Another Bidiblob on the way...

Hi Everyone,

Most of you may already know, but for those who don't, we have another little Biddle on the way. It's still early days, but today I'm 6 weeks pregnant, and so far, so good. I feel a lot better than I did when carrying Jordy at 6 weeks! Needless to say we are very excited and are really chuffed with the timing.... just what we planned. There will be a 2 year and 8 month gap, which means Jordy will be old enough to appreciate the new baby and hopefully be able to help a bit too. The due date is 26 October, but because I will likely need to have a caesar, the baby might be born mid-october'ish. We will certainly keep you posted with news updates as we go along. Our first scan and check-up is the 28th March so we are really excited and hope the month goes quickly. Mark is already teasing that we must start looking for boys names, but he's actually not phased if it's a girl or boy and neither am I. As long as all goes well and the baby is healthy, we’ll be happy. We are not sure if we want to know the sex of the baby until it’s born so if we don’t reveal anything, it’s because we want a surprise. We still have time to decide, as we’d only likely find out at 20 weeks, but will cross that bridge when we get there.

I can't remember who I might have told but for those who don't know, I am no longer doing wedding stationery, and actually did my last order on friday. I believe I've made the right decision, and am really relieved to have it behind me now. We’ve decided to close the operation, based on many contributing factors, but let's just say that while I enjoyed it, it was too much in terms of the input of hours and creativity, and very little return. Let's not kid ourselves, having one's own business is a slog and I don't believe it's always worth it.... certainly not in this line of work. As I always say though, nothing ventured, nothing gained, and I certainly learned a lot these last 16 months.

Tomorrow I will be embarking on new adventure of sorts - I will be taking up a 3 month contract working for QPTS where Kirsty is employed, and I will be writing training modules/manuals for machine operation, as part of the skills development program. QPTS is contracted to the likes of Unilever, so I will have to go onsite to the factories to do my research, and then will be based at home, producing the modules. I’m really excited about being able to work from home and because this job will be more structured, I will probably have a much better balance between work and play which is great. If all goes well, I will renew my contract for another 3 months, to finish at the end of August, allowing me a month or so at home before our baby arrives. I hope to have a few months at home with our new baby before going back to work, but with it being contractual, the flexibility that goes with it is really great. I just feel I need to do something to be stimulated so hopefully this will be an exciting challenge.

With that, there’s no other news really. My boys are both well. Jordy celebrated his 2nd Birthday last week and had an absolute ball! We had a small party at home for him last friday and fortunately the weather favoured us! Jordy is really enjoying school and is such a sociable little boy. He’s doing well in his swimming lessons which finish at the end of the month, and next term he will be partaking in an activity which Cygnet (his school) offer as an extra-curricular actitity, called Kidisportz - teaching the kids hand-eye-ball co-ordination, so that should be fun. Mark has a long list of things he wants to get done at home now - it’s a case of knowing where to start.

I can’t think of any other news, but we will keep you posted with news on our little Bidiblob #2, when we have more to tell.

Until then, take care!

x Robs