Starting my week with The Weekly Edit is a ritual I’ve kept for years. It’s my favourite Monday morning anchor—a chance to slow down, celebrate the ‘small wins,’ and gather the smiles from the week behind us. Part reflection and part record-keeping, it’s my way of documenting our family’s adventures before the next chapter begins.
The Weekly Edit {Week 42/2026}
The youngest teen was awarded her Chief Scout Gold award and finished Scouts. She has loved every minute of Scouts and will hopefully decide to join Explorers after hillwalking this weekend (her final Scouting activity).
Our Halloween decorations are all up! It was fun looking through our box of decorations, there are so many handmade Halloween decorations, including our personalised pumpkin decorations we made a few years ago, to my favourite no sew Liberty pumpkins.
I finished my latest Happily 1000 piece puzzle called Wanderlust. It featured vintage style travel posters which I really like. Unfortunately there was one piece missing, but it was right on the edge so didn’t really matter.
My daughter made a Sainsbury’s Halloween Brookie Monsters kit, a fudgy chocolate brownie mix layered with an orange-flavour cookie crumb topping, chocolate drops, white icing, and sugar decorations which make 8 spooky brookies. They were quite delicious and we are them whilst watching the original Ghostbusters film over the weekend.
I absolutely love decorating for Halloween. I’ve never thought of personalized Halloween decorations before. That is so fun!
I’ve seen so many people put up their Halloween decorations already, and some look fantastic! Also, well done on finishing that puzzle!
Lucy
I miss the days of scouts and collecting patches. That brings back a lot of memories!
We are enjoying puzzles lately, and that one looks like fun.
Ahhh! It sounds like an amazing week was had! I don’t decorate for Halloween myself, but I love driving around the different neighborhoods to see what others have done.
And that sweet treat sounds delightful by the way!!
Oh, and congratulations to your youngest teen on being awarded her Chief Scout Gold award and finishing up Scout life!
Well done to your daughter with her scouts award. We do not decorate for Halloween where I live no one does
I saw that brookie kit at our local Sansburies, and I wasn’t sure about it! Interesting to hear you went for it. Congratulations to your son for getting his scouts badge.
You got me so excited about doing puzzles again. I have a set that I haven’t opened in 6 months! I will get started this weekend. Thanks a lot for the inspiration.
Congratulations to your daughter! I was a scout myself, and it was such a wonderful experience. I learned a lot and made some great memories along the way. I hope she enjoys her scouting journey and gets the chance to join the Explorers too!