This Is It!

As I stand in my hotel room doing final checks I know that it is the end of my holiday and it makes me a little sad!
The end of a holiday is such a depressing day because most of the time you have a whole day to wait before you get picked up and you think great, it's just a normal day BUT it isn't.
You get into the sun and you're constantly thinking, I've got 2 hours left... I have to check out in 1 hour and it doesn't feel the same.
I have to wait til 6pm to be picked up so I guess the sad, depressing day is drawn out even longer for me... yippee. Not.
Oh well, a holiday wouldn't be a holiday if you didn't go home at the end of it. Until next year.
I also promise that when I am back at home I will share with you my Twizy (tiny, 1 seat electric car) adventure! 
Until then, Love and kisses,

Let's Catch Up

Morning!!
So as pointed out by my friend Hollie, last time I blogged, I left a few things unsettled and without closure so I thought today we could have a little chinwag and chit chat to clear a couple things up.
1. Firstly, I announced that a baby was coming soon in Jan of last year. That baby came in the May of last year and is now 1 years old. I love this little man to pieces and he has become quite the little character.

2. Secondly, I shared the plans that I wanted to get a tattoo and the last thing I mentioned was drawing a mock up of what I wanted. I am pleased to tell you that I did actually go through with that tattoo but not in that place. I got a little dandelion seed on the left side of my body. I did this to represent my lost grandparents as when I was younger, we'd always make wishes on them.

3. Last but not least, my last blog post was unsure about whether I would survive an exercise class... So my favourite update to give you is...

I am in fact alive!! 😂

Love and kisses,

OOTN

Hola,
Last night, I went out for an Italian and boy was it delicious. I thought I would follow the trend of OOTD (outfit of the day) and show you my OOTN (outfit of the night) as well as my yummy food.

If you know me, I'm not a big brand girl so this outfit is comprised of New Look, ASOS and Pandora jewellery.
This is the delicious food that I ate:

Parma ham bruschetta

Spaghetti carbonara

Brownie

By the end of the evening, I was stuffed!
This morning brings a new day of sunbathing and tanning.

FYI: beach cover-up from Boohoo

I am loving this summer life. Please give me more 😍
Until next time, bye for now.
Love and kisses,

Hello Old Friend

Greetings from sunny Lanzarote!
I can't quite believe how long it has been since I have blogged on here (over a year ago 😱)... over the years, I have blogged from a number of strange places but blogging in the sun whilst sunbathing on a lounger might just be the weirdest yet.
I have absolutely no idea what pull made me blog today but I had a sudden overwhelming desire to get back online. I also do not really have any point to the blog other than wanting to get back on the blogging horse so to speak.
I have a couple things planned to do whilst I'm in Lanzarote so perhaps I'll make sure to take pictures and blog about my adventures. Stay tuned for a boat trip and an interesting tour with twizy cars (fully electric cars that look more like they belong in the future of a sci-fi film) Old friend say hello to my new friend- a tiny lizard.

For now, it's been lovely to catch up and I'll talk to you soon.
Back to sunbathing and sweating- what a lovely image for you all... Cheerio!

Exercise Class

This is potentially one of my last blogs because I may not survive tomorrow. My sister and I go to an exercise class, which I really enjoy but I don't really venture to do any other ones... Until now.
My sister has talked me into trying a new class, which she says 'I may die.' I think the biggest misconception for me is that I am fit because I am skinny. Let me tell you now that I am skinny but I am in no way shape or form fit- I am as about fit as a cake... 
This class, Boogie Bounce, includes jumping on a mini trampoline for 45 minutes that focuses on small controlled movements that work every muscle in your body. I have found some photos from Boogie Bounce and want you to make up your own mind about the fun factor...

I am looking forward to it because I think it will be a lot of fun and I will end up laughing at how rubbish I am at keeping up with the moves and the bouncing all the class but I am scared. I am so unfit and I hate embarrassing myself. 

I'll let you know if I survive it... If not, I'll see ya later!

My Greatest Love

In 2017, I have had such a big thing for chicken nuggets. Now, don't get me wrong, I have had a great love affair with the chicken nugget since I was a child- I was such a fussy child (as most children are) and I refused to eat anything other than chicken nuggets. It was brought to my attention one day that chicken nuggets can also be shortened to nugs and my life has been changed... I now talk about chicken nuggets as nugs and I found a brilliant meme for nug life!

I felt it wasn't right for me to not have dedicated an entire blog to my absolute, all-consuming love of nuggets at the start of 2017!!

Tattoo Plans

I have always enjoyed looking at small delicate tattoos and have loved the idea of it. I have always been scared for two reasons:
1. They are permanent- call me stupid but the idea of having something on my body for that long makes me a little scared. Although, I seem to be gaining unwanted sun spots on my body that I have no choice to live with so I guess living with a tattoo I have chosen is less of an annoyance.
2. It has to be for a meaning- I always said that I would never get a tattoo out of a whim and it needs to have a meaning behind it but I never found something that I wanted to be meaningful.
Recently though I have been looking at tags on Instagram and Pinterest to find small delicate tattoos that I may want. I found a few that I liked and with the help of my friends and family, I settled on the sweet little dandelion seed.

