Only three days till baby due.

Here I am with just three days to go.

Yesterday, Brigette made me some labour cookies.


I can really taste the ginger. Brigette said that she used the extra hot cayenne pepper but I can't really taste that like I can the ginger. Since eating them, I have had contractions but nothing that is strong enough to call labour just yet.

Last week I got a package in the mail from Tracy. Lots of really nice home sewn clothes for our boy.



Thanks so much Tracy. I cannot wait to put some of these things on our boy. I am sure he will look gorgeous in them.

Quick 7!!!!!!!!!

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6 days to go.

Yesterday I had a check up and baby has moved down. I have been having back ache and contractions so my Ob said probably this week. This morning I got up and felt a little bit off so decided I needed to eat some breakfast. I ate a couple of pieces of toast and promptly brought them up. Nausea has been coming and going all day and I have been having contractions but they still are not regular.

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Nappies.

Katie from Humamae Vitae asked me about my aio nappies.

I have made up a couple of different patterns. The first one I used was The Ottobre aio. I didn't really like this nappy pattern. It looks way too big and was a bit too bulky imo with all the layers for the internal soaker.

I then went and searched for another one and came across the Celtic Cross medium nappy and found the pattern much easier to sew. They also had a fairly bulky soaker but I decided to make my soaker smaller. The first nappy I made was too big for a new born so I have down sized the pattern. This one was much easier to down size than the Ottobre one.

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Brigette.

Yesterday I showed Brigette how to update my blog, plurk page and how to post at dcf message board. She is going to let everyone know when the baby is born.

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1st week of school.

School started on Wednesday. The week has been good except for today since I was feeling so off.

We are using Faith and Life for our RE lessons. I love the program. Tom, Amelia and Christopher really like it too.

Both Tom and Amelia asked if we could do Latin so I got out our program that I bought a couple of years ago and we will go through it each afternoon.

Christopher is joining in the morning sessions of our home school. Each morning we have Prayer, Reading, Recite times tables and Faith and Life. We then also do an extra subject that is more hands on for the children or that I can have activities at Christophers level. At this stage I have History of the World, Geography, sewing, cooking and art. In the afternoon while Christopher is at kindy, Tom and Amelia are doing their Maths, Literacy, spelling and reading.

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Musical Theatre.

Last night I took Madeline, Brigette, Tom and Amelia across to the high school to enrol in Musical Theatre. We got them all into a class. We have classes on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights. Friday night Brigette wants to do Cadets and Tom, Amelia and Christopher go to Kids club. The only night I don't have something on is Tuesday night. This is just as well since Tuesday night is Steve's staff meeting.

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Weekend Plans.

I am hoping to keep busy. It makes waiting for baby go quicker. This weekend I plan to finish of the aio nappies, make some eggplant parmigania and maybe some labour cookies too. We will go to mass on Saturday night and I will prepare Tom, Amelia and Christopher's programe for next week.

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Lent.

Lent is only two and a half weeks away. I have been thinking about what I want to give up this year. I am giving serious thought to giving up the internet but not really sure if it is what God is calling me too.

Every year, I try and do some extra spiritual reading and spend more time in prayer. I also try to spend more time with the children.

In keeping with my word for the year "Now" I also want to spend more time doing the unpleasent things that I avoid or put off till "tomorrow".

I would love to hear what you are thinking of doing for lent.

Pop over to Jen from Conversion Diary for other quick 7.

A word for the year.

Reading around the blogsphere, there have been a lot of blogs coming up with a word to live by for the year. I have thought about it for a while and the word I keep coming back to is now.

One of my worst characteristics is procrastination. Especially with chores and anything I dislike.

I really want to work on changing this bad habit this year. I am working on saying now instead of later with what needs to be done.

Do you have a word for the year that you are trying to live by?

Happy Anniversary Steve.

Today Steve and I celebrate 19 years of marriage. I am so grateful to God for the gift that Steve is to me and for the sacrament of marriage.

We have had many ups and downs in our marriage. God has always been faithful though and helped us through the difficult times.

I was going to cook some Eggplant Parmigiana for Steve and I for tea and see if labour would start. I don't feel ready though to have the baby just yet so we will go out to our local Chinese restaurant for tea instead.

Maybe over the weekend I will make the Eggplant and also try some labour cookies. Brigette wanted to make the labour cookies yesterday but I said wait till the weekend.

5mart Martha (and Mary) Monday.

Here is my list from last week.

We got to weekday mass on Monday and Tuesday but our pp was away for the rest of the week so there was no mass. I prayed the LOH but didn't get to pray in front of the Blessed Sacrament since our PP was away and the church was locked.

I actually changed what I needed to sew. I have put a higher priority on things for the baby so I did one sleeping bag and the sling. I also did my first aio nappy. It looks huge so I have actually scaled down the pattern and will make a few more this week.

This week:

Mary:

Steve and I will start a novena tonight for the safe delivery of our baby.

Pray every morning when home school starts.

Go to weekday mass.

Martha:

Sew some more nappies.

Cut out my skirt and top for babies baptism.

Here is some of my sewing.

I have been keeping busy with my sewing. Today I made this sling for the baby. Unfortunately, I bought the wrong size rings and this fabric is too thick to fit through nicely. I can get it through but it is very stiff and hard to adjust. The pattern I have used is Elizabeth Lee Nursing classics 202. It is rated easy but I found it very fiddly with the wadding in the side and the pillow of wadding in the top. I also have a thinner cotton muslin fabric (below) that I think will fit into these rings okay. I am going to make this one into a sling tomorrow and hopefully put the rings on it and then buy some bigger ones for the above sling.


Besides these I have prepared my pattern for a skirt and top for the babies baptism. Here is the skirt and top pattern with the fabric I will use for those.


I am hoping to pin and cut these tomorrow and have them done before the baby is born.

Look Who's Home!!!

Emilia!

We were in China over Christmas and New Years and have now been home for a week. We're all still adjusting and getting to know each other, but Emilia is one teeny tiny beautiful little person with a giant and lively personality and we're falling more in love with her each day.

I'm still trying to figure out my work schedule (going from zero to 18 month old over night is crazy!), but please feel free to email (my email address is on the sidebar) me if you're interested in having any of the work you've seen here personalized...or if you need anything else done.