Some updates

My little Snoekie (Cara-Mia) is now 2 years old! Wow how time just flew by.  She was breastfed for 22 months, and still sleeps with mommy, and now daddy, in the bed.  She is way to smart for her age, but still the cutest and most beautiful little girl ever.

I am now 7 weeks pregnant, and with my awesome new supportive husband we are planning a home water birth for some time in December.

I have not gone for any scans or tests or whatever (those who know me, knows how I feel about these things.)  I have to admit that this pregnancy is allot harder then the previous one.  For straters I am going to be pregnant alot longer.  I was 3months when I found out the first time, this time i was only 4 weeks.  I also don't get to sleep as much as in my firts pregnancy since i am running after snoekie.  And oh boy does the smell of meat make me sick :(

Still i am very very exited, me and Heine are doing pre natal classes so that he can also get used to the idea of a home water birth.  Because they were not educated enough his daughter was born via c-section, so this is a whole new experience for him. i am just so happy that he understands and is so supportive of who I am and what I want.  I mean we still sometimes debate about parenting, but we were brought up in two way diffirent worlds.

I now no longer work, my husband is a very succesful attorney and business man so I am lucky enough to be a stay at home mom and wife.  I must say i really enjoy it much more then working.  I missed my Snoekie too much when I wasn't at home.

Hallo again

It has been a really really long time since I posted anything.  I actually really missed blogging.  So much has happend since then I don't even know where to start ....
Ok so although I finished my flight attended course I never went to work as one.  I actually went to work for an attorney firm via a friend.  Looong story short I totally fell in lovewith my boss, and after 4 months of knowing each other we got engaged.  And only two months after that we got married.  It was the most amazing day of my life and i can't believe how lucky I am.  My husband Heine was previously married (well depending on who is telling the story i might have been the other woman, but that is a whole other story) and he has a little girl named Dinnique.
So now I am blessed with two beautiful little girls ... and there is another baby on the way.  This time I thin kit is a boy, I was right with Cara-Mia and I never did the scan checking thing, so I hope I am right this time two.
We are also very exited to be moving into our own place soon, we had some trouble with the electricity but now it is sorted so we can move in. It is a bit far from my mother and sisters, but i have a great husband so I am sure it will go great.

I guess i should now change the blog name to 'Raising SnoekieS'

Our new jourey ... continued

1 June 2011 - My training officially started

Being over exited I off course was there first that morning.  I had no idea what to expect.  I thought we would be sitting in a class of about 20 or so.  Strict teachers drilling us with aeroplane facts.

We had to be there at nine, and at about ten to nine I was still the only one ... finally I heard some footsteps. (I was sitting in the very awesome tearoom, fully equip with a galley and aeroplane seats)  Another girl walked in, and soon after hr another girl.  I didn't know then that these two ladies would become such good friends.

On our first day we visited an aircraft, it was so exiting.  It is so much different from just sitting in the passenger seat.  That day we also got the program for the course .... and boy oh boy it was far from sitting in a class room!!

2 June 2011 - Wet Ditching

On our second day .... Just for a small second try to imagine this, there I was, on my second day, not sure if this was for me, not yet close friends, not yet anything.  

Now also imagine doing wet ditching in the middle of the winter, wearing a shirt and leggings.  What is wet ditching you ask?  Well in the case of an emergency on an aeroplane, a cabin crew member would have to know how and what to do in the vent of us landing or falling in the see.

So they pick the coldest swimming they can find, and not just any swimming pool, an Olympics swimming pool, meaning it is like 30m long and not even the longest pilot there can stand so deep is the water.   We line up and one by one jump into the -100 degree water (Luckily we wore life vest because I am convinced that when my body hit that cold water, my hart stopped for a few seconds.)  Luckily in the water there is no time to be cold, you have to swim to the middle of the pool, drag some else (who is playing dead) and swim back dragging them behind you.  Then of course it is your turn to play dead and you once again get dragged to the middle of the super deep swimming pool.  My whole body was numb and in shock.

Luckily for us, all the pro pilots started complaining about how cold the water is, and that it was unacceptable and and and so we got to climb out.  My feet and hands where in sooo much pain, and breathing was hard.

But ... at least I know that I will be able to save some people, in the crazy event of an aeroplane falling into the sea.

The rest of that week was allot of fun, we learned about all the emergency equipment, how to use everything and so on.  We also learned some neat survival skills ... did you know that if you live a healthy lifestyle, and your urine is clear, you can drink it when stranded in the dessert.  If how ever your urine is yellow or any other color, you will toxic ate yourself and die.

Our new journey

Although I dedicated this blog to Snoekie, and is actually about parenting and those things, I just have to blog about my 6 weeks training and the whole flying story .... o my this could get long!!

