Feeling tired. A Hanson Christmas streaming that started at 12.20am might have had a little to do with it, but it had to be done. The last one was a few years ago, so I certainly didn't want to miss it, though I did turn it off at 1am to go to bed so missed the rest.
Attending an interview tomorrow... Eeeeek! Wish me luck
Watching Million Dollar Listing NYC. It's on Tuesday to Friday, and I have only 3 episodes left. At least I still have 13 more episodes of Melissa & Joey left which is on Monday to Thursday!
Loving planners. Pins on Pinterest, Pictures on Instagram, Facebook group... I was given a tip on some Filofaxes going for silly prices in Homesense and I picked up the only one I liked the look of which was a Purple compact Saffiano. But I have heard about Dokibooks and would quite like one of them as they are super cheap :)
Perusing the Ella's Kitchen baking book. Thinking of asking santa for the Cooking Book for Dylan this Christmas. He's so much better with his food, it is quite a comfort. On Friday I sat down on the floor next to him and we both ate pasta bolognese that I cooked for us. He loved it :)
Listening to this year's new Hanson Christmas song: "Finally It's Christmas". Love it!
Thinking that I am looking forward to Christmas, and that if I do get this job then things will be more stable. The uncertainty of knowing things would have to change at some point and not being able to settle into some sort of routine until that moment were the things that were getting me down most.
Sunday, 30 November 2014
Sunday, 23 November 2014
Homemade Gifts Pinterest Board
I have been working on this board for about 3 years and have amassed 656 pins and counting, with 737 followers and growing daily. I am super proud of this board, and so what better way of sharing it, than creating a pin for the board itself!
Gifts include:
- Food & sweets
- Toys
- Jewellery
- Clothes
- Children dress up
- Stationery
- Toilettries
- Homewares
- Games
- Accessories
- and many more
Gifts for:
- Mum
- Dad
- Babies
- Toddlers
- Children
- Teens
- Grandparents
- Friends
All the pins are for all types of budgets, and all skill levels from packaging up store bought items (ie. Gifts in a jar, hampers etc) to making items from scratch, and for all occasions from Christmas, Mothers day, Fathers day, birthdays etc.
Some of the pins have links with How Tos and some of them are for inspiration :) Hope you enjoy!
CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE PINTEREST BOARD
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
T'is the season
So Movies 24 changed over to Christmas 24, and both myself and Dylan sat and watched the Coca Cola Christmas advert together for the first time (for this Christmas) this week too. Now before you all start telling me "But it's the beginning of November for heavens sake!!" Hear me out.
I have not been in a good place lately. It has been a mixture of a bad UC flare up, getting nowhere with job hunting (even though I had an e-mail last week and got excited as I was being put forward for a job by an agency... and haven't heard a thing since and the general rule is if you don't hear anything within 5 days it means "Thanks, but no thanks,") on top of Dylan being super upset and not good himself and has since been put on a new medicine, plus as I haven't been successful and found a job yet I had to have a review meeting at the job centre. And my parents went away on holiday with my brother and his family so I didn't have them around. I ended up in a spiral of anxiety, feeling like I could barely breathe. It was at that point I phoned the doctors in tears. Enough was enough. The constant broken sleep night after night after night took its toll on me months and months ago, I most certainly am not the same person I used to be. I forget a lot of things and I am grumpy. My poor husband has been having to deal with the trains as well, lots of delays and cancellations this last fortnight after a long hard day at work, and then having to come home and comfort me. I needed to ask for help.
I still put on a smiling face to everyone, but once the door was closed, I would sit cuddling my gorgeous little boy and just burst into tears. We also got some terrible news in my birth group, and as daft as it sounds as we all only know each other online but we all consider ourselves friends including our children - as each of our kids are also "online friends" as far as we are all concerned. We have all been together as a group since we all got a positive test. Posting pictures and updates ever since so watching all of these babies becoming little people in their own right... and one of the little boys died on Halloween. It affected us all so much, and I absolutely broke down. I couldn't imagine what his poor mother was going through. I found out on the Saturday and I gave Dylan extra hugs and kisses and held him so tightly.
