Me & My Family
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25 Years Young! But Feeling Old!
Last week was my Birthday. It was a crazy busy week, especially as it was my Birthday, My dad’s 50th and also a big event that my mum’s company was organising. I barely had time to fit my little Birthday in, but that didn’t mean my Mr hadn’t put the effort in. Starting the day before on the Sunday baking with my two boys and making my Birthday cake and cookies. On my actual Birthday had also organised a lovely day for me starting with breakfast and fizz in bed, afternoon tea at Patisserie Valerie in Durham and then a meal at one of my favourite restaurants, Fat Buddah on…
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Betta Living Bedroom Transformation
So a few months back I entered a competition for a bedroom transformation that, to be quite honest I had completely forgotten about! It was to win a bedroom transformation of up to £3500 from Betta Living and I think the competition was on Facebook. Well I only blumming went and won it (I still feel in shock now)! At first I was waiting for a catch, like you have to pay for fitting or spend over a certain amount, but nope, unless I wanted to spend more than £3500 I didn’t have to pay anything whatsoever. I wasn’t 100% sure what ‘transformation’ included exactly but I was very excited to…
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Alton Towers Mini Holiday Vlog
On Sunday, my family and I went on a little family holiday to Alton Towers and stayed in the resort for the first time. It was also the first time I had been since I was a teenager and the first time my son and my partner had been. I decided to record the trip and make it in to a Vlog that hopefully shows just how much fun we had. It features the Peter Rabbit Room that we stayed in and the brand new Rollercoaster Restaurant that we ate at which was crazy (but amazing! It was such an amazing trip and I felt like a kid again! Although…
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My Mum Absolutely Rocked Turning 50!
Last month it was my mum’s 50th birthday and to say she celebrated in style would be an understatement. For a lot of people, turning 50 can be quite, well, depressing. Being older isn’t exactly what all of us want to happen after a certain age, even at 25 I wish my birthday’s didn’t come so quickly! My mum however, embraced turning 50 years young and she fully milked her big birthday as much as possible and why the hell not! Her birthday seemed to go on for weeks and started days before her actual birthday too. She was a popular lady and lots of people had plans of what…
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I Am Now a Home-Owner
If you have been following my recent posts you may have noticed that I keep mentioning that I have just bought a new home and just moved recently. This isn’t our first home but the first one we have bought and we are now homeowners (eeek!). We rented for 4 years and it was only when we worked out that we had paid roughly £30,000 in rent for those past 4 years and we were getting nothing back in return that we looked in to the whole buying option. We weren’t working towards anything just keep paying rent. That money didn’t pay off a house that would be ours, it just…
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Christmas Time and New Year – Looking Back
It took me quite a while to find the time to write this post. The Christmas period was such a busy time and I just never got round to doing it. So in April, I am looking back over photos and remembering the great times we had and how this Christmas was my son’s first proper Christmas! He is 2 years old and technically it is his 3rd Christmas however it was the first one that he got excited about and kind of understood some of what was happening. It was the first one that he could properly open his presents and the first Christmas that he could talk to Santa. Anyone…