The day my life changed...

Two years ago my life changed forever, I didn't realise it at the time but things were soon about to become very different!

2 years ago today:

• It was freezing cold and snowy, very snowy!

• I had tried and failed to get into work and was working from home on the slowest system ever as the whole company was doing the same! 

• My other half had got to work, but it had taken him about 2 hours instead of 20 minutes and he had witnessed many a skid and other dangers along the way.

• I didn't have a care in the world, my biggest concern was probably getting up in time for work and remembering to feed the cat before I left. At the time though, I of course thought my life was full of troubles!! 

• 2 years ago today.....I made a baby! 

I didn't actually find out for almost another month and although we weren't being completely careful, it was still a bit of a shock! 

Fast forward to the 18th of January 2011 and I was upstairs looking forward to my holiday when I realised that old Aunt Flo hadn't made an appearance recently....oh.

I remembered I had a pregnancy test somewhere in my wardrobe from a previous panic afew months ago so I fished that out and decided to take the test. 

I knew I wasn't pregnant but I thought the longer I stressed about my period not arriving, the longer it would take to actually show up! So off to the bathroom I went........

Rich was downstairs playing Goldeneye on the Wii with some of his old school friends.

I shouted at him from the top of the stairs and when he answered told him my discovery! 

He went quiet for a bit then made his excuses with his friends and said he had to go for a bit. 

Then I just head "wow....wow....wow!" 

The next 30 minutes we looked at each other in disbelief for ages and then the excitement kicked in!! 

The next few days were spent enjoying our new news, then we told our parents before enjoying a not quite as boozy as usual, but still very nice, holiday in Lanzarote! - This was also when the morning sickness kicked in - not fun when you're flying home on a plane with a fair bit of turbulence with aeroplane food in front of you!! 

So of course the next 8 months went by (I was 1 month pregnant when I found out) and our lovely little Neve arrived!
My life will definitely never be the same again now Neve is in it but that is far from a bad thing-she makes me happy every day and thinking of coming home to her gets me through work!

She is a friendly, cheeky and hilarious little girl and we wouldn't be without her!

Rain rain go away!

This weather is pants isn't is?

Last week I think we had one whole day where it wasn't tipping it down!

I didn't used to mind rain, sure I didn't love it but it didn't bother me half as much as it does now.

When you have a baby, everything takes longer - you can't just run to your car and drive off with just a few drops of rain on you.

The getting into the car routine of a parent is a bit more like this:

• remove baby from pushchair.
• unload humungous amount of shopping bags from pushchair after it has tipped over due to baby being removed and no longer counter-balancing the weight.
• fold up pushchair (depending on make and model time and amounts of cursing varies).
• forget where keys are.
• find keys.
• get in car.
• remember you've left your ticket to get out of the carpark in the boot. *
• retrieve ticket.
• get back in car.
• calm down crying baby.
• drive home!

Anyway, as you can probably tell- having a baby has really made me dislike the rain!!

On a more serious note; worryingly our part of the UK has had severe weather warnings and quite a few places near me have had floods. The road next to my mum's was even on BBC news.



So if you have been affected by this horrible rain then please take care out there! Let's hope it disappears very soon!

Picture from www.telegraph.co.uk

*or if you are me, your ticket blows away and you have to beg the voice at the ticket machine to let you out!