Off to a flying start!

What a fabulous start to a new year we've had here in the PEH household!  I have been clearing out, decluttering, organising.  The plans for our new extension to make a much larger kitchen/diner are well underway and about to be sent off to the planning department and building regs and things are slowly coming right again.

I have signed up for piano lessons and my wonderful husband has promised to buy me a lovely baby grand piano for my 30th birthday later this year.

I have decided for the moment to focus mostly on my cooking in this blog.  Some organisation, some cooking and some daily chit chat and maybe it won't be so boring around here!

One of the new "organisational" things I've implemented this year and that's gone so well for us has been making school lunches the night before, and also laying the table fully ready for breakfast the night before.  Honestly, if you'd told me a few months ago that this would make my life seem so much easier I'd have laughed in your face and told you that it wouldn't make a difference to my life - but actually it REALLY does. It's so nice to get up in the morning and not have to worry about school lunches, or even having to get all the equipment and food out to feed the tribe...  Even when, as my older children do, they make their own - there's still the hassle that involves, the mad rush to the kitchen to get the best pickings and the following arguments...

As for cooking, I've been doing loads of homemade cooking and baking recently.  I'm really loving it too, but to be honest I get bored with the day to day stuff.  I want a challenge, I want to cook something different, something amazing!  So watch this space and hopefully I'll be able to come up with a few new things to share here!