Today I ...

started packing! The whole house looks like a bomb has hit it - there is not one tidy room - but instead of tidying or finishing off the Christmas decorating I decided to add to the chaos by emptying some cupboards and filling some boxes. No, we don't have a moving date yet, probably the new year but I'm getting excited!

Now I'm sitting glued to the computer after another busy day but must get off and get on with something useful!

Halloween

For Halloween this year I couldn't bring myself to buy some tacky dress-up from Tesco for £10 a pop for the girls so I talked them round to choosing something from their extensive collection of dressing up clothes and treated them to a new 50p wand each! I didn't get a good picture of Esther, she was a princess witch, yes there is such a thing! She had this dress on with a witches hat and wand. When I took the picture she had already been to a 'little spooks tea party' at our neighbours house and couldn't seem to keep the lollipop our of her mouth long enough for me to take a decent picture! Eliza dressed up as 'dinderella' of course! Her favourite and I think it suits her so well.

Alice wore an outfit picked out by the girls and amazingly kept the tiara on all night!

Love this little cutie!

On the Saturday before Halloween it was the church trunk or treat activity and Halloween Carnival. Ben was at his brother Sam's stag weekend so I took the girls, we got there late but made it through all the carnival activities and Eliza won the dress up for her age category - she was so pleased, Esther felt it was a win for the team and didn't mind not winning hers. The trunk or treat was a hit with the girls - who wouldn't enjoy collecting free sweets from the boot of 20 cars?! As soon as we had been round we jumped in the car and headed home as it was well past the girls bedtime.

Dissappointingly we didn't get our pumpkins carved out in time for Halloween and they are still sitting outside the front door uncarved (minus the one I used to make pumpkin soup for dinner today...) We are planning on carving them ready for my parents arriving at the weekend but I'm not sure if it really will happen... Our evenings are just so busy this week (and last week). Luckily the girls didn't think anything of not going out treak or treating on the Sunday since we had had the trunk or treat the night before. We went out to an open house on Sunday afternoon for someone from church who flew out today to be a missionary in Australia so by the time we got back we'd missed most of the trick or treaters - now we also have about 50 lollipops which must leave the house soon or I will eat them as I have no self control. We didn't even get any Halloween decorations out as we had a house viewing on the 30th. Turns out he put an offer in on the house 4 doors down who had just reduced its price and had no forward chain. Boo hoo. The good thing is our house has stayed pretty tidy and it's been 4 days since the viewing!

Viewing

Yesterday we had our first house viewer!! It was very exciting since our house has been on the market 5 weeks and had no viewings yet! Luckily my mum and dad, Joel and Jessica stayed here the night before on their way back from Switzerland, so Joel and Jessica left in the morning as Joel had to be back in Leeds for Uni and mum and dad stayed to help me get it all ready. If only I can keep the house looking as nice as it looked then! The lady came round at 5.45pm so my parents took Esther and Eliza to the park and we to pick up some Chinese for us since none of us wanted to do any more tidying than was strictly neccesary (we had already done alot!). Let's hope she loved it and wants to buy it so I don't have to go through all that tidying again!

Hidden talents

Who'd have guess it but I seem to be a natural at making cheese! Recipe = leave your kids sippy cups with an inch or 2 or milk in the bottom for a couple of days and tada! The results are incredible! Okay so I'm not sure it's safe to eat but it sure smells like some super stinky cheese! Yuk! Time for me to start keeping an eye on where they leave their drinks....