Christmas time is upon us

How quickly the days fly past at this time of year! Here is what we have been doing:

• spending LOTS of time in the garden, weeds wait for no (generic) man,
• installing storage in the new rooms
  
• culling and decluttering old things before packing away in new storage above
• planning new house
• organising our trip overseas
• living the usual life that is with 2 little ones,
  

On the last point, second child is now proudly out of nappies all the time! Yes, Mama spent lots of time diligently looking after Miss Independent so she could be more independent, with all that entails - ample supply of clean underwear, mop at the ready, bashfulness set aside when out and about. And now I can look forward to packing up our well loved stash of cloth nappies, which lasted 2 children but still have life in them yet. Add that to the list of outgrown children's items to be sold on Ebay/Gumtree.

Now it is two weeks till Christmas and there is still so much to do! Our stash of Advent biscuits disappeared the day we celebrated the start of Advent, ok they lasted a week which isn't too bad. But must bake more. And there is the Gingerbread house to make also, this week I fear. My wonderful friend Miss E makes AMAZING Gingerbread houses. She just finished hers so I must post a picture. If only she lived closer to us...... aaaah well. We love you from afar, Erin. XX