Merry Christmas Everyone

Ho Ho Ho Ba Humbug. I bloody hate Christmas. I think it's because the world wants to stop for a day, but thats impossible. I am one of those people for whom it's impossible to stop for. I worked Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the Sunday. 3 lovely nightshifts. Its Christmas though, the Season of good will. I wish. Its the season of drink as much as you possibley can and bash whoever as hard as you possibley can. Needless to say, I've been busy!

On a more positive note H had his first Christmas, and was so lucky will all his toys. Everyone has been very generous and he hasn't even received everything yet! We did not have a traditional dinner. We went out for a curry. It was really busy at the restaurant and it was really good value.


For New Year I am going to make some resolutions. I make the same resolution every year, to loose 3 stone! I have accepted that this is never going to happen. I lost 2 stone last year, which is something I have not done before. Granted it was baby weight and needed to come off, though now I know I can do that I am going to try and get my BMI down to under 25, making me not over weight. I have never not been over weight my whole adult life, so I am going to see if I can achieve this. I need to loose 1.5 stones to do that. I got a lovely set of weighing scales for Christmas so I will be able to put them to good use!

Here's to a lighter me for 2010. The other things I want to achieve in 2010 is to move house. I can't live in this house anymore. I need my own home. I hate renting!!

Where have I been?

I have not blogged for ages. Being back at work has really taken it out of me. The night shifts are a killer, and are really boring. I am struggling with knowing what to do, I feel like such a failure. I am hoping that it will come back to me, but its been 2 months now and its not getting any easier!

H is being a bit of a nightmare on the shifts that I am at work. Its taking it out of Ian, I keep thinking its Ian, but one set it was a tooth coming through and now its a cold. He doesn't cope with pain very well at all, just like his mum!! He is getting really big now. I have decided to skip 9-12 month clothes and he's in 12-18months. He's been in a while now. He's so long and so chunky!

Have have been trying to make some Christmas cards. My mum bought me lots of christmas things in August, and I finally got some promarkers this week so I have been practising, but I am just not sure I have the imagination! I have also subscribed to 2 cardmaking magazines to get some techniques right.

I also haven't been taking that many pictures and haven't up loaded many on to the computer! I'm so slack. Maybe one day I will start getting motived and organised with my life. To be honest I feel like sleeping for a few days, and then buying some energy and zest for life! Now where can I buy that from???

Time Flies

I haven't updated my blog for ages. I have kept meaning to, but haven't! I have been making cards, but not very often, but I keep leaving it to late to enter them on blog competitions. Silly me.

I have gone back to work, I have been there for 2 weeks now, I am having a few days off at the moment, which is great. I am applying to drop 2 days, which will make a huge difference for my shift pattern. Getting back into nights has been a killer! So life is very busy at the moment with the 3 of us getting used to the change. H isn't that bothered though. He has never noticed that I have gone!

My dad has lent me his camera, I am always taking pictures, and his is a SLR so I am hoping that I will be able to get some better quality shots, though he can't find the manual so I am not sure how to use it! I have used a set of batteries already on some shots taken yesterday afternoon.




I am going to make a new baby card, my friend text me so say she had a boy yesterday! Thomas. She was due at the same time when I had H, but she sadly miscarried so I am so pleased for her. Also, I don't know if you remember me mentioning a while back that my friend had an operation has she had been having fertility problems, well she got pregnant 2 weeks after the operation! I am made up for her!

Engaged!

On Saturday I got engaged, finally!

It is something that I have been waiting for and my OH knows that! We went away to Leeds for our first weekend away before I was pregnant, stayed at the lovely malmasion hotel, got far too drunk then he popped the question. It wasn't exactly romantic. He had choosen a ring, was waiting all night to do it, but wasn't sure when. So he asked when we got back to the hotel. By this time though I was worse for wear, the ring was a little tight, we passed out on the bed and when I woke at 3.30am my finger was very swollen! Luckily we were able to swap the ring when we got up on sunday.

