An enjoyable weekend

I actually took pictures of some of my activities this weekend, amazing! OK so I took them with my phone and not my proper camera but it’s better than nothing and means I actually have something to blog about…with pictures!

I had a lovely weekend actually. I had expected the weather to be rubbish but the sun held on for two more days even if it was cooler than it had been during the week. I didn’t really get out and about but just having the sun streaming through the window and washing on the line was enough to please me.
We’re settling in to our new house now. All the furniture is in the right place and most of the boxes are unpacked apart from a couple in Mr NM’s office.

We’ve been quite fortunate as the house we bought has quite neutral decoration and so whilst there are things we might like to change over the next few years it’s nothing we can’t live with. The only room that really wasn’t neutral and that we wanted to change anyway was what is going to be the baby’s room. When we moved in it was painted lilac and as pretty as it was we didn’t want the baby’s room in lilac. For starters as much as I protest the idea that colours go with certain genders there is no denying the fact that lilac is a tad girly and we still don’t know whether baby monkey is a boy or a girl. More importantly than that though I’m not really big on pastel colours and wanted a bright and cheery baby’s room. This meant painting. There are still things to do with the room (the cot has yet to be delivered!) so I don’t have a full finished room picture to share, it remains a work in progress! I can share the colour we chose though…unsurprisingly we went with bright green!


 
I absolutely love it! It’s only on the one wall with the other three walls left white but I think if we’d done it all green it would have been a bit over the top. As it is it’s just enough colour and I’m delighted with it. We just need to finish sorting furniture, get my mum to adjust the curtains (they’re too long) and get all the things ready in there.

On Saturday evening our good friends came over which was lovely, we never really entertained in our old house. It was small and cramped and I hated the kitchen which was pretty much a cupboard and did not enthuse me to make much effort in the culinary department. We now have a much bigger kitchen (which I must take a picture of as I’m very pleased with it!) and a proper separate dining room to eat in. Anyway our friends visited, the brought beautiful flowers for me


 
and beer for Mr NM (no picture of that but it was bottles of real ale from Yorkshire based breweries) and in return I made a lasagne.


 
It was fantastic to have visitors. After dinner we played Settlers of Catan which I highly recommend if you’re a board game fan though important to note that it needs at least 3 players, sadly this means we have to rely on having visitors if we want to play it! (we’ve also got it on ipad though where the computer will fill in if you don’t have enough friends!) and then they went home very late.

Sunday involved a lie in to recover from the late night with friends and boring household tasks that had been ignored on Saturday. We also went to the supermarket where I picked up one of their little magazines which have recipes in. This inspired me to do some baking, my first attempt at baking with our new (to us, it was in the house when we bought it) electric fan oven…a bit of a change from the old gas cooker we had before! It went well though and I achieved mini egg cookies without burning them!

 

 

They’re a bit crispy at the edges but soft and squidgy in the middle, just the way cookies should be. Also they have mini eggs in them, mini eggs make most things better!

 

As this is supposed to be a knitting blog I’d best also share that I have been doing a little bit of knitting. Not much I must confess, in the last few weeks I’ve been hit pretty hard by what I’ve been told is third trimester insomnia, apparently my body is preparing me for the broken sleep of new motherhood by not letting me get to sleep now. It’s not much fun and as I’m still working full time (but finish on Thursday, yay!) I’m rather zombie-esque most of the time! Knitting has just felt like far too much for my brain to handle and has done for much of my pregnancy, frustrating when there are adorable tiny baby things to be knitted! I’m saving the cabled cardigan I was working on for when I’m on maternity leave and am not juggling work with lack of sleep. Instead I’m currently working on a plain stockinette cardigan, much more within my current brain abilities! It’s growing quickly and using up a bit of my sock yarn stash in the process.

 

 

I’ve knit the back and right front and am currently working on the left front. Purely by chance the two fronts almost match as they were started not far off each other in the colour repeat which is nice but I hadn’t made any effort to force that. I’m hoping it shouldn’t take too much longer to get it finished then I can sew it up and add it to the baby’s clothes.

 

I’m still trying to decide whether or not to take part in Knitting and Crochet Blog Week this year. The baby is actually due that week but I know lots of babies are late so don’t really expect an appearance then, it’s just whether I can get my brain into gear for it! I’d recommend others sign up though because it’s good fun and it gives me lots to read if you do!

 

Maybe for my next post I’ll have actually finished a project…maybe…but probably not!