New kitchen
The person who said the two most stressful things you can do in life is move house or get married never refurbished a house with four/five children!
We finished our extension just before George was born but put our kitchen on hold.
(this picture is totally irrelevant, I just wanted to show off my wallpaper hanging skills !)
I couldn’t handle the mess and inconvinience of no kitchen and a Newborn baby so we left it as it was.
Now, nearly a year later we looking into finishing it and the thought is filling me with excitment and dread!
I’m still cleaning dust up 11 months after the building work finished!
This always helps :
‘There may not be a kitchen but don’t think for a second I’m living on sandwiches for a month.’
‘ let’s move into nana’s’
‘Can you still make Coco pops? ‘
‘ you should buy our old house. That kitchen was finished ‘
-Just some of the constructive comments my beautiful offspring offered!
I also seem to be so much more indecisive since George was born.
I’m no stranger to refurbing or putting new kitchens in but this time I’ve drawn a blank.
I can’t decide what kitchen to go for, how to lay it out, what floor to have, what lighting i want, an island or a bar? Solid wood or granite?
This is so unlike me, i am, usually quite an impulsive and decisive person.
Either way, what i want and what it will look like after a couple of months are two totally different things.
I picture a sparkling white kitchen with a beautiful chandelier, a huge bunch of flowers in a vase sitting proudly on the island, a full wine Fridge and the smell of coffee in the air.
What the ‘ real ‘ picture will show is dirt marks all over what used to be stunning white units, dead lily’s where I have forgotton to change the water and can’t be arsed to empty the stinking flowers out, an empty wine fridge (five kids and five dogs, need i say more?) and the smell of shitty nappies because, although I have the intention to buy nappy sacks each time I’m out, I never do! #mumslife
I better start getting my arse into gear, two walls are being knocked down this week and the sooner I have a kitchen picked the sooner an end is in sight.
I’ll start tonight, hold on, Did someone say tapas?
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I’ll start tomorrow!
Family Movie Nights 🎥
Who doesn’t love Disney movies!? I could watch them day after day……
Oh, hold on, that’s exactly what i have been doing for the last nine years!
Given my babies ages (11 months. 5, 7 and two 9 year olds) I have been on the ‘disney, cebebeies, baby TV and Mr bloody Tumble’ channel for nearly a decade.
So, people may judge me when they hear i have been embracing the twins impending teenage years by introducing them to some of MY favourite movies.
Some have been a hit, some haven’t, some appropriate, some maybe not, but I’ve had a blast sharing my old favs with them.
Pauly Shore is a bit of an unknown name in the UK, but growing up, his movies were amongst some of my favourites.
California Man, Bio-dome, son in law and In the Army Now are great movies for my boys. They think he is one of the funniest people alive (besides Mr Bean).
Stand by Me was our Friday night movie recently.
It was a really lovely evening as Mike and I were as excited to sit down and watch it as they were.
They found it quite emotional (when Gordie’s brother dies and when they tell stories about their family lives) but the ‘leech scene’ and all the swearing made up for it!
FYI, a little trivia I found out while writing this blog, did you know, Vern in Stand by Me has grown into Jerry O’connell, who has been in Scream 2, Mistresses, Billions and Jerry Maguire! Who’d have guessed that!
I don’t worry about them watching movies that use profanity anymore. They know what they are allowed to say and what they aren’t and I trust their manners….
Plus, they probably hear worse at home anyway!
Beetlejuice is now on their favourite list aswell as mine, along with Goonies, National Lampoons Vacation, Big, The Great Outdoors, Overboard, The Ernest Movies, Gremlins, Jaws, Mannequin, Parenthood, Return to Oz…I could go on.
One choice that was very controversial in our house, and, I won’t lie, was Mikes choice for a movie night.
His all time favourite movie, FOREST GUMP!!!!
Now, this movie is PG rated which was his argument for letting Mikey and Harri watch it.
However, I don’t think he took into account the various scenarios this movie involves.
I found it the most painful 6 hours of my life (that is how long the movie goes on for isn’t it? No? It f#@king felt like it!)
Cringing at every scene i knew would be followed by an awkward question
‘ mum why is Forest making funny noises after his teacher visits his mum ‘
‘urgh why is jenny making him touch her boob!?’
‘ why is jenny running away from her dad?’
But, the boys absolutely loved it, Harrison asks me daily to watch it again.
The adult themes went over their head but the emotional rollercoaster really swept them away.
They are memorised with the whole movie, Forest, his relationships with family and friends, his comic manner, his constant need to please, protect and love.
I feel, in hindsight, it was a great movie choice for them that taught them things I certainly couldnt.
And it opened the door for me to test some other movies such as Olympus has Fallen, London has fallen, San Andreas, Outbreak 😱, Salt, Planet of the Apes.
So in short, now. When we have ‘a family movie night ‘ I can be in the room with them mentally aswell as physically, watching with general interest rather than staring blankly at the TV because I’m watching Toy Story, Frozen or Horrid ba#@ard Henry for the 1000th time!
Don’t worry George…… I’ll still sit through all the crap for you 😘