From Fallenangel to Yummy Mummy: family

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Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Happy Easter!

My Easter break wasn't a huge success. Although I had a nice day off spent sleeping and shopping on Friday and a night spent doing a murder mystery with Ed and my family, Saturday I was back in work feeling unwell.

Saturday evening was spent at 'the dogs' for the boxing social evening.

It was a good night but I was still feeling a bit poorly and by early hours the next morning it had developed into full on tummy bug.

So Easter Sunday for me was spent in the bathroom and then when I managed to make it out for our family lunch at a local pub I only managed half my dinner and I didn't get to eat my Easter eggs. Major sad face!

Easter Monday I woke up feeling a little better, managed to do my food shopping and then we spent the afternoon at Upton Country Park, which was nice. There was a freak heat wave too which meant I almost got burnt in the sun and really wasn't dressed for the weather in jeans- boiling!

I finished the day with an Easter egg hunt for the children, and I even felt well enough for some Easter egg of my own finally!

Despite a few mishaps it was nice to spend time with family and have a bit of a rest before a very busy week at work. Happy Easter everyone!

Monday, 30 March 2015

April Monthly Plans

This is something I used to do regularly on the blog back in the day so I thought I would try it out again, especially as I do have a couple of things planned for once!

Murder Mystery Night

I got a murder mystery game for my nan for Christmas and we had so much fun doing it a couple of months ago that my mum bought another one, which we will be doing on Friday night. This one is based in the sixties and I can't wait to dress up and have another fun night in with the family and Ed. It should be really fun.

Boxing Social

I have been to one of these before, technically, for the Christmas night out, but that was before I started going to class and I was going only as Ed's plus one. This should be fun as I now know more people and Megan will be coming along too. It is at the dog racing, which I have been to once before with the Work Christmas party, so it should be quite fun.

Easter Sunday

I may or may not have already consumed around 6 Easter eggs, but it doesn't stop me being eggcited (couldn't help myself, sorry) for Sunday to eat all the Easter Eggs and make myself sick of Chocolate, hopefully for the remainder of the month so I have a chance in hell of losing weight for May!

Wedding Season

I am probably really sad to be excited about this, but I happen to love my job and I can't wait until 11th April when we have our first wedding of the season! April is busy with weddings so I really get thrown back into things- yay!

Series 5 of Game of Thrones

Ok, so as I mentioned in a previous post, I am a little obsessed with Game of Thrones. It is back on TV on April 13th and I am very excited! No spoilers please as I still have 8 episodes to go on series 4 before this!

Fake Birthday

As Ed is going to be away on a Boxing thing for the entire weekend of my birthday (Friday-Monday, I could, and may already have, cry), we are doing a 'fake' birthday the weekend before. He has told me we will be going away but not where so it's quite exciting. I have a wedding at work on the Friday but straight from there we will be going wherever it is we are going. Very excited! And I guess it makes up for the fact that I won't be able to see him at all over my actual birthday (still very upset though).

Monday, 16 February 2015

Feeling Lucky

It's never going to be easy to start a relationship with someone who already has children from previous relationships. Ed also hasn't had very much experience with children before and so was understandably pretty nervous when it came to first meeting my children. I was nervous too. What if they didn't get on with him, what if he found he couldn't cope.

I needn't have worried. The children loved him from the first meeting and he is amazing with them, even better than me at times!

I couldn't be happier right now- depression, which I know is a chemical imbalance in my brain more than anything else, aside. Ed is brilliant with the children and we are all very lucky to have him around.

Monday, 16 December 2013

Christmas Plans!

I make no secret of it, this is my absolute favourite time of year! This year is even more special as Cameron understands so much more now and is really excited for Christmas day! I cannot wait to see his little face on Christmas morning when he opens up his presents. Carly doesn't really understand what is going on just yet but she does love the pretty Christmas tree and playing with the wrapping paper!

And it isn't just about the material things, I am equally as excited to share some Christmas day traditions of our family with the kids. This is how we spend Christma...

On Christmas Eve we will usually attend a church service with the children, have dinner and a Christmas film and then let the children open their Christmas Eve presents of a pair of pjs before setting out the snacks for Santa and putting them to bed. This year my mum, nan and I will be going to midnight mass at the church me and Tim are getting married in, whilst Tim stays at home and looks after the children.

Our Christmas Day:

8.30am approx:

Wake up to bacon sandwiches and Bucks Fizz

9am:

Presents

10am:

Cooking

11.30am:

Walk along the beach to visit my Granddad's bench

1pm:

Cooking whilst Christmas TV or a film is on (plus more presents)

2.30pm:

Christmas Lunch

3pm:

Queen's Speech for my nan

4pm:

Usually at this time we would be laid on the settee feeling full or playing with the kid's presents, this year my dad and sister are staying in a hotel in Bournemouth so we will probably be seeing them at some point in the afternoon.

7pm:

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without some traditional Christmas TV. Even though me and my mum don't watch Eastenders regularly, we always end up watching it over the Christmas period. I also love watching the reruns of things like the Gavin and Stacey Christmas episodes and the Vicar of Dibley episode where she has all the Christmas Dinners.

8pm:

In the evening we usually just have some snack food like sausage rolls, turkey sandwiches and crisps. And some more Bucks Fizz or wine too...

Boxing day is spent sales shopping and meeting up with family. My mum also loves having left over turkey with chips!

Do you have any Christmas traditions in your family? I'd love to hear about them in the comments!

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Carly Turns One!

Last weekend was an extra special one for me as my baby daughter turned one on Saturday! I cannot believe how fast the past year has gone!

We celebrated her big day with friends and family at my mum's house. It was a pretty traditional children's birthday party, complete with a, rather silly as the babies are so young still, game of pass the parcel and lots of yummy party food finished off with a Forever Friends Birthday cake and bowls of jelly.

Carly didn't really understand what was going on and didn't really get what opening presents was all about, but that didn't matter as she had her big brother on board to help her. Cameron didn't really like it being all about Carly and he kept saying it was his birthday and his party! Luckily my cousin Spencer came along and they kept each other occupied.

We had a brilliant day and Carly was very spoilt and now has lots of lovely clothes and a huge amount of very pink and girly toys we need to find homes for!