Claire

Claire and I spent most of this morning sitting at the hospital waiting for her to have a scan. She's had a couple of hiccups during the past week and the Doctor wanted to see that everything was ok. I'm glad to say that it's all fine, they measured the baby at 26mm which makes her about 9 weeks and 3 days and the baby should be due around the 17 November. It was a huge relief to see the little heart beating and know that all is well. First scan photo and for those of you who are as good as me at making out these photos, the head is on the left hand side.

I don't think Claire and I stopped smiling all the way back! We picked up Emily and took Claire out to get some lunch before she headed back to work.

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Ali's "Week in the Life" project

As a number of you will know, next week Ali Edwards is running her "Week in the Life" project (for those who don't know about it you can see what it's about here). I had been thinking about playing along but next week isn't looking terribly exciting at the moment so I decided I'd start my week a bit earlier - like today! I've just downloaded about 70+ photos taken today - random everyday things. I haven't edited them yet and I've still to weed out which ones I won't be using. I have a couple of ideas about what I might want to do to document it but won't concentrate on that until I've completed the week.

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This is a glimpse of what my day has entailed:

Took Claire to work and then carried on to Wetherspoons to meet the coffee ladies for breakfast. Emily came with me.

Home to hang out the washing and pick up Claire's coat and straighteners.

Lunch at Starburger with Hugh, Claire and Emily.

Took Hugh to the station to go up to Sarah's (in London).

Picked up Emily from Waterstones.

Phoned the Vets about Cloud.

Phoned Specsavers to make an appointment for Hugh.

Text Mary back about haircuts.

Caught up on some blog reading.

Look on Genes Reunited to find out date and place of Aunt Mavis's marriage.

Ordered External Hard Drive and photography book from Amazon.

Sorted out My Favourites on my computer, deleted any I no longer read.

Went to Vets to pick up more antibiotics for Cloud.

Made dinner for Jon.

Downloaded my PDFs from Ella Publishing.

Emily has Davina over for a sleepover.

Downloaded my photos for the day.

Edited a couple but lots more to go through.

Wrote this blog post.

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I'm looking forward to trying to keep this up all week. Anyone else fancy giving it a go??

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We didn't get there

It reverted back to being quite cold this morning, the heating went back on and after some discussion Emily decided she would rather stay at home than go to movies. I caught up on some reading (though there were plenty of other things I could have been doing!) and Emily brought her laptop downstairs. We sat with our feet under the fleece to keep warm. My chilblains are back with a vengence - possibly because I've been wearing flip flops for the last week :oS As soon as the sun comes out I don't want to wear socks and shoes anymore, I want it to be warm enough for me to wear sandals or flip flops. I guess it might not have been quite as warm as I was hoping because my toes are really sore now. I was going to post a photo of them but then thought better of it -I do still want you to come back and read my blog after all ;o)

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Although we didn't get to movies we did get to go and visit friends this afternoon, great to catch up as we hadn't seen each other for a while :o)

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99 Flake

Today, although there was a cool breeze, we had "99 Flake" ice creams from the ice cream van this afternoon. Emily and I sat outside to eat them but it's now getting cooler so I've come inside. Quiet day today, spent the morning catching up on ironing from the last week. It took a while but it's finally done and I can forget about it again. Still trying to decide what we're going to have for dinner tonight, we're down to just Jon, Emily and I as Hugh is working and Claire's going to Craig's. I guess this is what happens as your children grow up ;o).

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Emily and I are hoping to see either The Blind Side (which Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for) or Dear John tomorrow. Have any of you seen either? Are they any good? We tend to wait for movies to come out on DVD but seeing as Emily is still on holiday this week we thought it might be good to actually go to movies for a change! Will let you know if we get there ;o)

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