Well, you can probably guess from the slackness in blogging I'm showing here that life has been busy. The most obvious reason is of course the baby who is showing
all signs of being healthy, and arriving early December. The midwife thinks possibly earlier, but we'd rather it not because she is away until the end of November.
There's
modern cloth nappies galore here now, and buckets for dirty ones, plus of course clothes, wraps, furniture, car seat, pram, you name it. I've heard it described as the biggest consumer spend a couple goes through (after housing), and it's truly scary what some companies tell you that you 'need' to have.
We've been to birthing and parenting classes and spent countless hours reading stuff online so apparently we now know all, true experts in the field. Except it will of course have no bearing on the reality of actually
having a child to look after 24 hours a day.
It was interesting to compare out situation to others in the class though - we're much better off and more prepared than several others, so that gives us a bit of hope.
Trying to organise a couple of short holidays before the due date too.
Some other quick point-form news:
- Rain. Yay.
- I did the Spring Cycle and home again, personal best time. Then we slept most of the afternoon.
- We have a new home phone, this one is VoIP from MyNetFone. Pretty amazing deal, recommended.
- Renovations are all done, except we need some new blinds now. Thanks to our parents for helping out with bits and pieces.
- The car had it's one year (and first!) service, no problems found. We also have some fuel containers to stop us trekking out to Marrickville all the time. It's going to get a lot less use now that Liz has finished work.
- Had a fair few gigs with both bands recently, two of which have been the best gigs we've done with the respective bands. There's few more before the end of the year (and my free time!).