Once we are settled (and his shipped presents arrive) I hope to have another birthday for him!

Seoul is a lovely city and the people are so nice.. the driving is a little eratic but thankfully the car will not arrive for another month so I will worry about that then! The subway access is not stroller friendly at all so I have to wait until the back pack arrives to venture out on my own. My grasp of the language is nothing short of pathetic! My first encounter at the department store resulted in me responding in French and then in Italian!!!! Languages are not my forte but I have kinda mastered three 'phrases' Hello, thank you and 'do you speak English'!!! There you go.. pathetic! Once I have moved into the apartment I will begin lessons!

JB has handled the move pretty well, he keeps saying 'home' and we have to explain to him that this is home... tomorrow Daddy leaves for work and will be gone for a week so I am not sure how that will go  Anyway, I will try to make it to some lounges this week!

On Thursday I started having what I can only describe as 'labor pains' and I just put it down to the miscarriage. However, yesterday the pain was still there and I just knew something wasn't right... I went to the ER and with further blood work it showed my hormone levels had increased!  I had another transvaginal scan and it showed both ovaries were abnormal but nothing else. My OBGYN thought it was an ectopic pregancy so did a laproscopy (I think that's how it is spelt?) Anyway, it was an ectopic pregnancy and it has now been removed. There is a possibility not all of it was removed  so I still need to have further HCG test to make sure. The good news is my tube has been saved, bad news is it increases the risk of a futher ectopic pregnancy in the future. 

I am so shocked that I was not aware I was still pregnant, and as my Dr said it could have been life threatening had it ruptured... I am just so glad to be able to spend Mother's day at home with my family. 

I had a miscarriage in January (at around 6 weeks), I then found out I was pregnant again, but had another miscarriage the day we left for the UK (just before 6 weeks). With both pregnancies I had symptoms really early on (within days of conception) then  prior to each miscarriage I had a loss of these symptoms, started spotting I then took another pregnancy test and it was negative. 

We were hoping to wait for a couple of months, however, last week I found out I was pregnant again! I am 6 weeks and 1 day today, I know this is dated from my period, it is only 3 weeks since conception, I started spotting again today and went to see my OBGYN. I had a transvaginal ultrasound and he saw nothing... (he did warn me prior that this could be the case), but surely there should be something there?!?!? All he saw was a cyst on my right ovary, the Dr said it is the type that does the job of the placenta until it is formed.  I have had blood tests to check the HCG levels (no results yet) and I have to go back Thursday to have another blood test to see how things are progressing. I took another pregnancy test this morning and it is still saying positive and I still have the pregnancy symptoms, yet I am not gonna fool myself as I know the spotting is not a good sign

I am the worlds most impatient person , I want answers as to what is going on?!?! I know the pregnancies have all been too close together, and unfortunately my body longer believes me when I tell it I am only 28 so age is against me too.. but I just wanna know why?  What is going wrong and I want to know all of this NOW (lol now I see where JB gets his temper tantrums from)

We still have just over two months before we move, but breaking it down I am sure it will not be enough time! We know at this stage we will be there for at least 2 years. 

I guess I better start learning the language!!!  

JB was so good on the flights, and my family loved having him around. He is talking much more now and starting to put words together.. one of his favourite words at the moment is chocolate.. dunno where he got that one from  Talking of which, I was in my element.. all those easter eggs! I brought back a whole suitcase full of Cadbury's so that should keep me going for a month or two

It was good to catch up with friends and family, I just wish I had more time there really. We lost the first day in travelling and then the next 3 to jet lag! I was so worried about driving on the left again, but thankfully it all came back to me! I really wanted to get to London to see friends there, but there just wasn't time. Ce la vie!

Hopefully I will adjust to this time zone again soon and stop waking up at 4am 

JB is doing well, he is attending speech therapy which I still don't think he really needs, but I am open to any intervention that helps him, and he enjoys it which is the main thing. We are still trying to curb his hitting in a temper, but after three loooong months, time out finally seems beginning to work.

