18 week pics

So, my buddy Ryan took these pics for me this morning.

My mum keeps telling me not to wish for the baby belly too quickly, as it's gonna be a while still before the baby gets here, and I understand her point. However, I am excited by the bump, especially after the Dr being so concerned about my weight loss, I'm pleased to tell you that I am gaining weight now (never thought I'd be so happy about putting on weight!). Plus this, and the fact the baby is moving, are the nice parts of being pregnant, these far outweigh the bad stuff, it reminds me that this is all well worth it. Baby is most definately worth it. I love you baby!

18 weeks

Fun weekend

My morning sickness is almost a thing of the past. I'm still taking dyclectin at night but I can actually make meals in our house again. And in a great twist of fate, after having to re-schedule 2 times, we went over to William & Lisa's on Saturday night for a really nice Roast Beef dinner. It was great, lots of yorkshire puddings, mashed potato, veggies and gravy! YUMMY! And then we sat and played 'Nusht', fun dice game.

Jana was in Saskatoon this weekend too, so I got to see her at church lunch, which was nice. Then we hung out at Ryan & Allisons Sunday night, Joy joined us after she had been to church. It was fun, Jared is moving around A LOT! He has this cute half sitting crawl that he does, and he will walk if Mummy is helping him. He's just adorable. Not that I'm biased or anything;-)

What do you think?

A straight forward question for all you ladies that have already had babies, do you buy the maternity panties or not? Are they worth it or can you manage prefectly well with the underwear you already have in your drawer?

Week 16 pics

I'm not showing very much, but it is there! So here are the pics:

I have great friends

Homesickness is awful, and very frustrating. Thankfully my homesickness has diminished over time as Saskatoon has slowly become home too. I'm some weird mutant now, that to some degree doesn't feel totally at home anywhere now, because where ever we are I will miss the other 'home'.

Why am I telling you all this? Well I was just glancing over some of my old posts, and one thing that I have noticed is that when I post stuff on here while I am away, I always get such great comments from my friends in Saskatoon. They always encourage me, and let me know that they are missing me and that they are waiting for me to come home to Saskatoon. Isn't that great, seriously, I really am blessed with the friendships I have.

Thinking of great friends, I am pretty gutted that Tanya's moving to Ottawa, Todd has gotten himself a pretty nice job out there. I know this is a great opportunity for them, and I think Tanya is excited now at the thought of experiancing a different part of the country for a while. But Saskatchewan is gonna be missing 2 great people for a while. I'm gonna miss ya T.

Finally... exercise I enjoy!

I have been really enjoying my aquacise class, and I'm hoping this continues. I'm well known for getting enthusiastic about something then getting really sick of it, so hopefully I've actually found something that will interest me enough to get me off my butt more often.

And it feels like the baby is getting exercise too, as I've started feeling a couple of little thumps. Lindsay thinks I'm imagining things, but these have been random little thumps, usually when I'm either trying to get to sleep or when I've been sat still for a while, and feel slightly different from my other sensations in that area.

I went shopping with Dawn R at the weekend for maternity clothes, it was very exciting and I managed to get some good deals, every single thing I bought was on sale. This is a good thing as maternity clothing is not that cheap to buy.

Oh, and how bad do I feel... I went out weeks ago to buy my nephews birthday present, his birthday was this past Sunday... and his gift is still sat, unwrapped on my living room floor! I am an AWFUL auntie. I totally forgot to send it. I SUCK! I really do feel terrible, not only does he never see me, but he is just so ADORABLE:
Yep, I love this little boy, he's such a great mix of his parents, he looks so much like Bob, but has Marie-Ann's beautiful smile. Anyway, I should stop boasting about my nephew and get on and post his present.

Tastebud confusion

Well, another thing that has been confusing me is the fact that so many things taste different to me right now. Last night L had to try my burger because I thought it tasted weird, apparently not, he said it was good. And then today I got a sandwich from one of my regular haunts, and it totally tasted weird... huh. Not only do I never seem to know what I can actually manage but now I also don't even know if it will taste good when I get it. How helpful!

I have aquasize tonight, which I am actually looking forward to. Last week was good, but my butt hurt afterwards, but that means it's actually doing something which is good.

We had a big blizzard here last wednesday, so I didn't make it in to work that day, or Thursday for that matter as my car was snowed in and wouldn't start. So 2 snow days. It was a tad frustrating as I knew I had a lot of work to do. And our camera had no batteries in so I didn't even manage to get any good pictures of the blizzard.

