... Remember me...? I'm not going to give you the usual "it's been crazy/busy/hectic" (though it has been).
I have been filling times being pinned to the sofa with a baby who refuses to sleep so I often get my glasses whacked off my face as I wrestle him into submission and he finally drifts to sleep and then I have been working on my family tree as well as having Disney videos (Phil, Emma and Ben ones, Steph & Jeff ones, and SeeYaReelSoon ones all on YouTube).
My family tree on ancestry has an impressive 188 people on it, the furthest I have traced back to are my 4 times great grandparents on my mum's side but I still have to find their birth years & through the community I have for information from a few people who are distant relatives of mine, the most recent being a gentleman whose grandfather was the brother of my 2 times great grandfather. I am waiting on a letter from my grand aunt in Australia for information on her father as he has me completely stumped, and I sent her pictures of Dylan too :) once I have that information I will be using my 14 day free ancestry trial which I have been saving for when I hit the wall and cannot find anymore information as I have been doing it all using their free access weekends though its limited in the records you have access to. I would also love to know about my great grand uncle who died in 1916 by accidental drowning while in the navy. I clearly have been spending far too much time watching lots of episodes of "who do you think you are" whilst stuck on the sofa!
I so wished I was having the time to work on Dylan's album... According to that I am still pregnant and just had my 12 week scan so I am terribly behind, but unless it's on the telly or I can do it on my phone, it seems lately it just isn't being done. Otherwise I run errands, play with Dylan, try and squeeze some housework in and then to get Dylan to nap I hold him in my arms and catch up on my shows (teen mom 3, generation cryo, goodnight sweetheart, the upper hand, who do you think you are & undercover boss). It has got to stop though, ditto the taking up the entire double bed at night time, and he will be forced to sleep in the cot.
Thankfully at baby group I met a mummy who lives around the corner from me with her daughter who has got me into a course for "Learning through play" for 2 hours a week with a free creche (it's fab, we spend about an hour or so going over syllabus and then spend time with the children in the creche and do an activity with them) and this week I also started a cookery group at another local school which also has a free creche.
It's hard to get my head around the fact Dylan is now 7 months old! Time has disappeared away from me. I have a mere 2 months left of maternity leave left and then I need to find a new job, and we are also going to look at moving as we are only in a 1 bed flat. It's all getting really overwhelming thinking about it all.
