On Friday afternoon as I picked E up from school I was expecting him to be riding his scooter down the hill toward the truck, flushed, hot and happy after an afternoon of playtime at school Rewards Day. Instead he was limping, making his way …
Molly is our Big Girl. The one female in the unruly pack of four. She lived her puppy days on Mum and Dad’s 5 acre block chasing motorbikes and woofing at generators – actually she woofs at any pump, power tool, lawnmower, weed-eater, can …
Loving finding the rug for our nursery on clearance for $69!!!! I just about died. It’s not the pattern I envisioned but the colours are perfect.
My brother and his wife gave our Poppa the biggest box of chocolates we had ever seen for his birthday. Loved seeing him poring over the selection!
Cream doughnuts have been sneaking into my thoughts daily lately, so when I left my lunch at home today I went to the bakery and after a sandwich treated myself to this splendid specimen. It was perfection; real cream, crispy doughnut batter and real jam. There was even grease on the bag! Love.
So much loving Friday goodies! I was the lucky recipient of a Facebook prize from The Body Shop, the divine New Satsuma / Clementine Eau de Toilette, this is the kind of fragrance that makes you want to lick it {no joke}, I also spied one lone copy of Frankie in the dairy near work so scooped it up for a little weekend treat!
This week has been a lovely week with E. He has been a treasure, no fussing, fighting, doing chores willingly and performing so well at school. He was unable to hang onto his 3 year perfect record of winning every event at Swimming Sports, as he was struck down by a terrible bout of man-flu that has besieged our house over the last fortnight. He swam his heart out however with excellent results despite being under the weather. Love him.
My belly is now bigger than my boobs, it’s a slight understatement when I say I’m a wee bit worried as to how big this bump is going to get. 17 weeks to go is plenty of time for that bebe to keep putting on …
After pounding through a hilly 8km on Saturday morning (yay me!) and reorganising the family room it was no surprise that Sunday was a little slower and a little lazy. Dave and E headed off to the indoor skatepark due to the rain drizzly-30-minute-mist, so after Mum and I …
Getting the nursery ready for our winter baby is requiring a little re-jigging in our house. Unfortunately we don’t have an empty room, painted in neutrals, ready and waiting to transform into the nursery of my dreams. What we do have is our office that we have to re-home. Dave works from home at least 50% of the time so having a workspace for him is important, but in saying that all he really needs is table space to lay out his laptop and there is plenty of room for that on the dining room table.
After selling an old table on Trade Me this weekend we had space in our family room to move my desk out of the office to it’s new home;
The only stipulations I had regarding having a computer in a living area was that there was workspace for two so E has a place to easily complete homework, and secondly, no ugly computer chairs. Dave and I found these Tractor Stools at Freedom Furniture (they are not on the NZ website yet) and they fit the bill completely. They were a little more than I had expected to pay at $159 each, but I had to love the stools we chose as they are in a room in which we will be spending more time this winter with the arrival of our new bubba.
We moved a couple of other pieces of furniture around and I’m so happy with this room now. It’s a rectangle with 6 doors off of it so wall space is at a premium, but everything now works and feels much more open. I also discovered the most amaze product at Spotlight today; Mode Rug Gripper $6.99 for 10m. That crazy orange rug {which I love} is quite light weight and Ethan and the dogs are forever causing it to bunch and move. This tape actually works, is cheap and easy to apply. Magic.
We will move Dave’s desk out of the office in a couple of months and then I can decorate until my hearts content! Until then I have a growing stockpile of all things baby that is slowly engulfing our changing table and the briefly vacant corner of the office.