Dreams

OK, am I weird or do pregnant ladies have even more surreal dreams than normal?

I have been having a lot of food orientated dreams recently, weird hey, I can't eat much during the day and at night I am taunted with feasts, and fish & chips.

Normal stuff... my shoulder is killing me this morning, I think I pulled the muscle last night. I guess I'll be doing lots of stretching today, see if that helps.

A New Year

Has anyone made any resolutions this year?

I used to always try to make at least one, cos that is what you do at New Years right? Well no more! I never keep them and then always beat myself up over it. I guess I do have one resolution but that is a on going issue of wanting to pray more and know the Word of God better.

Well, I'm still not really showing yet, but have plenty of morning sickness and tiredness. Thankfully we heard the baby's heart beat the week before Christmas, I felt very emotional and cried (no surprise there;-) I feel so blessed with this baby, and have started reading to it, it has already heard all of Acts and will be hearing something from the OT next. Plus I have alrady started to educate it about good music; Snow Patrol, Bare Naked Ladies, U2 and Plumb have been firm favourites so it's getting a well rounded education.

Christmas was a busy affair with gatherings with the Unger family, Wiebe family, our close family, breafast with Kendra, brunch for Joys birthday, New Years eve with good friends and some shopping scattered in there for good measure. Oh and I slept a lot... A LOT!

Brainwave

We've discovered that the way to make me not feel pukey is to give me food that doesn't smell, so biscuits, tinned fruit, and cereal have all become major parts of my diet right now.

I have renewed admiration for my poor hubby. Right now he puts up with a grumpy wife who pretty much makes him do everything in the kitchen right now (due to the grossness of it), and who sleeps most of the time. He really is a saint, I love him SO MUCH, God was good to me when he blessed me with this man for my husband.

The bizarreness of pregnancy

I love the fact that I am pregnant, I am in awe that God has blessed us with a child. I love reading about how the baby is growing week by week.

Aren't you amazed at how God made us? Everything has a reason. When our body needs to rest, we feel tired. We have nerves under our skin to tell us if we are hurt/damaged. If we eat something bad for us, our body responds to get rid of it. God made our bodies in a way that should help us look after and protect it.

Here is where I am confused, I am a great believer in the way the Lord made our bodies, but I am confused by morning sickness. I feel neaseous all day, and don't really want to eat much of anything, yet I need to consider the fact that I and my baby need nourishment. Yesterday all I wanted was a chip butty with gravy, which Gibson's (the best chippy in Canada as far as I'm concerned) was happy to supply me with. But how nourishing is that? But, as many people have told me, right now I just need to eat whatever and whenever my body allows. Thankfully occasionally I crave cucumbers (like right now) or tinned tomatoes (last night), so at least I'm getting some veggies;-)

The good, the bad and the ugly

So after the big dump and deep freeze that we experianced last week, I have been pleasantly surprised with some warmer weather this week, today we should get to a high of +3. But then it's gonna go back to the cooler temps by the weekend, oh well.

I had 2 revelations this morning. The first is that one thing I do need to appreciate about living in Saskatchewan and going through the freezing winters, is that at least I don't need to worry about spiders like you do in the UK. The winters are too dry for spiders here , so you only ever see them in the summer! I LOVE IT! And the ones you see in the summer are still not as bad as some of the beast that sometimes reside in my Mum's house.

But that leads to revelation number 2, and that is that I just am going to have to accept that now that I live in Saskatchewan I am going to get sinus infections for as long as I live here. I truly believe that my system just doesn't like the dryness. Even when I am feeling fine and am not sick, most mornings I will wake up with a blocked nose, and that's with a humidifier running through the night in our bedroom, if we didn't have the humidifier going I would be even more blocked up.

Have I ever said how cute my Mum is? She is very excited about the baby and has decided that she's not waiting for my first ultra sound to check the due date, she's booking her flight over now to make sure she gets a seat! I love her.

The long wait.

Well, other than the morning sickness and feeling tired all the time, I don't feel that much different yet. You instantly think that being pregnant means you get a belly in 2 seconds flat right? It's weird how even though you know that's not what happens your still surprised when you still look exactly the same.

I'm excited to start looking pregnant, and to feel the baby moving. Allison has lent me this great book that goes through the pregnancy week by week and has pictures showing what the baby looks like, what it's doing and how it's growing... I love it.

