August 2010 Newsletter & Free Desktop Calendar

Robert & I celebrated our two year wedding anniversary this weekend. We’ve been together for six years in total and spent about eighteen months engaged as we wanted to have our wedding take place in Yosemite Chapel, Yosemite National Park and it took that long to organise it. But on the 1st of August, 2008 we tied the knot. It was a wonderful, wonderful day. Perfect in every way and just right for us. The fact that it took place in California had something to do with it and I can just see Robert rolling his eyes as I say that!

The last two years have been an adventure to say the least. We’ve moved house, had things change dramatically in both of our professional lives, been unfortunate to suffer the loss of two babies and then been given two babies in one go when our twins were born two months ago.

The arrival of our children, Ned & Anaïs, are the reason why this anniversary was somewhat more….how shall I put this…..relaxed than it may have been had they not arrived yet.

Case in point : Robert the Husband, dead to the world and asleep alongside both babies in the garden on Saturday afternoon.

I’m glad I spotted them as Anaïs needed a wee blanket to keep warm. But I was pleased that they were all getting some rest as I was feeling a bit more awake on Saturday and managed to get a huge tidy and clean up done throughout the house. Hoovering included!! Although right now, a mere forty eight hours later, you’d never know I’d done it. But hey ho!

Yesterday it was my turn to try and sneak off to take a nap although I was caught very early on and probably need to rethink my hiding places. Anaïs swears that she didn’t tell Dada but I’m not so sure.

We did manage some time out of the house and went down to Brighton for a walk along the front and had lunch at Jamie’s Italian. It was good to reflect on all that has happened in only the last twenty four months and bite our lips as we think about the next few years. Robert and I have a hard time NOT planning and have already started to look in to another crazy plan that may well see us entering in to our biggest adventure yet. The great thing about this one is that Ned and Anaïs will be around for the ride. We’re a little gang of four now and if one does something we all have to do it. At least until the kids are old enough to leave home……….

The sea breeze helped a great deal and woke me up somewhat. Robert and I are smack bang in the middle of night feeds and every time the babies sleep an extra ten or twenty minutes during those dark, dark hours we have a mini celebration. Those celebrations sound something like…

“Oh my God, it’s 03.50am”

“You’re joking”

See, celebrations all around!!!!!!

This month I am going to try and suck the life out of August as it can be seen by many as the last of the summer months. I don’t agree. I think that September and October can be deliciously warm and to say I’m scared of the Summer ending is an understatement. As far as I’m concerned I’m going to continue to cook, eat and live outdoors until someone drags me in to put me into my thermal underwear in a centrally heated room. THAT’S how much I want the summer to continue!!!!!

I was meant to be uploading a piece of filmed content today but just as we were about to call “action” we had a downpour and that was the end of that!!! Thank you so very much for your feedback and kind comments on the recipe I uploaded on to Cherry Telly last week. I can assure you that there are plenty more clips to come and you’ll be sick of me before you know it!

But until then please accept my latest downloadable desktop calender and all of the wonderful summery articles that we have planned for you over the next four weeks or so.

Lots of love,
Cherry