So we made it, its officially spring. Ive been looking for a while now at the ground and trees looking for signs that spring is coming and it is so great to see buds on the trees, blossom and flowers starting to bloom as well as lots of daffodils.

We have quite a few birthdays that come up in February for our family. This year my son whose birthday is in February will be eleven. Eleven. I have four sons and he is the third youngest.

Happy New Year to you all. Over these past blessed few weeks when alarm clocks didn’t need to be on, walks and Monopoly were regularly on the agenda and spending quality time with friends and family happened daily I have spent some time pondering and wondering.

I haven’t bought anything new or second hand since October. It started just to save some more money, we have five birthdays in our family between October and February plus with Christmas and the desperate need to go abroad I thought it would be sensible to start saving a bit more. But it has since evolved into a bit of a self interest to see how long I can keep this going.

I am slowly starting to de clutter the house. I like to do a de clutter before December and get some much needed space back into our house.