I'm excited about this weekend, especially Saturday night cos I'm going over to Lisa's to celebrate her birthday with her, and we're having... FONDUE.... what a surprise. It's gonna be great.

Due date

I'm sorry, my bad, I forgot to put on the due date, baby Unger is due on the 4th of July 2007!

YAY!!!!!

What a blessing!

We're having a BABY!

I can barely contain my excitement!

Morning sickness is definately not the happiest thing ever, but I haven't actually puked yet, just been feeling nauseous. I have discovered that if I keep snacking the nausea isn't so bad.

Please could you all be praying for us, that the baby will continue to grow, be healthy and stay safe.

The weekend

Here is my 3rd attempt at getting this post on to my blog... 3rd times a charm right?

We had fun hanging out with Wes, Daniel & Steven on Friday night, and Diane arrived later after she was done helping at Snr youth.

Saturday was a fun day, we did christmas shoppiing for the Brit side of the family, hung out with Darren and went to see The Prestige at the new Galaxy cinema. That film is REALLY GOOD, I would definately recommend it. I won't say anything about it because knowing me I'll give something away that I shouldn't... but do go and see it!

Stupid excuses

How many stupid excuses do we daily use to make it alright to talk or criticise someone behind their back?

I was thinking about how frustrated we get with each other sometimes and it's so easy to get annoyed with someone right? So that makes it OK to moan right? WRONG!

I was also annoyed with myself for how easy it is for me to think badly about others. But what made it worse was when I realised how prejudiced I could be, without even knowing it. If I get upset with another christian, then afterwards I feel bad because I should love my fellow believer. I remember how annoyed I used to get at my none christian co-workers back in the UK, and my attitude at the time wasn't 'I should love them because God loves them', oh no. Don't get me wrong, I didn't consciensciously think 'They aren't a christian, so it's OK to get annoyed with them', but I didn't feel guilty the way I do when I'm annoyed with another christian.... how much of a horrible person am I?

AARRGGHHHH! I get so annoyed with myself!

Along the same topic, I've noticed how I make excuses for saying bad things or criticising others, by making it as an example. I truly need to learn how to KEEP MY MOUTH SHUT! WHEN WILL I EVER LEARN! I feel like I am constantly implanting both my feet in my mouth! And I say things then feel so bad about them, especially because half the time I say something, and then replay it in my head later and realise tht people could have taken it totally the wrong way or not totally understood my meaning. Not that that excuses me, I shouldn't have said anything in the first place.

So if ever I have offended you, with my big fat stupid mouth.... I AM TRULY SORRY!!!

I seriously think that God groans sometimes at the things that flow out of my mouth, and then gets annoyed at the unnecessary hurt and anxiety that has followed. I feel humbled at His graciousness towards me.

So work has been good this week. I am helping Kim run a Disorganised Sports club, and I really am loving the oppotunity to spend more time with kids, it really is a highlight of my week. We have some interesting characters attend, but they are all lovely kids. I got my new desk, it looks a lot more like a reception area now, it's so good! I was very excited! And some boxes are gone now that I have had a chance to unpack. The building itself really is looking good now, all that hard work is definately starting to pay off.

Something I have been very excited about the last 4 months is Spark People. I found this website called sparkpeople.com, basically it is a website set up to help you have a healthier lifestyle. So if like me you want to lose weight, they will help you. But I don't see this as a diet, I see this as being taught how to eat healthier, and look after myself better. Plus it's FREE! Even better. So if you want to be healthier, if you want to make sure you're eating the right things, or find some funner ways to get exercise please take a look at www.sparkpeople.com

Me & Becky 

Winter has officially hit

The frost silently killed my beautiful sunflowers on Tuesday evening... I am grieving their departure, they had such short but beautiful lives.

Moving on.... I'm sorry for the long silence, but I didn't think you wanted to hear me YET AGAIN complaining about another stupid sinus infection, so I stayed away until it is almost gone before commenting.

I got such a nice surprise last week when I recieved an e-mail from an acquaintance from Norwich last week, Becky, and now she's here in Saskatoon visiting friends. She came over to the office yesterday and I showed her around our labour of love, and she will be coming over to ours tonight for dinner, I'm quite excited! It will be fun to catch up, find out how people are, reminisce and share the joy that is Norwich YFC. YAY!