23 weeks

23 weeks today. This means that there are only two weeks to go until i have passed the point at which we lost our daughter at 24 weeks 6 days. It also means that the baby in my belly right now will look a lot like how she looked when she was born and she was a proper little person, just really small! Amazing!!

Things seem to be going well. The baby is moving great and seems to be busy a lot, which is really really reassuring! Last night i was laying in bed and it started to do big kicks just as i was dropping off to sleep and it woke me up, but i just smiled. Those movements are the best part of pregnancy and they're a reminder that s/he is still doing okay in there. You can feel them from the outside now too, but like most children this kid doesn't want to perform. As soon as someone puts their hand on to feel, it stops kicking. LOL!

Today i am at home on annual leave too. Thank goodness!! I'm so tired of being at work already, but you might have guessed that from previous posts. Ha! Only two weeks left until maternity leave though and then i sincerely hope that i won't go back to work for a whole year because we will have our family!

This credit crunch is worrying me a bit too. We are lucky enough to have a lower mortgage than most because we bought early, but it's going to affect everything else. It's got really cold outside this past few weeks, but we haven't put the heating on yet. In fact i relented last night and set it to come on for only an hour a day in the morning for when we get up before work. Plus i had some washing to dry and in this weather it won't dry outside and if you leave it on the radiators cold it will take months to dry and it always feels damp. I also changed the water heating to come on for an hour only in the afternoon before we get home from work. Then we can use it in the evening for my husbands shower etc. and i should have enough left over by the next morning for my shower before work. I hope we'll be okay with this cause we're still trying to pay off our last gas bill from last winter. We can't afford to go into this winter just adding more to it without paying it off. I'm not ashamed to admit that i'm worried how we will cope when i'm not working. Maternity pay is only the government statutory minimum, which will give me about £370 per month after tax. My husbands wages only cover our bills and food. Petrol, hardware, home improvements, eating out etc etc. all come out of my wages. I know we will do some serious cutting down, but it's still a worry, especially since the price of things keeps rising. Petrol prices are shocking! Mind you, i won't have to pay to travel 45 miles per week to work in stupid traffic, so there's some back.

Now i'm not at work for the day i have a plan of action. I need to do some cleaning, the guinea pigs need cleaning out and i need to take a trip into town to get some Spa Tone, fabric, milk, and have a waddle round Tesco. I can't wait til i'm a proper full time housewife!! :o)