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Another one!

Simon — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:30:00 +0000

It would appear that the sleepless nights, stress and hard work haven't taught Liz and me anything!

I'm proud (and scared, again) to announce that Liz and I are expecting our second baby around the middle of January. :-)

The first scan was a couple of weeks ago and everything seems to be fine. Although I think the baby's going to be another stubborn one. After quite a few minutes and various approaches to getting the baby into the right position to be seen, we got sent off to have some sugar and take a walk around the hospital! Thankfully that did do the trick, at least just about for long enough to get the information required!

cold--

Simon — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:24:00 +0000

What's worse than a cold?

Now I don't just mean a slight sniffle and a bit of a sore throat. I mean a cold that saps all of your energy, makes you generally ache and regularly wakes you up at night because you can't breath through your nose and breathing through your mouth is just too painful!

So, what's worse?

Obviously... having a small child who presumably feels about the same as you but doesn't understand what's going on or why.

This seems to lead to them generally screaming most of the time, quite often including during those few minutes when you actually feel just about well enough (or simply too exhausted for anything but) to sleep.

So when you're feeling really pretty rubbish and mainly just want to hide under the duvet, you actually have to get up, look after, change and attempt to play with a generally unhappy and screaming baby. 24 hours a day!

Could it get worse?

Of course it could - add one partner, who would normally care for you and help you through such tough and unpleasant illnesses. The only problem is, this cold lasts for quite a lot of days and they now have it too!

All in all, three people with no sleep and an unpleasant cold doesn't make for a very fun household!

Thank goodness colds don't last that long.

Mum recovering

Simon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:43:00 +0000

I've had a very busy couple of weeks with work and didn't help myself by turning last weekend into a physical (but fun) workout at Camber!

Hence my delay in finding time to write an update here. Anyway...

My Mum was able to come home from hospital towards the end of the week after her crash. While still rather achy and a little lacking in memory, she does seem to have got much better.

Hopefully in a few more weeks she will have made a full recovery.

Get well soon mum

Simon — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:57:00 +0000

Last Sunday (28th) my mum was in a car accident.

Thankfully her physical injuries, while initially worrying for doctors with potential internal bleeding, now seem to be relatively minor.

However there does seem to have been a toll on her memory. It has been getting gradually better over the last few days and she can now remember most major things, if not the details. Although her short term memory is currently minimal, if at all.

Two other cars were involved in the accident, with three other people also going to hospital all with relatively minor injuries.

I believe that all three cars were written off.

I wish my mum well and hope that she makes a full recovery soon.

We're expecting!

Simon — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:31:00 +0000

I'm delighted (well, actually alternating between incredibly excited and amazingly scared) to announce that Liz and I are expecting our first baby, around 19th January 2007!

We went to our 12 week scan yesterday morning...

Our baby is all there, a good size (almost unbelievably small at about 6.7cm long) and apparently likes wriggling a lot. :-)

We've kept this fairly quiet for the last couple of months, until we reached this first milestone of reassurance. Now we're here, we're slowly telling the world!