A round up of February

February has been a nice month for us, lots of business success for me and hard work. I was very structured and disciplined and it really paid off. I worked pretty much every Saturday morning doing stalls which was good and Martha got to spend time with Dad. Martha and I also went to lots of weekday kiddie groups and had a lovely time with everyone.
We celebrated Valentine's which was really nice and quite fun. Martha made her first craft item at playgroup - a hanging card heart but she wasn't too keen to hand it over to Daddy so we hung it in her room!
This month we had a few friends for dinner - Uncle B & Auntie F and Hazel who came to Sunday lunch (and brought amazing jam and hyacinths and wine - lovely treats), friends Sue and Daz came for curry & a catch up just this weekend and a couple (Lou and Dave) came with their boys too for us to get to know them a little better. Also old friends Andy and Caroline came - we hadn't seen them for years so that was a big catch up time...definitely need to do that again soon.
I caught up with some scrapbooking and Mike got some log chopping done and we sorted out a few things in the house. The month has flown by and now it's March 1st already.


A nice time at soft play with friends. Martha was only keen to dress up when she saw the Thomas outfit.

Still loving a hat - Martha steals her Dad's hat as soon as he is home from work.

We nipped into the Monday coffee morning at church to sample a pink cake - yum!

I can reach the veg basket!

Mike and I had dinner together on Valentine's night - steak and mash and minted veg followed by melt in the middle chocolate puds (all courtesy of Waitrose!) It was lovely not to cook - just fling it all in the oven. And a bottle of prosecco ensured I was asleep by 9pm, how romantic!!

My first attempt at Red Velvet cupcakes for Valentine's Day - red sponge and cream cheese frosting, pretty good!

We loved The Blue Train music at our Musical ABC class. It is all played by recorders. On the last day of term every child joined in with the music while bubbles were blown all around to imitate the steam from the train - pretty special for little ones!

A new find - Martha loves her sticker books and they keep her amused for ages. It's good when I am doing a few work things at the dining table. Having a business that allows me to be home for Martha is great but it does mean that I do need to do some daytime stuff from time to time. I do feel really fortunate that I can be flexible though - REALLY fortunate!

A choo choo train in the park and the doggy hat that Martha loves with long black ears! We met some new friends and talked to lots of dogs out for walks. Fun times!