Excitement

As an only child I never grew up with the expectation of being an aunty and despite being married twice now I'm still not really one.

So, when my best friend from school told me she was expecting her first baby I was really pleased for her. Now, said best friend and I have had our differences along the way - mostly caused by our mutual stubbornness and different stages in life, and have had patches where we've not spoken to each other. But when all is said and done she's someone I still consider to be a good friend.

So, for a while now I've been knitting baby bits for her and waiting .... she's now two weeks late and due to be induced any time now, so hopefully the baby will arrive safely in the next 24 hours or so. .. and I'm so excited :)

My girls are past babyhood by a long way now - the eldest turned 12 recently, so all things baby have been banished from our house. We now have raging pre-teen hormones to contend with, but I still look at all the little clothes on sale in Tesco and think how cute the accessories for babies are. Don't get me wrong, I'm not broody and don't want another one thank you, but I do like some of the nifty things that have come out since my girls were tiny. This impending birth is bringing back many memories of my own girls babyhood - some of which I'd blanked out in the horror of those early years and the difficult marriage, but on the whole, it's been a nice trip down memory lane.

And as for my friends baby - it's still hanging in there and I'm dying to know what colour yarn to knit with!