'll be better at keeping this one than all of the others I've tried over the years!

The main reason I'm starting this blog is that I'm 28 and a half weeks pregnant. We're expecting our 1st little baby, Lilly Scarlett Raymond on the 2nd of June and I'll be finishing up work to go on maternity leave in 21 days. It's all going so quickly! I'm really going to miss my work mates. They're pretty much the only girls I see on a regular basis and they're all brilliant.
One of my closest friends at work suggested I start a blog so they can keep updated about things going on with my (new) life, so here we are!
I've been meaning to get this blog sorted for a couple of weeks, but I'm doing it today as I'm actually supposed to be at work but yesterday I hurt my back, so I'm sitting on the sofa with my feet up and a heat pack on, feeling sore. I slept horribly but that seems to be a regular thing now I'm getting so big. Hopefully if I rest up I should be fine for work tomorrow.

It's a lovely sunny day today and I've been watching a magpie making a nest in a tree right outside of my window. The dogs are both asleep on the sofa next to me, Lilly's asleep in my tummy, Mark (my fiancee) and Gavin (our flatmate) are both at work and to be honest, I'm completely bored. Day time TV sucks SO bad!


I'll be using this blog as a place to document the rest of my pregnancy and to post up random bits and bobs too. Hope you all enjoy it and thanks to Alana for the idea.
Lets just hope I have the time and I'm not too lazy to carry on posting!