32 weeks pregnant

Today I am 8 weeks away from giving birth providing the baby comes on time.Every week it takes longer and longer to get a good picture of the bump as this week for example we couldn't take one without my back fat on display. Not a little fat, plenty of rolls actually!  This is how I look minus the back fat:

No cravings this week,quite an achy back and swollen feet but feeling good overall. Baby is moving so much throughout the day which is a very good thing, I have seen the midwife also who confirmed everything is good and normal.

I now know why people like me are dreading having babies, because other people with babies are idiots! The amount of times I heard today: 'Oooooh not long now,hope you are ready for sleepless nights' or 'pooey nappies are awful, do you wanna try and practice?' NO,of course not! Why the hell would I wanna change your child's bum to practice? I'm sure I will get enough practice from my own.That and the sick and the drools that come with it but that in a different post :)

On a different note, today we have decided that we are accepting an offer on our house so hopefully baby will be born in a new house. I cannot wait to make it our own. Look:

The new house has 3 bedrooms, a garage and a perfect kitchen diner. Also the enclosed garden is great for the stepdog,he cannot be left on his own in our garden as he sneaks into Keith's garden next door and he forgets how he got in and gets stuck in the fence.I know! So overall a great house for us and can't wait to start decorating it!

Cravings...

I am just wiping my face off the Nutella Chocolate and crumbs that make me look like a baby who just discovered toast! I was woken up by a very hungry belly/baby and on Saturday mornings we don't usually have any food,fruit,milk,bread,anything healthy really in the fridge as I do the food shopping on a Saturday.

The only thing that was edible was Nutella on toast! Mmmmmm....is definitely one of my cravings as never fancied it before I got pregnant and is delicious.

Another craving I had from the beginning was kiwis. People say is weird but I don't see how that is weird, I mean people do eat sponges and lick cats hair ( seen the advert on tv of This woman licking her cats.whaaat??)

So chocolate spread, kiwi and tinned peaches are my everyday essentials.I have a fruit salad for my lunch every day and I love it.I have been trying to eat really healthy as I have a very sweet tooth and I didn't want to be one of them pregnant ladies that gain 5 stone, I know you can't really help it sometimes but I have no motivation to loose weight ever so that much weight on my 5'4 frame is catastrophic.

Another favourite food of mine is pasta!!!! I could literally eat pasta with anything, is so versatile and filing and healthy( it is it is, there are NO carbs in pasta yeah?).I have a feeling that pasta will be very very popular in our house once the baby is here as Liam can't cook anything apart from Cajun pasta.

I have discovered the easiest recipe for ''Pesto Pasta" but because mama is very tired nowadays I buy everything ready made, including the garlic! Because why not?

So the ingredients are:

Pesto, garlic, salami or chorizo and a tiny amount of chillies. Of course salt and pepper. We used pasta bows which we boiled for 10 mins, friend the salami with garlic in a pan for no longer than a minute then chucked the pasta with a few spoonfuls of pesto. Mix them together for a couple of minutes until the pasta is covered in the pesto and done:

We made some garlic bread because I love it and also sprinkled some Parmesan on the pasta for extra taste ( Liam skipped the Parmesan but added hot sauce.

Perfect meal in less than 20 minutes :) x