Milestone

Jamie said something for the first time this morning, that felt to us like it was a milestone on the path leading away from childish innocence:

"I'm not wearing that, everyone will laugh at me"

The first but very definitely not the last time she will say that!

Meanwhile the weather has continued to be horrible, rain, hail, wind and even snow keeping us indoors or wrapped up very tightly when we go out. We had a trip to the shops in Santander on Saturday, but Danny wasn't himself, we think in retrospect overtired, and after lunch I took him to the car where he promptly fell fast asleep, while Carmen got the last of the shopping. We bought new 4-season duvets for the kids in anticipation of the big changeover when Jamie's new bedroom furniture arrives in the next couple of weeks. Danny's room is almost ready, we just need to do a little painting first. And then get rid of the old furniture - another milestone as the baby furniture with changing unit and cot bite the dust. Hopefully we can sell it with an ad in the supermarket or local paper. We're also hoping to sell the computer desk in the spare room and put the office desk there, from the flat. That'll give us a bit more elbow room when sitting next to one another at our respective computers.

In between lots of work I have been steadily advertising the flat on as many free sites I can find, which is quite a few. (Before anyone says 'cheapskate' we've already put it on several paid sites). Do a search for 'flat cantabria', 'self catering cantabria', 'piso barquera', or any other similar combination on all the main search engines and there's usually at least 2 or 3 links on the first page that lead to an ad for the flat or through to the website.