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I keep thinking about blogging but just not quite getting around to it. I’ve not been feeling on top form, so have pretty much stayed off the PC.

Nin’s birthday went well. Kris & co. came round for a little while and had fun decorating cakes.

As she has been obsessed, of late, with pushing anything she can around, we bought her a pushchair (and a travel cot) and she has been happily pushing dolly about and then putting her to bed. Dolly is also sporting some new knitted trousers and a cloth nappy.

She also has some lovely new slippers and a very pink bag and purse (so she spent the entire evening doing laps with the pushchair around the house whilst ‘going shopping’). I’m still making the coat to match the pink trousers for Dolly, but I haven’t been feeling particularly motivated as of late.

I have got some more pics, so will get round to posting them at some point. She was terrorfied of the caterpillar birthday cake (and cried and cried) and was not convinced by the idea that she should blow the candles out. Still, on the whole I think she had a lot of fun

I’ve had a couple of visits to hospital. I finally had to chase up the GTT I was supposed to have at 28 weeks and finally got an appointment for first thing Monday morning. Blood tests are not something that I enjoy and this wasn’t helped by the fact that when she went to take the second lot of blood, the midwife/phlebotomist/whatever-she-was couldn’t find a vein in my right arm and so had to go back in the original hole (after treating my right arm as a pin cushion was not happy - she did apologise, but it’s not as if it was her fault, just crappy veins in my right arm.

Last Friday I went to a meeting at the local family centre (which is due to become a Children’s Centre as per the governments ‘10-year plan’ or whatever they’re calling it ) I’m hoping to take over as childminding co-ordinator for the village and want to be in a position to liaise more with the centre and be involved in the plans (as the place is currently a building site). Now is the time to be doing it. Ex-manager was very nice (new bod had just taken over as we held the meeting, but couldn’t be available - however both bods work for the same charity and ex-manager is still helping out whilst new manager finds their feet). A bit disappointed about the 41 place nursery due to open up on site (to be run by an outside agency apparently), just not a positive move IMHO, not least because I simply don’t like daycare nurseries - I’m in the camp of the best carer for a small child is mum, followed by a HOME environment which is what a childminder can offer - IMHO nurseries result in the institutionalisation of children from almost birth, not least for various other reasons - but I’ll start to slide into a rant. Anyway, back to the point, the village doesn’t need another day nursery as the demand for childcare isn’t there, so a bit bizarre, even with the explanation that it’s to fulfil eventual demand (?!!!!!!) Strange, strange, strange, but apparently beyond the charity that runs the place’s control as funding always comes with strings attached.

Hopefully I’ll find out when I’ll here about the co-ordinators post and then I can get moving a bit and try and get organised and keep on top of what is happening and hopefully throw in a few suggestions along the way (well, always worth a try).

Anyway, must get on, as feeling really stuffed up and probably should be learning the verses for Thursday’s circle time.