Looking up?

Two jobs for Steven through November. Until today. He's handed his notice in as other job has better prospects financially and is guaranteed until feb, which his first job was at risk of redudancy in February too. No more 7 day weeks Hurray!! Christmas should be a good one :-)

Christmas Thinking

Christmas. The most expensive month of the year. When to put the tree up? I've bee putting the tree up directly after the Halloween decorations are packed away for the past 5 years. Halloween wasn't a feature this year due to financial constraints and I decided to concentrate on Christmas over October festive fun.
The kids love Christmas. They still believe in Santa. They have their letters written all ready to go to the post box on 1st December. I need to organize my office before even thinking about decorating the house for the festive season ahead. More cleaning and organising to complete. :-(

Sleep!!!

I feel like I've gone back 4.5 years. Sleep deprivation is the worst possible torture I can suffer. Awake for 3 hours worrying, thinking, mulling, shouting and smoking. Teenagers aren't all they cracked up to be.

Cake....nom nom nom!!

Well, day 4 of no eating crap, and I have succeeded in eating cake everyday, albeit a LIMITED amount of cake. My excuse.....I have had two Halloween Parties to attend where the general rule of thumb is eat crap. A carb-fest. So now I feel and look yuck due to the lack of vitamins and minerals in the past 4 days. MUST EAT VEG!

So, despite me moaning about this excessive intake of carbs, I am looking at ways to increase activities with the kids, one of those things thathappen to be on my list is....Baking. I must  be mad. Certified bonkers. So I am now on a quest to replenish my baking cupboard with colouring paste, dried fruit and glitter. First on the list.....Christmas cake and Perfect Buttercream!!!!!!!!