So I on day randomly decided that I want to be a flight attendant after seeing a friends photos.  I discussed it with my parents and as you can guess, their main concern was snoekie.  I argued my case as follow:

Snoekie has had a great start in life, better than most kids.  I gave her more than a year.  She doesn't drink that much during the day anyway and she is a good eater. She is very independent and she loves her ouma to bits (my mom looked after during the day while I was training.)

So they said yes.  It was awesome!!

Since I am telling you the whole story, i have to mention the crazy week prior to when training started.  I had to get my eyes tested (I can see 100%), I had to go for x-rays (my bone are 100%) and I had to go for a full medical examination which included the following:

• hours answering weird questions about family null, and everything else from past drug abuse all the way to how big is your little toe
• then the urine test (don't yo just love peeing in those champagne look alike glasses)
• the hearing test was the most annoying.  Can't they just record some one screaming help and let it fade, rather then that annoying beep sound that gt stuck in your mind, and then you are not sure whether you are hearing it or not. Then you say yes, and the dr asks are you sure, and then you think am I sure and and and then ....
• after that adventure thy hook you to all kinds of machines and make yo id a bike for like twenty minutes.  And for some one who has never rode a bike in hr life, it was quite intimidating, especially since the nurse keeps yelling to go faster
• Then comes the always painful blood samples

Never the less I passed my medical exam, apparently I am hundred percent!!

The next few days and didn't know what to do with myself.  I was out of my skin from excitement.

But my hart was restless.  Was I being a bad mother, leaving her?! I know 90% of woman go back to work withing 3 months, but I'm not them, and I made a promise to give her 100%

It was to late to turn back, and I knew in my head that as a single mom I was doing the right thing.  I needed to get on my own feet, look after my own Snoekie

The first few days I missed her soooo much, even though I was enjoying the course and the new friends I made.

But when I came home at night and my mom told me she was happy and fine, it soothed my soul.  Unlike the first few days she also didn't cry when I got out of the car, she said bey, see later.  I was happy and sad at the same time, she was doing so well without me.  but I knew she missed me, drinking non stop from the second I got into the car til the next morning when I got out again.

I learn so much from her, we underestimate how smart they are .... she knows I'll always come back to her!!!

To be continued ....

Maybe a new name?

Snoekie's mom's life has taken another wild turn ... by now every one is convinced she is weird and crazy!!

The last time I blogged my heart and mind was set  on becoming a doula,  and maybe one day in the future I will, but for now my heart and mind is set on something else!!!

I am going to be a flight attendant, and no I am not just thinking about it, I have already done the course, passed my sacaa exam, and is currently looking for work.

That is why I want to change the blog name to:

AROUND THE WORLD WITH A SNOEKIE!!

I think it is going to be a huge adventure, and traveling is so amazing.

I can't wait to start flying and learn about the world and all the diverse cultres

It's been a long time...

Wow it has been a long time since I have blogged.  I quite missed it.  There is so much to tell and share, where on earth to begin?

Let start with the most important subject ... Snoekie!!
My little girl is now 16 months old, and I still stand in awe at how fast time flies.  We still breastfeed and co sleep but so much else has changed.  She now talks in sentences, runs around all over the place, and has an entire will of her own.

Don't ever think parenting gets easier .... it gets much harder!!!  Everyday there are difficult  choices to be made and hard lessons to be learned.  She learns so fast and copies everything we do and say.  This is also a learning school for mommy who can sometimes be a little short tempered and also doesn't also speak in a friendly tone of voice.  It really isn't cool when your baby tells you to wait or stop it.

Without comparing her to other children I have no idea whether we are on the right track or not.  I try to learn her as much as possible, but I also  don't want to push her.  

I wonder if other children her age also some times smack their mothers in the face? Throw their food on the ground? Scream if they don't get their way?  It sometimes feel like I'm fighting this battle alone.

I still love her to bits and love how she is so much like her mommy.  Even if she is still so young I see so much of myself in her. The poor man in my life is getting a double dose of me.

And off course as her mother I think she is the smartest little girl ever.  She is so intelligent ... it must be the overdose of breast milk she is getting.

I actually can't believe I'm still breastfeeding!  I am lasting longer then I thought I would.  Some days it drives me insane and i feel like taping my nipples ... but then I get reminded why and for who I am doing it and then we go on.  wow and I am getting allot off crap for still breastfeeding!  I thought it was bad when she was a baby, it gets much worst.  But I don't care!!

Must say ... I am getting seriously fatigued with her drinking all night.  But thats part of being a mom I guess.  I choose to make sacrifices so that she can be happy and healthy.

She was born Cara-Mia
She wakes up as Snoekie
By the afternoon she is Scooby-Snack
At at night we call her crazy cat