Carpet!

Our Saturdays are just getting more and more rock'n'roll... Saturday night, and we decide to put the carpet down :0) This carpet is destined for our bedroom eventually, but for now it's making the living room infinitely nicer to live in. Ben LOVED helping move all the furniture out of the room, helping daddy (sort of, by trundling his cars over all the "hills") to roll it out, watching as daddy cut bits off here and there, helping to measure to make sure we weren't cutting it too small for our bedroom.

I took lots of pictures on my phone thinking I'd stick them together into some kind of montage but they were all pretty bad!! I kinda like this one though, despite its dismal technicality.

What did we do today. Daddy and Grandad did more work on the house, I cried lots in the morning (direct result of Friday's meeting with the diabetic antenatal team), but cheered up by afternoon. I think I'm coming to terms with the possibility of not delivering Bean naturally. Slowly.

It's nice having a house to live in. I have a kitchen that is clean(ish) (the dust fairy sprinkles her magic dust within half an hour of cleaning any surface, and I suspect it will be this way for months to come until all the dust has finally settled), I have a living room with a carpet.

But these things are luxury compared to so many.

I have a roof over my head with no holes in, four walls which keep the elements out, the wind isn't blowing a gale through the house. I am kept warm and dry. I have a working toilet - now we're getting further up the scale of "acceptable living conditions". I have a front door that locks. I have clean, safe, running water - both hot and cold. I am hugely privileged already.

The fact that I can turn electric lights on with a proper light switch, have a working oven and hob, many modern conveniences, and even carpet in some rooms - well that's just luxury!! I think I can cope with a little dust :0)