Im doing it! I am Blogging!

Since moving to Australia I have hooked up with these awesome woman, who really, are quite intimidating with all their skills and cleverness, but at the same time they are really encouraging and inspiring... SO it is because of them and their encouragement that I am here.. I have become one of THEM... a blogger and a sewer... OK well I shouldn't really claim the sewer part just yet, as I have only just sewed a few ( not so straight lines) to resemble a skirt for my 2 year old. but I am going to keep going and make a few more and hopefully soon I will know what I am really doing!
This blogging and sewing is also a desperate bid to keep myself occupied and my mind off the pending birth of my 4th child which is due tomorrow! I have got a 2 yr old (girl) a 4 yr old (girl) and a 6 yr old (boy) and it is kind of true that you DO forget about the AWFUL pains of birthing.. until they come back to haunt you in the form of Braxton Hicks and then you remember only too vividly exactly what it's like and what is coming to you any day now! Every day for the last week or too, I have gone to bed SURE that this is going to be it, I'm up in the night wide awake nursing my aching back, only to go back to bed and waking up in the morning... still intact! If this is a way to get me use to getting up in the night again.. I don't need it thanks very much. I have a 4 yr old who still hasn't really ever slept through the night, so the night and I are well acquainted! It is her that I will blame for my grey hair and wrinkles! I hope she will be rich one day because she will be paying for a face lift before I am 50!
I really thought that there is NO WAY that I would make it this far in my pregnancy. I had to "slow down"at 28 weeks as I thought it was all going to happen then... then I thought Id have it about 3 weeks early and every day since then... My Mum has arrived from NZ, Toe nails are painted, (No bikini wax this time though) baby shower had, photos taken, All blacks on wining streak in Rugby world cup (even though Daniel Carter is out with a groin injury... BOO!! but that's a whole different subject) husband is home, and we have made it to the 10th month which was a big criteria for me as I have a baby in the 9th month already and I hate doing kids birthdays with a passion so the more spread out they are the better. SO you could say that we are good to go!
My husband knows what we are having but I have no interest in the sex as I realise that we are just so lucky to have a well baby with no complications and that it something that we can't take for granted, so the sex really is secondary. Plus it is good to have a surprise after all that awfulness of labour! SO watch this space!!

Well there is it my first blog and my first skirt today... finished!  Onwards and upwards for me I have entered into a whole new world!!
over and out x