Telling the folks

Blogger is great as you can use it for all sorts of purposes. I can write poetry, stories, use it as a journal/diary to record events in my life and can even use it as a way of sharing information.
Now would be a good time for sharing information and letting my parents know that we are expecting another blue eyed blondy next year on August 22nd ( how's that for a date Dad?) I know you may be thinking "are they ever gonna stop?" and rest assured that one day we will.

Mum, I know that you are busy with Grandma at the moment and I want to make it clear that you do not need to try and take care of me as well. You have enough on your plate and we can manage fine. I do not expect you to be taking kids to give me a rest or any of the other many things you often do. Keep having time for yourself and Dad, we would not keep having children if we didn't think we could cope.

Just think. you will have more grandchildren than Nan and you only had two kids.

10 Years today

We've made it this far and we are still in love. I know David will read this at some stage soon so here is my pledge of love to him.

I love you more than the oceans meet the shore, baby, I love you more than the sunshine you bring ( private joke here) Seriously though, I want to tell you how much respect and admiration I have for you. You truly are a one in a million husband. I don't know too many marriages that truly work and I know you are to thank for the reason that we are still soooo in love ( well I am anyway) I love your sense of humor, your curiosity into deep issues, your encouragement for me to investigate and do new things, your love love for our kids that just don't stop coming and the way you love to open up our house for people to come over. I truly love you and everything about you and it goes without saying that you are still ruggedly handsome.
Thankyou for a wonderful and exciting first 10 years, I know the best is yet to come.

Home birth

I really want to have this baby at home. After travelling in a car in transition and then going home quickly after I just can't see the point of the hospital.
I got a phone call form some home birth midwives and they are going to see if anyone is near enough to me to help out. The lady I spoke to thought I may be too far away for them. I really hope I can stay at home.
It would be great for the kids to be involved in the birth, maybe not all the gory bits but to be in the room when baby is just born would be fantastic. How exciting for everyone to be all together.
It just seems right to be somewhere that you are comfortable and familiar with.

Later on

Well today has gone well, We have had David's family over to celebrate his sisters birthday. It was a fun time with lots of laughter. I managed to grab an hours nap before everyone arrived which helped see me thru.

It was funny knowing I'm pregnant and having this information yet no one else there knew. I almost feel like I am deceiving them yet I know I'm not. We decided not to tell the family yet, even though I have blurted it out to friends at church. I don't know when we will tell them. We have also not told the children yet.

A new day

Its a new morning and the first day of school holidays. Most parents dread this time and desperately try to organize activities to fill up the kids days. I just can't understand it. Have children lost the ability to self entertain???? We used to play for hours outside and never seemed to run out of ideas when we were kids.

For me, I look forward to the holidays. It is a time where I do not have to teach in the mornings and the kids love the freedom of doing their own thing.

We have recently sold our T.V and it has made such a difference to our children's behavior. Their imagination has gone wild and its great to see them having some great old fashioned fun.

In regards to the pregnancy, I feel pretty good this morning. I have had no morning sickness or nausea at this stage but realize it is only early days. I have usually ended up very good friends with the toilet bowl whilst pregnant but who knows, this time may be different.

It's a go!!!!!

Its confirmed. Number five is on the way!!!! A bit of a surprise but a great surprise.

It all started when I slept in one morning which is very out of character for me. I am usually the first to rise in our house. I continued to feel tired for the rest of the day and couldn't wait to get to crawl into bed that evening. I continued to feel tired for the next couple of days and thought that I would do a pregnancy test, it was negative so I figured I was just tired from end of year stuff.

A day or two later I found myself at the pantry munching on crisps and feeling really hungry. I continued to feel exhausted and decided to do another test expecting it to be negative again. Much to my surprise it was positive. I then found the test in the rubbish from a few days earlier and noticed on close examination that there was a faint line on it.

Now I needed to come up with a unique way of telling David my husband. Now would be a good time to tell you a little about him and the rest of the family. David is one of those types of people that seems to be able to do well at anything he tries, he's a Macintosh Guru, a fabulous understated musician and generally well rounded person. He's the most out standing husband. We have so much fun together and our marriage gets better and better all the time, in fact we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary next week.

We have three daughters and thought that we only had the girl recipe until our little man arrived on the scene last year. Our eldest daughter is Daya (8) then Danielle (6), Samara (4) and Caleb (16mnths)
We Home Educate the children and love family life (most of the time, not so good when they are all sick at once).
God is an important part of our family and the most important foundation in all that we do.

Now back to the story, I decided to put together a rough imovie presentation to announce NO.5. Here it is for anyone wanting to take a peek.

By the time it got to "Conception has occurred," David's head spun around with a shock looked followed by a radiant big smile.

We decided not to tell anyone yet as I am only 4 weeks pregnant. Knowing this we went to church where I have now told five people, I just can't help myself. We have not told the kids yet or our families. I know the kids will be really excited, in fact Daya asked me a couple of weeks ago if my egg was in the tube because if it was we should go and mate, how animal kingdom is that!!!!
I'm not sure how others will react, some will think we are crazy to have five. I'm most nervous about telling the family, who knows what their response will be.