Wow, my life has changed, for the good of course. I knew having a baby meant changes, I don't think anyone realises how much their life will change until this tiny, 100% dependent on you, baby becomes your responsibility. It's been amazing but extremely hard work too. We've had a lot of ups and downs in part due to the lack of knowledge of some healthcare professionals, but we're still battling on through because my gorgeous boy is worth it.

He's 7.5 months old now, a happy and chilled out baby, and he's absolutely amazing. We both still can't believe he's ours

Anyway, I'm not going to bore you with chat of nappies (cloth of course), lack of sleep or his 'first' everything. I just wanted to leave a quick post to point out that I haven't forgotten this site and I hope to get back to at least the occasional post as I've got so much to write about. It's just a case of finding the time, usually once the little 'un has gone to bed

(Photo taken by David Anderson)

A bit belated but we now have a baby boy, Thomas, who was born on 5th December 2010, 11 days early (so a bit of a shock!). I'm still finding my feet and devoting most of my time to him and so rarely get on the computer, however thanks to the power of iPhone apps I do keep my Tumblr blog updated with photos and comments a lot more frequently so feel free to take a look on my Tumblr site

So, it's been a while. It's been a mad year to be honest. Once I finally got over the headaches caused by my early pregnancy, work took off at a soaring pace and with going on maternity in just a week, we had to take all the work we could manage.

I've barely had much time for friends and family, let alone blogging. The baby is now due in 3 weeks time, but could come at any point between now and 5 weeks. I'm due to finish work next week (and not a week too soon!)

I've got a lot of posts in mind for here, catch up posts on new WordPress features, some examples of some of the major sites we've been working on recently etc. Time and baby permitting I hope to get some of these done before the end if the year but they'll be along at some point, I've not forgotten about this site

Yes it's been pretty quiet around here. After a busy couple of months to start the year, plus a stressful time in March with a vigilante developer who didn't have a clue (long story…!), we then had the amazing news that I'm pregnant Since then it's been a bit hard going for me as I've been going through a lot of the typical first trimester symptoms of tiredness, mild insomnia, morning sickness and worst of all, headaches.

However, it'll be worth it especially as on Tuesday we both got the first glimpse of our baby to be during a scan at hospital. An amazing moment for both of us, especially as it confirmed that the baby's heart was beating fine and confirmed our due date of mid December

I'm still suffering with a lot of headaches and lack of sleep, although I'm starting to get used to them a bit more now, but it does mean that most of my time is either spent in bed nursing the pain or getting work done. Hopefully, on average, this should only last another week or two and then I'll be into my second trimester and apparently have a new lease of energy, and be able to get on with enjoying being pregnant… I'm counting the days!

So a few plans for this site may have to take a back seat for a while now as I need to spend any computer time working, earning and saving as much as possible and teaching David some PHP as he'll be running the company at first, once the baby comes. However I will try to get some non personal posts up here when I can, especially with WordPress 3.0's release just around the corner. RC2 is already out so it's worth having a play with to get ready for the final version

This will probably be the last post of the year. I know there's two weeks left still but there's so much going on in my life that I doubt I'll get a chance after today!

It's been a mad rollercoaster of a year from setting up as a limited company, getting engaged, losing a good friend, moving to a much better house, the birth of my nephew, getting married, making new friends, and now preparing for Christmas in our new home. So many highs but one major low.

I've also been a bit lost as to how to proceed with this site. It's gone through quite a few ideas and changes of subject content, from a personal blog with tech posts, to a business and tech blog, back to personal and tech with a bit of business and money making thrown in. My posting has slowed down a lot, at first due to writing twice a week for Blogging Tips, but I took a leave of writing for there over 6 months ago.

I feel like I've exhausted the subject of WordPress from the technical point of view, but maybe not from real world example point of view. A lot of what I write on WordPress and PHP could easily be found on hundreds of other blogs and sites. Plus I've not been keeping up with other blogs, my feedreader wonders who I am if I ever go there!

So over Christmas I need to work out what to do. I'm not going to drop the site but I need to get some focus back, possibly get my new design implemented (it's on paper, that's about it!) and kick start blogging again. I think it'll start to cover a broader range of topics, and as my photo blog just gets no attention from me at all, I'll probably bring my photo posts back here too.

Got lots to work out for the new year! There's a few things I can't really go into just now but January and the rest of 2010 is looking good Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and have a happy new year