Over a year?! No!

I can't believe it's been over a year since I last posted here.  Firstly, where has the time gone, and secondly, why didn't I write here?!

To be fair, things have been quite hectic and busy the past year.  Our extension was finally completed, but not before about April/May time.  I don't know how we managed without it to be honest.  It seems like the space is full already and I'm looking around thinking "we need more room!" again.  Our garden is NOT completed, and won't be until next year.

In other news, our boiler broke and I am currently begging Hubster to get it replaced, but because we have a back-up electric one he is, at the moment, refusing because of the expense of everything.

It seems so much has happened this past year I don't even know where to start with it all!  We went on a lovely big family holiday in April. We spent 3 weeks in America, staying in a Florida villa and travelling up to see our friends in Baltimore for a few days before going back to Florida.  It really was the holiday of a lifetime for us all, as we've been unable to do a proper holiday in a long time.  We also went on our first adult-only holiday in November.  It was only a few days, but we cruised on the Queen Mary 2 from Southampton to Hamburg, then spent a couple of days in Hamburg before flying back to the UK.

We also got a new addition to our family as you can see below!

His name is Chance, he was born April 1st and he is a typical Golden Retriever!  I can't believe how big he's grown over the last few months.  Like children, they don't stay little for long.

Anyway, I have come back as I was reminded of this blog when I read another beautiful ladies blog and thought I should restart.  I have been rather slack with my housework, hobbies and health recently due to a knee injury.  I had to have an MRI yesterday and now we're just waiting to find out if I need surgery or just physio to fix it but the pain is constant and has been for weeks now after I fell down a rabbit hole.

So I have been neglecting housework and everything else.  Have put on a ton of weight too and need to shift that as well.

Today though is hard.  I have three kids down with a sickness bug (was all 7 of them yesterday) and now I have come down with it too.  So today's goal will be to simply look after myself.  Hopefully it's just a 24 hour thing and then I can get back to normal (as normal as my knee allows anyway!)...