Another week gone and we are almost at half term!! Now what does that mean now for me? Alex is 'all growed up' with a lovely boyfriend and a lovely group of other friends so no doubt she will be organising her week away. I was going to take the week off but since my colleagues have a better excuse than I have with young kids, I will still have Thursday and Friday but will carry the other 3 days forward a bit.

I am so excited about seeing our home decorated fully - all white (except one front living room wall) and then we are having 14 white wooden blinds fitted all round the house and wow that'll be lovely. After that we will get some shelves for ornaments fitted and some lovely new pictures for the walls before our new corner suite arrives. We are so fortunate to have had a tax refund and are making sure we put it to good use.

Anyway all of that will now make me look slimmer......but victory today - I have finally built my steps back up and today I did 10,000 steps for the first time in weeks. The weather is still cold but I really need the exercise again - and it stops me eating quite so much. So here I go again - 10,000 each day - for at least 5 days.

I'll naturally report my progress - hope you will join me!!