Belly Pictures

Picture on the left:
Baby #1
June 15/02
9 months

Centre Picture:
baby #3
Nov 13/06
12 weeks, 6 days

Picture on the right:
Baby #2
July 26/04
9 months

News!

Well, if you didn't know yet, we have NEWS!!!



I am huge, look like I am well over 4 months along. I had to tell people at work quite early (8-9 weeks) simply becuase I couldnt wear any normal clothes and well, maternity clothes always *look* like maternity clothes. LOL

Two out of three of my classes know and the other class I think is just too polite to ask whether or not I am just getting fat. Still, I can't complain. I had horrible bouts of exhaustion in the first few weeks of the pregnancy but now I am moving out of the ever-tired phase and seem to have more energy (and nesting instinct!) to do all sorts of non-school related tasks, like baking cinnamon buns, shovelling the walk and building snowmen with the kids. Yeah, yeah, before you freak out about the fact that I am shovelling snow, it is light fluffy snow! Hardly weighs anything at all! It is less of a work out than walking up the stairs somedays.

It is just past midterm week and first report card marks are due on Tuesday, so things are hitting a bit of a stress level. Mostly, I have my marking under control, despite all the procrastination, and I have a start on the things I need to have done for Christmas so I guess stress is rather relative.

Name for the baby in utero is still under discussion. Julia was Bean, Elena was Peanut, and people have been bugging me about the fact that I am so big it looks like I could be carrying twins, I've taken to calling the baby "Whale" but I think that it might incite some sort of complex, you know?

Any suggestions?

The reason we went private

So, if you are reading this, you have been invited by email to continue reading this blog (and likely the accompanying picture blog). The change came suddenly and, like most things, might seem like it appeared out of the blue. Which it did, mostly.

I had always thought about the fact that there were questionable folk about, especially since we heard some as yet unconfirmed rumours that one of our ex-friends had been convicted of possession and accessing child porn, but always felt that there had to be more people I wanted to share my life with than I wanted to avoid. I was, and likely remain, too open and honest about my whereabouts, the names and ages of my children, my place of employment and so on. It all adds up to alot of information when it all Googles together.

I attended a conference on Thursday where I saw a presentation about the dangers of being online and how sick some people really were. How they could take random children's photos off the internet and Photoshop them for their own purposes. How they could add illicit details and gory horrific ideas and it was suddenly the tipping point.

Call me paranoid, but if I feel like I have *some* control over who sees the girls and how they're doing, I feel a measure better. I dont want to restrict my friends or family rfom sharing the joy of seeing the girls grow up and as such, if there is anyone out there that I know that has not yet recieved an invitation to the blogs (I had to make some random guesses among friends who still read the blogs and who was interested in being in touch) please email me and let me know what email address you would like the invite sent to and I will add you.

I agree that it is a pain and perhaps a stop gap measure for those who are really determined will find a way no matter what little things we can try but I have to at least try. Now that I have migrated the account to the Beta, there are all sorts of glitches and I hope that you remain with me through this next phase of blogging.