Real Life
I’ve been so consumed with the launch of the Mums’ Days Fit Club I literally thought I had done nothing else this week. Thank god for my phone because all this happened too…!
Friday
I arrived back in blighty to this gorgeous view over St Mary’s Lighthouse and the North East Coast, which was good because it took my mind off the feeling I’d been experiencing for the last 14 hours…that we were going to drop out of the sky.
Mike and the kids arrived home soon after me but I was so tired it was pretty much straight to bed (after a Chinese and some wine, of course).
Saturday
I was feeling pretty awesome and had a fun morning with the kids – selfies with kids and cats = difficult
And we all got crafty with my messy box, which I would highly recommend. I love it!
Sunday
we went for lunch and also made plenty of time for cuddling…inside my cardigan!
Monday
I got my head down and focused on the Mums’ Days Fit Club launch and prepping for the launch party!
Having said that… Radcliff and Maconie, of 6 music, were discussing Cheese Cake flavoured KitKats from Japan…the very same ones I had just bought for Mike and my other birthday girls back home. So they retweeted my picture of it – rather exciting brush with fame!
Tuesday
It started first thing because we still don’t have blinds in our room (it’s on my to do list, so will obviously NEVER happen) – this is 5am in our room:
And ended with a Game of Thrones catch up with my fella!
Wednesday
My new car arrived on a snazzy looking pimped up Mercedes van. Totally stole the show.
And R and I continued to enjoy the sunshine after school with a picnic on the trampoline and some sun bathing.
Thursday
Finally, this moment made us laugh as Reuben tried to look at Archie (who looks thrilled) through his telescope.
Blog life
This week has been great. Loads going on with various projects but the absolute icing on the cake was the Mums’ Days Fit Club launch party on Wednesday evening. There was sooooo much interaction and people chatting with each other. The success was far beyond my wildest dreams – in fact I had drafted in buddies, including my lovely cohost Aby from You Baby Me Mummy, to keep checking in just in case it was just me and the ‘internet tumbleweed’!
I needn’t have worried and I was also able to give away 10 wonderful Protest Sportswear sets to some really happy people, which was awesome. The conversations are still there to be enjoyed, such is the beauty of Facebook, so if you’re interested in either the party or just Facebook Parties in general (this was my first!!) then head on over to the Mums’ Days page.
Inspiration
The #MDFitClub chat on Wednesday night DEFINITELY inspired me! So many people all pumped up to do their best to get control of their health, it was amazing to see and I can’t wait to see where this fit club takes us!
In a similar vane, we watched Pumping Iron and I’ve had Arnie in my head ever since. I had well over a week off the gym so this week has been hard going getting back into it. My arms still hurt from Tuesday’s workout…but what kept me going was using Arnold Schwarzenegger’s way of thinking, that this is an opportunity and every tricep dip or whatever else is getting me closer to my goal. It works but you may also barf now!
Your Turn
This is the part where you can join in and my co-host, the gorgeous Aby from You Baby Me Mummy, and I will head over to have a read of your list posts!
Another fab week on #TheList linky last week and my featured bloggers are:
Mummy Writes – 10 Domestic Cheats that won’t break the budget my natural state is panic at the size of my to do list which stops me doing anything and as a result my home suffers. This post reminded me that you can get help – freeing up time from one thing allows me to do what makes me happy (and money to pay for the help!).
Growing Wild Ones – 10 things to do while baby sleeps – Aww, this took me back. Did it make me broody? I’m not saying!
LaraBeeUK – Stopping the Strops was lovely on 2 counts – firstly I’m glad it’s not just us (although R has been much better this week now he’s sleeping more!) and secondly because there’s some sound advice for dealing with it!
This week I’m linking Goal setting and getting stared and Thrifty Father’s Day Ideas, and Aby is linking Redesign your blog and My Ultimate Bucket List. What will you link up?!
Grab the badge and get linking!
Thanks so much for featuring me, I’m so pleased this was helpful xx
Ps thank you for hosting too.
How jealous am I of that kitkat cheesecake? (answer: very!!) Glad you had such a great week! x
What a busy week!! Thanks for hosting x
What a week you’ve had. Your Facebook party sounds ace – glad it went well.
Love the ariel shot from the plane!
Thank you SO much for the mention. What an honor for a newbie blogger like me! I love reading all these link ups! 🙂 Xo
Gosh! What a busy week! Fit Club sounds interesting. Loving cuddling in the cardy 🙂 #TheList
Wow, sounds like a busy action packed week! I want your energy 🙂
Snazzy car 🙂 Thanks for hosting x
I’m not sure how you managed to have so much energy after a 14 hour flight! My week following that would be ‘encouraged children to nap so I could…’ every day! Thanks for hosting Hannah x
Looks like a gorgeous little week! Loving the sunshine but no so much streaming into your room at 5am – it’s been waking me up all week!
Love the photos of your kids and cats 🙂
Sorry I linked up twice, the first link was broken and I didn’t have a delete option. Can you delete #85?
Looks like you’ve had another fun week!Reuben cwtching up in your card is so cute.thanks for hosting xx p.s I want that cheesecake!
I really need to start taking more photos and documenting what we do, this is such a lovely way of remembering your week 🙂 x
Sounds like your doing well with the fit club. Really need to use our home gym more, just finding the energy after a day with the kids can sometimes be impossible. Keep at it. ☺
Wow – a busy week! Love your cuddles picture – cute. x
Sounds like a great week. I really enjoyed the Fit Club chat and was so pleased to win a prize! I am really motivated to get going now! ps. Love the sound of those kitkats!
I’m still totally jealous you went to Tokyo! 😛 Still it must have been great to be at home again. I’m glad to see you don’t have blinds too, we still haven’t put blinds in our living room and it’s been a year! #thelist Sabrina xx
Hello! So happy to have a list to link up this week. Super-jealous of the great weather it looks as though you’ve been enjoying – it’s been raining in Manchester 🙁 Just back from a trip myself so missed the launch but will check it out now – it sounds right up my street! xo
I would need those blinds sorted before I dared sleep in your room! I’m so used to the electric blinds on all the windows in my house now (makes it pitch black so it could be midday and gorgeous sunshine outside and you’d never know) so when I stay anywhere with just curtains and blinds I can’t sleep! I reckon its how my little one stays in bed until 8am every morning lol! Looks like you had loads of fun on your trip. I completely missed the launch of your Fit Club on Wednesday, I’ll definitely be keeping my eye out for more of your posts, I need all the motivation I can get! x
I’m looking forward to checking out Fit Club. Trouble is, now I’ve seen those Cheesecake flavoured KitKats they are all I can think about!! Thanks for hosting this lovely linky :o)
Wow sounds like you have had a busy week!
Linking up with my happy list from last week! My birthday boy & more 🙂
Hi Hannah, nice to meet you! What a nice car! I’m linking up with my list of what you need when planning a child’s birthday party. Hope you like it! Thanks for hosting!
What an amazing week! Hope you are enjoying lots of snuggle time this week as well!
#TheList