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Week 9 – Monday Round-up

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Another great week this week, despite the kids being back to school! And since I have a lot to do today, a quickie run down today. Monday to Friday was school and work for everyone (except me of course). The girls had singing stars after school on Monday, went to their dad’s on Tuesday and had a school disco on Thursday. Other than that, our evenings were spent doing Disney tasks or just chilling out.

In the day times, I didn’t get up to much either. Monday I did the weekly shopping and finished off Amy’s Ariel dress. Tuesday I struggled massively with my diet and it resulted in a huge takeaway bomb that evening! Wednesday I spent a large amount of time blogging, specifically sorting out my new Florida 2015 series. On Thursday I spent the whole day working on my Florida Planner. It went from pretty much empty to almost completed! In the evening Nat came around, because she was also picking Megan up from the disco for me, so I could get home and put Lily to bed!

I don’t think I did an awful lot on Friday but Saturday the girls and I were tasked with babysitting my best friend Nat’s youngest son Harry. We had to be out of the house early anyway, as Chris had his driving theory test, so we picked Harry up straight afterwards. We needed to go into Lincoln though so parked up the car and headed to Clintons (to buy some Tsum Tsum’s). Chris let us know almost immediately that he was done and had passed his test! Anyway we did some wandering around the shops and then headed back to the car. We got home and looked after Harry for majority of the day. Nat came along late afternoon and picked him up and after that the girls and I just chilled out. Chris and I spent some of the evening watching TV before heading to bed as I was exhausted.

Finally was Sunday and this was a great big day to relax but also get all the things done I needed to do. I managed to finish Megan’s Buzz dress and also put the zip and hem Amy’s dress. I also got on top of several of my blog posts for this coming week. In the evening Megan and I started on Lily’s cake and hopefully its going to be amazing!

Its going to be a busy week so fingers crossed everything goes to plan. Sorry for the short post but unfortunately I really do have other more important things to do and get on with!

Disney Countdown – Days 37 to 31

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Monday (37) – Feb 23rd – Play a Disney game
Tuesday (36) – Feb 24th – Read Disney
Wednesday (35) – Feb 25th – Watch Tarzan
Thursday (34) – Feb 26th – Make or draw Disney
Friday (33) – Feb 27th – Watch random Disney movie – Aristocats
Saturday (32) – Feb 28th – Paint Rapunzel peg-doll
Sunday (31) – March 1st – Watch Cinderella

Despite the kids going back to school this week, the Disney tasks don’t seem to have been too much of a hassle. On Monday we had play a Disney game, which to be honest is most days anyway. Both girls and certainly me too, played on Disney Tsum Tsum at least once and on top of that, Lily is obsessed with the new stuffed toys being sold at Clintons. On Tuesday it was read Disney which is a fairly safe bet for a Tuesday as the girls usually go to their dads. We read Chapters 7 and 8 of the Never Girls third book, as we’re trying to finish one each month. On Wednesday we down for watching Tarzan. I actually hadn’t seen the movie myself for years and years, the girls never having seen it at all. The three of us all enjoyed it and I’m so glad we added it to the “to watch” list. Thursday was make or draw Disney but the girls had school disco after school and it made for a busy evening. Luckily I spent all day working on my Florida planner, which is for the most part Disney, so we used that as our make Disney task. On Friday it was watch a random movie and after some debate we settled on Aristocats. Lily has started loving Marie (I’m sure its to do with buying the Tsum Tsum) so she was keen to re-watch Aristocats again and Megan agreed. Saturday’s task was paint Rapunzel and Megan got her done with very little grumble this week. I believe she found her particularly easy, especially with the amount of yellow for her hair. Finally came Sunday and the task was to watch Cinderella. I have to admit I quite like this routine we seem to of had for the last few weeks, settling down to watch a Disney movie on a Sunday afternoon.

We’ve now hit the 1 month mark and not including today, we’ve only got 30 more days left of Disney tasks. I personally will be quite glad to see them finish as they’re dominating our life a little, but I think certainly Megan feels an element of disappointment at the thought of not doing them any more. I’m really glad I came up with the idea of this Disney Countdown as its had exactly the effect I wanted and I seriously can’t wait for 30 more days to pass!