You may now ask, why a dandelion seed? When I was younger, I was always this child that would believe in magic, dreams and wishes. When you blow a dandelion seed, I was always told to make a wish and then I would watch as the dandelion seed would float off into the distance with hopes my dream and wish would come true. The dandelion seed resembles hope and wishes- I lost a few family members and I also feel the dandelion seed has something angelic about it - that it can float up into heaven. Some may call that silly but I don't care. It is meaningful to me.
Once I had decided on my design - I needed to decide on where to put it on my body. I thought about having it on my wrist and had a trial drawing but because I'm a teacher, I just thought something that obvious would make my job prospects a little more difficult. So instead, I settled on my side. I have an appointment booked in the next coming weeks so I'm sure I'll show you later when I have it done!
EXCITING!! 

A Day in the Life...

It's Monday morning, the first day of the week and the day that most people dread. I don't enjoy Mondays but I don't exactly dislike them either. The day that I do find the hardest is Wednesday because it's always the day I stay later at work. 
I thought for today I would let you see into my life with the times that I do things- compare it to your day or just enjoy knowing what I do on a Monday each week like a stalker... I don't mind you stalking me this way- the other way however is a bit weird so here's my schedule:
6AM - I wake up and have breakfast. I usually have 2 Weetabix because in my mind, it's a breakfast that is kind of good for you and it keeps me full for the 6 hours before I get to eat again for lunch.

6:55 - I leave the house at the this time but recently I've been leaving a little earlier because it has been so cold and frosty that I have to defrost the car. I drive for the shortest amount of time ever because in the morning, there is NO traffic at the time I leave.
7:10 - I arrive at work and immediately get started on my day. I set up my classroom, print resources and make sure everything is ready for the day when my children arrive.

8:40-12:00 - My Monday sometimes varies but between this time, I am always teaching regardless what subject it is and the children sure do keep me on my toes. People think that being a teacher is easy but you are always talking, running around and looking like a headless chicken juggling 10 million things.
12:00-1:00 - Lunch break. In reality, my lunch break is usually 30 minutes of breathing, eating and socialising with my friends and then the next 30 minutes are spent setting up for the afternoon.

1:00-3:30 - Again, various teaching of subjects happens and once again headless chicken teacher act comes out.

3:30-5:30 - The rest of my working day is either spent in meetings, marking or planning for the next week. I usually go home between 5:30 and 6:00 on a Monday.
6:00-10:00 - This is the best part of my Monday because I get to come home. Usually, my nephew Jacob is still at home so I get to come home and play with him for a little bit. I eat my dinner, watch some crap on TV and catch up with my family. Then I do the usual wind down things of having a shower, brushing my teeth and scrolling through Facebook and Twitter all night until I can't keep my eyes open.

I live such an exciting Monday... I can't say that my life is exciting but it definitely is busy and I do enjoy the fact that my day is scheduled down to the minute. My job as a teacher means my days fly by and I never look at the clock waiting for my day to end because I never get bored. I never have a second that is not filled or used productively and that's just how I like it. I could never spend a Monday clock watching. 
How different is your Monday to mine? Do you hate it? Love it? Do lots? Do little?
Share with me a snippet of your life! I'd love to know!

Sunday Subject

I didn't know what to write about for today's blog but I knew that I wanted to blog. To find something to talk about for this Sunday Subject, I did the most exciting thing ever... I went on a random subject prompter on the Internet- I find this the funniest thing I've done in a while. Clearly any imagination that I used to have has gone.

Rather coincidentally this subject came up. I say coincidentally because this moth is January and usually during a new year in January the focus on everyone's mind is food. Thinking about all the food they have consumed, regretting all that food and trying to rectify any damage they did over the Christmas period. I thought it was quite fitting to dedicating a blog towards my relationship to food in the past and now.

If you have read a lot of my blogs, I have touched on my relationship with food and how at a low point in my life, the relationship I had with food was very toxic and turning into a real problem. I always liked the wrong food but thankfully maintained a slim figure. It was in uni that my problems with food started and then it was after uni that I finally got a hold in making food a positive experience.

Like many other people in January, my relationship with food at the moment is trying to be a little healthier- not to lose weight but to simply be healthier and more balanced. It is not a secret that I love all unhealthy foods and because I can eat "whatever I want" without really putting on weight, it makes it even harder to resist. 

I'm not making big changes to my food intake but small manageable changes such as eating salad in replacement of chips or potatoes and eating at least 4 pieces of fruit in a day to increase the vitamins and needed nutrients. I also am trying to drink more water and consume more vegetables. It isn't always the most exciting but my family are also on a very big health kick at the moment and that makes it a bit easier.

That being said, I do not believe in going cold turkey- I don't believe that you should cut out all the things that you crave. I do enjoy some chocolate or sweets when I want them because if you can't indulge every once in a while then what is the point? 

At the moment, that is my relationship with food but I know that I also have the potential to slip back into old bad habits regarding food and restriction of calories so whenever I embark on making changes, I am always mindful of what I want to achieve.

Coming June 2017

I have been biting my tongue and biting my tongue with this secret but I can no longer hold it in...

I'm going to be an auntie again with a new little squirt. 
To add to my already 2 gorgeous nephews who have grown SOOOO big over the past couple of months that I have been absent!

           

I love these boys with all my heart!