03/19

A day in the life | March '19 [AD]

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Portrait of toddler with eye in the ray of light in morning

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Portrait of toddler wearing Mini Rodini unicorn vest

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Recently renovated living room featuring Desenio plant wall art prints

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Recently renovated living room featuring Desenio plant wall art prints, boy playing with lego wearing Zara pyjamas

[The shoes featured in the photos near the bottom of this post were kindly gifted to us by Bobux. We weren't asked to feature them on this blog or our social media but we have a longstanding relationship with the brand and choose to share them. If you'd like to find out more about them, scroll down for a short review.]

Our Life
#ditl

In December I posted our last DITL, where we tried in vain to ignore the cracked, stained walls and bowing floorboards to make the room look at least a little festive for Christmas. I remember sitting in the room each evening, staring at the cold, damp walls wondering what it would be like next year; a Christmas in a room we didn't barely tolerate, but a room that we would really love to spend time in. It's been a few months of tumultuous mess since that post was published; the walls have been plastered, left to dry, primed and painted and painted again.

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Recently renovated living room featuring Desenio plant wall art prints, boy sitting on royal blue velvet cuddler spinning chair wearing Zara pyjamas and Mini Rodini unicorn vest

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Recently renovated living room featuring Desenio plant wall art prints, Argos wall ladder desk, ivy plant and ficus in dipped white basket, royal blue velvet desk chair from Homesense and Telegramme screenprint

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Recently renovated living room featuring Desenio plant wall art prints, boy wearing H&M carnival leggings and Mini a Tire 'Me' sweatshirt

Radiators have been replaced, along with the flooring and skirting and sockets, and we've slowly invested in furniture and decor that will last, furniture and homely belongings that we're proud to take care of. We're no longer trying to fix something that's broken, but instead we're investing time and care into a room we're finally happy and entirely comfortable to live in, the heart of our home.

We're by no means finished, there are doors still to be painted and hung, sideboards to buy, blank walls to fill (and Pinterest boards to scour for inspiration), but it feels so good to say we are almost there now and that Christmas is going to feel particularly special this year.

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Toddler wearing Rylee and Cru fur coat, H&M carnival leggings and Bobux boston trainer out for woodland walk carrying stick

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Boy wearing Mini Rodini K2 penguin parka and bicycle helmet riding PJ Masks bike at the park

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Mini Rodini K2 penguin parka with black fur hood hung on back of chair

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Toddler wearing Rylee and Cru fur coat with Bobux boston trainers on the swing at the park in the afternoon Winter sunshine

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Boy playing and climbing at the park wearing Bobux Xplorer black trainers

On this particular Sunday, we took the opportunity to take the boys out in their new Bobux shoes. We've had a close working relationship with the brand (who kindly gift the boys' shoes, occasionally in exchange for blog or social media coverage or quite often, like on this occasion, haven't asked for anything in return; I just enjoy taking and sharing photographs of them and they quite often include what's on their ever-moving feet). Archie wears the durable Lo Dimension's in black and Jesse the Boston white + chartreuse; we've always found Bobux shoes to be brilliantly strong, snug and kid-proof (or Archie-proof, I could easily see him being a professional shoe-tester, he certainly doesn't handle them gently).

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Toddler wearing Rylee and Cru fur coat wearing Bobux yellow stripe boston trainers climbing along wall at the park

Candid family day in the life photoshoot | Grandparents relaxing on the sofa cuddling with grandsons on Sunday afternoon

We ended the day with tea and biscuits all round and snuggles with my parents (whilst I flicked through these shots from the day); it'll be exciting to see the next few months of DITL posts to come for more home improvements (now we've started, we've got the bug!).