I am back!

We are back from our little getaway to Sun City and it was WONDERFUL. We had a really good time and came back late Sunday afternoon. I spent almost the whole of yesterday in bed recovering from the busy weekend. We spent time with my grandparents, went for supper at an Italian restaurant, watched Marley and Me, drove to Sun City, waited in line for the sky train for an hour and a half, had lunch there, played some games, went to the valley of the waves, we swam (yes I got into my cossie and swam), tanned, ate some more, drank some more, Rikus went down the slides, we watched the Miss Nando's and the Little Miss Nando's. Got dressed had a lovely supper at CFM, didn't have the energy to go to the show we had tickets for (Stars in your eyes - by Danny Fisher) crawled into bed and woke up to lovely breakfast in bed the next morning. Drove back to my grandparents house in Rustenburg and spent some more time with them. Came back home in the late afternoon to a dog that was absolutely elated to see us. All in all it was a great weekend.

BUT, I HAVE SOME VERY EXCITING NEWS: Jahni had her little girl, Nicole, last night. She is just so adorable. Jahni's water broke at 11h15 and she had an emergency c-section. Mommy, Daddy and Baby are doing VERY well and there was no need for NICU.

It's a very special and a little emotional moment for me to be typing this because Jahni and I shared the same due date (12 May 2009) and I was expecting Hayleigh to arrive over Easter weekend as well. But I am not sad or jealous, like I was expecting to feel. I am more in awe of how drastic everything has changed over the last couple of weeks and how far I have actually come. I cannot even begin to imagine how it must feel to be holding a baby right now. I have dreamt about it A LOT these last few days, but it feels miles away.

Another baby that is also due on 12 May is a work colleague and his wife's 2nd baby and I have feared their delivery because we were always sharing pregnancy stories, complaints, and hopes and their delivery is very close to my heart. I am sure I will be fine with it all, but I still feel a bit cheated and left out, and it makes it all so real.

DH is leaving again tomorrow for Randfontein and then he will be off to Lesotho for the whole of next week. He is looking forward to it very much and I am looking forward to sleeping in the middle of the bed for more than a week (yes I know we should get a queen size). I do miss him a lot when he is gone and we appreciate each other so much more when he comes back, so in the end it's actually a good thing. Colby is always restless when his master is not there, but he just has to cope this time because I am not getting up at all hours of the night/morning to open the door for him. He usually just walks to the garage to check if Rikus is back yet, and then we go back to sleep again, but the nightly checking is going to have to stop because it drives me crazy and he should get used to it now.

The diet was left at home over the weekend but I guess today it's back to watching what I eat again, and off course I have to get back to the gym tomorrow with my gym partner Carli, at least when we gym togehter we don't play around. I see some sore muscles in my not too distant future...