she's off

So after about of month of being "mobile" but through various ingenious moves, Rebecca has finally worked out how to crawl.  Up to now, if I left her she would often have moved place by the time I returned, but it wasn't too far and was achieved by going backwards, sideways, sitting up, and impressive yoga moves. But last night she finally realised that her knees needed to be involved in the process, so I fear my peace is about to be shattered.  She was wide away at 5.20am this morning, feeling very pleased with herself and sitting up playing with her doll.  I could have done with some more sleep but hey ho.....

fun in the sun

What a lovely weekend of weather and no real plans.  We spent most of it in the garden.  Paul was weeding for England.  Ben was pottering, "painting" the driveway with water, pretending his sledge was a boat, and occasionally disappearing into the garage to discover some dangerous equipment.  We also managed to sneak down to the Royal pub 3 times....   My birthday was a lovely day and we managed to make it to a Thai restaurant on satruday night, followed by a drink at the Royal, having spent a few hours there with Sax and Charlie in the afternoon.  We managed to plant some fruit/vedge in the raised beds but they will no doubt be eaten within the week, like my sunflowers :-(

on the downhill slope to 40...

Well that's it, I am 39 and the next birthday is he big one.  I can hardly believe it really, I still feel as though I am in my 20's - that is apart from the fact that I have 2 kids and that my body is starting to ache first thing in the morning.....

Cars 'n' things....

So I sold my MX-5 yesterday, after a lovely 8 years. Am a little sad but less than I expected to be as I think I was more sad when it was sat on the driveway being unused on a sunny day. I definitely couldn't work in sales as it wasn't much fun selling it and I felt quite stressed. I guess it didn't help that I know nothing about cars so would have struggled if questioned intensely. Luckily the guy was quite chilled and handed over his cash and went...

a window back to my old life...

Today's excitement was a meeting so doing some project HR work, much more successful than the one a few weeks ago which I had to abandon due to a horrendous migraine. I was great to actually be able to sit down (in a pub, which always helps, and talk technical HR stuff instead of potty training, sleep patterns and calpol.  don't get me wrong, I really do love my life, but I am also eternally grateful for the fact that I will be able to dip my toe gently back into the world of work and keep those brain cells working.  now I just have to work out how I find the time to do it, and who will look after my kids....!

Interesting article about recording your baby by photograph each day/week as they grow older.  I love the idea but doubt I could keep it going, given the lack of Completer-Finisher in me (as my husband regularly reminds me, as he takes over cooking the dinner when I have become absorbed in Facebook).  The slightly more disturbing bit of the article was the reference to "a recent poll of Facebook users, which puts baby photos as the second most irritating picture annoyance on the website".  Ooops - that'll be me as a culprit then.  Still, people can always block me if it gets that dull.

I'm currently trying to sell my MX-5 on Autotrader as it is unfortunately incompatible with 2 kids and has pretty much sat on the driveway unused for the past 2 years. I will be sad to say goodbye but will appreciate the room on the drive and not having to squeeze out of the passenger door.... anyway, I haven,t had much interest yet apart from a bloke in Ireland who wrote an email only in capitals, who wanted to pay me over the odds and would also pay more money than It was worth into my account which I was then to wire onto his "trader" who would collect it... dodgy? Oh I think so....