Starting early

After being away for most of last week we have spent this week, and especially the weekend getting everything back in order and beginning early on our spring cleaning.
We stayed with my MIL last week who has cats and dogs, so everything we took with us had to be washed (with a small child, this amounts to quite a lot!) as well as the sheets from having visitors right before we left and generally catching up on laundry from my illness, so last week was a frenzy of washing and drying (all in the tumble as the weather has mostly been cold and stinking.)
A job that has been on The List for a long time is sorting out locks for the kitchen cupboards, and this is something I finally took care of this week. They arrived today and Will has now fitted them - fab news as not only can we now put everything back in the cupboards and off the counters/wherever Ivy has taken and left things - but we were also able to put all of the doorknobs back on the cupboards, which we took off a few months ago thinking that would deter Ivy (har har har).
Will has listed his large chest of drawers on ebay and plans to build something better suited to the space once that sells which is exciting, and I have requested that when he gets a chance he builds something matching for the tall skinny alcove to the side of the chimney breast in the bedroom for all my knick-knacks.
My sister in law has given me a huge bag of reusable nappies that she never got into with her little one unfortunately, and a friend has just given me a bundle of baby clothes so we are feeling quite set on that front - only 5 months to go now!
Although we have a few things on weekends we are hoping to spend the next couple of months restoring order to the house, getting rid of more things we don't need, and getting everywhere really spanking - especially replacing things that are tatty or beyond repair. It's really nice to think that by the time the new baby comes along we'll be all sorted - no prospect of buying a house on the horizon as there was with Ivy, we can just be settled and sorted and get on with it.
On that note, yesterday was the anniversary of us completing on our home - happy day!
We celebrated today by taking Ivy swimming for the first time at the local pool - mixed response - and then going to the pizza hut in Swansea who now do vegan pizza. I drove us everywhere and remained unflapped even after lots of wrong turns, hill starts and dead ends in ponty, and a sheep coming straight for me when I was doing 60 on the ponty road! A definite development.
Over and out for now.