Posted by: Alex
Life kinda hit normal again this week (well, so far) so I’m putting my blogging socks back on…
Lets see, since my last brief but momentous post (for me anyway) lots has happened. I am now 12 weeks pregnant. We had another scan last Friday and all looks great. It was really awesome to see the little one sleeping peacefully (takes after Mom). Doc then nudged around a bit to get Junior to move, where upon he/she did a big stretch, yawn, and then pretty much went back to sleep. I love this kid 
The Doc also made an early prediction that this may be a boy. Of course this is way too soon to say for certain, but if she were to put money on it, she’d say boy. She also said she wouldn’t put money on it.
We decided we’d tell this news to the family, a decision I’m regretting slightly. When we uttered the words “looks like it might be a boy”, seems all the family heard was “boy!”. My mom-in-law was so excited (I’d previously said that I thought it would be a girl – just my own feeling) that she burst into tears. She came round two days later with 3 little boy outfits! So while I wasn’t hoping either way before, now I’m offering up some prayers that it is a boy after all, just to spare the (initial) disappointment.
Roughly the third question everyone asks me when they hear I’m pregnant is “So what about your horse / Are you going to stop horse-riding?”. It’s been getting on my nerves a bit. I don’t want to endanger my unborn child, but seriously folks! I’ve been riding a minimum of 5 times a week since I was around 6 years old! I haven’t driven a car that often, but no-one asks me if I’m going to stop driving. I think I can do this sensibly. I haven’t been riding much (time constraints and other issues) since I found out I was pregnant, and it’s been driving me insane. At first it wasn’t too bad. I was so tired I wouldn’t want to go and ride, but now my energy is returning I feel this profound loss off accomplishment. It’ll be 10 PM and time to go to bed but I don’t want to go! I don’t feel like I have done anything all day – despite working 10 or 12 hour days recently.
So yes, I will continue riding – gently and with consideration – a couple of times a week until it feels unsafe. If I start to loose balance or get anxious about it, I’ll stop. If my horse is having a bad/mad day, I’ll get off. I won’t do any jumping or competitions. I will be sensible about it. I can do that.
Anyway, enough about that.
I have noticed from my Google Analytics stats that I get fairly regular hits from India, Dillip, is that you? If it is, leave a comment and say Hi …
Also, quite a few folks have found my blog searching for Smiths Motorcycles. I’d expect it’s this post that brings them here. While I didn’t explicitly say that Smiths was where I had such shocking service with my bike, I did tag them on the post, and I suppose you can draw the link yourselves. Well, the guy can do a good job, but it may just take you half a year to get your bike back …
Well, that’s all for now folks. Will try to post a little more regularly again.