22 March 2009 the maiden voyage

After seeing my cousin's beautiful blog spot- thought I just had to try this for myself. Cousin in question- Nola Stone- have a look for yourself at her blog spot- www.stoneburble.blogspot.com . As she says there it is a wonderful way of recording your life for your children and also not having to worry about people cursing your name because you sent them pictures that have crashed their servers.

Sorry Nola- I have plagiarised your blog name!

So who is the beautiful boy that I have in mind? My son- Christopher Ryan Carr. I think that he is the most beautiful baby that I have ever seen. ME biased- pah!

Christopher was born on 9 June 2009 by Cesarean section at the Sandton Medi-Clinic. Boy what an experience that was. Bearing in mind that I head up a medical malpractice team at an insurance brokerage- so you can imagine how scared I was going in.

He's asleep right now so I am sneaking in some me time. Put the kettle on and time for some tea!

I like one of the themes that runs through Nola's blog- only happy thoughts allowed and focusing on one joy a day.

Went out last night to dinner at Dave and Sue's. It was one of those evenings where you feel warm and fuzzy afterwards from all the laughter around the dinner table, the delicious food, wonderful company and a fair amount of wine!

Here's the lovely Sue, in black, at my baby shower. She has one of those wonderful contagious laughs and she is really a domestic goddess in the kitchen which is just not right somehow considering that she is also an incredibly successful business woman.

I am the bunny in the middle and my best friend and Christopher's Godmother (one of them) is on my left in the blue- Tamzin. One of those friends that you count as a rich blessing in your life.

I met Tamzin in Grahamstown and we shared a digs when I first started working at Whiteside Attorneys way back in 1998. I bawled my eyes out when the only place that I could get work was Grahamastown- the one place I was now rather anxious to leave after spending 4 years at varsity there. Funny how life turns out- it was one of the best years of my life!

SO anyway, have to repeat one of my hubby's jokes from dinner last night (at one point the conversation went a bit pear-shaped as they inevitably do). That's something about me too while we're here- I love jokes and am shameless in repeating even really lame ones!

SO anyway- the joke: a wig and a turd walk into a bar and ask for a drink. They're none too happy when the barman refuses to get them a drink and the wig demands to know why. SO the barman replies- "Well! You're off your head and your mate is steaming." Hahahahaha.

And courtesy of Dave no2 at dinner last night:"2 vomits are walking along. The one vomit stops in front of a bar and starts crying and the other vomit is very concerned and asks what's wrong? Just felt a bit emotional seeing the place that I was brought up." Lame Lame DOuble-decker lamo- but somehow rather funny after a few glasses of wine!

My joy today- getting to sleep in a bit as Christopher spent that night at his Granny Pat's. I love watching them together. He really loves his Granny and has this big smile on his face when he sees her and they talk babyburble to each other.

Anyway, Big Daddy on his way home from a showhouse- my hubby James is an estate agent. The dreaded question- so what are we doing for dinner? Roadkill with gravy and mash....?