A lovely Easter Sunday morning at the Easter Fair in Beamont Park. Milly went on the bouncy castle, saw hundreds of dogs in the dog show, ate an ice cream and ran around picking daisies and waving at everyone and generally enjoying herself, apart from when she was clinging limpet-style to me and needing to be carried...she's still not completely recovered from being ill and still needs a lot of Mummy cuddles but she is so much more cheerful thankfully. And I loved being outside in the sunshine for the first time really this weekend thanks to the family all being lurgified, and I even managed to paint my toenails to celebrate the occasion. Really feels like summer doesn't it, and it is impossible not to feel happy on such lovely days!
I haven't posted in a while because it has mainly been work and illness round here, and now Ste has come down with it as well 😫. Finding myself looking forward to a time when I won't be working constantly and we can enjoy our time together instead, and especially turning our living room into a cosy haven. I mean, it's not bad at the moment, lovely log burner and inglenook fireplace, but, um, that's it! It needs all the (three different types) anaglypta wallpaper removing, which probably means replastering as it has is every other room, and we want to build shelves and cupboard either side of the fireplace for storage, and we want to banish all the toys to the playroom in the evenings. Just a couple of reasons we haven't done it yet...the playroom is currently a laundry/office/dumping ground (because the utility isn't finished!) and we are moving the front door to in here, so there's no point in decorating until that work is done. Which has seemed years away, but thanks to all the work we're finally cracking on with the project and that means we can do the living room too, and I am so excited! Little work breaks are being spent on Pinterest and dreaming about what it could be like. In the meantime, I am trying to tart it up with the odd magnolia branch from the garden, which sadly has done really badly this year, the petals are all browning before they have even opened! 😩 Anyone know why?
Friday used to be a whole day with Millie, but recently I've been working freelance on Fridays and she goes to the childminder 5 days a week for the moment. But on Friday afternoons we have Swimbabes so Fridays are still my favourite day of the week! I snapped this last week when Ste took her in because I wasn't feeling too well, but this afternoon I am taking her and I can't wait. She's getting so confident in the water, I am so glad we have done this in advance of our holiday in May, even if she didn't start as a tiny baby like most seem to, she's absolutely loving it.
