The clock is ticking

I haven't been adding entries lately because aol is pants!! I've had to call the tech support line several times recently because we couldn't get on line & then yesterday I was informed my modem is heading to modem heaven. Strangely we have been able to get on line today ( with a dead modem!!! ) but aol are sending me a sparkly brand new modem so hopefully my problems getting online will soon be over.

This weekend my sister came to visit with my bro in law & my 2 adorable nephews, she came to bring me loads of hand me down stuff as they're moving in april & the new houe will be smaller so out with all the old stuff. As my nephews are 4 & 8 there was some older stuff in the box that we just don't have room to store ( and besides, what self respecting 5 or 6 year old would wear 5 or 6 year old fashions? ), we put the stuff we can't use on freecycle & it went to someone who donates a lot of childrens stuf to a friend in the czech republic who takes in orphans, so now we can feel good that we have helped some people less fortunate than us. Mind you the visit wasn't all happiness, I'd told my sister last week about these very scrummy melting middle choc puds we had & she made me promise to get some for saturday.....needless to say morrison's were out of stock so my sister was not happy. Mind you, me being the lovely brother I am, I took a photo of our puddings yesterday because they were back in stock & sent it to her, she hasn't replied yet so the abuse is yet to come.

Nic & I are both getting tired of people asking us if the baby's been born yet. She gets several text messages a day & every day at work I get the same thing, honestly do you really think I'd be at work if my son had been born? No, exactly. It's nice that people are showing an interest but those of you that have been through this must know how annoying & boring it gets.

I ordered the cotbed today that we have had our eye on for some time, its a hauck cotbed with winnie the pooh covers, bumper & drape. We were hoping to get one from babyequipmentcomplete.com but they have been out of stock for ages, there was someone selling them on ebay ( new ) for £30 more which we would have paid but just found another company selling them on ebay today for only £5 more than the original one we saw. So I think we now have everything, car seat, cotbed, moses basket, more clothes than elton john, toys & books so I can read L'il Vamp his bedtime stories. We've got enough nappies & baby wipes to survive a nuclear holocaust. Thursday is the official due date but we think he's going to be late, I will however make sure that I put some pics on here at the earliest opportunity. I am getting very nervous now, all these thoughts about wether we will be good parents, if we'll be able to afford everything we need & if we will be able to survive the sleepless nights & smelly nappies without killing each other. We watched Pursuit of Happyness last night, it was good, although not as good as we were expecting but it's maybe not the right film to watch when you are worrying about being able to afford to provide for your little ones.

For those of you that like a good read out there, I am currently halfway through a book called 'A small death in Lisbon' by Robert Wilson. If I had picked this book up in a bookshop & read the cover I would probably not have bought it, however I got the book from Harper Collins for being part of their readers panel. I am glad I did it really is a great book, it alternates between 1941 with the story of an SS officer arriving in Lisbon during the war & the late 1990's with the investigation into the murder of a young girl. Well worth checking out.

Well thats all for tonight, some of us have work early in the morning you know! I may be back later in the week depending on the lottery that is aol's broadband service, if not have a great week & a fantastic weekend....VampJack x