We went down to Currumbin for the weekend and stayed in an AirB&B by the beach, and it was SO very nice to have a weekend where we didn’t have to DO anything. We walked on the beach, and we swam a little, and we ate far too much very nice food, and all in all we just rested.
The last few weeks have been very busy - since last time I blogged, we spent 3.5 weeks in England and Ireland, visiting (and meeting for the first time) lots and lots of family and running ourselves fairly ragged in the process. We got home, jumped straight back into work amongst the throes of jetlag, and before we had a chance to recover properly from that, Dave’s daughter C and her foster brother M came to stay with us for a week.
It was absolutely lovely having them with us, we did tons of fun activities, but it really was a full on week - and the moment they left it was in to a string of 6 earlies for me, including a 3 day trip. So, as you can imagine, combined with the child growing inside me, I’ve been functioning rather less than 100%.
This weekend, although just two days, was so very relaxing. It started on the Friday, after work, when we went for our 20 week ultrasound and found out IT’S A GIRL!!! I couldn’t (we couldn’t) be more thrilled - and yes we did fit in some baby shopping into our weekend! SO many things to buy, it is unreal how expensive having a baby is - but I already knew that. The really expensive part is going to be taking time off after she is born.
From our apartment in the Gold Coast, we could hear the sound of the waves all night and all day - and it was strangely soothing.
We woke early both mornings, as usual, and just lay in bed knowing we didn’t HAVE to do anything. No time we had to be anywhere, no appointments, no work, nothing at all to dictate how we spent our days.
And we finally got up and made tea (or coffee in Dave’s case), and walked in the sand, and we breathed. Something that we haven’t had enough of lately.
And hopefully we will get to do this (or something similar) at LEAST one more time before baby girl comes screaming onto the scene!
