It's all coming together

 After discussions with the families who are coming to visit, we've all come up with plans for meals that will suit everybody.  They are all coming down for 3 nights, so we've decided between us that we'll take it in turns to cook the evening meal, one day each, to be hosted in our respective homes - each of their two holiday homes are big enough to host all 8 of us at once.  We will all provide buffet or picnic type foods for lunches, we'll liaise about the details nearer the time.  Breakfasts we'll all eat by ourselves....people all get up at different times and not all of us eat breakfast anyway.  So that's all the meals sorted.

The other exciting thing is that, as sister and friend's holiday cottage is literally just 5 mins walk from us and is 3 bedroomed, I will go and sleep there every night.  Husband (and Betty) will be such a short distance away and at the end of a phone, so I'll be able to easily nip home in the event of a problem.  Which I'm sure there won't be.  So it'll give me a little break and I'll have plenty of time to catch up with sis and friend.  We've known sister's best friend for about 25 years, she's just like one of the family, an honorary sister, so the 3 of us will have loads of fun and laughs each night!  We're so looking forward to it.

I've already planned what I'm going to cook....cottage pie, will make and freeze it in advance, so just some green veggies to prep on the day.  I'll also do a rice pudding in the slow cooker.  For picnics, or buffets indoors if the weather's not good, I'll make a load of sandwiches and freeze them.....plain filled sandwiches, e.g. cooked meats or cheese with no salad fillings, freeze well, I've done it before.   

It's all a bit early yet of course, but I do like to be organised, I feel less stressed when I'm organised and know exactly what I'm doing.

Just hoping the weather will be fine so we can go out and about.  The big car boot sale at Blue Anchor starts up again next month, we're all boot sale fans so that'll be one good thing.

Nice sunshine today, although a bit windy - it often seems to be windy here.  So washing on the line and gardening being done.