Ice Balls & Preparing for No.2
March 7th, 2010Yesterday the sky was dark and gloomy all day. The wind was blowing threateningly, and you could see the gathering storm overhead. When it came, it came in the form of huge ice balls falling from the sky!
It was the heaviest hail storm Melbourne has had in a while, and the hailstones that fell down were as big as golf balls!
Here’s some my dad collected, they were bigger but melted by the time he took them in:

And here’s Keira quite impressed with the ice balls:

So that was the excitement for yesterday. I haven’t been doing much else lately. Just getting more and more nervous about when the baby will come.
Nowadays I always get indigestion at night. But I worry that it is the beginning of contractions, so here I am trying to time my tummy ache, to see if there is a regular pain coming and going, until the acid settles down, and I sigh with relief that it was just a stomach ache. Sigh!
Have been preparing my maternity bag to take to the hosipital and buying all the things I will need. Nursing bras, nursing clothes, and now looking for a baby carrier on ebay.
I’m eyeing the Baby Bjorn Active Carrier, as my sister has one and says it is very good. But am a newbie at bidding for things on Ebay, and have discovered that it is very competitive, especially in the last 5 minutes - the price can double!
Quite exciting though.
I also need a new wardrobe. Most of my clothes are from my younger days.. you know all those skin tight tops and short dresses. All the stuff I can’t wear anymore because I must have been skinnier back then and also not suitable for a mother of (almost) two kids, right?
Anyway nothing at all practical for breastfeeding. I don’t know what I wore when I was breastfeeding Keira, but they seem to have been lost in transit somewhere in between London to KL. I think they’re also all winter clothes, too hot to wear now or in Malaysia.
So as I said I need new clothes! But no opportunity or money to go shopping here, so I’ll end up in old t-shirts I think. Ah well…
















