This week we have started getting ready for Christmas. There is no denying Christmas is coming, it is December tomorrow! I am starting to get a bit more excited now. You can read some of our preparations further on in this post. Usually we don’t decorate our tree before mid December. However with the year its been I felt we were justified starting the Christmas cheer sooner!

Renovations Continued

Well the electrician I mentioned in my week 47 update did a fab job! He commented on how some of the wiring had become quite brittle, so I think we booked him just in the nick of time. My house looks so much better for losing five emergency light fittings which were really quite bulky! Yes, they are useful in a power cut, but they don’t really fit in with the look of our family home.

I couldn’t shift out the old fittings to our bin quick enough.

Although our house now has more holes in it, so we do need to get the plasterer in soon! I try not to look too closely in case a spider pops out! Once the walls are freshly plastered and painted I can finally think about the type of wall art I want.

Hopefully, my electrician will be back this week to do a few final bits. We are getting an outside light sorted. There is nothing worse than stumbling around in the dark during the winter months. Then the plumber starts tomorrow. Our family bathroom will finally have a bathroom in it! We moved in six years ago and ripped out the old bathroom. So, it’s taken us a very long point to save up the money to put a bathroom back in that room!

I would say with renovation projects maybe don’t go in guns blazing. Otherwise you might get everything ripped out ready to start and then run out of funds to put everything back together again! It’s a valuable lesson I probably should have learnt sooner rather than later.

Walk And Breakfast

This week I had another walk with a friend. I was glad to get out. I haven’t been doing anywhere near enough steps each day! Also, it was nice to find a few painted rocks on the walk. This fox one was quite sweet.

We then treated ourselves to a cooked breakfast.

Cake

My husband baked us a cake! It was only a packet mix I found lurking at the back of the cupboard. But it tasted so good with strawberry jam and (rather a lot of) buttercream filling. Plus, I think we needed cake this week we seem to have been rushing around more than usual.

I also did a few more blog posts if you want to check those out; How to add extra functionality to your living room, Wellness tips for new parents, 5 ways to feel better again after having a baby, Loft conversion bedroom ideas For Your teenager, and Bringing personality to your wardrobe. I have a competition I need to get live next week, my blog is a little too short on competitions for my liking at the moment.

It’s All About Christmas

Yes Christmas is coming!!! This week I bought two Christmas inflatables which I love! I have always wanted to buy some but never felt like I could justify the expenditure for something frivolous. But this year has been a bit of a tough one so I thought it might be nice to make Christmas an even bigger occasion than normal. You can pick up these particular inflatables from The Factory Shop, they cost £20 each, which I think is a pretty fair price for the quality and size of them.

I was also sent matching pyjamas to add to my Christmas gift guide, they were delivered this week and I couldn’t wait to try them on. This is our first year with Christmas pyjamas so I think it should definitely be a regular thing! I can see it becoming a new family tradition.

Pigeon on the trampoline

I felt like a contender on I’m A Celebrity after having to pick up a wood pigeon and coax it off the trampoline! You would have thought it would just fly out. But after watching it for awhile I realized I had to step in and help. The pigeon just kept hovering about midway panicking, it is quite a high netted trampoline I guess. But not sure who was more freaked out in the end the pigeon or me! I had to send Sim a photo straight away just so she could share in the moment!

With that the weekend is over! I feel like I need another weekend before facing early morning pack lunch box making so soon. Weekends feel like such a luxury these days, but they never seem to last long enough!