We are off 'home' to the UK on Monday so JB will be spoilt by my family. I am not looking forward to the cold weather, but I AM looking foward to lots of Cadburys easter eggs... ahhh heaven. I have an extra bag packed purely to fill with cadburys chocolate. Hopefully the flight will be smooth sailing, we paid for a seat for JB so it should be easier.. but saying that, we had major problems with British Airways  not sticking to their web promise about being able to pre-booking car seats for those under 2. I was told if there was not one available then we would not be able to fly!!! Great huh... nice child friendly airline! Yet, if we carried him as a lap child there would not be a problem... GO FIGURE!!!

Anyway, that is my March so far!

Here are the rules:-

1. Link to the person that tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

Are you ready? I know you just can't wait to know 6 random quirky things about .

Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.. hmm that's harder than it looks...

• I love chocolate  and eat far too much of it!!
• I would love to become a professional photographer (would love to specialise in Travel ;o) or portraits)
• Leading on from the above, I did win 3rd place in a worldwide monthly photo competition last year.. no one was more suprised than me! 
• I have been engaged 3 times!! But only married once.. and I am hoping it is for life!
• Being a parent has taught me a lot about myself .. not in a good way either! I really need to be more patient and less of a perfectionist!
• One place I want to visit before I die is Bora Bora... I have dropped the hint to hubby sooo many times.

As for tagging others, I think I am probably one of the last to do this so I apologise in advance if I have tagged you and you have already been tagged... AudreysMommy, mummy2girls, eteachey, Destiny23, Cazza, Arna

Well this is the end of my first year on minti, I have had some great advice and help from the Minti community when I thought I was going insane! Thank you! I  got to chat to some great people and even had the opportunity to meet up with Angela (AKA HarrisonsMommy), hubby Dean and Harrison. They are a wonderful family and it is so cool to be able to meet up with a Minti friend who lives half way across the world! I hope to get to know more of you in 2008! Have a safe and enjoyable New Years Eve!

Lorna

Merry Christmas!! ... happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Eid!

Santa was very good to us all... especially JB who got a ton of toys! We had a great day playing with them all... Just one thing bugging me, to all you toy manufacturers... PLEASE find a replacement for those plastic ties .. I must have undone over a hundred of the things today and they are awful!  

It took JB a while to start opening his presents as he was overwhelmed by it all, he was more interested in a helium balloon we put in a tonka truck for him . However, once he got into opening presents there was no stopping him.

Wishing you all a very happy 2008!

Lorna

JB eats a lot of fruit and veg (just mush!!) so i am sure he is getting all he needs nutritionally. We also had a blood test to check for thyroid problem, and we now have to go back weekly and get him weighed.

I feel like I am forcing him to eat the solids he does eat and I am so worried that he will constantly have a bad relationship with foods as a result.  I know there is nothing medically wrong, but it does not help me when he is constantly sick! Strangely enough he seems to have no problem with cookies.. except when he tries to put them in his mouth whole!

We have another Drs apt this week to check his weight etc so hopefully we will be able to get some help/advice from them!

My problem is I LOVE chocolate and biscuits, cookies, cakes, sweets/candy... Since Monday I have still been eating these items, but I have really been watching the contents for daily allowances and have cut down a lot. It has only been two days and already I have withdrawl symptoms.. I have headaches, am moody (more than usual ), I am constantly thinking about eating, thinking I could have just one more square of dairy milk it is only 1.9g of fat and 35 calories.. I am so shocked that sugar can have this affect on you. I am determined not to give up.. 

Don't get me wrong... I am all to aware of the importance of copywright, I studied this for 3 years at Uni in terms of the legalities from a journalists point of view. However, if people actually looked at the convention most countries adopted, and look at case law the individual is the one making the breech...not minti. Minti has an adequate disclaimer and I am sure their lawyers have looked into this in great depth.   

However, this is not my main problem, what really worries me is how a person is not allowed to make a mistake on here. I do not know Belinda, but it seems she made a mistake in thinking she had the right to use some information and posted it as (really good) advice. Apparently, mistakes are not allowed?!?!? I find this a very sad state of affairs.. if this is the values we hold, what are we teaching our children? If we come across something like this, why not just contact the person and ask them directly and work with them? Any copywright cases that are taken to court (very few cases) take years to get a hearing and resolved, a few e-mails before reporting is nothing in the scheme of things.

I really hope that we can start acting more like parents and coach and nurture others who make mistakes like we would with our wee ones!