I am wanting to get married next autumn. I love autumn. The wedding will have to be a budget wedding. I am going to reduce my hours further at work. We can manage on less money, and it is important that we still have plenty of family time together. I go back next monday, I don't feel as bad about it as I thought. It will be nice to regain a little part of me back, but I will still get full weeks off with H. I am only going to be working 16 days out of 35, hopefully reducing it to 14 days out of 35. Shifts, its too complicated to explain!

Get Well

I have decided to enter the Crafty Card Makers challenge again. I spent ages making the card last night, but I am disappointed in it! It is the glue. I have ran out of my normal glue which I bought off the net with some supplies, so I used to glue from the pound shop, and it's hopeless. The paper and card didn't set properly, and you can really see that on the card! I am however pleased with my flowers. I made them using some cuts that I had in a pack from tesco, I just traced round them and cut them out on my paper. The paper is from my stash from The Works. I have lots of cut outs now, so can make lots of flowers!

The card is for my sister, she went into hospital today, as she needs an operation. I took H with me to visit her as she was so bored. She is having her operation tomorrow, so today was her op prep, which involved Nil by Mouth and lots of laxatives. She wasn't very happy as she had no bed, and was starving, so we sat in the cafe, which probably wasn't the best idea for a hungry paitent.

She enjoyed the company anyway, and H was good. He loves his Aunty F. She text me after I left to say how much she liked the card. Tomorrow I am looking after her poor dog. He has been in all day today as her partner was at work, so I will take him a good walk tomorrow. I also need a trip to the bank tomorrow. Statutory Maternity pay doesn't go far, so looks like I'll need the last of my savings. I'm back at work in 2 weeks on Monday. Where the hell has the time gone!!!

Home Sweet Home

I have been away for the weekend, my first weekend away without my baby. I was supposed to be going on a family camping trip with some girls I know and there families, as we all have babies born in the same month, but it was rained off. I had been asked if I wanted to fill a place on a trip to London a while ago, but had arranged to go camping, so I went to London. I was in two minds whether to go, the baby, I have not been away from him much!! Then there was money, and the fact the girls had planned what they wanted to do so I would have to fit in with the plans.

I went though, it was free travel and accomodation, and my mum helped out with H whilst I was away. I did enjoy myself, but not as much as I would of liked to! I am annoyed we went all the way to london and spent all day saturday looking in shops on Oxford street for a pair of shoes for 1 person!! AHHH. There is so much to see, I didn't see the point of spending hours visiting busy multinational shops which we do actually have up North. I love shoes, but it was hell.

The good points of the weekend though was going to see Grease- it was fab, having a walk through Hyde Park and visiting the icebar, and coming home!!! God I never knew it was physically possible to miss someone so god damn much. I thought my heart was going to break. I am not in a hurry to leave him again! Though me and my other half have a night away planned next weekend!! Its been booked for ages, our first weekend away since the baby, just a shame I'm leaving him again!! I feel like crying, in fact I have felt like it all weekend. On that note I'm going to go and have a moment to myself, sob....sob!

New Arrivals & Death of the Town.

I made this card last night as my friend has finaly had her baby. She had her yesterday morning, Ella, born 15 mins after arriving at the hospital. Lucky thing! I was convinced the baby was going to be a girl so I had made the card a few weeks ago, and finished it off last night. I am always right, sometimes!

So, I am taking this oportunity to enter it into some challenges as well! I am entering it in to The Allsorts Challenge and the Cute Card Thursday Challenge. I seem to have got into this competition entering. Some of the enteries are a professional standard, some people have such a talent.

Today I have been to a local town to the shops. I never go to Spenny shopping as it is the most depressing place in the world, a lot of towns around here are, and I shouldn't have wasted my time today! I looked on the net and saw that there are supposedly 2 craft shops in the town, but there was hardly anything. Most shops are shut down. Its so sad really. Its all our own fault as well because we favour large shopping centres, which have killed our towns. I felt really sad when I came back. I am hoping it is a result of the recession and one day the towns will regenerate but I don't hold much hope. I know myself, everything is cheaper on the net or in shopping centres filled with multinational companies. I don't think there is an easy answer.