Carla's Story: It's almost time!

Wow, I cannot believe that I am only two weeks away of going to America and Mike is following shortly after that. The 9 months have flown by for me and I wish Jackie feels the same. Jackie is doing fantastic; however she is doing all the hard work and not me. I have kept myself occupied with organizing our wedding and after that the baby room and taking control of all the preparation you need to think of when you are expecting twins.

For wedding presents we asked for baby furniture, baby clothing, baby socks, baby toys, baby sheets, baby chairs etc. etc. and guess what, we got it all (Thank you to all of our generous friend and family). However, I am trying not to get carried away with the high street baby stuff and still have some great old fashion attributes. We are going to try cloth diapers. It was a great pleasure to receive all our gifts and unwrap them. I also managed to set the cots together, all by myself, but I will ask Michael to check all the screws, just in case.

Last week Jackie and Amy emailed us a photo of Jackie and she looks fantastic, she has this beautiful big perfectly round belly and our boys are already 4 pounds each.!! Seeing this photo had a great impact on Mike and me, it got so real and so close by! We were singing and smiling for hours.....not just a smile, I am talking from ear to ear!

I cannot help myself to wonder how big the shock will be to become a mother! I guess it will be pretty big and pretty new. Some days I think about what I miss in the mother initiative because my babies are not growing in my belly....and I cannot name one thing...I think I will be a good mum but it did help when my Auntie Jeanne (who I'd been a nanny for when she had twins so many years ago) confirmed this.

Today I went to the supermarket and there was a grandmother waiting in the front of the shop blocking (without realizing) the pass through for the customers. When she finally noticed (as a queue of 3 people was forming) she apologized saying 'I am sorry I am not used to this stroller' It was one of the new fancy strollers with outstanding front wheels. I smiled to the lovely lady thinking: should I tell her that I already have been pushing my twin fancy stroller through the house? I just smiled because Michael did it too so it can't be that strange.

Carla