So Pete will be home tomorrow, only for 8 days but hey, better than nothing and certainly better than last year. I always go into panic mode the day before he comes home just trying to get the house just right, although he never really notices but i guess it's more to keep my mind occupied. I have to drive to Exeter to pick him up from the airport tomorrow lunch time and we've got a really busy week. So many jobs get put off til he comes home as it's often difficult to find the time when the kids are running around like lunatics. We had a conservatory built before xmas, well it's been one disaster after another with it and we're still waiting for the rendering on the outside to be done and they've only just sealed the air conditioning unit on the inside. So it needs painting this week.

We had it built as a playroom for the kids...one thing this house doesn't have is space. It's sometimes so cramped that i find it really gets me down. WE were going to move last summer but the whopping price jump between our 3 bedroom mid terrace and a four bedroom semi was so huge we decided it really wouldn't be worth the lifestyle changes we had to make. It's not really the sleeping space that's the issue, it's that if it's rainy there's nowhere where the kids can play and let off steam. So we took the house off the market and decided to have a conservatory built instead. It's a nice big extension and since i started scrapping it's becomming more and more tempting to kick the kids out and have the holy grail in there instead (mummy's scrap room) but oh well, just a few years til i can kick them all out!

Early night for me tonight as i can't stop yawning but i know i'll still be dusting and tidying at 2am getting ready for my sweetie to come home. Oh i miss him, not long now though.