Last week was our paper wedding anniversary and my lovely husband whisked me away for a surprise weekend in Somerset where we visited a paper mill amongst other adventures. I am so lucky to have such a lovely husband!

The farm we stayed on was really pretty and the staff were fabulous. So much so I am willing to plug them here as they deserve it, if anyone wishes to book a weekend away in Somerset here is the place to stay.

My lovely mummy only helped to make the weekend better with a gorgeous delivery of flowers in our wedding colours whilst we were there. How spoilt I have been!

The baby continues to bake nicely after a recent scare and trip to the hospital. We are off for our 4d scan on Sunday, with both grandmothers in tow, I am really looking forward to it, although these things scare me rigid in case they find something wrong. She is booting away in there, and letting me know what she likes and doesn't like. This last term saw me interviewing for a replacement whilst I am off work, which was a very odd feeling. I am used to interviewing, just not for my own job! I don't give up my children easily at the best of times, but handing them over to someone else is going to be so hard, even someone I trust as much as I trust my replacement and even when it is for something so positive.

But still, when our baby arrives these changes will seem like the smallest of things I am sure. I can't wait to meet her but at the same time I know how much I will miss our secret conversations as she fidgets in the middle of the night. It is hard to remember a time when she wasn't there. Which is most peculiar seeing as she has only been there for 28 weeks but it seems like she has been a part of me forever. I think of her constantly, and talk to her all the time. I am never alone but always have her with me and I really think I will miss that when she arrives. However, I can not wait to meet her and see if she has my colour hair, or Nick's eyes, to discover if she is as much of a minx as she appears to be every time someone tries to monitor her heartbeat. I want to to find out if she has her mother's tenacity and her father's creativity. I have so many questions and there is so much about her that I want to know. I have never been the most patient of people and I am torn between wanting her to stay safe and warm in here forever and wanting to meet her and find the answers to all of my questions.

We are getting more prepared for her arrival, it seems like weeks away still, yet there is no time to get everything ready. The builders are in sorting the walls and the end of the week will bring a brand new bathroom. Her room is 'in progress' and the hallway is stacked with furniture ready for assembly. I am living in a building site and it is all pretty scary. The poor cats don't know what is going on!

Anyway, my feet are cold and I need my slippers...

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Well we are almost at the end of twenty-four weeks now and I am left wondering where the last six months has gone. I am stunned to think that Dan has been away for six months!

Our little girl is growing stronger every day. She is kicking like Jean Claude Van Damme and fidgeting away in there all the time. It is a very odd feeling, people have been asking me what it feels like and it is so hard to describe. It is just like there is something living in there, something with a mind and system all of its own. Which of course, there is. I just smile every time I feel her move as it reassures me that all is well. She kicked hard enough to be visible from the outside today, much to the delight of the staff around me at the time. Nick has felt her move several times and I am now waiting until she is strong enough to boot Ashley the cat from my lap. I can not imagine what he will make of it! He has taken to laying around her, rather than on my lap as he used to. Now that she is twenty-four weeks we have to start thinking about getting ready for her to come home. With just three months to go there is still so much to do.

If the last six months are anything to go by, then the next three will be gone in a blink.

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