my-speck » week 38

Dear Baby.. I think this is what is called ‘nesting’

rakster — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:19:25 +0000

12 individual trays of spinach cannelloni baked and ready for the freezer.. Yum. Related posts on My-Speck you might also like to read: Hello Speck! Its Sunday and I haven cooking in readiness Baby Food – you’re onto Indian. Our little curry muncher. While your tastebuds are still developing anyhow. bottles and jars

bathing on the deck! yay for your dad :)

rakster — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:02:50 +0000

Hello Little Speck!

Well, you know what happened last night, ’cause you got right in on the action too. Yes, that’s right. We got to have a bath at home! YAAAAAYYYYY!!!

As you know, our bathroom at home, while lovely, doesn’t have a bathtub, just a shower. And I really LOVE my baths. So anyway, yesterday your dad got it in his head that I needed a bath (I have been moaning every day about how much I feel like just lying in the bath after having one each day when we went away the weekend before last). And he has been thinking about it – we’ve had fantasies about building a bath house in the garden. And we’ve been thinking about how to cheaply renovate our bathroom and put one in… But all take time and money and are relatively complicated.

But yesterday, your Dad got inspired and all I heard him say as he ran out the door in the morning while I was on the phone for work was something about building me a bath. He returned a number of hours later with some stuff on the roof of the car, and continued to make sawing, hammering and drilling noises into the night. And then, at about 8:30 pm, it was done! My own little bath filled with hot steaming water on our back deck. The steam rising off it into the night, the possoms in the tree beside it looking on in interest. ….

So.. I got in! Check it out:

you and I in the bath - its small but we just fit!

Looking out to the left of the deck you can see the tops of the city buildings, and the way I’m facing in the photo above across the back yard and through to the trees in the neighbourhood…

bathing with a view out across the trees

See! Pretty cool I think…

my bath

full recline – see its a little small, but perfect for the back corner of the deck….

So we will be soaking every day from now on.

Thanks G for the old bathtub. Yay for your dad. He is amazing.

love mum

-r

The view from where I'm lying

rakster — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:44:28 +0000

Hello Speck!

I thought as I lay in bed this morning that I’d share with you what it feels like to be carrying you around at this stage. Its not something I can readily describe, so a photo is going to have to suffice.

So: This is what you look like to me when I’m lying in bed…

the view of your home from my perspective - i can still see my toes, just!

Somewhat like a beached whale, you have to agree…

mmm..

love you

mum

eating and waiting…

rakster — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:21:14 +0000

Hello Little Baby Speck!

Well, its freezing this morning. I have my computer in bed with me and am working from there. We went out yesterday and bought two new oil heaters after plugging in our old one to absolutely zero effect the day before (I think the move back from Sydney finally killed it). And so I have the heater we bought for your room in our room this morning and I’m under the covers too. Brrrr. Apparently its five degress. Very cold for a draughty queenslander. Your dad and I are both a little worried at how cold our house is going to be when you arrive home … (BTW Week 38 today! Week 38… I never thought it would come around).

Slept badly again last night. Woke at 3 am and didn’t get back to sleep until around 5:30… Then got woken this morning at 6:30 by the gas workmen right outside our bedroom window digging a big hole in our yard and discussing how cold it was last night / this morning and how many Bundy and Cokes they managed to consume in the car trip home last night because the traffic was bad. Aaagh.. You weren’t impressed either – there was some kicking down there and I interpreted it as “pissed off”. Much more violent and quick than your normal movement.

Yesterday had a spurt of energy and decided to get some things done. Hence the heater-buying. Also managed to inspire myself to cook biscuits. See – still having total cravings for sweet food. Weird. Anyway, I was inspired to biscuits after looking through the Australian Women’s Weekly biscuit cookbook. Its a book that my Grandmother gave me when I was 12 years old. I only just got it back from your Aunt R the other day – I must have loaned it to her a few years ago… I’m really glad I got it back – I thought it was just packed away in one of the multitude of boxes we have yet to look in – stored under the house from before we moved to Sydney. Its sentimental. Anyway, I’ve got it and I have good memories of cooking the biscuits. Hopefully something we can do together when you get bigger – I’ve had some practice with F as she and I used to cook them all the time when we lived next door to each other…

monte carlos - yum!

Yep, so yesterday I did the monte carlos. And damn, do they taste good if I do say so myself. I say so myself. They taste good. Full of sugar. Yum.

Today is a work day. Looking forward to the weekend

love you
mum