Christmas

Clanettes! Another million years between posts! It is manic here, I have been doing zillions of overtime and prepping for Christmas and Paul getting home and School Christmas plays and and and! You get the picture!

Anyway, today we set aside as a Christie Day and we got ourselves a tree - a real one, we left the fake one in the loft this year - and we went to see Father Christmas and we have had a LOVELY day.

 

In other news, its precisely one year since I 'did' my back. I know I never actually 'did' anything to my back, but it was the 14th December 2012 when I had my friends over for drinks and a shared dinner and as I bent down to my glass away, something twinged and I couldn't move. It seems a life time ago now.

When Paul got back from his 10 day 'Cycling Santas' in support of childhood cancer ride, (which made the yorkshire news

http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2013-12-07/cycling-santas-raise-awareness-of-childhood-cancer/) we went out on a date - to the gym obviously! Paul is wooing me by teaching me to lift weights - I tell you Clanettes, I was the only girl in a room of buff men.. most off putting, but we had a good evening and a change to talk and catch up. We are going out for dinner next week. Proper wooing.

Thanks for reading x x

October

This has been a frugal month for posts Clanettes! Apologies! I can promise I am going to remedy this in November with a couple of challenges/projects... Watch this space!

In the mean time, have a photo update of the last couple of weeks...

Running in the park with the kidlets - not as hard a run as when I'm on my own, but we all get a run round and some fresh air. Ideal!

Experimenting with peanut butter cupcakes. A hit! Peanut butter is my alllll time favorite thing to eat. Full stop.

Lochie was 'invested' (officially joined) our local Beavers group. Beavers is a pre-cursor to the Scouts.

I have been killing it in the gym - with direction from Paul!

We went out for a family meal and I was delighted that we were all happy to try something different - Wagamama's (pan-asian!) was a winner with everyone.

I have set myself two new PBs this month. I ran 3.5k on the treadmill (With Lucy, just seen here running on the treadmill next to me!)

And I have run for 20 mins straight. Both of which are firsts post fusion. I believe I may have written on Facebook 'IN YOUR FACE SPINAL FUSION!' 

 

The girls chose their annual Christmas party dresses - I love matchy matchy - I also love love love leopard print!

 

Vikki, Elle, Becky and I went out for dinner for Vikki's birthday - I drank too much wine and laughed a lot!

So Clanettes, Samhain tomorrow, out with the old, in with the new and a lot of blog posts coming your way! Until next time, thanks for reading xxx