Well, since my last post which took place during the packing of what felt like endless amounts of boxes, we have successfully moved and have been in our new house for approx. a month. It’s a lovely home, it felt right as soon as I walked through the front door. We have had oodles of help in the form of our parents, helping us to make our first home so special. James’ parents have helped enormously with the fees as well as our lovely garden accessories (shed, table & chairs, barbecue) and my mum has helped with the furniture. Because we were living in a part-furnished rental house, we had hardly anything to bring with us – the important things like beds, sofas, dining table all needed to be sorted, and mum helped us massively with that. In fact, because of their help, our first home looks like it’s been lived in and added to for a couple of years, where in fact we’ve only been here for 4 weeks – currently considering ourselves immensely lucky. Here’s a few pictures of our place – I need to take more now it has stuff in it, but that would require tidying it up a bit, and it’s half 10 in the morning (too early for housework).

In other news, Freyja’s Birthday has been and gone! It feels so strange to say she’s one. It feels like yesterday that we were bringing her home from the hospital all tucked up nice and warm in her little Maxi Cosi car seat. And here she is, outgrown the car seat and in a Britax one, in 9-12 month clothes and growing by the day.

And… She can walk!! She’s been walking properly for just under a couple of weeks, having made a few steps beforehand. She’s like properly walking! It’s weird! And she’s fast – meaning I have to be doubly on the ball at every minute, because now, she just doesn’t stop!

I’ve got a few blog posts planned for the next month or two – I can’t guarantee I’ll write them as often as I’d like, but I will try! Now I have the internet back, I don’t really have an excuse!

We’ve just got back from a lovely weekend with family, Freyja having charmed the socks off everyone she met, as usual! I’m in the middle of making her birthday present, so the visit to family and friends was a big help for it.

It was also my first Mother’s Day It’s weird being a mummy and having my own card, and today, I had a jigsaw of a photo of Freyja and I – I’ll enjoy doing that, amongst all the packing we have to do. We have had our completion date through – 31st March – meaning we don’t have long left to organise ourselves! It’s so exciting though, to think that next month, we’ll be in our new house. It’s an awesome thought

Right, back to packing. I’ve only done one box :/

We did manage to get out and enjoy the sunshine though last weekend. It was James’ birthday, so we decided to pop down to Castlefields in Southsea, as there was some sort of event happening, to celebrate 500 years since Henry VII’s coronation. I didn’t personally go for this, I was just happy for us to go out as a family, catch up with friends and show off our gorgeous daughter! We arrived, in the blistering heat, only to find that we had forgotten her sunhat. Stupid buggers. So I crafted a makeshift bandana out of her (clean) muslin. Personally, I think it looked awesome! She suits bandanas, and makes a very cute pirate.

It was a lovely afternoon. And I think James had a nice relaxing birthday. I cooked him a three course meal, only to find that if I want to make a cake that rises, I should really use self-raising flour. Numpty. So the third course ended up being a blob of ice cream. But he said he enjoyed it nevertheless.

This weekend involves a visit to Mothercare to try and find a UV suit. We’re going to the south of France next weekend, so we need to get something that will cover Freyja up and keep her skin nice and healthy!