I did this lo just recently, same idea & papers as the Lauren one. The title is simply "Caitlin" I've still to add a little journaling and put it in the envelope. 

I've been keeping busy! I took up scrapbooking at the start of the year and have to admit I'm addicted. This was the first lo I ever completed. "Mondays Child Is Fair Of Face" my baby Lauren. 

Guess who’s back, back again? Lorraine’s back, tell a friend!

I can’t believe how long it’s been since I last posted. I have a lot of catching up to do and I don’t know where to start. So I’ll just ramble. Feel free to ask questions at the end, if I haven’t covered anything or you’d like a further update …

It took a long while for me to adjust being back at work. I felt very paranoid (still do at times) and felt that I had been demoted in some way. But over the last few weeks things have settled down and I’m enjoying being back.

I have totally fell off the Weight Loss train and I’m trying desperately to get back on. I’m at my heaviest I’ve been in a long while. I really need to start journaling what I eat and how much I exercise. I really need to get started, pronto.

Home life is hard some times. Really more to do with being under pressure at work and learning how to juggle everything in my life at the minute. At the start I was Little Miss Organised, then I let things slip because I was unhappy at work and now I think I’ve got a grip on everything again.

I’m still on my Happy Pills. I did try to come off them by myself. Bad Idea! They help me balance everything out and make me not beat up on myself so much.

Lauren has 8 teeth and has just started crawling. She has been rolling around like a Commando for weeks now and getting into everything. Her sleeping is a lot better. Usually sleeping through, maybe only waking once for her dummy.

Caitlin is doing so well. She recognises lots of numbers and letters. She can write 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 very well. She loves doing ‘homework’ and reading (or being read too).

That will do for now! It's a start anyway, lol.

As I'm going back to work on Monday, after 8 months maternity leave, I decided to get my hair done to cheer me up !!!!! 

Two embarrassing stories from my flights to/from London …

Outward flight to London

Everything was going great. Lauren was loving all the attention and just after take off, I gave her a bottle. She fell asleep until landing!

We got into the airport and I went to the change Lauren and go to the toilet. Only then I noticed that AF (which had been and gone earlier in the week) had decided to put in an appearance. Now, I don’t know if it was due to the sudden change in cabin air pressure but I do know it should not have happened!

My pad was as much use as a chocolate teapot and I had leaked onto my pants and trousers! Then I dropped my only tampon on a dirty wet floor (don’t worry I left it and went to buy new ones!) and when I went to flush, I had picked the only toilet that was flooding!!!!!!!!

Talk. About. Embarrassed. I swear I wanted to get on the next plane home ……..




Return flight to Belfast

Everything was going great. Lauren was loving all the attention and just after take off, I gave her a bottle. She fell asleep until landing!

Mid-flight I felt a drip on my head, then another and another. I looked up and MILK was dripping down from the over head compartment!

Again, I don’t know if it was due to the sudden change in cabin air pressure but I do know it should not have happened! One of Lauren’s bottles had sprung a leak!

All I could to, being belted into the seat with a sleeping baby on top of me, was put my hand up and will it to stop. The some hunky guy in the next aisle seat came to my rescue. He lifted out my baby bag and the got a load of napkins and cleaned up the mess.

I.Have.Never.Been.So.Embarrassed (except for above incident)

The London Eye 

Charlene, Ross & Kati with her DH in the background