I Made A Pie

Look, look what I made! It's a pie. An actual pie. With proper pastry and turkey, leek and bacon filling, all made from scratch. I'm ridiculously proud of it, considering, you know, it's just a pie. It took forever to make (but then everything takes forever since Tiny was born, so no surprise there), and it wasn't too pretty to look at, but it was quite scrumptious, even  if I do say so myself  :)

Catching Up...

So yeah, it's been a while. It's funny how I don't feel like I lead an especially busy life, yet still I never seem to have enough time to keep up with anything, including blogging. So maybe I'll just go with a few pictorial highlights of things that have been making me smile so far this year....

...but far, far and away the thing that's made me smile the most is this little beauty...

I still can't quite get my head around the fact that in only 3 short months we will be a family. It's crazy and surreal, and kinda scary, but right now I really couldn't be happier. Ok, well maybe I'd be happier if the decorating was finished and the new bathroom fitted, and the nursery was ready...but still, we've got  3 months, that's plenty of time, right?

Changes

So... I really don't know where the time's been going lately? What with one thing and another, the past few months have been pretty hectic. The most exciting part though, is that at the end of August, The Boy and I moved into our very own house. Yay!

The downside of this is that our lovely new home came complete with an array of hideous colour schemes, plus excessive dog fur / dog smell / dog damage and what seems like about 100 years of general dirt. So we'll probably not be short of things to do around the house for the foreseeable future. Sigh.

The lounge area was the first on the hit-list. And over 2 months on and still only two-thirds decorated, our motivation seems to be flagging a bit. Still, in the interests of keeping motivated, I'm going to rejoice in the fact that at least it doesn't still look like this...

A Little Pick-Me-Up

I doubt that anyone would be surprised to hear that we've still barely got off the ground with the packing. I just keep sitting and looking around and thinking it all looks such a mess and I don't know where to start. So for a break, I decided to take advantage of the free listing day on ebay, and try and sell a few things so we don't have to be paying removals for items which we don't even want to keep, 'cos that would be stupid, right?

Whilst looking for photos of 'to be ebayed' items, I came across some snaps of beautiful things and happy days, which made me smile and reminded me why we're doing all of this. 

Stuck In The Middle

It's weird isn't it, how you can be super excited that something you've waited the longest time for is finally happening, but yet at the same time your head can't really get a proper hold on the idea. Or is that just me?! 

In exactly one week from now we should be picking up the keys to our new house (touch wood and fingers crossed). I'm so excited, and bursting with ideas for how we'll decorate, as well as a million and one other projects which I'll be able to get started or back on track with once we have our own space and can really make it our own and feel settled. All this excitement and looking forward and thinking "this time next week", and how much packing have I done? One box. It's probably because there's still a part of me that can't let go of the thought that it's not definite until we've got the keys in our hands, but I just can't get my brain to cotton on to any sense of urgency. Not good. 

Hopefully tomorrow will be a more productive day. In the meantime though, if any Packing Fairies would like to pay a visit whilst I'm snoozing tonight, they'd be more than welcome!

The End Is Nigh

So yeah, I guess I didn't do very well with the blogging every day idea...that's not to say I've not been busy though .I feel like I've barely had a minute to myself. After having our offer accepted on the house we liked way back at the end of May I think it was, we finally exchanged contracts last Thursday. Yay! So that's all very exciting, although we're nervous about feeling to pleased until we have the keys in our hands...but fingers crossed and all being well, we'll be homeowners on August 26th. Just can't wait to get in there now and make it our own. The most pressing item on the 'to do' list right now though, is deciding whether to pay for removals, or to save a bit of money and just hire a van and move ourselves?! And then, of course, there's the packing...and packing....and packing...

Positive Vibes

Today has been a good day. On our way to visit the Home & Gift Show, we popped in to the Habitat sale and spent a happy half hour looking at random household items that we have no need for whatsoever, and I am now the proud owner of this...

I've wanted a flour sifter for ages (don't ask me why, as I rarely bake anything). I know we're supposed to be saving, but every new home needs a flour sifter, right? We were restrained though, we had our eye on these too, but managed to resist...

...although if I'm honest, it was only really my eye that was on the pink scales, The Husband wasn't so keen on those for some reason - I can't imagine why not?!

After filling our boots with random kitchen gadgets, we went on down to the Home & Gift. I love going to the trade shows, I find them really inspiring and always come away bursting with enthusiasm, plans and ideas (I can sense a new "to do" list coming on). Watch this space...