Where Does Time Fly!!

6.30 the other morning I was contemplating eating the mars bar that was eyeing me up whilst I was waiting for the kettle to boil. I have recently re-discovered mars bars and think its down to the advert for them with John Barnes in it. As soon as I hear that famous rap, Im transported back to my very first holiday without my parents. My then best friend and myself went to sunny spain, whilst the 1990 world cup was on!! This song was every where and its definatly on my guilty pleasure song list!! Going back to the 6.30 morning, it suddenly dawned on me it was TWENTY bloomin years ago, argh, where did that go!!! When you are younger and you always get told by the older generation that you still feel 18 and everything feels like yesterday, it is so very true.

As you can imagine, living in a household of males , its world cup fever here!! Hubby is English, my older two have the Italian link through their father, youngest and step son are half Welsh, half English so their are lots of diffrent football kits floating around our house (which incidently I hate) throw in a Holland kit and Spain one too

so no real loyalties, lol!! Hubby of course would disagree, normally he doesnt want to draw attention to himself but I went into the garden on the day of Englands first match to find two huge England flags flying from the washing line (old fashion pully, goes very high in the air) and him wearing his England top (we live in Cardiff so lots of jokes and comments get thrown around as you can imagine, even so...Wales where were you, maybe next time)

Whilst Im on the subject of sport, these past weeks have been crazy for us as parents, all our boys play football, training is still going on. Cricket has now commenced both for school and clubs!! Max the eldest played with the school at the Swalec stadium (England played an Ashes match there last year) and got beat in the final, Louie, middle child also played for his school in the grounds of Cardiff Castle and they won their tournement. This week was sports presentation eve at our school and there was a very special guest, Gareth Bale who plays for Spurs, he used to go to the boys school, as you can imagine they were all so excited and today Max is having a cricket training day with his ad other schools and two England cricketers are joining them (they played again in Cardiff

yesterday against Australia) so they have all had a fab couple of weeks!!!

Gosh I've rambled so enjoy John Barnes xx

PS Im sure England didn't get off to a good start because they didn't do a world cup song!!!!

New house to be... pics...before

We took the boys to see the house for the first time yesterday, so i quickly took a few shots around it.....I love this front door, its going to be painted green, haven't decided which shade yet!!The youngest one taking a pic with his pretend phone......note the fab carpet!!!

Dining room.....again check out the carpet, even though it's all 70's carpet throught the house, the condition of it is amazing, luckily all the downstairs has woodblock flooring underneath the carpets. Fireplace will be going, its identical to the one in living room,

Very child friendly doors....not

View down kitchen to back door...

view up kitchen to hall, it's a very long kitchen so we can fit table in space as seen above, all the units will be ripped out and replaced.

hall, stairs and landing carpet.....need i say anymore

I really like this landing window, although its not original it matches the one in the hall

even more amazing carpet, in my oldest boys room to be

fab tiles in bathroom, think they are known as chick tiles as you can make one out on each tile.

Are you jealous??

So yes we have our work cut out, luckily we are staying put here until the main things have been done.

Having a great weekend so far, Wales won the triple crown in rugby and fingers crossed they will win the 6 nations ( not sure they will beat France but are way ahead with points diffrence ) and Cardiff have just got through to semi finals of FA cup for the first time in about 90 years!!! Can you tell I like sport?

Sun is Shining

Doesn't it make such a difference when the sun is shining, apart from me noticing a million little finger marks on my windows...lol...it puts everybody in such a good mood and makes it so much easier to get out of bed.
So far today it has been a lovely day, it started with the arrival of some cute dotty cup and saucers plus a sweet gingham heart (pics to follow) from the lovely Jenny at Buttercup and Roses, then my friend phoned to say she is expecting twins, I'm so happy for her and her husband and little boy plus it will contain my own broodiness for a while!!
My eldest boy who is 8 and 3/4 (very important when you are desperate to be 9 ) has just come back from Football, his team drew the first match, won the second 7-1 ( he scored the 7th ) and lost the last, he's now in the bath as he was covered in mud. My youngest two boys ( 4 and 6 ) decided to bring every duvet and blanket we have in the house and just dump them in the living room, the plan was to make a headquarters for their army camp ( all of them love pretending to be in the army ) but have now abandoned the idea and of course mum is expected to take them all back upstairs while they play Mario Galaxy on the Wii with dad!
Monday we are going to view a house, I'm really excited as I have already seen it but hubbie hasn't apart from the details, it needs updating which is something I love doing so fingers crossed he loves it to!
It's half term this coming week so there will be no rushing around for us, just taking it easy which us howI like it.
In just under 2 hours we will be settling down to watch Wales against Scotland in the rugby, after last weeks 'Suprise' victory over England ( sorry English ladies, hubby English too, he wan't impressed) theres great excitement here in Wales, every one really takes it really personal if we lose..lol....mainly the men but I'm sure it will be a great game.
Have a good weekend everyone.xxxx