Well it has been so long since I have touched base here.  Leading a duplicitous life such as mine leads you to not much time really.  You see, I have another blog that I post to and so I can get a bit slack at keeping up with this one.  Naught Natty.

Anyway, because of my extended neglect, I will now attempt to regale you with an update of how things are and what has been happening at Chalet Natty.

I have had a nasty injury.  I know, I know,.......awwww for Natty.  I feel your sympathy in waves so thank you.  I was getting enthusiastically involved in my exercise regime and did not realise that I was completely and utterly destroying my tibiae.  Yes, that both of them.  Good huh?  So then I was told, no exercise (NO? Exercise?  NONE?) for six weeks.  Great.

I felt good after about 2 weeks, but I took it VERY slowly.  Did a bit of gentle exercise.  Went to Tae Kwon Do (and took it very easy!) So easy in fact that I exacerbated the compression fracture in my right tibia by twisting it in a not very biomechanically correct way.  Voila - ABSOLUTELY! NO! exercise for 6 weeks and then only non weight bearing stuff for about 6 months.  Hmmmm.  Can we say 'balooning thighs' anyone?

So now I am the largest I have ever been.  I am feeling a little bit 'self-esteem-destroyed' at the moment but we all get that now and then and I will get throught it all quite well I can assure you.

Aside from the injury, I have been studying.  An achievement that I have not managed since Uni which was more years ago than I care to think about right now.  I have been studying to take an exam.  The one that I took last Saturday.  This exam started a 0900 and finished promptly at 1700 with an hour break for lunch.  I am sure you are all with me in thinking that this must have been one of the longest days of my LIFE. 

The first two sections of the exam ('Reasoning in Humanities and Social Sciences' and 'Written Communication') were quite reasonable.  I think I managed to do okay in these and despite all appearances to the contrary (what with all the punctuation and spelling mistakes and capitals used for emphasis and run-on sentences used in this blog) I can write a university level piece quite well.  It was the final section (and the longest) that completely deflated me.

Without the final section (Reasoning in Biological and Physical Sciences) I felt I probably had a pretty good shot at getting into Uni to study Medicine.  Unfortunately, they don't hold as much weight as the expectation that you have a fair idea about science.  Go figure.  So despite my cramming in the subject of chemical bonding I feel I have done rather poorly in the final section.  We shall see I suppose but I am feeling pretty positive about doing a 'prep course' for next year's exam and repeating it then.  Hopefully with much less alarming negative feelings!

Moving on to the family front.  Maisy is rolling over from back to belly.  She doesn't like being on her belly much and so she rolls over.  And. Cries. because she hasn't figured out how to get from belly to back yet.  She is no longer sleeping through the night.  I made the fatal mistake of telling people that my wonderful baby sleeps through the night.  Alas.  No longer.  But she is still adorable and beautiful and special and precious etc etc ad infinitum ad nauseum.

Declan.  Is still a very headstrong and indipendant little boy who likes things and does things the way he likes and does them.  He is an individual spirit that knows exactly what he wants.  I love him to bits and he give great cuddles.

Gage.  Is a sensitive little smoochkin.  He is so caring and feeling.  Obviously, he has his moments with his brothers but I think in most instances, these happen because he sometimes prefers to go off and be by himself, and Declan (usually it Declan) won't let him jus tbe alone for a while.  He is a deep thinker my Gage.  I love him amazingly.

Reece.  Is a smart and intuitive kid.  He is reading, reading, reading at the moment.  I am thrilled!  I was never really sure that he would get much into reading as he never really seemed interested.  I have a feeling that he never really found much in the 'junior reading' books that caught his interest.  NOW.  It is a totally different story.  If I don't watch to make sure that he only reads for a little while when he goes to bed, I could go in there at midnight and he would be still reading!  I love him too.

Aaron.  Darling Husband.  Is handling the Stay at Home Dad situation quite well I must say.  He is enjoying it for the most part but has his days.  He is quite organised (which I have to admit surprised me) but I think the only reason that he MAY not have been very organised prior to undertaking the home dad thing is because I was the organiser and didn't LET him do it.  So he didn't.  Ever.  He would just let me do it because I DID it.  Now, I have let the reins go a little and I gotta say it is quite liberating (as scary as it was to do at first!)

I have such a wonderful family.  I cannot express how much I adore them.  They absolutely complete me.

Anyway, that's me in a....well.....(coco)nut shell.  I will try to update more often.  Honestly I will.