I am so sorry I have not been here. Actually, I have been here, but you were not to know it, because I was on the other side of the screen studying, rather than blogging.
My reasons for this abberation are manifold and complex. Yet I shall attempt a reduction:
- The first draft of my thesis is due in five-and-a-half-weeks (yes the one I haven't written a single word of yet, yes that one).
- I have had morning sickness (but I'm better now) (oh, and they should just call it "round-the-clock-crappiness-without-the-actual-sympathy-inducing-vomitting" sickness).
- Actually, that about sums it up.
Also, I shall attempt to nominally feed and clothe the offspring, and provide a passable amount of wifely comfort to Bill.
I shall, as you imagine, have no social life.
But then, who needs a social life? All that frivilous lunching, coffeeing, talking, smiling. God. How did I ever bear it.
So the kids took the news of the new baby predictably.
Polly looked politely interested for 0.75 seconds before turning back to The Simpsons. Perhaps she's heard it all before, and is completely unimpressed. Perhaps the thought that her parents still have sex caused a temporary blank out. Who knows? Teenagers are odd.
Mayday looked at us in horror, and shouted "NOOOOOOOOOOO!". She then curled up into the foetal position and went to sleep. We didn't see her until the next day. This is not a quaint literary embellishment. She did exactly that.
Noisie pulled her top lip up - Billy Ray Cyrus style - (or is it Elvis?), raised her eyebrows, looked at my belly, and said "True?..... Freeeeeaky."
Bill, himself, is still adapting. The news was a little... unexpected.
We shall call it Bump.
