The Unexpected Housewife
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I believe the correct phrase here is “R being a ham”..? He was so happy be outside all afternoon:)
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Here it is then, the piece I’ve been so excited about! It’s very sore and the colour needs to settle a LOT but I...
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At the Park
Littlest loved picking daisies and playing on the buried dragon
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Can better placemaking encourage healthier lifestyles?
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Four on Thursday
1. I made an effort today. I wanted to look pretty so I put on a skater dress and heels, I felt nice. Littlest said to me “oh mummy,...
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Well I burned the shit out of my finger on the hot glue gun. Why do crafts hate me? Medicating the best way I know how....
Worrywart
Can’t help it, will spend the whole day worrying today. Dropped hubby off first thing at hospital for a little op today, I know he’s not under for long, I know it’s not complicated but he was so concerned about it I think it’s transferred to me and today will be one of those days that I just worry.
Going to just stay busy all day and try to keep my mind off the worry!
Happy birthday to me!
So today I reached the grand old age of 38, and the hubby got to 40 last week and next week is our wedding anniversary so we decided a party was in order. We booked the room we married in 4 years ago to have our lunch in and it did really feel every bit as special as that most special of days. Friends and family massed round a big table is one of my favourite ways to spend time and today didn’t disappoint. It was lovely to have our own garden space today as the kids all had space to play and a mass game of cricket kept the kids and the men busy for a few hours. So another year done, in a mere 13 weeks we hope to welcome another happy and healthy addition to our family and to move to another part of the country so what better way to get ourselves ready for the self imposed exile that comes with new babies than going out with a bang today!
Work in progress
Call it pregnancy madness but I decided to make my own birthday cake for our joint birthday and anniversary party tomorrow. Except I couldn’t make a decision to save my life at the moment and so have made a rich and unctuous chocolate cake, slathered in chocolate ganache, topped with crystallised pansies from the garden, a strawberry, chantilly cream and kirsch Genoese sponge with four layers and just cause I really was feeling terribly indecisive I’ve also make a huge carrot cake covered in cream cheese icing and walnuts. I’m exhausted, how do people do this every day? But hey it’s nearly all done now and we have homemade pizza on the sofa with the boy coming up so time to put my feet up for a bit.
Hormone hell
You know your pregnancy hormones are up the creek when the fact that the coffee shop at the top of the road has run out of decaf makes you want to cry……..to add insult to injury I hadn’t taken any cash so couldn’t even get a muffin to make up for it.
The boys in blue
Absolutely not intentional but all the men turned up in blue today! My little brother, my boy, my hubby and my step pa. What a fab, relaxing weekend is being had by all, gawd I love a bank holiday! Staying down at my parents for the night and because they live in the middle of the countryside I have been woken up by a cacophony of nature sounds . It’s a bit like being on the savannah…….in the UK, I don’t even mind that its 6 am and I should be going back to sleep. The small one is in with me having been to excited to sleep alone, all is peace, oh and Freddie is practicing his Kung foo moves in my tummy, funny.
