So our recent purchases for baby include (as far as I can remember):
- Pram (sorry travel system) - £500
- Nursing chairs - £300
- Cot - £200
- Bedding - £100
- Mattress - £100
- Nappies - how many do they get through??
That’s just a selection of the things that we have bought, not including a new bathroom and kitchen that we would have probably taken our time over doing. The decorating is nearly over, we just need some new curtains in our bedroom and to put the finishing touches to baby’s room and we are all set. Oh, apart from the kitchen which starts in a fortnight. And that will be fun considering that I’ve discovered that the walls need skimming before the fitters arrive due to the previous owner being more than a little overzealous with the No Nails used to glue the woodpanelling in place 
. Still it all adds to the rich tapestry of life and opens up the hole on our baby savings a little wider. What is that drip drip drip I hear? All this and 2 more paychecks before I become sole provider to my expanding family. Damn I hope that they don’t bring out any more iPods for, like eighteen years or so.
On top of that we have 2 new floors to choose. 1 in the new bathroom and one in the kitchen. Our current thoughts are along the Karndean lines. For the bathroom (which has a glass border) we are looking at the new Glass range (you see the train of 
thought?) It will all depend on how cold \ hard it is, as Jenny is very sensitive to such things (remember the princess and the pea? Well in comparison the princess had a hide like a rhino). For the kitchen we are looking at Da Vinci latte, which should go nicely with the sandstone tiles. Again, if we can make our minds up. Bloody hell how do I find time for work?
So I am hoping that by mid April I’ll be back in me own bed in the bedroom, using the new kitchen and not getting splinters in my feet in the bathroom, getting a decent night’s sleep for a few weeks before all hell breaks loose.
