Woah! I’m exhausted. Been super busy in the house all day.

First thing this morning I got up and realised I had to take the Christmas Tree down. We usually take it down on the 6th January, but we were out last night until late, so I just fell asleep when I got back home. So this morning it was still up. Apparently that’s unlucky, so Mrs Rad had unplugged the lights so that it wasn’t too unlucky.

Anyway, an hours hard work and I had got the Christmas decorations down before Mrs Rad awoke – Hurrah. The next thing is that there is a ring at the doorbell and the delivery from our Ikea visit on Thursday arrived. To be honest, I’d totally forgotten what we had bought, so it was like a second Christmas going through all the things this morning.

We immediately got on with sorting out the shelving – discovering that our sitting room has a tilt of 2 degrees near to the wall! So we had to set the height adjusters on things to some pretty crazy angles. Then we spent some times building all the drawer inserts and it was done. It looks a whole lot better than before.

We nipped to a little independent pizza place for a quick lunch and also stocked up on chocolate and then we got back to work.

We have bought the eldest Radling a loft bed. It’s kind of like a bunk bed but with only the top bunk. The Internet said it would take 4 hours to build it, so we knew we were in for a long slog. There were many many bolts to put in and the instructions were somewhat unclear. The allen keys also had a habit on pinging away when we were trying to build, which was not ideal. Finally we had it done. I think we made it in 3 and a half hours to be fair. The kids are really pleased and spent some time ‘having a go’.

We still had a few more little things to build in the living room, so we went back and did that, but I think we are finally done with the building.

It’s still not tidy. I don’t know if it will ever be. Watch this space to find out.