One Very Tiring Week!

It has been a quite tiring week with work and home as well as the Queen’s funeral on Monday.  I think her funeral was very much for her family but for our country to say goodbye and thank you for all that she did in her seventy year reign.   Now September is here things are ramping up with swimming events and various events DH commentates at, as well as plans for Christmas already!! 

I have booked a few things during December only because they were getting booked up already!  I think as this year has been so far Covid free people are planning already for Christmas even with rising prices!  I also think that people are planning early because of rising prices.  I must admit I have already done half of my Christmas shopping!!!

I did get some Christmas baking done although DH and the Boys have eaten a few already!!!!

We have friends coming for dinner on Friday evening.  which we are looking forward to and then Saturday we have some home jobs to get done and then DH is out on Sunday at a swimming event.  I have lots of jobs to get done in our home as well, so am writing lists to keep me on track!!

We did manage to get our garden furniture put away at the weekend whilst it was dry as the nights are pulling in now and it is getting colder first thing in the morning and the evenings.  In fact the Boys asked for their winter quilts out when I changed the beds last week.  We are currently playing the game of when do you switch the heating on, especially with rising prices!!  During the middle of the day it is still warm but gets very cool very quickly in the evening.

Coco is coping well with her enforced crate rest but I feel so mean her being in there.  The other evening she sat on DH’s knee for most of the evening but was not allowed to get down!  Only one more week to go and hopefully she will then be okay to be out and about again.  Just waiting to hear from the orthopaedic vet after her x-ray last week!  Although I suspect when she is let out she will be a little manic!!!!  I am also going to take her for a spa day when she is out to balance out her shaved leg!!!

Hopefully from today I will be back to posting every day.  Tomorrow is home jobs day and Friday I will be cooking but will also do my Friday Book Club as I missed that too! I hope you lovely lot are all well.

Hugs & Love, Susie & Coco xxxxx

4 thoughts on “One Very Tiring Week!

  1. farmquilter
    farmquilter

    The hard time between death and funeral…thankfully the Queen made the plans and everyone knew the role they were to play. It was an amazing service – I’m not old enough to have seen the last funeral of a British monarch. She touched the lives of so many people around the world. I think the lack of the Christmas address from the Queen will really drive home the fact that she is gone. You have been working ahead on everything!! You are so well organized – hubby and the boys would be lost without you. The biscuits look amazing – what kind of jam do you use in them? So glad Coco is near the end of her confinement – you will both be glad to get her back to normal. Will this be her first spa day?

  2. Judy

    I am slowly watching the things I have on the dvr leading up to and including the funeral. She was such an amazing woman who kept her vow until the end.
    I am always so amazed at how organized you are in getting everything done for Christmas. I feel like I can never buy gifts too far ahead because I am never sure what to buy. Also there is a limit on how long things can be returned if something is not right with them.
    Cocoa is such a cutie, I look forward to reading all about ger

  3. Duke – Northford, Connecticut
    Molly the Airedale

    You watched every bit of the Queen’s funeral. It was beautiful and very moving. You are always so organized, Susie. If I baked cookies in September for Christmas in December, they would never make it! Coco won’t know what to do with all of that newfound space to play! Your blog looks so autumn-y. I love it!

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