Waiting, Waiting, Waiting…

I keep writing posts then saving them and never ever publishing them.  I’m doing it on both blogs and it’s getting a wee bit ridiculous…the amount of drafts lying around is really shameful.

Anyway, still pregnant, still feel like I’m dying, still completely unprepared, still not loving my hospital and still having wierd eating habits.  I drank two litres of milk yesterday - I don’t drink milk.  Ever.  And I ate a huge bowl of rice for breakfast.  Plain rice.  Plain.  For breakfast.  I had scrambled eggs for dinner.  Just scrambled eggs.  Lots and lots of scrambled eggs.  I think my body may be trying to tell me things here. 

Kids are sick too.  They went to visit their father’s family and came back in bits - must be all that fresh air getting to them.  My Little Man is never sick but earlier in the year they visited that part of the family and the Princess came back sick and didn’t recover for a whole month so I’m really hoping that won’t happen this time.  I don’t have the energy at the moment.  Between pain, peeing and general discomfort I cannot sleep for longer than two hours at a time which isn’t great.  Hopefully my big babies will be okay again soon.

I’m still waiting for that bloody laptop charger too.  It’s driving me insane.  Stupid feckers I eventually ordered it off decided to take my order and my money and then withhold the delivery out of the blue.  I was not a happy camper…I really need the stupid fecking thing as soon as possible.  Everything is on that laptop, all the stuff to do with the writing contest, all my photos, everything I’ve written for the past few years…*sigh*  For some reason I thought that putting everything important to me on that laptop made perfect sense, I could slap myself for being so stupid!  I’ve really had the urge to write again lately too so I’m extra grumpy about having to wait.  Have to wait for the charger, have to wait for the babies…feels like all I’m doing is waiting… :roll: 

Ah, well, it’s Sunday so I have something to cheer me up for a few minutes - PostSecret  :razz: 

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The Latest

I literally created this post just to use this ticker…sad I know…

Anyway, thanks for all the comments, I have basically slept my way through the last month so don’t expect frequent updates any time soon! 

Both twins are boys, non-identical, weighing 2lbs 1oz and 2lbs 3oz at the last scan.  Next one won’t be for another four weeks so we’ll see how they’re getting on then - that’s if I can manage the walk from the carpark to the ultrasound room, I am severely unbalanced right now (weight wise, okay?!)  Definitely only twins by the way, despite the dreams that both of us have been having about a hidden triplet!  As you can see from my ticker I have quite a bit of time to go but I will definitely have my babies before my due date whether I want to or not so Bluesleepy and I could even be proud new mamas at the same time.

So while I’m here I may as well waffle about the only things I’ve thought about for months now…:/  Have a million things to do and can’t seem to get anything done.  Still have the writing contest hanging over my head because I’m still waiting for a stupid charger for my stupid laptop.  Cannot wait for that to arrive so I can get the thing over and done with - good thing I had the sense not to give a closing date for it.  Having a huge amount of trouble with the buggy issue.  There seriously needs to be more options for people who have twins and a toddler.  In saying that, we can’t even figure out baby names so we’re not exactly great at the decision making.   My little man was four on Monday so he’s been having a great time even with everyone making a fuss over me looking like I’m about to give birth at any minute. :)  He’s getting so grown up…

Between the hospital, speech therapy, psychologists, courses, school stuff and looking for a home I seem to have a couple of appointments every week which I do not relish, but timing seems to be bad for me in general this year.  I’m struggling to stay awake most of the time but the good news is that my big babies are acting like angels for me lately so they are making things a lot easier for me plus their Daddy is making sure I rest as much as possible and my mother is doing as much as she possibly can in my place like appointments and meetings and dealing with the school.  My little man is starting school at the end of next month so I am hoping that I don’t happen to be “unavailable” on that day in particular.  I really don’t know how people work when they are pregnant with twins by the way, I seriously couldn’t do it at all.  How do they survive without naps and twelve pillows all day???

The hospital are haunting me because I’m too pale and tired - eh hello, I’m having twins and I have two small kids to look after, of course I’m going to be tired and pale after sitting in a stuffy hospital for hours waiting for staff to get back off their lunch!  I am terrified that they’ll mention bedrest.  I’ve been a bad girl and stopped taking my iron tablets because they were making me queasy and drowsy for hours after taking one and I completely lost my appetite too which isn’t good.  I’m looking out for an alternative supplement that won’t make me feel even more tired than I already do.  I don’t even have a hospital bag ready yet but my mammy has one for me - after last time’s unexpected home birth, she’s preparing for any possibility which works out well for me because the oul pregnant brain is working too sharply of late and I can’t even begin to think about what I’ll need.  Besides, I’m too busy worrying about prams.  I’m having nightmares about triple buggies and double buggies with toddler seats and buggypods *sigh*  These things don’t seem to exist in Ireland so either way I’m more than likely going to be spending a fortune on delivery.

Any advice on suitable buggies for three kids that can fit through doorways, 7 seater cars that won’t leave me in debt for the rest of my life, decent boys names that don’t sound alike, start with the same letter or begin with the letter F (their surname starts with an F), finding energy out of nowhere and where to get a Transformers schoolbag would be greatly appreciated and result in lifelong adoration on my part.

