Babies!

This week has been all about babies. Not the least of which is my Brother Christopher and his wife Yvonne’s newborn Lucy. She was born on Valentines Day round about 2:30am and weighed 8lbs 12 ounces. Now the weird thing is a few people have said “So, you’re an uncle again”. Now I get what they mean – I have a niece and nephew from my sister already – but does another niece make me an uncle again? I don’t think so; if anything it just makes me more of an uncle. I’m an uncle to the power of three (and that’s just in blood relatives!).

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Today we supposed to be babysitting for Michelle’s brother Steven and his girlfriend Ellen. They had a little boy a few weeks ago and named him Eli. Now I’ve only seen the kid once so on the one hand I was looking forward to seeing him again, but on the other hand – a much heavier and tired hand – looking after Eli would mean getting two trains into Govan.

It’s Sunday I don’t even like getting on two shoes on a Sunday let alone two trains. It’s just about the only part of Christianity I agree with – Sunday is for rest. I do nothing that involves effort on this day – it’s a life rule that I hate to break but still I did feel a little guilty at the fact I was overjoyed when I found out I didn’t need to go.

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Now the last thing isn’t really anything to do with me but it was too cool a weird a thing not to tell people. My friend Jim has two brothers, Stevie and Craig. Stevie lives down south and Craig lives here in East Kilbride. Each has been with their girlfriends for a long time and recently both found out that their girl friends were pregnant. Great, brilliant, nothing odd about that – except that both babies are due on the same day! What are the chances of that!

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Well that’s all I’ve got for now and I’ve got to say that after reading both Zach Braff and Kevin Smith’s Blogs I have to say that writing about my mundane little life is kind of intimidating. I really have to start doing interesting things.

'Till then.