Change of plan

Well we've completely changed our wedding reception plans, much to the disappointment of the wedding coordinator at the hotel.
I had been asking since September to taste our wedding menu to ensure we were happy, finally managed to pin her down and went to taste it on Tuesday. She had warned me before that there would be the majority of the menu available but not all of it, which I said was fine as long as we were happy with most of it. So we go along armed with the menu which we would be having. There was a lot on the menu which wasn't available for us to taste so for reasons only known to them they substituted it for other items available which we would not be having for our reception. This involved potato salad etc, I said to the waitress does this have dairy in? (they already knew apart from the quiche the menu was to be dairy free) she admitted there was a lot which had dairy in so went and did a new plate for me. COLD MEAT AND SALAD!!!! Not being funny but I know what these things taste like, I wanted to taste the items that I didn't know what they tasted like grr. Carley (the wedding coordinator) came over and was making so many feeble excuses  and guilt trips, I got quite upset but so that she didn't see this I excused myself to the ladies and cried. By the time I had composed myself and gone back Tony and Carley had reached a compromise (although it seemed as though we were doing all the compromising) .
Carley left us to it and me and Tony had a serious talk and both admitted we were starting to dread the reception. We were going to cancel.
I went and sat in the car whilst Tony went to tell Carley she was no longer required she wanted to discuss it but Tony made it very clear it was not open for discussion and left. We hadn't even got home when she tried to phione both our mobiles to discuss the situation. Not going to happen. We may have lost £450 but we have gained the excitement of our wedding day back!!

We have now booked Coal's Bar and Grill for our reception which is going to be a nice meal with just they ceremony people which has also put Tony's mind at rest as he was finding it difficult to find the line where inviting work mates was concerned, unfortunately with a place like that it's very much if I invite that person then I'll have to invite them, it tends to snowball and you end up having people around that you don't really want.

I feel ready to have Crumpet any day now. For the last couple of days I've been getting a lot of pressure and nerve pain, it even got to the point yesterday when we were in town that we had to leave because every10 seconds I was yelping in pain. I've also had a bad couple of nights sleep, last night I woke up feeling really sick (but wasn't). I've started drinking raspberry leaf tea to help with my muscles it's actually quite nice. Come on Crumpet, Mummy and Daddy are getting impatient now.

I feel crap!

In 2006 I got diagnosed with Herpes, thankfully I haven't had a bad episode since, until now that is!! For the past two days I've barely been able to walk, sit or lay, and of course it's a weekend so no doctors surgeries are open to get any medication or anaesthetic gel. I'm going to make a doctors appointment tomorrow morning hopefully they'll have something I can use during pregnancy. I will also need to discuss whether I need to think about a caesarean as I can't have a natural labour if I have symptoms and as I am 36 weeks tomorrow I am nearly full term and could go into labour any time. Tony bless him is trying to help me as best as he can but unfortunately there's nothing much he can do except help make me feel as comfy as possible. If only I could change my past but still end up where I am now just without the Herpes.

Good or Bad day??

As well as the prospect of being a Mother and Wife this year I also have the amazing news that I'm going to be an Aunty, I couldn't be happier for Debbie although it does mean she may not make it to our wedding as she is due 6th August, but it will be a great wedding present.

I went on a bit of a cleaning spree yesterday, did the washing up, 2 loads of washing and drying, cleaned the
kitchen and I put all of Crumpets clothes away. It continued for a bit today as I hoovered downstairs and Tony finished upstairs and cleaned the oven which is a mammoth task.

Had to take Buddy to the vets today for a check-up as he keeps chewing his paws and tail, they emptied his anal glands which he really didn't enjoy poor puppy but it seems to have worked as he hasn't chewed them yet this evening. On our way to the car I noticed someone had tried to break in to my car last night (we wondered why the woofer was barking last night) thankfully they weren't successful, Tony talked me into called our local police number, they came out and took our information and had a look at the car. They then went to some of our neighbours to ask if anyone had seen or heard anything last night, I don't think they did but one of our neighbours came round to find out what happened as he was in the shower and said that we all need to stick together and look out for each other which was really kind of him. We've decided to get a security light as our drive way can be very dark. The police thinks it was an opportunist rather then a professional as the way it was done wouldn't have got much of a result. It has shaken me up a little bit though, I think it's worse because of my hormones.

I've had an awful time the last few days with Mothercare, we ordered a travel system before Christmas to arrive 5th January. They phoned to rearrange due to weather issues which was fine. The delivery date came and went with no delivery so I went into the shop to find out why, apparently the balance needed to be paid before delivery (this wasn't explained very well when we ordered) so I paid it all and just had to phone them to arrange delivery, I phoned them when I got home and they said it was listed to come out on Monday. That was fine by me. Monday came and I phoned them at about 7pm to ask when it was going to arrive and guess what there was a mess-up the spreadsheet said Monday, the work book said Tuesday, I was starting to get annoyed at this point so she phoned the Taunton store and they said they'd get one sent out by taxi that evening. IT DIDN'T ARRIVE GRR. So I phoned them this morning to complain AGAIN, they assured me Taunton were going to use a different taxi company which will collect the pram at 11.30. Finally some luck it had arrived but I wanted some money back for my phone bills, I kept getting promised a callback from a manager but never got one so I got to the point of phoning again and asking for the CEO's name and address which I got with no problems. The door bell then went and guess what... it's our original delivery. We now have 2 travel systems identical to each other umm lol. We've decided if Mothercare don't realise their mistake we will give the extra one to Debbie and Paul, she's really excited about it she loves it.

So to sum up has it been a good day or bad??

False labour

Well another visit to hospital, I went in on the 30th Dec came back out 2nd Jan. I started off being at Exeter but they didn't have a neonatal cot available so they had to transfer me to a place where there was a cot and bed available, the closest hospital to have both bed and cot available was Basingstoke. Joyful!!! My contractions were stronger and more regular then last night and in 3 hours I went from being 1cm dilated to being 3cm's they really thought this time Crumpet would arrive, alas he did not grr. The midwife suggested at 4am that I called Tony (he was still in Cully) to get to the hospital as soon as he could, OH MY GOD!!! But by 10am the next day my contractions had pretty much stopped only getting the odd one which barely registered on the monitor.
Tony had managed to get Buddy across to the Island for Mum and Dad to look after with the help of Marty and Becky so that he could stay at the hospital accommodation without worrying about the woofmeister.

Once I had been discharged we went and stayed on the Island at Geraldine's for a couple of days which was great, we got to see James and Emma as well as my Mum and Dad. Geraldine made one of her yummy dairy free marble cakes and another one for us to take home with us Mmmmmmmmmm!!!! I didn't really want to come home but it would've been too awkward for coming home or if I went into labour and Tony was in Exeter. So we came to the conclusion it was best if I came home with Tony and Buddy.

My wonderful fiance has just ordered me a pink nintendo ds lite from amazon and three games, not too happy with Amazon though, Tony clicked on the standard delivery 3-5 days and once he had agreed to it a sign came up with a delivery date of MARCH!! Stupid Amazon, poor Tony feels bad though. I love him lots x