OH DEAR IT'S BEEN A MONTH SINCE I LAST BLOGGED!

First of all I want to send a BIG APOLOGY to all my friends and relatives that I owe Emails and telephone calls to - I am really sorry, things have been really topsy-turvey in the past few weeks and when added to maternity insanity (any Mother or Father should understand what I mean!), I have either 1) forgotten or 2) conked out before I got around to it, when I did remember - SORRY!

Well a lot has been going on .....

Off we went on holiday all jolly as house selling/buying all tickety boo, had a lovely time despite the very high temperatures - driving all over the island seeing people and places (also escaping the very English/Welsh hotel environment). Then just as we get back (in fact as we were getting on the aircraft home if I had answered my phone), we get a call to say our buyer has pulled out. So that was it - all benefit of holiday wiped out in one telephone call.

So, it was back to the manic tidying up, infact we had left the house in such a pre-packing mess that the estate agent went over and tidied up before we got back so he could show people around - I shudder to think what he came across!

So, a few weeks down the line now, with a lot of help we have managed to go ahead and proceed with the purchase of the new house as I really didn't need the stress of loosing it and they wanted to put it back on the market. Hopefully we will exchange later this week and complete on 25th.

I put my lovely motorbike up for sale on MCN and after dealing with the scammers managed to sell it on Saturday, although I still have the bike here until the guys bankers draft has cleared but he checked out OK and so I guess it is sold - strangely to a BT PC Engineer from Beckenham so may even see it around Mum and Dads way sometime! Stranger still, as I was coming back from taking the dog for a walk to recover from the bike sale, we got another offer on the house! So looks like they both sold on the same day - strange but true.

On the baby front (after all this is what the blog is supposed to be about), we went to the 21 week scan earlier this week and I tell you it has grown incredibly since we last were able to have a spy! I couldn't actually see the screen very well but Paul was sitting there saying - "wow I can see the eyes - oh look there's an ear, oh wow there's the toes", and I'm just kind of twisted around propping my head up and craning to see anything!

Everything looks good, all the tests came back as they should and there was nothing odd found in the scan, so everything crossed on that front. I did manage to see the baby moving its arms and legs about like a little frog which was very cute and apparently the sign of a happy baby!

I now cannot get into any of my normal clothes as the bump is growing at an alarming rate and I am unmistakably preggers now - I think before people just thought I was just fatter than normal! As I tend to wear jeans and trousers most of the time, it was a bit of a shock when I put on a dress for a wedding we went to a couple of weeks ago - I looked at least 8 months pregnant and automatically started to waddle around - but that may have been the high heels - blimey haven't worn those in a while either.

Will upload the scan photo shortly, hopefully it is clear enough not to need labels this time. Right now we are in house moving mode and tackled the task of clearing out the garage at the weekend which we have both been dodging for weeks.

Well I had better be off to bed - lots of mums have said - 'get all the sleep you want now because you won't get it later' - so I'll do just that. What's the chances that I will forget to email everyone tomorrow morning to say I have updated this? Let's see what time I get the email out - i.e. when I actually remember!