We're having a baby!

We are finally having a baby! (So the surgery and even the uneven scar were all worth it after all!)

I waited a week to be sure, and then a few more days. It seems kind of silly, but I wanted to tell my mum first, so I waited to be sure she was home from Italy before doing the test. So first thing on Sunday morning (8:30am) I did a test and Dean and I watched it turn positive together! I was amazed that he had even worked out the due date for if we were pregnant this month - I don't know how he did it! I know I just did it on a "wheel" which we have for this at work, but he worked it out manually - isn't that sweet?

So I rang my mum and told her, and she said "Now Dean will have to wrap you in bubble bath!" There was a moment of confusion until she clarified - it was bubble wrap she had in mind.

Dean's mum, typically enough, said "What took you so long?" and thinks that I should have a boy. I told her it wasn't up to me. (But in my heart of hearts I hope we have a girl.)

I feel so well, it seems almost unreal. I don't feel sick, although I am tired, and hungry all the time. Not to mention having to wee all the time... But I don't feel sick. This does worry me a bit, because last time I didn't feel sick either, and they do say that morning sickness means a good healthy pregnancy taking hold. I guess I want the best of both worlds - just enough sickness so that I know it is real, but not enough to stop me doing what I want to do!

Easter!

This year Orthodox and heterodox (that's the rest of us) have Easter on the same weekend, unfortunately. These "overlap" years are the most stressful and I always feel like a headless chook, running around from one thing to the next.

Since I have been going to the Antiochian Orthodox church, I decided to go to their Easter services. Since I am not becoming Orthodox, this is probably my only chance to hear it all in English. Actually it was lovely, if very long.

My favourite part is the lighting of the candles at "the light of the world has come back into the world" at midnight on Saturday. There were other interesting parts too, when everyone leaves the church and has to knock to come back in. The person inside asks three times "Who is the King of the World?" and the priest and congregation affirm three times that it is Jesus Christ, the Risen Lord, before we are all allowed into the church again.

After the Saturday night service there was lots of food, including Easter Eggs! I wasn't the only one hanging out for some chocolate. It was all very symbolic, picturesque and moving, probably all the more so since I know now that I will not be joining.