With everything that was going on, I needed to try and get out of this hole. I have a doctors appointment this Friday for support. I have thrown myself into the world of planners, which with my memory of late can only be a good thing! I was having a pretty good day UC wise today so I ventured out to a baby group for the first time in months. While I was a bit apprehensive at first, it was at the library (and everyone knows how much I love the library!) and there was a familiar face taking the group which I didn't realise it until I got there. And of course, my favourite time of year is Christmas so I have started all Christmassy things early. Except the decorations! Just movies and songs and thinking about Christmas here at the moment. Oh, and Hanson are doing a live streaming at the end of the month called "Finally it's Christmas", and I have such great memories from the last xmas live streaming that I will get up to watch this one. All the other live streamings I have passed on because I much rather have the sleep as much as I love the guys.
I'm also so in love with modern calligraphy, and Gareth bought me a calligraphy set one Christmas and I need to find it and get it out so I can play with it one weekend and do the class on Skillshare.
Dylan himself, apart from his teething and the battles we have trying to get him to go to sleep, is doing OK. We are having the toddler tantrums, he had a butterfly jigsaw puzzle for his birthday and he carries the face piece (the wooden cylinder in his left hand in the photo above) everywhere he goes. He is obsessed with that thing. And turning off the socket with the house phone in because everytime I switch it back on, it beeps, and so he loves it (as much as I tell him off for doing it)! His favourite food is blueberries. I keep a baggy of them in the freezer and put them in his pot straight after breakfast to defrost ready to have with his lunch. Then they are nice and soft for them to eat, and I always put extra in it so I can steal a few too ;)
We are getting there.
I have not been in a good place lately. It has been a mixture of a bad UC flare up, getting nowhere with job hunting (even though I had an e-mail last week and got excited as I was being put forward for a job by an agency... and haven't heard a thing since and the general rule is if you don't hear anything within 5 days it means "Thanks, but no thanks,") on top of Dylan being super upset and not good himself and has since been put on a new medicine, plus as I haven't been successful and found a job yet I had to have a review meeting at the job centre. And my parents went away on holiday with my brother and his family so I didn't have them around. I ended up in a spiral of anxiety, feeling like I could barely breathe. It was at that point I phoned the doctors in tears. Enough was enough. The constant broken sleep night after night after night took its toll on me months and months ago, I most certainly am not the same person I used to be. I forget a lot of things and I am grumpy. My poor husband has been having to deal with the trains as well, lots of delays and cancellations this last fortnight after a long hard day at work, and then having to come home and comfort me. I needed to ask for help.
I still put on a smiling face to everyone, but once the door was closed, I would sit cuddling my gorgeous little boy and just burst into tears. We also got some terrible news in my birth group, and as daft as it sounds as we all only know each other online but we all consider ourselves friends including our children - as each of our kids are also "online friends" as far as we are all concerned. We have all been together as a group since we all got a positive test. Posting pictures and updates ever since so watching all of these babies becoming little people in their own right... and one of the little boys died on Halloween. It affected us all so much, and I absolutely broke down. I couldn't imagine what his poor mother was going through. I found out on the Saturday and I gave Dylan extra hugs and kisses and held him so tightly.
With everything that was going on, I needed to try and get out of this hole. I have a doctors appointment this Friday for support. I have thrown myself into the world of planners, which with my memory of late can only be a good thing! I was having a pretty good day UC wise today so I ventured out to a baby group for the first time in months. While I was a bit apprehensive at first, it was at the library (and everyone knows how much I love the library!) and there was a familiar face taking the group which I didn't realise it until I got there. And of course, my favourite time of year is Christmas so I have started all Christmassy things early. Except the decorations! Just movies and songs and thinking about Christmas here at the moment. Oh, and Hanson are doing a live streaming at the end of the month called "Finally it's Christmas", and I have such great memories from the last xmas live streaming that I will get up to watch this one. All the other live streamings I have passed on because I much rather have the sleep as much as I love the guys.
I'm also so in love with modern calligraphy, and Gareth bought me a calligraphy set one Christmas and I need to find it and get it out so I can play with it one weekend and do the class on Skillshare.
Dylan himself, apart from his teething and the battles we have trying to get him to go to sleep, is doing OK. We are having the toddler tantrums, he had a butterfly jigsaw puzzle for his birthday and he carries the face piece (the wooden cylinder in his left hand in the photo above) everywhere he goes. He is obsessed with that thing. And turning off the socket with the house phone in because everytime I switch it back on, it beeps, and so he loves it (as much as I tell him off for doing it)! His favourite food is blueberries. I keep a baggy of them in the freezer and put them in his pot straight after breakfast to defrost ready to have with his lunch. Then they are nice and soft for them to eat, and I always put extra in it so I can steal a few too ;)
We are getting there.
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