Bebe Update

17 Mar 2010 | By Tracey

I’m so tired. Last night was probably the worst nights sleep I’ve had since Jye was a newborn. I had trouble actually getting to sleep, between Jye waking and crying and needing to go to the toilet I didn’t get much at all.

Today I was meant to be driving to the city to see my midwife, but on a whim yesterday I decided to leave then. Don’t ask me why I felt the need to go. It wasn’t until I got to my in laws house and found a letter that arrived from the hospital telling me that I had an appointment this morning that I was grateful for whatever it was that made me leave.

I bundled Jye up in the car this morning and it took me 90 minutes to get to the hospital and then finding parking…ugh! What a nightmare. I actually got seen in record time though – I was out an hour and 10 minutes after my appointment time – I’ve had to wait 2 hours before. This appointment went better than the appointment at the last hospital, but they still went on at me about my declining the Glucose Test. Apparently it’s not normal to birth big babies without having gestational diabetes. Anyway, it was a whole lot of waiting around for about 10 minutes with the OB.

Oh, and some lovely person(not) slipped Jye some chocolate in the waiting room! I grabbed him because my name got called to find him with two squares of chocolate in his mouth. I can bet it was the elderly woman with a pregnant woman who was sitting nearby and kept smiling and talking to him. Sheesh, was it too hard to ask me if it was ok? And by the smell of it, it was rum and raisin flavoured :( He made a huge mess in the OB office.

My midwife came to visit in the afternoon, I love meeting with her. it’s just so much more relaxing and my blood pressure came down significantly in the few hours since I was at the hospital. Baby girl is measuring bang on for 32 weeks, she is also starting to engage – 3/5ths above the brim, let’s just hope she doesn’t go too far down too soon. Jye was at plus 1 station for weeks and weeks and it was painful! Good to know she knows where she needs to be to make her exit though ;)

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I went to visit my mum this afternoon, she’s gearing up to make the move back to Thailand. We’re getting her fridge and we’re going to buy her lounge suite and a double bed from her. Then she hands me her sewing machine! Hurrah!! I’ve been wanting one for a while and now I’ve been looking at all these gorgeous creations on other peoples blogs – well now I can get creative too!

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Meal Plan Monday

15 Mar 2010 | By Tracey

Well back to the meal planning. Yet another attempt at getting organised(yes I know I say it way too often).

Monday – Sweet chilli chicken wraps

Tuesday – Chilli Con Carne Nachos

Wednesday – *Takeaway because I’ll be in the city for the night. Hubby and kids will be having steak, sausages and vegetables.

Thursday – Roast chicken with roasted vegetables

Friday – Homemade Pizza

Saturday – Beef Curry and Rice

Sunday – Rack of Lamb with salad

Pretty average I know, but I do have plans to do a big cook up for the 3 weeks that I am out of town to have the baby, so stay tuned for a post about that later this week.

Check out what everyone else is cooking HERE.

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I have been trying so hard to get on here and post but it’s just not happening right now. There’s been a thousand and one blog posts running around in my head, every time I get the chance to sit down and try and write one I fall asleep. Yes, you read that right. I FALL ASLEEP. I’ll just blame that on pregnancy ;)

Things have truly been hectic. ALL our accommodation rooms are full meaning I spent a solid 3 hours cooking tonight. I am really messy when I cook too, so then I had this big kitchen to clean. It kind of blew me away though because business has been extremely quiet and we’ve been struggling to pay the bills. Plus, it’s Monday today. We don’t even open the doors until 4pm on a Monday because we’re just never busy.

I promise I’ll get to writing more in the upcoming day, I’ve finished most of the paperwork that I was doing over the last week!

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5 Years Today

13 Mar 2010 | By Tracey

Today marks 5 years since the hubby and I became a couple. I still remember how weird it was to go from being friends to a couple, we’d already been friends for almost 5 years at that stage.

We’ve always had a pretty great relationship, it’s by far the best relationship I’ve ever been in(and one should hope so seeing as I married the man!). The fact that we were friends for so long beforehand and we already knew each others good and bad points, not to mention knowing each others families, is what made this turn out so well.

