Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down

I know one of the things I dread the most this time of year is when you are cosy and warm and know that you need to get undressed to get into a cold bed. This is a lot worse for us as we have no heating in our house. Just the nice warm fire in the downstairs living room. This means it gets very cold upstairs. Thankfully Slumberdown offered me their Winter warm electric blanket to review. There were no second thoughts about this offer, I couldn't wait to try it out!

It was nice and easy to set up. Simply remove from packaging and place on mattress at the foot end of the bed. There are strings which can be tied around the mattress to avoid it slipping as you can see in the picture below. You then simply pop your bed sheet over the top of the blanket and use the plug to connect to the plug socket. There are three different heat settings, 1, 2 and 3, with 1 being the lowest and 3 the highest.

A lot happened in 2014. For me I look back on 2014 with mostly happy memories. 2014 saw us settling in our new home, enjoying a nice family holiday, preparing for and finally welcoming Elsie and Gracie starting school. These were just some of the highlights of our year. To celebrate I've been looking back on photos and have chosen just some of my favourite photos from the last year. 

Over Christmas I decided last minute to take some time off. Rather than spending whatever free time I had on the computer blogging I decided to spend every second I could with my family while we were all at home together. We had the most magical Christmas. With all three kids being poorly the week before I had almost lost hope of it going to plan. All the hard work paid off. Me and Andy spent Christmas Eve building toys and piling up the presents. I actually think this is one of my favourite parts. Playing Santa and the excitement for me is the build up imagining how excited the kids will be the next morning. 

Last year I failed at Project 365 after having a rough couple of weeks early pregnancy and never got round to completing it. I thought I would try again this year. So here are Days 1-3:

This photo was taken on mine and Gracie's girly trip to the Cinema to watch Tinkerbell and the Neverbeast. We had a lovely time together and we spotted this guy on our way out! This is next on our list of films to watch this year.

Elsie is suffering pretty bad with her teething and so today was a chilled out day with the kids while Andy was working. With jigsaws, mini picnics and lots of baby snuggles.

3rd January 2015