Hogmanay getaway

Between Christmas and New Year Andrew, My Mum, my Step-Dad Johnny and I headed up North. Usually this would have been the time of the year I’d be tightening up my bindings and making the best of the Scottish snow, obviously snowboarding for me, was not on the cards. However the others would get to […]

A very pregnant Christmas

Christmas this year was a busy time. Lots of things going on, dinner dates, pantos and rendezvous with family members. It was all made a little more busier a couple of days before, as luck would have it, when a van ran into the back of my car as i was about to pull out […]

The good, the bad and the festive

Christmas is by far my favourite time of year, I love December, I love the buzz in the air, the feeling of anticipation people have, The shops, the thought that someone loves you enough to keep you a wee surprise for Christmas morning. I usually love checking the mountain forecast on the Scottish ski resorts […]

16 week scan arrives

On the 12th of December 2012 at 12 o’clock we had our 16 week scan booked in. This scan according to the experts would put me on an even par with any other pregnancy. This was D day. The usual nightmarish dreams preceded the morning of the scan, these dreams I now accepted as part […]

Sketchy family history and unusual questions……

Now by this point I’ve told my Mum, my work (due to the fact I’m a firefighter and can no longer go to fires), and my best friends. I also had to phone the GP surgery and ask to see the local midwife. I would be going on my own to see the midwife, I […]