• Sleeping in. Much needed after a week of working in the wee small hours before the children emerge from their beds.
• Feeling a little under the weather. Sore throat, headache, temperature. Not fun.
• Drinking tea and devouring bacon and eggs for breakfast.
• Packing. With a bit of luck we’ll be exchanging contracts within the next week, so I’ve made a start on anything non-essential.
• Clearing the cupboard under the stairs {i.e. my husband’s DIY dumping ground}.
• Being very grown up and buying a proper tool box. ‘I feel like my dad’ said Mr. LA. Hoorah for being able to find a screw driver when we need one!
• Removing all the pictures and art from the walls and wrapping them carefully in bubble wrap. Suddenly the house looks terribly bare.
• Sorting through our books and placing them in boxes. We’re not sure when we’ll see them again as the new house doesn’t contain a single shelf!
• Daydreaming about colour schemes and paint swatches.
• Eating toasted tuna melts for lunch.
• Listening to the children roar with laughter as they played happily upstairs.
• Emptying the shelves of CDs.
• Enjoying long forgotten albums as I slowly filled the packing boxes.
• Marvelling at our eclectic music collection.
• Drinking diet coke and snacking on a giant chocolate cookie.
• Tucking into fish tacos for supper.
• Falling in love with this house tour.
• Considering the merits of black wall paper in our future master bedroom. Thoughts?
• Scouring Ebay for an old printer’s tray for Izzy’s new bedroom. It strikes me as being the perfect vessel from which to display her sizeable collection of Moshi Monsters.
• Settling down in front of Watchmen with a beer.
• Loving the film, but needing my bed. We’ll finish it another night.
• Snuggling with Jesse for a while.
• Stealing a little more sleep.
• Deciding to stay in my PJs. Sometimes you just need a lazy day.
• Grabbing a quick breakfast before more packing.
• Sending Mr. LA out to buy the Sunday paper. I’d love to pretend I’m terribly cultural and read the thing from cover to cover, but I actually just wanted it to wrap my crockery!
• Setting the children up with some playdough and listening to them excitedly discuss their creations.
• Trying to pick out a new dining table.
• Failing to pick out a new dining table. Do we go for something vintage, or just take the easy Ikea option? I’m a little bit in love with this, but I keep thinking I’ll find something cheaper. Decisions, decisions!
• Watching Spirited Away. The children were mildly terrified. I love Ghibli.
• Roasting a chicken with lemon and garlic.
• Preparing braised little gems and buttery new potatoes.
• Eating too much.
• Running the children a bath.
• Hanging wet washing out to dry.
• Not being able to shake the feeling that the evening had an air of autumn about it.
• Sitting at my laptop to write while Izzy reads Black Beauty and dreams of owning her own horse.

Love Audrey xxx