I’m finally not so busy at work anymore. This is just those few days before month end and then the whole thing starts all over again. So for a change I’m actually writing my journal on time!

This weekend we worked on the nursery again. We bought a new light fitting and Corne installed it as well as the book case, he put it up on the wall. He also put the mosquito net up over the cot. I unpacked all the toys on the book case and made the cot up with all the nice bedding I’d gotten so far. It looks so nice! Really girly like with lots of fairies and butterflies in pink and purple. There’s no real theme; it’s just all the things I’ve bought and collected before and got as gifts. It’s just me. I just have to finish painting the cupboard, stick some new paper in that I bought and then I can start packing all her clothes and stuff in there. I’m going to see my friend on Sunday and then I’ll get a whole lot of stuff from her that she’s been keeping aside for me. I can almost say we have enough stuff for her to come! We still need to get the pram and car seat but otherwise we’re organized. I keep going into the nursery and just looking at all her things. It’s really exciting!

Last night we had our second class. It was very long and we got a lot of info on labour and the stages of it and what to look out for and when to go to the hospital and we watched another video of a water birth. This time I almost burst into tears. It was really emotional! It was a first time mom and you could see she was having a hard time and then out came the baby and the expressions on her and her husband’s faces were priceless! It really is an amazing experience! Afterwards she said it really wasn’t that bad because you might be pushing for two hours but it feels like 15 minutes. It’s amazing how your brain distorts everything for you to cope with it.