This week has been straight out exhausting, just like the last one. I don’t think it helped that I started the week tired mind you, but despite a generally quiet sort of a week, I somehow don’t think I’ve caught up on very much sleep.

As it has been recently, Monday to Friday were just regular work and school days. On Monday though, Lily had to dress like a Scientist for her Science WOW Week, then on Friday Megan did the same. The girls also had a school “Share” at 3pm on Friday. Luckily as this is after work, I was able to attend. Mum went to Lily’s (as usually I always go to Lily’s) and I went to Megan’s. However Megan’s share was all about the elastic band cars they’d been making and as Megan’s class raced their cars first, I snuck out and headed to Lily’s where I was just in time to see her fly her paper airplane!

School has been bothering me a bit recently as they seem to be cramming so much into this last half term, I can barely catch my breath. There has already been 2 dress up days for Lily (1 for Megan), a school trip for Megan, Sports Day for them both and Lily’s class assembly. Still to come there are two more school trips, another dress up day for Lily in the form of a beach day, numerous evening meetings to attend etc. I feel like my head is going to explode and on top of that I work in a school which means I actually have the exact same situation going on at work which results in having to work more and having even less time to attend the girls stuff!

Anyway… Mondays I love because of Cohorted! I posted about them recently but basically every Monday at 6pm I try to grab myself a beauty bargain. Last week I got the Naked Palette 1 and this week I managed to grab the Naked Palette 2. It’s sad to say I look forward to Mondays, just for this reason!

Wednesday was weigh-in day and I lost 2lb which puts me only 1lb shy of a full stone. I feel pretty good about this though sadly its fallen on a week where I’ve felt very emotional and ended up eating a lot of junk. Realistically I’m looking at a no weight loss for next week I think but its probably worth it to keep my sanity!

Over the duration of the week, I started working on my comic con costume. Tuesday I cut out the pieces of my skirt (with Nat’s help) and sewed the majority of it together. Wednesday I worked on the waist band for the skirt and also cut out the corset pieces. By Thursday I was nipping to my mum’s for help doing the zip for the skirt and finalising the waistband. Mum then kept it overnight and hemmed the bottom of my skirt for me (she’s a star!). I now just have the corset to complete but Chris is beginning to think about making his costume which could be interesting with less than two weeks to go till Comic Con!

Friday night the girls and I had a girls night and watched a movie. They’ve been dying to watch the 1998 version of The Parent Trap ever since I mentioned it to them and so this is what we did. Both the girls loved it and I blubbed most of the way through it too! After the girls had gone to bed I downloaded our next murder mystery and started to organise what I’d need to do and who would be who. Watch this space for a review at the end of July, but also for the latest one we did a few weeks ago – sometime this week!

By Saturday I was exhausted even more and so a lie in till 10am was necessary! I couldn’t stay in bed any longer than that though as it was the girls’ School Fair and they were both singing in it. By about 11.20am we were all ready and leaving the house, to get to school no later than 11.50am. We were there with plenty of time, the girls sang beautifully for half an hour and then afterwards we all went to get burgers and wander around the fair. Afterwards we headed into Lincoln to do some shopping. Megan has a school trip which she had several specific things she needed for it and so that was our main aim. So Lily didn’t feel left out though, I let her pick up a few things too.

Majority of our shop was in Primark, but we also went to Accessorize and Asda Living. On top of that we grabbed coffee from Starbucks and all in all, after calling in on my mum too, we didn’t all get home until nearly 6.30pm. The girls insisted on taking pictures of their shopping spree and putting them on their blogs. If you’re one of the very few followers of them, you should see their posts. Once the girls were in bed I settled down to get some stuff done on my computer, worked a bit more on my corset and then went to bed!

Sunday was a little unexpected to say the least! Just as we were heading to bed on Saturday, Chris made a decision that he wanted to make his own costume for Comic Con. As you know, my own costume is something I debated and deliberated over for ages so Chris saying he wanted to make his – well it threw us into a bit of a tailspin! We spent majority of Sunday morning deciding what or who, he would go as.  Once that was decided, we headed out to Boyes and bought some material. When we got back from the shops, Chris wanted to move his computer to the attic room (something I’ve ultimately requested to claim my dining room back) and so I did some work on my own corset. By about 8pm, once the girls were in bed, Chris and I set to finding a free waistcoat pattern online – then printing it out on about 36 sheets of paper and playing jigsaws! Once we’d got it all sorted out, we cut it up, stuck it back together and finally we were ready to cut out the actual material. After that I sewed it all together and left it at that. Its far from perfect but as I still need to edge the waistcoat in white and add a bit of fur around the collar, I’m hoping it will look fine once I’m done!

Anyway, at around 10pm we went to watch the last couple of episodes of Dollhouse, a series we’ve been watching for a while now, over a period of time. I’m actually pretty sad its over but unlike a lot of series, at least it got a proper ending. Poor Joss Whedon and his cancelled shows!

Well that was my week, how about yours? Fingers crossed for a calmer and quieter week this week!