37 Weeks

Changes!

There are quite a few changes happening lately which have restricted my time considerably!

1. I am no longer a student! I have successfully completed my BSc Psychology degree with a 2:1 classification! I was so surprised when I found out I have managed to improve my average by 5% to achieve the higher grade. I have always only managed 2:2 results until this point. I even got a 1st result for my favourite module (sexuality in context… Figures). My friend S managed to get her 1st grade which I am so pleased about. She worked so hard for that. I haven’t heard a thing from my other friends. Maybe that’s a sign of things to come.

2. I’ve been applying for a few jobs. Subsequent from finishing university I have increased the hours that I work with my cousin. I have mentioned her before. I have so much respect for those people who work with individuals with learning difficulties and behavioural problems because it is so hard. It’s honestly draining. I don’t think I will be able to work with her much longer for my own sanity. It’s not her fault I know but I don’t feel like I could cope for much longer. It was only supposed to be an in-between job anyway.

3. We are moving house! It’s about damn time too. Our landlord is luckily out of the country until August so he isn’t available to pester us or get involved in our decision to move out. We are, however, anticipating problems when we apply for the return of our deposit. The house we’re moving to is much closer to K’s work and is a little bigger. It’s nothing fancy but we absolutely can’t wait to get it all homely for our little one. We’ve never even put pictures up in this house. We moved here when K’s dad kicked her out and had to find somewhere to live quickly. Hopefully we can finally get our home in our new house. We’re overdue for settling in considering we’ve been living together for almost two years. We are moving in two weeks and Im so ready and organised with the packing we could move tomorrow! I’ve moved house so many times I could do it with my eyes closed.

3. K is getting a real bump! I love it so much she looks beautiful pregnant. She’s been wearing baggy tops until this week when we got her lots of maternity clothes that were on sale. She put them on on Thursday and there was the bump! We went to my little cousin’s last school show and my family were saying “where did THAT come from!” I was wondering the same myself. She feels our little potato move every day now. Usually after eating or after relaxing for a while. I was feeling it tonight and I could feel a hard ball shape which moved after a few seconds. It was so incredible I can’t wait to be able to feel it properly kicking. We have the 20 week scan in 9 days 🙂

4. Everyone now knows we are having a baby – everyone that matters that is. My dad was awkward at first and he didn’t talk about it and then this week he texted me suggesting baby names he liked (they were bloody horrible but I went along with it). These included Neil, Gail and Mandy. Now I know why my mum named my brothers and I. The same day that I heard from my dad was when my mum went into work with our scan pic and played the game “guess who’s pregnant”. They thought it was my mum (could have been.. She’s only 47) but she set them straight. Again on that day K got a call from her nan to tell her that she’s been on the phone to aunts uncles and cousins in Ireland to tell them that K is having a baby with a woman. Aparantly the Irish response was “oooo really we don’t see much of that around here”. So there you go – most of Ireland probably know by now if they are as gossip-prone as K’s nan.

Here is a photo of Spencer enjoying his regular teeth floss after a good clean to finish off my update!