Back from mad motherhood and crackerjack life

Er, I guess it's too late to say HAPPY NEW YEAR! And merry Christmas whilst I'm at it! It was only today when I realised that almost three months had gone by and I was missing my old haunt.

So where have I been? Hmm, well last time I updated I announced that I was pregnant with 'baby 2' and since then I've continued to be either up to my neck in work, parenthood, throwing up (this weirdly didn't start till the second trimester), and moaning in copious amounts.

The bambino, well she's growing up so fast that she even has the cheek to close her bedroom door on me and howl with laughter as I demand that she lets me in! I feel like we've fast forwarded to her teens... She'll be 20 months on Saturday, can't seem to stop growing (she's so tall!), very mouthy and full of chat. I wonder where she gets that from? She says far too much and we have to be very, very, very careful of what we say around her. She also sings a lot (she knows so many songs it's a bit scary) and she dances like a combination of a break dancer come awkward batty winder. Oh and did I mention she has a serious amount of hair which is a complete pain in the arse!? You try washing a brushing a very long fro!

The boyf has (touch wood) not been travelling since before Christmas which means we've settled into a normal family life not being punctuated by him having to go to Germany for a few days every second week. This means me riding his arse like Zorro to remember to do things, taking the piss out of his addiction to Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, enjoying his brilliant cooking more frequently, and having hilarious bickering sessions over who didn't do stuff around the house.

Since Christmas, he's stopped doing that man thing where they claim that as a mother that you can get a hell of a lot more into the day than you actually can and that the sitting room can be tidy when the bambino is in it, because every day over Christmas, it looked like some mini burglars had ransacked the house and dumped toys and anything else they could find below eye level!

Have I mentioned that I found the bambino in a pair of my knickers the other day? She'd stretched them up so far in an attempt to get her arms through them too, that I'm not sure I can wear them again!

As for me, let's see - I'm 29 weeks pregnant and all out to the front again. I was at a trade show last week where people would back away from me as they were convinced that I'm due to pop any moment now.

I wouldn't change being self-employed for the world - it'll be a year on Saturday - but it's hard frickin work! My todo list never shrinks because I forget to look at it, I feel like I'm on a poor person with 3 jobs - I finish the self-employed shift to do the parenthood shift to do the housework shift. Actually it's more like I do all the shifts at once! I say I don't want to be superwoman yet it must be what I'm trying to do as I seem to think I can stretch myself to everything.

This, as you can tell, has hugely impacted on blogging on here. When you blog for a living, it's not actually as easy to sit down and go 'OK, I'll write about me today' as you're too busy worrying about all the other stuff. I don't even have time to read books that much anymore, never mind blogs. But...I am trying and I do miss this place.

Despite the craziness, life is really good, albeit chaotic! I still can't believe we'll have two kids in another couple of months (we're putting ourselves out to pasture after this and taking a long rest!) and whilst it's pretty damn scary, it's really exciting, especially as it's edging closer now and becoming more real. The onslaught of reality is helped with 'baby 2' liking to spend a lot of time jumping up and down on my fanny...

On that note...I'd better be off but I will be back again soon (no really!).

Ooh, and I've been on TV a couple of times on Sky News of all places. It wasn't for a drive by shooting or throttling the boyf for not taking his socks from under the bed - just commenting on the top 5 online stories on their Skynews.com show. This was Monday's one (I cannot figure out how to link to the video without embedding it) and this is the one from early December.