I got tagged! Yup for the first time ever! Cassie tagged me today for a confessions meme.

Confession 1. I am afraid of dying. I can’t talk about this one. It scares me too much. Such a silly phobia though because it’s gonna happen to all of us.

Confession 2. I have the biggest fear of the dentist. I didn’t visit for 6 years! I used to get a checkup every year while I was at school, but when school finished I never went… until recently. My teeth have always been perfect… never had a filling or anything until a few months ago. i was told I needed 4. Having never had one before i didn’t think it would be a big deal. It was horrendous. I had 2 of them done because they said they couldn’t do them all in one go. I lay there having my teeth drilled with tears streaming down my face. I didn’t go back for the other 2. I think I will wait until i have the baby before I pluck up the courage to get the others as the stress of it probably isn’t very healthy for the baby!

Confession 3. I’m crap at arguing with my husband. I’ve never admitted this to him but he always tells me I’m crap at it in the middle of an argument. It will usually turn out that I am the one in the wrong so I then try to change the topic slightly to fight about something that is his fault. If we are arguing… it usually goes in circles for ages and ages because I throw more things into the mix instead of just sorting it out. We don’t fight anymore… we haven’t really had a fight that I can remember since becoming pregnant… hopefully this won’t change once baby is born… i like not fighting!! :)

Confession 4. I eat waaaaaay too much salt. I put salt on everything and I really should cut down. This is something i feel guilty about because it’s an awful habit. I don’t even taste my food before I put salt on it most of the time.

Confession 5. I can’t drive! I had 10 lesson but never went any further than that. Driving sort of scares me… although I would LOVE to be able to drive because of the convenience and freedom. I think I might learn next summer.

Confession 6. I have invented pregnancy cravings just so we could eat junk food. Yup… that’s right. I adoooooore indian takeaway, pizza takeaway, chinese takeaway and fish and chips. Hubby and I have been trying to cut down on our outgoings to save more money because we spend an absolute fortune on takeaway food so frequently I asked for takeaway saying how badly I was craving it and how important it was to give in to cravings when pregnant. It worked every time. I also don’t feel bad about this. Pregnancy is so hard sometimes… these takeaways have been my lifeline!!

Confession 7. I have already picked out the eternity ring I would like to be given on our 10th anniversary. It is on the Tiffany’s website in my saved items. Hubby knows my username and password for this site. I made sure to tell him. I would like it for our 10th anniversary because it will probably take that long to save for it. Although… I think the stock may have changed by 2018! :)

Feels good getting things into the open! :)

I am going to tag Frances!

This weeks theme for Photo Hunt (thchick.com) is candy. Candy Floss (or Cotton Candy) is by far my all time favourite. I didn’t actually take this picture… my husband did… My face is scrunched up because it started to rain very lightly (typical Ireland!) and the Candy Floss started to melt in areas.

I remember my mum telling me the first time I ever had it, I burst into tears after taking a bite because it ‘disappeared’ when really I wanted to eat it!

Recently I’ve been having overwhelming feelings of love for my husband.  I know your meant to love your husband anyway… but recently we’ve been so much closer and much happier than I think I can ever remember.  He thinks I’m fabulous and looks at me as if I’m fabulous (even when I look like crap).  I sometimes wonder what I did to deserve him, make him fall in love with me and be lucky enough to have him as my husband. I might not be fabulous in the eyes of everyone, but because he thinks I am, I feel like I am too.

:) He makes me grin.  I think that HE is fabulous :)

Today was nice…

I met hubby for a picnic on his lunch break in a park right beside where he works. I took some cold pesto pasta, cereal bars, carrot sticks and cherry tomatoes and some crisps and we sat there on my new picnic blanket (pressie from mother in law so I can sit in the park with the baby). It felt wonderful being outside in the sunshine and it was lovely to have hubby with me for longer than 20 minutes at lunch. He normally only has 20 minutes because it takes him so long to walk home and back. Being beside his work meant we had nearly 45 minutes :)

Recently I have been finding it hard to be motivated to get up and go do something… having spent so much time off work I find myself pottering about the house and doing odd tasks… also, because of how heavy my bump is, it is quite sore walking for a long period of time. It feels such a waste of the lovely sunshine (a rare occurrence here in Ireland) sitting indoors all day (plus we live in an apartment so don’t have a garden) but I guess it’s just one of the ruts you get into. I also have no friends who are off during the day to go do fun things with. My mum lives in Belfast and that’s a 2 and a half hour drive away. Anyways… today I decided. Fresh air is good for you and if it’s good for me it’s good for the baby in my belly so I’m making a pact with myself to get out for a couple of hours at least every day. I’m gonna pack nice picnic lunches for hubby and I and make the next 4 weeks before baby comes really count.

Herbert Park is really lovely. It’s easy to find a nice quiet spot to lye down and read a book without being interrupted. There is also a bowling green and tennis courts, a pond and soooooo many lovely flowers! Beside the pond today I saw the following female and male duck. They were just so adorable with their heads tucked into their feathers!

I had such a peaceful time then when hubby left to just sit and think and read. Normally I have music on my ipod or speakers but I forgot to charge the battery… so today I just listened to the birds and lovely summer sounds… and I’m so glad I did. I thought about how lovely it is going to be to bring the baby to the park and sit and play on the blanket while waiting for daddy to meet us for lunch. I can’t wait. Thinking about the lovely thing we are going to do with the baby makes the pain and impatience I sometimes feel, totally worth it :)

Do you think it’s possible that it could get any bigger? I think my little boy is not going to be so little!!!!!!