18th Jan Tuesday

OMG what a nighmare 24 hours

In a very short story as it won't let me paste onto here.

Ev fell on MOnday falling out of a laundry basket into the tv unit and cracked the back of his head open so we had to rush to a&e leaving Al with a neighbour.

4hrs 40 mins after getting to hosp we were admitted to a ward as Evan was due to have surgery teh next day to stitch it up.

On Tuesday Ev was gowned up ready for surgery and they changed their minds :)

Then changed it back again :(

Then back again :) and we could go home!!

This is a pic of my brave boy xx

Monday 17th January

Doing todays post early so I don't forget!

A busy morning again Got Ev up and fed and dressed for school, then woke Al up and coat on and in his carseat in 2 mins from waking up bless him! Ty Linda as Ev calls her took us to drop Ev Back home to feed Al then the Vicar came to see us at 10 then had to get Ev by 11!

As it was dry as soon as we got home I put Al in the stroller and took both boys to the park. Going to really miss having the park that close when we move :( Al LOVED the swings! It was his 1st trip to the park to play rather than just sit in the swing/carrier!

We didn't stay long as despite taking a towel to dry the slide Ev had a wet bum!!

Got home put Al to bed, stripped a wet Ev then did painting with Ev, we needed to make a card for my Aunties 60th and made some spare for when birthdays come up!

Then food and now I am on here haha!!

Scary thought when we move we will be cancelling Sky as think we get free view, whilst it will save money I'm going to loose a load of films off Sky Planner, so going to have to buy them. Especially the Disney ones. Beauty and the Beast, Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood, Disney the 3 Musketeers and Gruffallo at the very least.

Best start buying and saving. I also want/need to buy Ev a book on moving house aswell as 1 on Christening so we can talk to him about Als Christening. I also want to get presents for the Godparents.

Sunday 16th January

Last lot of catching up!

A crazy day I didn't stop between cooking, cleaning, cleaning the fish tank, doing the Christening guest list and designing the invite, then selecting pics for it so clever Lou (Als future GodMam can make it for us. And speaking to the Vicar and the Rugby Club to confirm both.I also ordered carpet samples, looked at chairs and curtains online. And started sorting b&b for Lou when she stays!!

Think the next upto 6 months are going to be crazy!! Though will be fab for teh boys to have more room, well Al can finally get his own room yaaaay!

Not an exciting pic but the layout for the Christening invite. Took ages to come up with a N letter I had to do it as my facebook status! Can

't wait to see teh finished invite!

Saturday 15th Jan

Still catching up

We went to see the new house again, needs more work than we first thought, but nothing too major. Though looks like we need to get the electrics done :( House is lovely though a proper family home. With lots of potential. We can't wait to get in and get it all sorted and make it ours!

Went to Tesco where Tace "how do Tesco's still hire me" Richards!! shamed me. I still wear teh coat I had when pregnant with Al, as its warm and comfy. Its a swing coat so a bit wide. But he shouted at me across an aisle "Are you pregnant again?" then to a colleague "Does she look pregnant!"

Tace revenge is mine!!!!

Pic is of me in my new glasses, you can just make out the fancy lanyard Sally McCabe of personally painted made for me for my work pass. it may just make going back to work in June bearable

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Friday 14th January

A fairly quiet day after the crazy last few days!!

Rob had a half day to take me and the boys to Grans for the night as he had his belated Christmas do in Swansea. We had to go via Swansea to get my new glasses. Also Lush had their new products in for Valentines day so I HAD to go get them!!

We have got in the habit that when Rob goes out I stay at Grans with the boys. Gran gets company as do I, and teh boys love seeing Gran.

Pic is of Ev dressed up, not that it lasted long. We have never found a proper dressing up outfit for him before as they tend to start at age 3 so drown him!! This is age 1-3, so no doubt Al will be in it soon!!

13th January Thursday!!! D-Day

Again backdated

We got up got Ev to Winks and then ran around doing last minute cleaning and feeding and cleaning Al.

Debra and Mr Morgan got to the house about 10.30 he had a buyer for his house so we took this as a positive sign.

He was a long time upstairs so we were a bit nervy as to what he thought. When we were chatting he knows the area really well amd knew most of te eneighbours or at least the families of them.

It was a very long day between the house visit then about 4 phone calls. I probably did the estate agents heads in but I couldn't cope with not knowing what was happenning!! I think I paced about 5 miles around the house waiting to hear!!

Just before dinnertime we were in the position that he had offered us 65k for our house 15k below the asking price! We knew we needed at least 75k to get our house at 120k so had to hope that the sellers would accomodate us.

News came in that before this offer was made they had agreed to 112, we really needed them to agree to 110 to keep the same margins. So it was a long few hours to see if they would agree. And Debra had viewings to do aswell.

At 5pm we had the call that Janice and Stewart had agreed to the 110k and we had the house subject to contracts!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY

Its not teh clearest pic, but heres the website for our estate agent with the SSTC sign on it!!!

12th Jan Wednesday

These are all backdated due to a crazy few days.

It was just a usual but very wet and miserable Thursday, until at 16.20 the phone rang....

I had already had 3 calls from some numptie in a call centre wanting Mr Owens to do a life survey, so I answered the phone a bit impatiently (plus I was feeding Al at the time!)

But it was Debra from Clee's estate agents wanting to know if she could bring someone aorund to see the house the following day. We agreed a time then PANIC set in. The house was like a bombsite (it prob wasn't that bad, but lots of clutter)

Rob got home with Ev about 20 mins after and sat beeping the jorn at us, I was screaming at him to get the hell in teh house and him and Ev were laughing in the car.

Rob did some cleaning while I ran around like a headless chicken trying to watch the kids and tidy. Then Rob watched teh kids so I could concentrate!!

It was one quicker than we thought, but a acrzy few hours!!!

This pic was actually taken before we got teh call just to show how miserable and wet it is, but shows the for sale sign

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