Family update

 

Poor Gman has been in the wars. 

He had a fall in the school playground and someone landed on him. The result is a fractured bone in his foot and a cast for 6 weeks minimum. 

My poor baby.

It's certainly made lockdown 2 a bit more interesting than we were expecting!

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Itchen Valley

 

We took full advantage of the break in the horrible weather to visit a local country park.

The original plan was to buy one of the trail packs and complete the Halloween trail, but the queue to purchase one was horrendous. 

Instead we mostly worked out the trail by ourselves by just following the crowds going around it.

Baby C took her usual supervisory role very seriously as you can see. She certainly attracted plenty of nature as I was pulling leaves and things off her all day 🤣

We took our own supply of drinks and snacks from home so today only ended up costing us £4 in parking fees. 

Though my budget for washing powder may  need to be stretched futher 🤣

Everyone came home muddy, tired and happy. It was a wonderful trip out.

Fingers crossed we can get another nice day this week to have adventures on.

Take care.

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Thursday Thrifting

 Pinch Punch it's the 1st of the month. White Rabbits, White Rabbits.

 Today has been a busy yet rewarding day. First we took a car load of donations to our favourite charity shop in West End. Some of it was refused as they are drowning in books currently. 

A quick mooch found a set of stacking mugs, which is something thats been on my wish list for a while, for £1. I noticed when I got home they were from M&S!

The ceramic egg was 5p! I'm planning to turn it into a little spring planter for the dining table. Possibly with some grape hyacinths and narcissus.

Dinner was a new recipe from Pinterest. I found while researching what to make with a tin of butter beans. Thise photo above is of the results a delicious Sausage and Butterbean cassorole. It went down very well with everyone, although we told the children they were just giant baked beans when they started poking at it suspiciously 😂

Definitely a recipe I'll be making again.

My late afternoon was spent setting up our new school stuff system. It replaces our old system of "what do you mean it was thère yesterday?" 

We will test it out tomorrow and try to iron out any kinks over the weekend.

Not a bad start to October!

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Upgrade

 

 Miss C is getting a bit to wriggly for her moses basket these days so thanks to The Treasured Trash Network and DH, she now has a cosy new coat to slumber in 🥰 

 I'm also switching her 0-3 clothes out for 3-6 clothes. Oh why do they have to grow so fast?

 #3monthsold #gettingbiggereveryday #gorgeousbabies

Quietly being poorly

 

I've woken up full of cough and cold today. All of the children were suffering from it over the weekend and now they've kindly passed it onto me! 

After the school run I popped to our local shop for supplies. Tissues, cold and flu tablets, fisherman's friends and throat lozanges went into the basket followed by some chocolate and some ice cream.

If that doesn't make me feel better nothing will.

This morning has been spent doing quiet sitting down jobs.

I've finished making orange crochet covers for the seven oranges.

They will be transforming into pumpkins for Halloween.

I've also cut up an old faded valance for cleaning cloths, though i have already used one as a hankerchief for some olbus oil. 

The flouncy skirty bit made flannel size clothes and the main sheet was turned into tea towel sized clothes for mopping up spills.

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Whoops

 

Sometimes I'm that organised mum people get jealous of, kids at school on time everyday, remember non-uniform days and donation days and the reading cafe days etc. And sometimes I cut out spiders with 7 legs!!!

🤦‍♀️

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Back to school

The three eldest headed back to school today. 

I'm still not sure how I feel about it, I miss them terribly but I've also enjoyed an uninterrupted cup of tea and deep cleaned a bathroom. 

What is it they say about clouds and silver linings? 

Everyone was sent off to school with a nice breakfast of waffles and we dressed the table up with some partyware to make it feel a little bit special.

Good luck my babies.

X x X