Return of the Princess...

When I started blogging, I wanted to tell women everywhere that we all deserve a little time for ourselves and that when we look our best, we feel our best.

I am ashamed to say that I haven't been living up to this ideal and as I survey my dodgy hair (that should have been cut weeks ago!) and my chipped nail polish I have decided that urgent action is required.

Luckily I am not alone in this feeling and so a group of princesses has been convened.

My mission is to get myself ready for summer! I've lost all of my baby weight but my stomach needs some toning work. I am really tired at the moment (just found out I am anaemic) so I need to boost my diet with lots of good food to improve my skin, hair and nails.

Due to time constraints (a.k.a the realities of work, family and home) I am going to undertake a slightly smaller challenge this time, 6 steps in total.

1. Improve the amount of fruit/veg in my diet.

2. Start taking my vitamins again to ward off anaemia. Also resume taking cod liver oil for my dehydrated skin.

3. Body moisturiser- every day!

4. Do 30 mins of exercise three times a week (I know this falls short of the recommended targets but I need a goal that's achievable)

5. Ensure my feet are flip flop ready by exfoliating, moisturising and polishing my nails!

6. Increase my water intake to 8 glasses per day.

In preparation for the challenge, I decided to have a final blow out, see the (shameful) pictures below...

I ate...an entire box of biscuits (oops!)

I drank...gin and tonic

I shamefully gazed at...my chipped nails

Couples night in

With a teething baby!

Today was one of those days where I had lots of boring jobs to do, pick up the dry cleaning, post some parcels and collect prescriptions etc.

The challenge has been going well, I am now very used to starting the day with herbal tea instead of my regular builders tea, my skin looks great thanks to all of the extra moisturising and although my hair is falling out (thanks hormones!), what I do have looks lovely and shiny!

In order to have a fun task to lighten the chores I started to make the Christmas cards by sticking ribbons on to the cards and then making greetings to go in the centre.

The part I am looking forward to is dressing baby up in her Santa costume and taking some photos! I even have a toy reindeer for her to pose with!

It's couples night tonight in our house, we've had a lovely risotto for dinner and now we are watching a comedy called The Other Guys and drinking a gin and tonic. Who knows how long the peace will last?!

Here is the day in pictures:

I drank gin and tonic

I applied Soap and Glory The Righteous Butter

I admired the beginning of my Christmas card mission