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Despite the promise of strong winds, rain and pretty horrible weather all round, as well as a landslide closing my regular train line and thus having to take a much longer route, I headed up to London last Friday to meet my Mum. We were booked in to the Premier Inn at County Hall on the South Bank and had plans to go to the Shard on Saturday morning but the rest of the time was free of plans. * As the weather wasn't that great we didn't have any queue at the Shard and that was great, I was worried how long it might take us. See, even in a weekend that didn't go perfectly to plan there is still so much to be thankful for,Why not write up your cheery post and head over to Lakes Single Mum to link up with Becky for this weeks Reasons to be Cheerful linky.

As I left the club last night, I wondered if it was worth it, if I just lost 2.5lb a month, each month for the year, would it make a difference? Every 10-15lb drop is a dress size and that means I'd be two dress sizes smaller at the end of the year. At slimming World you often hear people saying 'a loss is a loss' and I've always thought ' If I maintain my 2.5lb a month loss on an ongoing basis, I'd have lost seven stone in just over 3 years and then the full 9 stone in just over four years.

When they contacted me again about reviewing some items for Valentines Day, I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to create my valentine's day for the whole family. I also found some excellent products to use as part of our night so let me share with you the items we'll be using for our family Valentine's night celebration lolI will use the light box to create a Valentine's welcome sign, so that when the kids return home from school, they'll know it is a special night, and I'll be using it ongoing to announce films that we'll be watching together, inspirational quotes or things I want to remind the family of. My kids all love chocolate fountains but personally I think they're a bit of a faff and really hard to clean after use, so I love this chocolate fondue set, which is so simple to use and doesn't have to be plugged in.

I'm feeling super grateful today, there are lots of things to celebrate in the last week. Like going for an impromptu coffee and cake with my hubby - Collecting all our pottery from the Masterpiece paint your own pottery studio . We went to the local TEDx event and saw 12 different speakers on 12 different topics, talking for around 12 minutes each. I've started to read a book called Dream Culture, recommended to me by my friend Krisha, and we're going to share notes and encourage each other throughout it.