Not long now

Confidence is building by the day that I might actually manage to pass this exam on the 24th. I've booked a hotel room for the night before to get a decent sleep.  I've got this weekend, and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday off work to revise and the morning before the exam on Thursday for last minute prep.

It's all starting to come together and make sense at just the right time.

I'm knackered though. Can't wait for this one to be over.  A 4 year old and a 6 month old and work and a pretty hard exam are quite difficult to juggle.

Pink Party

Today was Chloé's party. A Pink Party. It includes having hair done, nails painted and face painting, along with a little disco and some food etc.

She absolutely loved it.  I was wondering what the three boys would make of it, but they got faces painted up like pirates so were really pleased with it all too.

Bumped into a few of the women who work at the nursery we used for Chloé and will use for Sophie next year. Nice to see they recognised her, and us, and took the time to say hello etc despite them just being out with their own kids for the day.

Got some family coming round to the house tomorrow to drag on the birthday celebrations for another day.  I think I might shun half of that to get more studying done. Time is running out really fast now.

Birthday girl

Happy Birthday Chloé

Chloé is 4 today. 

She was soooooo excited this morning opening all her presents, and i'm excited too, so I'm taking a half day today so i can pick her up from school, then we're all off to pizza hut :)

Liverpool

I've been working at our Liverpool plant for the last couple of days. I say working, its not really work. I got ropes into doing the stock check reconciliation, which is ridiculously easy... Just tell other people what's wrong and make them fix it.

There's a subway and a McD two minutes walk away. I've been to McD twice. Large big mac meal yesterday, large big tasty meal today. Both with chocolate milkshake. Today with onion rings and sweet chilli dip.  Serious calorie consumption!

I'm taking the extra travel time (an hour each way) back, as well as two hours overtime yesterday, tagging it onto a couple hours owed from budget work and having an extra study day for my exam, which is the week after next.

In other news, Chloé is 4 tomorrow!! Four years old. That's gone FAST, especially this last twelve months.

Where to start?

It's been nearly 5 months since my last update. God, where did that time go, eh?

Sophie, (that's what we called her) was born on May 27th at some silly hour like 5am, the exact time I can't remember as I sit here on the toilet in work.  She is a healthy, happy baby, and has been a fantastic addition to the family.

Chloé has been a perfect big sister... Taking to her noisy new friend with no problems at all.

I passed the exam. Yay! That completed the diploma, and I have an exam in a couple of weeks to finish off the advanced diploma before moving up to the really hard stuff next year.

That'll do for now. ttfn.

Due Day +4 (yes, this was 26th May)

Baby was due Sunday. It's now Thursday. Exam was this morning, anxious as hell throughout in case baby was coming.

Contractions have started around 4pm. Bit erratic. But about 20 over a couple of hours.  Looks good for tonight or tomorrow morning.