It’s a great photo, isn’t it? We’ve taken a couple of good photos recently, the only problem is that the house is a bit of a mess. It’s pretty hard to keep the house tidy with a four year old and twin babies, but we’re slowly getting there. The easier to keep clean possibly is the kitchen. Not that we have one of these modern jobbies with a free-standing centre unit and one of those stone sinks. It’s just a normal kitchen, but everything has it’s place and the kids don’t play there much.

Soon the kids will be old enough to clean the house .. can’t wait

I’m watching Quantum of Solace at the moment which is a bit of a travesty. Not that movie, it’s not that bad, but the fact that the movie came out in 2008 and it’s taken me 2 years to get round to watching it. We used to go to the cinema quite often, but since babies and other commitments came along it’s now a special occasion if we get to go out.

Well, who knows, some time in the future we will have a bit more time to ourselves and I’ll splash out on a nice rig. You know, Blu Ray, a nice Samsung HDTV maybe, surround sound, state of the art Hifi. In the meantime we get our entertainment from playing with babies, then fall asleep in front of TV before crawling to bed …

Nite nite all

Well, with 3 kids, there’s going to be no shortage of things we can put together, though the twins are a bit too young to actually MAKE anything yet. I’ll let you know what’s happening closer to the day.

The trick it to get into the right mindset and use that to build a foundation for the future. Doesn’t help having that in mind when someone puts banoffee pie in front of me

Yes, I know; vitamins supplements are really intended for those who don’t follow a proper diet, and I’m pretty sure that I get my fill of all the nutrients, minerals and vitamins I need. Having said that, we always try to take our vitamins, Arthur gets kiddie ones and we take the occassional multi vitamins just to keep us topped up. I know that I could probably buy the best multivitamin for men if I wanted to, but I don’t really feel like I need anything like that. I do occasionally take an iron supplement too, especially since there was a time I went to give blood and was turned away because of a low haemoglobin count.

What vitamins do you take?

Well, I haven’t really got into my diet 100%. I’m sort of winding down, which is sort of working, as I’m eating less garbage and starting to work on the healthy foods. For example, I could be having a chocolate pudding at the moment, instead I have a pile of frozen fruit with low fat yoghurt at my side. It kills the craving for sweet stuff and feels like you’re eating ice cream. I know you can get safe weight loss pills and all, but I’m going down the low calorie route instead. I think there’s more value in teaching myself how to eat properly, rather than use a technique that gives me short term results.

Still need to get into the right mindset though …

Anyway, off to eat my noodles

I’m doing the calorie counting thing again, as that seems to be the best way to keep the weight off. It’s also the healthiest way to do it. There’s lots of information about the side effects of diet pills, so I’m happy to go down what I consider the REAL way to lose weight.

Wish me luck!

We always love the weekend. It’s the time for us to spend time together, even though things are starting to get hectic. Arthur has dance class and gym in the morning; which makes for some running around; and today he and Mummy went for a haircut in the afternoon too; so there wasn’t much time. We still found some time to make Mummy a Valentine’s Day card.

I can expect as the kids get older the weekends will get more and more busy, with activities and outings (not in Winter anyway). At the moment it’s sports and fun stuff; but I expect as they get older it will be lessons and maybe even voluntary activities (though probably not disability appeal for some time). Anyway; we’ll see as they get older. In the meantime; we still love the weekends