Well we reached the end of our longest ever 'vacation' at home as a threesome on Sunday night. We haven't had that much time together since Lucy was a newborn, and in my books (as lovely as that was) it was no vacation!
Luckily our two weeks together felt like a lot longer, and yesterday felt strange when Joe left us in the early morning to go to work. We had all become closer during the holiday. Joe and Lucy bonded even further and there was many a time when she preferred to go to her Daddy than me. That might make some sad, but for me it was lovely to see. Not only is it great to see the joy in Joe's eyes, but also the glee in Lucy's when she's with her Daddy. Plus, there's a certain amount of pressure that goes with being just about the only person that your baby wants to be with!
Joe and I got some uninterrupted time together too. Apart from the evenings when he's home from work and Lucy has gone to bed (by which times we are both pretty spent), we don't get too much time together these days. So we caught up on a few movie nights, games of Boggle, cooked together and 'played house'. We did quite a bit of grown-up socialising too.
Joe did some great little DIY jobs which were minor but resulted in such celebration you'd think we'd gone mad. For years the people who lived here before us had managed with a medicine cabinet whose magnet door catch just didn't catch (so the door would swing open when it felt like it), they had a dodgy light switch in the downstairs bathroom that would suddenly turn off while you were sitting on the loo, plus a very annoying door to the airing cupboard that required an engineering degree to close every time. So with his new tool bag in hand and some good old Lowes purchases, Joe fixed them all. The downstairs loo now has a motion sensor light which turns on as soon as you enter, the medicine cabinet closes and STAYS CLOSED, and I could stand and open and close the airing cupboard door all day and not have anger issues like before. Yes we celebrated these, and other mini miracles, that have made living in our new house that much easier and safer.
Quite the DIYer these days, Joe now cringes every time I open my mouth, as I'm almost certainly going to suggest yet another job that needs doing, or yet something else I think we should spend his hard-earned on. (We also did plenty of shopping this Christmas!) But every week that goes by we are making the house more and more like our own. Gone are the cheap fittings and 'make-do' fixes, but staying with us is the fabulous character and history that this house oozes.
We might not have had our extended family around us this Christmas but we certainly enjoyed each other. I certainly feel renewed having had some time to relax and share the Lucy care with Joe, and Joe has had a chance to rejuvenate and leave the office at the back of his mind for longer than 48 hours. There's nothing like some downtime and family time. There's no place like home for the holidays.
Luckily our two weeks together felt like a lot longer, and yesterday felt strange when Joe left us in the early morning to go to work. We had all become closer during the holiday. Joe and Lucy bonded even further and there was many a time when she preferred to go to her Daddy than me. That might make some sad, but for me it was lovely to see. Not only is it great to see the joy in Joe's eyes, but also the glee in Lucy's when she's with her Daddy. Plus, there's a certain amount of pressure that goes with being just about the only person that your baby wants to be with!
Joe and I got some uninterrupted time together too. Apart from the evenings when he's home from work and Lucy has gone to bed (by which times we are both pretty spent), we don't get too much time together these days. So we caught up on a few movie nights, games of Boggle, cooked together and 'played house'. We did quite a bit of grown-up socialising too.
Joe did some great little DIY jobs which were minor but resulted in such celebration you'd think we'd gone mad. For years the people who lived here before us had managed with a medicine cabinet whose magnet door catch just didn't catch (so the door would swing open when it felt like it), they had a dodgy light switch in the downstairs bathroom that would suddenly turn off while you were sitting on the loo, plus a very annoying door to the airing cupboard that required an engineering degree to close every time. So with his new tool bag in hand and some good old Lowes purchases, Joe fixed them all. The downstairs loo now has a motion sensor light which turns on as soon as you enter, the medicine cabinet closes and STAYS CLOSED, and I could stand and open and close the airing cupboard door all day and not have anger issues like before. Yes we celebrated these, and other mini miracles, that have made living in our new house that much easier and safer.
Quite the DIYer these days, Joe now cringes every time I open my mouth, as I'm almost certainly going to suggest yet another job that needs doing, or yet something else I think we should spend his hard-earned on. (We also did plenty of shopping this Christmas!) But every week that goes by we are making the house more and more like our own. Gone are the cheap fittings and 'make-do' fixes, but staying with us is the fabulous character and history that this house oozes.
We might not have had our extended family around us this Christmas but we certainly enjoyed each other. I certainly feel renewed having had some time to relax and share the Lucy care with Joe, and Joe has had a chance to rejuvenate and leave the office at the back of his mind for longer than 48 hours. There's nothing like some downtime and family time. There's no place like home for the holidays.
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