As usual it's been super-busy in the past 2+ months. Shortly after our last post, I ran two 2-day workshops for De Beers, with Tim coming home on the morning of my last day of workshops and one day after our 3-yr anniversary.
The next four weeks of Tim being home was a bit of a blur. We had to get a bunch of work/admin days out of the way and officially emptied out my office to become the baby room. We moved my desk into Tim's office and with a bit of shuffling managed to fit both. As a result, the guest room is now full with all sorts of extra tidbits, books and pieces, but we'll soon get some shelving in our shared office to ensure we've got room for all our stuff. Great opportunity to get rid of anything we don't absolutely need!
We also managed to fit in ante-natal classes (fascinating!) and get the baby room painted. Our idea was to have two-tone walls, fuchsia pink at the bottom with a light cream/yellow at the top and a picture rail in the middle to separate both colours. The furniture arrived a week after Tim left and it all looks really cute together...
One of the most fun things we did was an official "bump shoot". We had to go to the photographer's studio in the Northern Suburbs, but it was great fun and we were very happy with the pictures. So for those of you who've been wanting to see bump pictures ... here they are! I was close to 8 months pregnant when we did the shoot, but my bump was still quite small so the photographer kept telling me to stick out my tummy, which can be hard to do when you're also trying to smile and look relaxed :). The funny thing is that 5 weeks later, at 37 weeks pregnant, my tummy is not that much bigger ... yet at our last scan (2 weeks ago) our little girl already weighed over 3KGs! Looks like she's going to be a chubby little girl!
Tim left to go back to the rig on March 23rd, almost 5 weeks ago, and will be coming home this coming Thursday (April 29th). This was going to be a long hitch (5.5 weeks) just so that we could get our timing as perfect as possible for baby arrival. Now let's hope she's equally nice to us and arrives perfectly on time!
We've both been absolutely hectic since Tim's departure. The rig Tim is working on went from exploration into a completions phase, which meant new territory for Tim and huge pressure on everyone on the rig. So far so good although they did have an unfortunate incident with one of the wells, which ended up being a $50million "error". The amounts of money spent in the process of recovering oil are absolutely mindblowing! The good news for Tim was that the last five weeks have absolutely flown by ... getting 20 minutes to talk on the phone every second day is a luxury!
Luckily I was busy as well. I plan to stop working for two months from May 1 - June 30, so I had to make sure that all unfinished projects are wrapped up before then. Just as I thought things were fairly well under control and on schedule, I received another phone call from De Beers, asking for two more workshops. They were aware of "my siuation" so they were flexible enough to fit the workshops in before the end of April, but it did mean that I had to spend this past week (Mon - Thu) on my feet for 4 days facilitating. This has put a bit more pressure on me for getting the various other projects done, but the workshops were great fun again and it made the last week before Tim comes home fly by.
I also managed to get all the necessary baby shopping done as well as pre-admission at the hospital, so hopefully we are now ready for the day that will change our lives for ever... (is a person ever ready??) I'm sooo looking forward to meeting our little girl, becoming parents, seeing Tim as a dad, and seeing how Gandalf will react to being moved down a notch or two on the family totem pole...
That's pretty much all from our side ... next time we post anything, it will hopefully be with a happy announcement :-).
Love from Cape Town
2 comments:
Totally looking forward to that announcement and some photos too. We pray that all will go well for you these last weeks and on the 'big day' too. Thanks for the update...it's good to hear from you.
Jac
I see that you are getting used to being awake at 5am!! Excellent blog, looking forward to reading news as things unfold.
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