Kitchen Talk

Well the tiles have arrived - just need to be laid - so feel like an end is in sight...then I can get on with some much overdue scrapping at my kitchen table!! Here are a few pics of my kitchen a couple of weeks ago (I will post a new pic when it is finally finished!)

Apart from sorting out my study (so I can now get in and sit on a chair!) and an afternoon of unexpected tea and coffee with my friend Becky, it has been a quiet sort of day. I was going on to talk about why I scrapbook - but I will leave that now for another day as I seem to have a little girl with a blocked nose and a high temperature who just can't get back to sleep even though she has had the neurofen and water - I think I will hit the medised next (thats just for me!!) Night all

My First Step into Blogging!!

Well here I am, dipping my toe into the blogging pool.....
This month has been a month of chaos and change. We have ripped apart our downstairs - the wall has come down between the kitchen and dining room, our old kitchen removed and a new one installed. It seemed a simple task, we boxed up the kitchen put a set of cupboards, microwave, kettle and kitchen basics in the living room and left Simon the Kitchen Fitter to do the transformation! But 10 days without mains water and washing-up in the cloakroom. centimeters of dust through the house, living in one downstairs room with 2 young children, basic cooking conditions, days without electricity or water or heating and making endless cups of tea seemed to last for months not weeks. But ..... an end is in sight ... the kitchen is in.... we are now waiting for a tiled floor and worksurfaces...so we are nearly there - hurrah!!
Scrapbooking has been on a real back-burner for this last month but the camera has been out and busy.
Morgan started nursery 2 mornings a week - it started so well but by week 2 he decided he had been enough, so had to be peeled off me literally kicking and screaming - he wouldn't play or participate in any activity at nursery - the teacher described him as stubborn but very affectionate! Last week he was genuinely ill - I just hope he will enjoy himself again soon !
Chris and I both had our birthdays this month - I had a fantastic day, having coffee with the girls (whilst the kids were at nursery), lunch at David Lloyd with the kids and Debbie, Vicky and the babies and out to dinner with Chris to The Swan in West Peckham - a fantastic meal. I had some lovely pressies - the biggest surprise was a beautiful Troll Bead Bracelet from my darling hubby with 6 stunning glass beads and a silver bead from each of the kiddies with their initials on them!!
Two days later we celebrated Chris's birthday with a take-away, but what a nightmare it was to think of a pressie for him - he is now the proud owner of a professional set of kitchen knives (he is very happy with them - and I love 'em too - they look lovely in my new kitchen!!!)
Morgan has experienced his first snow - it wasnt very deep but it was enough to go out and make snowballs - his first reaction when he touched the snow was 'it's disgusting' but he coped much better than Freya did on her first encounter with it....btw she loves it now!
I think that swiftly brings us up to present day for the year... watch this space