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December 16th, 2003.
I really must apologise for not keeping my diary better up-dated. Sometimes life just gets a hold of me and I simply need to live for a while, without reflecting. But I must up-date before we’re away for Christmas.
All is well. Summer is in full swing. It’s hot but this pregnant body seems to be coping okay so far. I seem to constantly forget how many weeks pregnant I am this time round, something that would never have happened first time. I think I’m about 5 months pregnant. The pregnancy has been an ABSOLUTE DREAM since morning sickness and the first trimester yuckiness passed. I’ve felt well, much like my normal self really. I have my usual amount of energy, I can eat whatever I want, can even drink tea again. No metallic taste in my mouth, nothing but a growing belly. It’s pretty rotund now and I most definitely look pregnant. But it doesn’t feel too huge at this stage. The only pregnancy bother is that recently I begin to feel strained and tired if I walk or stand for too long…but hey, Christmas shopping can do that to anyone!
The baby has been quiet compared to Pixie at this stage. Movement and kicking has been fairly gentle thus far. It’s picked up in strength in this past week, but I’ve had weeks of very little movement. I know not to worry about it, I remember even my over-active Pixie had quiet weeks in-utero. But I definitely feel this child is different from my Pixie. She was performing in-utero acrobatics by this stage in pregnancy. This babe is definitely more mellow. I have had no more pregnancy-baby related dreams or premonitions though, which I admit is starting to bug me.
Big news is we might have decided on a boy’s name. Jay and I don’t like playing the ‘name game’. We keep our ideas and thoughts to ourselves and wait to have a strong ‘feeling’ for a name before we’ll openly discuss it. With Pixie I think our discussion lasted a whole five minutes and went something like this: “What do you think of Pixie for a girl?” And Jay said, “Yeah, I like it.” From that moment on it simply felt ‘right’, and we both dreamt it was her name. When we were holidaying at the beach last month Jay mentioned a boy’s name that had been on my list when Pixie was an unknown quantity. We both agreed to mull it over, but still didn’t feel sure. Until yesterday, when I finally succumbed to flipping through some ‘name’ books. I found a really unusual name I’d never heard before and that evening I showed it to Jay. He immediately coupled it with the name we’d already been mulling over and it was like ‘BANG!’…Suddenly when the original name was coupled with this unusual second name it came ‘alive’ for us and suddenly we both went, “Yeah, that’s really cool!” So maybe, MAYBE, we have a name picked out for a boy. Still both undecided and dilly-dallying over girls names though. Pixie wants us to call a girl ‘Dorothy’ after Dorothy the Dinosaur!!!
Pixie and I have been having a delightful time of it lately. I simply ADORE the four-year-old Pixie, she is self-entertaining, amusing, imaginative, polite and even rather mature. She loves all the Christmas hooplah, and we’ve been having a wonderful time wrapping presents, making cards, reading christmas stories, and decorating the house. This afternoon she spent an hour gift wrapping some small toys for her baby doll for Christmas. We’re going to a Carols by Candlelight picnic tonight, and she’s very excited about it. She loves concerts and spends quite a bit of play-time pretending to put on ‘shows’ for me…usually song and dance shows. She does some hilarious ballet moves and always remembers to bow at the end. Four year olds are SO MUCH FUN!!!!!!
I wish I had some energy to write about many of the parenting issues I’ve been pondering lately, but I simply don’t feel ‘reflective’ enough. It’s stinking hot today, the house is closed, the blinds drawn to keep out the heat, and I simply can’t summon up the motivation to sit in this stuffy little study and type away on this rusty old computer. Life beckons with a sweaty finger and the urge to simply ‘be’ and ‘do’ (ie. lie on the couch with the fan blowing directly on me) is stronger than the urge to sit here and reflect…Needless to say though, I’ve been thinking long and hard about my attitudes to the christmas season: presents, family traditions, who is Santa and what’s his story, and what exactly is it that makes Christmas really ‘magical’. Most importantly How do I help Pixie focus on ‘giving’ rather than all the commercialism and ‘wanting’ that happens at Christmas??? She was beautiful today though, when we ran to the shops to run a few errands. We saw Santa and she waved to him. Then she told me she was only going to ask Santa for one thing this year (I’d previously given her permission to ask Santa for two things, but to only expect to receive one of them). So she went up and gave him a cuddle, then told him she’s hoping for a Jemima doll. I felt really pleased that she’d voluntarily shortened her wish list to one thing. So far so good.
We’re travelling away for Christmas, to visit family and friends interstate for a couple of weeks. We LOVE our travels, I love packing up the car and hitting the hot, dusty highway at this time of year, a boot jam-packed with presents…stopping at badly air-conditioned roadhouses for icy coke and drippy ice-creams…staying overnight in small town motels with heaven-sent icy-cold swimming pools… eating a full roadhouse breakfast the next morning (travelling away makes us so damned hungry!) …driving through the shimmering sun-baked Australian landscape at the height of summer with the car CD and air-conditioning blaring…stopping at strange small town playgrounds for Pixie to burn some energy, I think we know every single park and playground on the route from Canberra and Melbourne!! And we look forward to visiting every one of them again, in the sweltering heat of midsummer, with the excitement and anticipation of Christmas hanging like heat in the air, Christmas decorations adorning even the hottest, most sunbaked and small towns along the way. What a magical season it is!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY READERS! May the season be full of joy and happiness for you all. Much love, Eloise.
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