I Love You More Than Sleep…

A few days ago I posted this picture on Twitter: Ooooo, so pretty! Loads of people have asked about it and requested a bigger image. So, here it is! It’s a beeee-utiful wall vinyl that I bought for M&M to decorate our new bedroom (he thinks it’s one of those presents you say you’re buying for your [...]

Friday Fun…Eye Test…

I recently came across the site eyechartmaker.com, which does, as they say, ‘exactly what it says on the tin’! Now there’s somewhere to waste a few minutes (click on the pic below if you fancy it…): Inspired by the crafty wonder-blog, She Wears Flowers (check out the post: http://www.she-wears-flowers.com/2010/07/caught-my-eye.html), I decided to fashion a romantic, personalised piece [...]

One for the Ministers’ Wives

Yesterday M&M had a whole Sunday off work…and we did NOTHING. Nowt. Nada. Bliss. Now, this is a rare occurrence in the Sweetie Household. Indeed, Sunday (as I’ve probably mentioned about, hmmmm, a billion times before) is often the most stressful & tiring day of the week. The Day of NO Rest! Over Christmas, I [...]

Holiday Hiatus

The Sweetfamily Holiday Countdown has begun… On Friday we are jetting driving-at-a-reasonable-speed off into the sunset as we head to the coast for a good ol’fashioned British Beach Holiday. Huzzah! Today saw the start of our manic preparations: load upon load of washing, only allowing the children to wear their scruffiest (and slightly too small) [...]

After Eight

Today is my wedding anniversary! 8 years of being married to the wonderful M&M – the best friend & partner-in-life a Sweetmumma could ask for.  We celebrated in Sweetstyle - hanging out with Sweetfriends, fishing kids out of paddling pools, eating ice-cream and listening to Elvis… How romantic?!?  But it suited us perfectly. We learnt pretty quickly [...]

Treasure In the Attic?

Anybody need a life-sized, cardboard cut-out of a pharaoh’s sarcophagus?  Or a complete set of Star Wars figurines (Millennium Falcon included)?  Or a Victorian boot hook? Or 4 boxes of empty CD-cases…..? I’m guessing not! We certainly don’t. But this is just a teeny-tiny selection of the weird-and-wonderful junk treasure that we found today as [...]

Picture Perfect

A while ago I posted about how M&M and I were going to try some joint praying of the spontaneous, as-the-need-arises variety. Well, after that I made this little picture for our lounge: We thought it would act as a not-so-subtle reminder for our sleep-deprived brains that we really want to develop a “Let’s pray [...]

My new baby… HERMAN!

Meet Herman: He’s my new ‘baby’, a gift from M&M to yours truly (an adoption which took place courtesy of a Sweetfriend from the other side of the pond, via a ‘Gap Year’ fund-raising auction). A brown, smelly, sludgy baby; but a fabulous one nonetheless. Herman is a friendship cake (aka Amish cake, aka Herman [...]

Why Are We Waiting

Today I’ve been wondering how much of our time we spend waiting. According to ‘statisticians’ (and I take this with a big pinch of salt), 3 years of the average lifetime is spent waiting – and that’s just in queues and on phones! At the moment I feel as if M&M and I have been [...]

Couples Therapy

Yesterday, M&M and I ‘retreated’. Not from the Sweetkids, of course, they haven’t beaten us into submission…yet!  Actually, we’d had the date in our diaries for a while as a time we could escape our noisy, hyper-busy existence and reflect on life, God and how-to-stay-awake-on-a-retreat (answer: caffeine). So, we house-swapped with SweetGranny , stocked up on soul-food [...]