it’s hard to know where to start. we have gone back to the very basic things of life, back to where pooing is a big event. back to the very fundamentals, eat sleep poo clean up repeat. and not just for Beatrice, (Beatrice Marie Youngson Carchrae, but more on her name later) but for all [...]
a few more pictures are in the photo gallery now, including some of me (tom) and baby. and our first baby video… (click below)
perhaps some more words. she was born at 4:40am, in the caul, after a relatively short labor. michelle did an awesome job, with our very supportive midwives. (i just fixed the photo link, click below) edited again to say we’ve added a few more photos to the album below…
Here’s the last set of belly shots. well, the second last I suppose. we will take a final one as I go into labour, but these are all the remaining ones from the last nine weeks. we got a bit lazy in terms of taking the photos at the same time every week, so some [...]
clearbluecup has moved house! I’d been using greymatter as my blogging software since clearbluecup was started four (four? yes, four!) years ago, but in the last week several things happened that made it clear that greymatter was no longer working out for us. first, I discovered RSS feeds. how could I have been ignorant for [...]
and by that I mean we’re still waiting. after waking up and feeling very sorry for myself that we had arrived at friday when I was SURE I was going to have this baby by mid-week, I moped about the house for a bit while trying every yoga posture said to open the pelvis and [...]
What if I am the one freakish woman who never actually gives birth? who simply remains pregnant forever and grows to be the size of an elephant? I am ready to have this baby.
Ariel voted Shambhala the best festival she’s been to in the last 10 years, beating out Love Parade, Burning Man AND Glastonbury. Sigh. I bet it was fabulous.
while I wait, I’ve been trying to keep busy by scanning some of tom’s old family photos. Here’s a small selection: Tom’s dad working as a cameraman The boat his family lived on for a year docked in Kinsale Family friends relaxing on the grass A young Tom wearing his rupert trousers And the horrible [...]
