I'm sitting here feeling a little like Billy Crystal in Throw Momma From the Train....the night was hot....the night was humid...

Thank you and sorry to the people that have emailed/commented/worried about us all. I didn't mean to be away for so long and I hadn't realised just how long it had been. I lost my blogging mojo last year and have never really got it back. And that, combined with hospital stays, school worries, developmental worries, financial worries etc has led to my disappearance.
But rather than going in to long winded explanations about my absence, I'm just going to try and jump straight back in. 

So here we are, the middle of December already. Bella's school holiday's started yesterday. It's snowing today and is just beautiful, and I'm trying to get ready for our annual Christmas party tomorrow.

(and that's a teeny tiny corner of our new, lovely, lovely kitchen - more to come, I promise!)