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Some News…

I got some surprising news today at my scan so of course I ran straight here

I am currently 23 weeks pregnant, due in October, everything is in the right place doing the right thing except that I’m REALLY going to have to move before then as I am expecting twins.

Twins…I haven’t stopped laughing since my scan, I think I was scaring the hospital staff a little bit.  Shocked granny number one was kind enough to scan my scan photos onto her computer and send me some so I’m going to try post the proof here.  Turns out I needed proof because nobody will believe us when we say it’s twins.  Even after seeing the words twin scan and twin clinic in my appointment card.  Even after seeing the scan photo of two little heads next to each other.  Apparently it’s too unbelievable to be true.  First set of twins ever in his family and he has a HUGE family - he feels really special now :D 

You should have seen his face, it literally drained of colour when he heard the word twins - that’s what we get for joking about multiple births in the waiting room!  They aren’t identical, but they are pretty sure in the hospital that they are both the same gender, hopefully we won’t mix them up too much

So there ya go, me ever-expanding family is multiplying fierce quick

Here are some pics, I’m hoping to persuade a certain person that we should take twins as a sign to have a 4D scan but I don’t have much time, you know, cos it’s twins and it gets a bit crowded in there very quickly This one is of the heads together, the very first thing I was showed at my scan, I am totally imagining them keeping each other company in there

Here is “Twin One” posing for the camera, freaky photos this time around. Got a nearly identical photo of “Twin Two” but that hasn’t been emailed to me yet. The quality isn’t great (which is why I long for a 4D scan) but it’s enough to make me go awwwww, I have two babies squashed in my belly…

Well, there ya go, I am going to be soooooooo outnumbered soon.  My stomach nearly exploded last time I was pregnant because I was so big so wish me luck with two of them growing in there

I’m still waiting for it to sink in, in case you can’t tell :D  I am happy though, even if everyone else is freaking out!  Although I am curious about twin cots and triple buggies now…

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Slán

The charger on my laptop broke so I won’t be around for a bit anyway but I don’t really think I’m going to come back to this blog regularly even afterwards.  A lot of pretty bad stuff has been happening recently and I’m not so keen on having a whiney bitch-fest blog as a result of that so I’m just going to leave this be - I really don’t want to talk about this stuff and I have nothing else to talk about for the forseeable future - although I’m sure I’ll be back every now and then with an update of (hopefully) happy news.  Good luck and take care, I still meander through your blogs every now and then to catch up on what I’ve missed but I rarely leave comments - so be good, I’ve got my eye on you

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LFC

I wasn’t going to post but I just had to point and laugh at Soggycelebs for a minute or two.  Yes, I do support Liverpool - bwahahahahaha :D  Himself supports Arsenal; he got really cocky after the first goal but the expression on his face afterwards was pure entertainment.  I’ll stop gloating now though, it’ll only backfire on me eventually. 

Again - not much to say.  I can’t remember the last time I stepped outside my door.  It’s a bit awkward going anywhere when I’m liable to puke my ring without any warning; besides, I’m a bit too narcoleptic at the moment to be trusted in the real world.  So I’ve been reading too much, eating too little, become obsessed with finding the perfect tattoo (yeah, excellent timing) and had a huge dose of sim-envy - don’t ask.

I finally decided on an Egyptian Ankh as my first tattoo until I saw Yankeechick’s one so now I’m like is it okay to copy her if I just never blog about it?? ;)  I have plenty of time to think about it anyway - it’s not like I can get one at the moment.

I noticed the other day that I had cheek bones all of a sudden so I’ve decided to force myself to eat more.  I tend to lose a lot of weight when I get pregnant because of morning sickness, the gaunt cheeks are the first sign it’s getting bad because I usually have such chubby ones.  I’m not exactly like Courtney Cox but I’m taking my warning seriously and have been stuffing my face since.  I’ve sort of convinced myself I’m having a boy because of the similarities between this and my first pregnancy. 

My number one is enrolled in primary school for September.  One of the schools said there is a waiting list but they would probably have room for him in September while the other school said if we paid 50euro that would secure a place for him.  We paid the 50euro but I’ll probably fill out the application form for other school too.  Either way, he’ll only be there til first class then moved over to the boy’s school.  The waiting list school is the one I went to and will more than likely send my daughter to so I’ll know not to leave it so late when it’s her turn!  I don’t know whether to feel sad or excited about him going to school - I really want him to stay home with me but he’ll have fun in school, hopefully.   I’m going to be one of the mothers who cry, aren’t I?

Just have to say how lucky I am with schools by the way.  In some areas, the kids get refused by the hundreds.  That’s insane…the class sizes are most likely getting bigger though in my chosen area though.  The teachers do what they can but it’s never enough without help from the parents.  My little brother started school seven years ago or so in the school my son is going to and there were a lot of children who couldn’t speak English so the teachers were out of their depth while in my other brother’s school, parents and older siblings used to help out because of the lack of teachers who attended regularly.  When I was 13, I helped out for a month with reading and maths - that’s how mad it was.  The poorer schools do struggle but people get more involved with them. 

Enough about that or I’ll never stop waffling…have a good weekend/week and take care.

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