Clutter
One of my declutter goals in my head, is to be able to take a photo at home & not have a hot spot or pile of stuff in shot.
I've spent the past 2 hours scrubbing, dusting, cleaning & tidying the kitchen. Plus the fun part, re-arranging Kate & Holly's pictures & paintings up on the walls in the dining area. I haven't finished completely, as my back is now sore as I worked for 2 hours non-stop, as did other things first. I need Andy to put some nails in, as I moved the magnetic board & organised mum calendar, so I can now finally put up my new cupcake shelves & wall hangings from Next. They've been waiting for me to decide where to put them. I had bought the shelves for Kate & Holly's bedroom originaly, but have requisitioned them for me. They need something far bigger & 1 each, not 1 small one to share. May put my Doctor Who figurines collection on it or maybe my frog or classic winnie the pooh collection that's in a cabinet in the lounge, hidden behind a chair, so no-one ever sees them. Have to consider the dust issue though, this house gets so much dust in it as we're in a built up area, plus have pets. Can't win though, as I had just as much dust when I lived on a farm in a very rural area.
Thinking of living on a farm, it struck me last night when Holly was talking about our house number, that before I moved to England, I'd always lived in a house with a name, not a number. A name is so much friendlier, but I'd never lived in a house in a proper street before, just a road or a lane with a few houses dotted along, with the emphasis on fields & cows, not houses. I had lived in flats too, with numbers, but not houses.
What do you think? Does your home have a name or a number?
Talking of Holly, she brought home a certificate a couple of weeks ago for having been awarded the most housepoints in her class that week. Go, Holly! They have 4 houses & the house with the most housepoints at the end of the year gets a prize. Kate & Holly are red & red won last year :)
It's just Holls & I after school, as Kate is going to her friend, Beth's, for tea. Holls has cheerleading dancing at 4, as disliked the ballet & tap classes she moved to. So, she's moving back. Saves me having to buy her ballet & taps shoes, but she has been given an outgrown pair of tap shoes from a friend. I'll save them to see if she decides later that she wants to try it again.
I'm also baking in school tomorrow & Thursday & haven't decided yet what to make. It has to be easy, as my brain is still a bit fuddled from the paramol for my back & I'd prefer not to have to carry heavy ingredients in. Flour, sugar & other bits are kept at the school, but I buy the fresh things from Asda each week. Maybe biscuits as I bought some cool Nigella Lawson cookie cutters over the summer holidays & we could use them. Not the letter ones though, which was the main point behind buying the set, but they are so tiny that it's hard work to get the dough out of them. I'm a bit disappointed in that. It was hard enough work making them at home with the teeny cutter, with just my 2 girls, let alone 6 at school.
I've spent the past 2 hours scrubbing, dusting, cleaning & tidying the kitchen. Plus the fun part, re-arranging Kate & Holly's pictures & paintings up on the walls in the dining area. I haven't finished completely, as my back is now sore as I worked for 2 hours non-stop, as did other things first. I need Andy to put some nails in, as I moved the magnetic board & organised mum calendar, so I can now finally put up my new cupcake shelves & wall hangings from Next. They've been waiting for me to decide where to put them. I had bought the shelves for Kate & Holly's bedroom originaly, but have requisitioned them for me. They need something far bigger & 1 each, not 1 small one to share. May put my Doctor Who figurines collection on it or maybe my frog or classic winnie the pooh collection that's in a cabinet in the lounge, hidden behind a chair, so no-one ever sees them. Have to consider the dust issue though, this house gets so much dust in it as we're in a built up area, plus have pets. Can't win though, as I had just as much dust when I lived on a farm in a very rural area.
Thinking of living on a farm, it struck me last night when Holly was talking about our house number, that before I moved to England, I'd always lived in a house with a name, not a number. A name is so much friendlier, but I'd never lived in a house in a proper street before, just a road or a lane with a few houses dotted along, with the emphasis on fields & cows, not houses. I had lived in flats too, with numbers, but not houses.
What do you think? Does your home have a name or a number?
Talking of Holly, she brought home a certificate a couple of weeks ago for having been awarded the most housepoints in her class that week. Go, Holly! They have 4 houses & the house with the most housepoints at the end of the year gets a prize. Kate & Holly are red & red won last year :)
It's just Holls & I after school, as Kate is going to her friend, Beth's, for tea. Holls has cheerleading dancing at 4, as disliked the ballet & tap classes she moved to. So, she's moving back. Saves me having to buy her ballet & taps shoes, but she has been given an outgrown pair of tap shoes from a friend. I'll save them to see if she decides later that she wants to try it again.
I'm also baking in school tomorrow & Thursday & haven't decided yet what to make. It has to be easy, as my brain is still a bit fuddled from the paramol for my back & I'd prefer not to have to carry heavy ingredients in. Flour, sugar & other bits are kept at the school, but I buy the fresh things from Asda each week. Maybe biscuits as I bought some cool Nigella Lawson cookie cutters over the summer holidays & we could use them. Not the letter ones though, which was the main point behind buying the set, but they are so tiny that it's hard work to get the dough out of them. I'm a bit disappointed in that. It was hard enough work making them at home with the teeny cutter, with just my 2 girls, let alone 6 at school.