Update!

Once again it’s been an age since my last post! Things are really moving on with the house move now and our living room is filling up slowly with cardboard boxes and we have a big planning chart on the wall in the kitchen to help keep us (read me!) motivated!(thanks Richard!;-) )As it turns out the next few weeks are probably the busiest few weeks we have had all year even without the house move but isn’t that always the way. Matthew has the National Optimist sailing championships starting on Wednesday until saturday Richard is off to the states for a conference on Sunday for a week and has to go to Galway for another work thing the following weekend so will end up going direct from Shannon to Galway. We then have one week when he gets home before I am back to work, Abbie starts preschool and Matthew starts in his new school too – so much change. We are back on the 3rd of September and moving out of this house on the 7th (to live with Richards Parents for a while!)! Then the weekend of the 7th is my brother’s stag party and the following weekend is Aoife’s hen, we are off to Sicily on the 19th for Richards Dad’s 60th and then Ronan and Aoife get married on October 5th! – I just want to go to bed even after typing all of that and even after all that we still won’t have moved in to the new house yet.
I was down at the site last Friday and got to have a peek inside and came away reassured that it will all be worthwhile! Here’s a peak at the outside view of the house – it’s the second house from the left in the photo


and if you take about four steps back from where this photo was taken and turn slightly to the right here is the gorgeous walkway that will eventually link up with the crosshaven railway line walk

I can already picture many photos of the kids here for LO’s!

I have done NO crafting at all in the last while – and I even missed Lora’s scrapaholic class last Sunday – Richard and I had three days away on our own at a wedding just outside Newry which was lovely but Abbie really missed me lots and played up loads when we got back which ment I couldn’t leave her again on Sunday – funny how Daddies can go away for nights and just get loads of hugs when they get back but when mummies go they pay big time!!! Even though it is nice to know I was missed!

We took Abbie for her first proper sail last week as it was a gorgeous day and no sooner had we got out near Roches Point than Thunder and Lighting started and we had to abandon sail! I did manage one photo though as we headed for home!