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Life back in South Africa after 5 years in the US

Friday, May 12, 2006

House - Ready, Steady, Go!

Hi friends

Busy, busy this side.
Just wanted to let you all know that we're MOVING IN this weekend! YIPEEEEEEE!! Perfect Mother's Day present, hey! Quick pic because I don't have the energy to surf looking for more pics quite yet:



Kitchen pic pre- alterations. Notice the lovely VINYL on the walls! :)

Post alterations with stuff almost ready for move in - still need to paint as you can see which is being done as I type

Quite excited now about moving in, although don't know how long we're going to be in there before our Kate arrives. I've been having cramps - not terribly bad, but bad enough to stop much activity.

Also a bit of scary news for me is that I found out at my last prenatal appointment that South Africa doesn't offer epidurals on demand. So that means I either decide to induce Kate, which I'm worried about since James was induced and was not really ready to be born, but I'll have an epidural OR do it the natural way (as I was hoping for) with NO POSSIBILITY of epidural. Quite a tough decision...

Am frantic with doing house/ baby prep things etc, so you have all been on my mind even though it seems not.

Also, Mandi Shrimpton, if you read this blog...found the scrapbook album you gave me again this week while starting to pack everything away. It is just amazing. Thank you so much. It made me so nostalgic for the US and all the wonderful friends we've left behind.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Come to Klerksdorp!! Our doctors have no problems giving you an epidural on demand.
I'm glad you're moving in (or moved in I suppose) The kitchen looks great

2:02 pm  
Blogger Wenchy said...

The kitchen looks awesome!

7:48 pm  
Blogger Adrienne said...

The kitchen looks fantastic! Such a huge improvement. I hope the birth goes well and I will be thinking of you. The big news is that Michel has accepted the Google job and we are moving to London! I hope you and yours can visit often!

9:35 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello Juliette. I can't offer any kind of advice on epidurals but I can tell you that the kitchen looks amazing !!

9:42 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

a sea of tile backsplash...drool...thanks for posting the pics, hope the move went well!

5:08 am  

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