Moving at last!!

On Thursday we are finally moving to our house. After months of searching, houses falling through, sorting through paperwork and battling with environmental surveys we have finally exchanged contracts and confirmed moving for Thursday. 

There are so many reasons that I can't wait to move. I want Amelia to have more space and a garden. She will be able to run around outside and inside the house. I'll be able to contain her a little better and keep her safe, at the moment she thinks the knobs on the oven and buttons on the washing machine are fascinating. I'm so looking forward to having a garden so I can grow flowers, fruit and vegetables. Also so I can get outside and enjoy some sunshine. Our cat Cali will be able to get outside and run around, which she is so desperate to do. We'll be able to park right outside the front door so no walking miles from the car in the evenings. But most of all I'm looking forward to the potential, what this house will bring us in the future. 

"Let me out!!"

At the moment the kitchen is a reasonable size, certainly not big enough by my standards but bigger than we currently have. In the future we are intending to do a lot of building work on the property, doubling the downstairs space. Large conservatory on the back and converting the garage on the front. What this means is I can move the location of the kitchen and have a large 6m x 4m kitchen. I will get my range and island. So much storage and so much space. I will also have a utility room and a storage room. 

Kitchen Plans

Now we just have to hope there are no more hiccups before we move and we'll be unpacking these boxes on Thursday evening. By Friday evening I hope we'll have more of an idea when we can do the work on the house and how much it'll all cost. 

So for the next week I'll be busy sorting out the house but I hope that my cake business will be up and running very soon. 

Family Update November 2013

Recently I haven't been updating my blog as much as I'd like to, nor have I been doing as much baking as I'd like. So I thought it was about time I explained why and gave a little update on how things are going. 

We are all doing very well and the reason I haven't had time to do anything is because I've been so busy. My parents have decided to make a move and downsize their house. I have spent a lot of time up in London helping them prepare their house for the market and declutter the huge amount of stuff they own. After a lot of hard work by everyone involved the house went on the market and they got offers from 3/4 people that viewed the house. I bet the estate agents will be repeating that statistic to everyone. In addition to this my parents are kindly lending us the means to purchase a house of our own. So we've been house hunting. After a few weeks of searching and a lot of waiting I'm pleased to say we've had an offer accepted on a house. Hopefully no one will pull out and everything will go smoothly but we will have to wait and see. In the new year we will be in a new home. 

A real bonus to moving will be that I can finally register my business and start making cakes for profit. Whilst I know my current kitchen is hygenic, it hasn't been able to meet with hygiene standards due to the design of this flat. The kitchen in the new house will need some work and we intend on doing an extension but at least it has that potential. 

In addition this I've been doing my sugarcraft course, which of course I've been writing blogs on, which I'm really enjoying. 

Mini Manley is doing very well. She's a cheeky madam and will only get worse as she gets older. However, she is a smiley happy baby, we constantly hear her giggling from her cot in the mornings, or any time she's supposed to be sleeping!! She's desperate to start crawling and is doing her best to learn this skill so flips herself over and wiggles her legs around like mad. She loves her food and is happily munching her way through everything we've given her except brocoli. She has a cows milk protein allergy so we have to be careful what we give her, but I'm hoping to start getting her onto more exciting meals soon. 

Gary is doing well and his blog is going from strength to strength. For those interested it can be found here. 

Mini Manley