Random 5 on Friday: A Birth Story

Random 5 on Friday

This week was my baby girls birthday and so I thought I would share with you 5 Random things that you probably didn’t know about her birth just for fun.   I’m linking up with Random 5 on Friday

1. I didn’t want my waters to be wasted or make a mess, so it’s funny that they broke while I was pulling a weed out in my garden and watered it for me.

2. Stephen had randomly decided to go for a bike ride with my sister, on the mountain track around our house and when mum rang him he pedalled ridiculously hard back up the mountain, which is probably part of the reason he slept through most of my labour.

3. I was told that I had a small baby in a big swimming pool, truth is both the baby and swimming pool were huge.  Those waters just kept flowing and when Erin finally emerged she was 9lb 1oz

4. When I went into the hospital it was so warm I was wearing a summer dress, when we came out it was so cold I had 3 jackets on.

5. I had a wonderful midwife and doula but after 13 hours in labour, I had to have an emergency C-section.  That’s just one way I was Surprised by Motherhood.

Random 5 on Friday

1. I am surrounded by toys, as I often am, but these toys are all little people toys, the very same ones that I played with as a little person.  The school house with the slipperydip and little swing, the fliptop desk and clock.  School room sets and books about schools always fascinated me who was homeschooled.   I never wanted to go to school, just imagine it.   These are the toys that I borrowed from the toy library when I was 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and then bought from them at 16 when they were getting more modern ones and wrote stories about them.

2. Stephen has been sick this week and at home a bit so our house is spectacularly tidy compared to it’s normal state.   We also have guests and I woke up this morning to find her sweeping my entire house.  Wow. 

3. I discovered that Jamie Oliver’s 30 minute meals are on tv at 8am in the mornings of weekdays quite by accident on Thursday morning and so I have been watching them while Erin and I eat breakfast and getting inspired, especially by his amazing healthy drinks!  

4.  I have also been watching Jon and Kate Plus 8, a fun tv show (well I had the first season on dvd lent to me by a friend) that follows the lives of an American couple who at the time of shooting had two 6 year olds and six 2 year olds due to IBF.  I read the book ‘Multiple Blessings’ when I was pregnant and was so glad that I wasn’t that huge!    The scary things is Jon and Kate sound a little bit like me and Stephen when we are teaching Sunday School.  Eeek

5. Today I was teaching a tambourine dance class, and we were working on rhythm with songs that change beat randomly.  My favourite cd for this the IHOP Joy cd. 
(All those ribbons are ones that I made to dance with and took them up to PNG in 2010 to give away)

Random Five on Friday

I've decided to try something new, another link up, it's right up my alley of randomness.   Random 5 on Friday. 

1. This week I read a blog post over at wellnessmama.com on how to make your own makeup out of arrowroot powder, cinnamon and cocoa powder.  I'd really like to try it soon.

2. We've been thinking hard about the directions of our blogs and I promise there is plenty of interesting stuff coming up soon, I'm just a bit overwhelmed about it all and that's why I need to randomise.

3. I sold 2 of my books this week, very exciting, and heard that my local Koorong store sold 24 since Easterfest.

4. I finally cleared my desk after moving house 3 weeks ago.

5. This photo is of my old saucepan wall in my tiny old one bedroom unit from where we just moved, now they are all cooped up in a drawer poor things.