Not so say that we haven’t had our bad times, we both came into the relationship with kids already and that was very challenging to say the least. My ex really wasn’t in the picture – he was more concerned with his ’single life’ and my boys lived with us. But things were tough with Matt’s ex and she really didn’t want to co-operate with sharing care of his daughter.

Having him make a career change was hard too. The money was good, but being a Fly In, Fly Out widow was really hard for me. Especially when it got to having 3 kids, working full time and being pregnant with a fourth. It put a huge strain on our relationship, all we had was the telephone for two weeks with not a lot to talk about when he was falling asleep after a 12 hour shift and me running around getting kids to school, working, feeding them and getting them to bed.

But now things are good again. We are with each other every day. He lets me sleep in in the mornings and gets the kids off to school and then comes and wakes me with big cuddles. We do nearly everything together now and not only is our relationship benefiting from it, but so are the kids. I am amazed at the bond they have with their daddy.

So 5 years has seen – 3 kids, a wedding(which will be two years ago tomorrow), a couple of house moves, a lifestyle change, a new car and plenty of love! I am still amazed at how fast 5 years has gone.

Happy Anniversary Matt, I love you with all of my heart. Here’s to many, many more years together!

By the way, he doesn’t know it yet, but I’ve organised for him to have a night off tonight by asking a friend to come and run the bar for us. We’re not going anywhere but I have invited some friends to come and have some drinks with him ;)

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In for a dip

12 Mar 2010 | By Tracey

At the pools. Well the kids did – they had their very first swimming carnival today. Very strange, I thought – I don’t ever remember having swim carnivals when I was primary school age. Especially the way that they do lessons where the kids are all at different levels. My kids are only 7 and 6, so not really there yet with swimming but they did a few ‘games’ in the shallow toddler pool and that was about it. It was pretty much all over by noon for my 6 year old and my 7 year old got to do a game in the afternoon. We spent all day there, even though my kids were pretty much done at lunch time because that “had” to stay for the awards presentation.

I did notice my arm was a bit red, but we had a spot in the shade and moved when the shade moved. Not so bad. It wasn’t until after I’d been home a while that I started feeling sleeping and just plain blah. Hubby suggested a shower and when I took my top off I noticed my other arm was also kinda red and my chest was like a tomato above some lily white boobies! No wonder I was feeling so crappy, I think I have a touch of heatstroke.

Other than that, I’ve pretty much been chained to my computer fixing our paperwork(and it’s all numbers and stuff. Argh! Maths is so not my strong point). I think I’m almost done with it but I’ve been dreaming numbers and calculators for a few nights now. I could never be an accountant, my mind is not cut out for numbers.

I’ve also been thinking about what I’ll do when we eventually move on from here, while it’s all fine and dandy for the time being(and I’ll talk about the issues that I have with this place another time) we will move on from this place unless the unthinkable happens and the owner decides to sell the property within the next 2 years. Whilst we’re here though, it’s ok for me to mostly be a parent and do the kitchen/accounting/other little jobs, hubby does more of the front of house thing. If we leave here – well, we’re not going to be able to afford for one of us to stay at home. I want to be able to do a little something now so that it’s easier for me to do something that I really want to do instead of taking any job just to get by.

So, I’m going to enrol to become a breastfeeding counsellor/community educator with the ABA which in a few years means I can train to be a lactation consultant. I’ve been thinking about it a lot and there are no support groups for breastfeeding out here, which is sad. My most successful breastfeeding relationships with my babies were so great because of the breastfeeding network I had. Plus it’s something that I would be able to do where ever we go after here. I’d also like to do some doula training and antenatal teacher training too someday in the future. There is no market out here for doula’s because the nearest hospital that does births is 2-3 hours away and no-one around here has home births because the hospital is too far to transfer to in case of emergency.

It’s nice to have a direction and I’m really excited about it. Hopefully I can get the ball rolling soon(but I heard that the application for ABA is about a million pages long).

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Early Morning

11 Mar 2010 | By Tracey

It’s moments like this when I am so glad that we’re living at the pub. It’s now almost 5am and after a really bad nights sleep, I am wide awake. It’s quite common during pregnancy to have issues with sleeping, mostly because it get quite uncomfortable in bed – though I have to say that buying a body pillow was the best thing I ever did as it’s made things much more comfy! I’ve had a bit of an achy belly all day yesterday and I put it down to baby growing, all of a sudden she has wedged herself under my ribs. She has been quieter than normal too, not as many big kicks and rolls – more squirmy, trying to get comfy now that she’s head down type movements. Anyway, I ended up just feeling really kind of sick, so maybe it was something I ate? Blah. Maybe she is feeling off too?

