Oops, I appear to have been MIA for 3 months! Sorry about that! It’s a bit odd writing about Christmas when it seems like it was so long ago but here goes…

I found I was really excited about Christmas.  Jessica obviously had no idea what was happening but it was still magical.  I put her in a sleepsuit with HO HO HO on the front which made me smile when she woke up on Christmas morning. She was so happy and cute and even looked suitably impressed when we showed her all her pressies!

She had 2 outfits to wear courtesy of her Nannies!  She was Little Miss Santa then a fairy. I was a little bit worried about making sure everyone had some time with her and thought I was running late when I got to my Brother’s around 11am. I was very relieved when it turned out the rest of my family were only just getting up! The reason why wasn’t so good though. My Brother’s youngest had ended up in A&E! He was up and had a raging temperature when I was there Christmas Eve. I went home about midnight and unknown to me, they took him to hospital just half hour later! Poor little monkey. So consequently, everyone was absolutely shattered. I couldn’t stay too long as we had to go to Andy’s Mum’s for dinner. I’ve never had Christmas dinner at their house before. In fact, I’ve never had Christmas dinner with Andy before!! He always went his Mum’s and I always went my Brother’s. Neither of us could bring ourselves to do any other! Now we’ve got J we want to eat as a family and decided that we’ll alternate between his Mum’s and my Brother’s.

So after going to see all my family we went to Andy’s Mum’s.  Jessica was absolutely ruined by them, I really enjoyed opening all the presents lol. As it was a special day and J was looking cute, my Brother in Law took some pictures with his professional camera. I’ve only seen one of the pics to date but it’s lovely (I’ve attached it with a few other pics)

After we’d eaten & chilled for a while, we went to my Brother’s. They hadn’t even had their dinner! I changed J into the fairy outfit my Mum bought her & she looked even cuter! I was worried about how Mum would be without Nan but she did really well & held it together. Later in the evening she said she didn’t feel well & fell asleep on the sofa. All in all it was a much better day than I was expecting.

Mum was really poorly from Christmas day for a whole week so we didn’t get to see her again til NYE. On Boxing Day I got the night off from baby duty & had a drink. I stayed up til 5.30am which meant I’d been up 24 hours!! I couldn’t work out how I managed to stay up so long until I thought about what I was drinking – JD & copious amounts of cola!

We spent the rest of the week chilling, it was so nice to have Andy around. We took it in turns to get up with J & half the time I’d go back to bed when he got up when it was his turn to lie in! On December 29th, exactly a year to the day since I found out I was pregnant, J had her 1st taste of food! She was messing with her bottle so I wondered whether she was ready for something more. I gave her some banana porridge. It didn’t go down too well as the pics will show!

NYE was a poignant day for me. I thought a lot about the NYE before and what a special day it turned out to be. It was the day I did a digital test and finally believed I was pregnant. I wanted to stay in with Andy but felt I had to go and see my family. Oh how I wish I’d gone with my instincts! Nobody was in a good mood for various reasons and had forced themselves to go round my Brother’s when they just wanted to stay in too. I don’t want to go into it but I knew the evening was going to end in tears and it did. I went home at 11pm upset and very fed up. Andy was asleep on the sofa and wouldn’t wake up so I spent the last hour of 2010 alone and crying. I decided that I was going to see the new year in with J. I was just going to stand by her cot but as I walked up the stairs, she woke up! I was so happy. I’d woken Andy and he managed to get up and we saw in 2011 together as a family which cheered me up lots.

And so 2011 began!