Waking up

It’s been awhile, but Deb left me an encouraging comment so I thought I’d come back.  This year has been tremendously…. interesting…. and between all the family ups and downs I have mostly been doing my best to just.hold.it.together while simultaneously being sleepily, 27 weeks, pregnant (with a boychild this time! we will have the full set!) and having comprehensively destructive renovations happening in the house since February.

For example, this morning we only had the three identically bewhiskered gib-stoppers in the house and it was like, woo, a holiday, how’s the serenity?  And the dining room and kitchen is coated entirely in some kind of powdery plaster dust, which I suppose I ought to tackle somewhat soon, unless it’s going to be Roast Shop for dinner again.

We’ve been coping with the chaos of the invasion by shutting ourselves in the lounge (one of the two unaffected rooms in the house), and during Billie’s naptime I’ve been switching on the Kidzone for Beetle while I curl up on the sofa and have a Pregnant Lady Nap.  It’s amazing how well I can nap to a soundtrack of drop-saws,  Radio Hauraki, and Hooray For Huckle. A lot of the time it feels a lot like I haven’t done anything else, all year.

Still, in the meanwhile Billie can nearly sing her whole ABCs – apart from when I try and video her, when she switches on the “SEE IT! SEE IT!” she learnt from her big sister. And she’ll sit entranced and perfectly still through a stack of stories, demanding “LAST ONE!” when we think we’ve finished. And Beetle is still entranced by “vo’canoes,” wants to call the boychild either Bonny, Steve Irwin or Ash Dolomite Scoria Lava [Lastname], and is starting school next month, which we are still trying to get our heads (and our routines) around.  These girls (and these parents) are not morning people.

But, although we’re trending more towards “Keep Calm and Carry On” than “Get Excited and Make Things” in our current season, we have still been doing something in my brief, cranky, wakeful periods.  I think I will look through my photos and see if I can post a few.