Christmas 2020

Christmas week!

It wasn't the Christmas we had originally planned, with Matt's family, but our quiet Christmas ended up being lovely.  We had Christmas lunch with Mum and Dad, spent the morning with our lovely kitties for the first time (they LOVED the wrapping paper, and were so funny playing with it and batting it around and hiding in it), and going for lots of walks on the beach and in the forest.

I'm huge now and finding it uncomfortable to move around too much, so a quiet day was just what I needed.  We had a 4 and a half hour zoom with Matt's family on Christmas evening too, with some of the usual party games.

Best of all, we were in our new house.  Our house that we own, that is filled with our gorgeous cats and our lovely, enormous Christmas tree.  What more could a girl want?!

 

Christmas and Birthdays!

A few photos from before Christmas, throughout December, including Nanny's big birthday and some of the cats settling into their new home.

 

House Update!

 

It's been a while since I posted any photos, and hard to believe that we've been living in our lovely house for 2 weeks already!

We really do own a ridiculous amount of stuff.  Our spare room has so many boxes in it, it may not be habitable for the next 10 years!  Everything else seems to be coming together quite nicely though.  It's starting to feel  like home.  It's still a bit echo-ey since we don't have curtains downstairs or any pictures on the walls yet.  We were waiting to see what pictures we uncovered before putting up the ones we've got.  We've collected so much art from around the world, I couldn't even remember where some of it came from!

I finished the last bit of painting today - the big cupboard in the kitchen for all our food.  I'm glad it's done, as it's getting rather difficult to find my way into corners around my stomach

The cats have settled in remarkably well.  I think that as soon as they realised that we weren't putting them on a plane again, they relaxed.  They seem to be happy as long as we are both around.  They are even ignoring our Christmas tree, which is amazing really, considering they have never seen one before.  It's a very big tree!  I'll post some photos of of house looking Christmassy soon, but for now, here are some of us putting the final touches to the painting and decorating...