So whilst I’m sitting in bed typing away and facebooking, my hubby is fast asleep beside me. He’ll be up in an hour or so, once the babies wake up and get them showered and feed them breakfast and get the older boys off to school. And where will I be? Fast asleep until my bladder is ready to burst and then I’ll jump out of bed and run down our long hallway to the toilet(oh how I miss having an en suite!). He is such a good hubby! Some days I’ll send him a text to say that I’m awake and he’ll come in and give me cuddles, usually joined by a couple of little toddlers. Got to love those!

No wonder I am finding this pregnancy so easy to the last few. I’m spoilt! But I’m really happy that I’m almost 31 weeks and am going pretty well. It’s pretty alarming how fast it’s going though and I’m running out of time to get things done. I think I spend most of last night getting the business books up to date. That’s probably why I didn’t sleep well, too many numbers floating around in my head – I really, really hate maths. There’s not much time to think about being pregnant I suppose, there is too much to do business-wise, cleaning, chasing toddlers and breaking up their little fights, carting older kids to swimming carnivals and the like. It’s only when I stop and feel the kicks and wriggles, or bend over to pick up the kids toys only to realise that I can’t actually bend over that far anymore and I think ‘Oh yeah, I’m pregnant’.

Well, the sun is starting to rise now and I really should try and go back to sleep so I can get up at a decent hour. The kids will be awake soon, no doubt about that.

Before I go, here’s to a happy 15 months to my baby boy Jye. 15 months ago, my labour was just beginning and we journeyed to a beautiful home water birth. Now, he’s my little toddler boy – getting into mischief and learning to run. My sweet baby boy.

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And so we begin…

10 Mar 2010 | By Tracey

Again. This will be the third time that I’ve attempted my blog.

The first time it got lost when I made the move from another domain and then last night – I must have had a MAJOR attack of placenta brain because I was clearing out unused databases on my webhosting and just like that – Blog is gone. I was devastated last night, enough to make me sob into my pillow and it didn’t even phase the hubby. He’s use to crazy hormonal outbursts like that. I am sure that I did a backup of the database along the lines somewhere, but the question is where? Not an easy feat to find when everything is spread over two computers. Needless to say, I couldn’t live without having my blog so I just started over. Funnily enough, I was planning on moving away from crazybeautiful because I have some things coming up on the main website(which you will know about when it’s ready!).

Anyway, I guess it’s back to basics huh? For those of you that already know much about me, you can stop reading. But for those who don’t, I feel obliged to do the whole ‘about me’ spiel like you usually do in the first blog post.

I am Tracey. 26 years old.  Married to my wonderful(and kooky) husband for 2 years and together for 5 years. Mother to four boys(Jayden, 7. Bailey, 6. Owen, 2. Jye, 1.). Two of which are not my husbands, though he loves them as much as his own, their dad isn’t a real big part of their lives. I’m pregnant(30 weeks and 3 days) with a little girl, this WILL be the last baby. Also a step mother to a little girl, Charlotte – she’s 5.

The hubby use to work on a mine site, running the tavern there. He was gone for 2 weeks at a time and home for one. That was until June last year, when we packed up and moved 4 hours out of the city to live in and run our very own country pub. It’s been challenging and fun, not to mention being around hubby 24/7 means I get to drive him nuts at a whim!

I blog about a bit of everything. Every day life, the kids, pregnancy. Whatever tickles my fancy really. I’ll probably be reposting a few things – like Jye’s birth story and our big Ben 10 birthday party last month, because I liked those posts so very much. So please, please bear with me!

Argh, still kicking myself!! My warning – STAY AWAY FROM DATABASES!!

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Wonderful

09 Mar 2010 | By Tracey

Yes, it is I – Tracey(aka Crazy Beautiful).

I deleted my blog accidentally last night, but this will be my new home from now on.

It’s a bit plain right now but I’ll get it back up and running later. It’s time for a nap! Haha.

T.

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