*questions her wisdom of starting a diet/exercise regime right before Christmastime* REd cups are hereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...you know what? I will NOT let this defeat me, if I want a treat like that, I will simply have to budget it into my day. (this is where being on a strictly-controlled money budget is helpful, too ( Read more... )

Yay, for the second time in his 10-month life, Finn went through the night without a feed. :D He did wake up crying at 1:40am, but since I refuse to feed him before 2am (if I do, it usually causes problems in that he wakes up again really early), I let him cry his 5-10min and he went back to sleep! And didn't wake up again! Still an occasional ( Read more... )

Ah, the bread I've been meaning to make all day is finally in the oven. Lazy me! And after a really good kick-start on the cleaning over the past couple of weeks (thank you, flylady), I've also fallen behind on that this week, too ( Read more... )

Morning! Not sure what inspired me to open LJ, maybe I'm finally getting into the swing of things?

Not a huge amount of stuff planned for today - mostly just little bits. Put away yesterday's laundry, do baby laundry & hang it up, go to Aldi mostly for bananas*, make Christmas pudding for tomorrow's testing of Mockmas dinner ( Read more... )

For some reason I 100% failed at cooking both Friday and Saturday. On Friday, I made meatloaf that for some reason didn't firm up and came out of the oven just like mushy loose mince. Tasted fine, but weird texture. Not that G minded, as I just chucked his over some chips with gravy for a British institution :). Then I baked the cookie dough I ( Read more... )