Liebster Blog Award, holidays and those cookies

Firstly, thanks to Natalie over at inthenightsky for the blog award. You should definitely go check her blog out if you haven't already! This award is for bloggers with less than 200 followers and in accepting it you are asked to do the following...

1. Thank the giver and link back to the blogger who gave it to you.

2. Reveal 5 blogs you have chosen for the award and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog

3. Copy and paste the award to your blog

4. Request that people you have sent the awards to forward it on to their favourite bloggers

As my corner of blog world here is pretty small I'm passing it on to just two blogs at this point.

1. Sammie at Marriage Renovations And...

2. Relatively new blogger Yaeli at Mummy In Progress

In other news, I am now on holidays! Cue fireworks and happy cheers. No more work until February 1, 2012. Gosh that feels good to say. And even better than that, then there'll only be 10 working weeks until I start mat leave! 

The cookie in a jar thingys were a hit! They were easy to make (once we hunted down the right size jars)  and they taste pretty good too. How do I know this? I got to the last of 8 jars, was about to put the lid on and thought - hang on, did I put the baking powder and bicarb soda in this one??? So I tipped it out, added them (possibly for the second time), made that batch of cookies for us and refilled the jar correctly! All's well that ends well! I also got inspired and made Christmas cupcakes to farewell my year 7s. They were meant to look like santa hats - not too bad I guess although I could do with some piping practice! Sorry for the grainy iPad photo but you get the idea.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

And there goes another two weeks.

Time really does fly at this stage of the year.

Thankfully I've now finished reports and am feeling pretty darn excited that I won't have to write any more probably until November 2013! There are 4 days of work left until the holidays. Life is good.

Today I'm making Christmas gifts for my staffroom. I'm attempting these cookie mixture in a jar thingys from Bakerella. I hope they work out OK. I'm going to try substituting some things to make different flavours so some cranberry and white choc instead of milk choc and m&ms. Cross your fingers for me (and my workmates)!

A quick yet exciting update!

I can't believe it's been a month since I posted anything! Talk about slack. It's been a busy time I guess. Marking and reports are starting and we've been trying to finish the front yard. Our efforts so far have been severely hampered by the cold, rainy weather we've had for the last week though. I went to work today back in my winter coat, most of the day I wished I'd worn a scarf as well - you wouldn't believe it's only a month until Christmas!

We've celebrated our first wedding anniversary.

And the end of our first trimester - Baby A is due in the first week of June 2012!!!!

Now I'm starting to feel better (and believe that it is actually happening) I'm pretty excited!

I've no doubt that report procrastination will see me pick up the pace of posts again in the next couple of weeks but for tonight I'm going to leave it here, go lock up the chickens, and go to bed!

Hope all is well with you!