• Enjoying that ‘I don’t have to get up in a hurry’ feeling.
• Drinking tea on the sofa with the children while they watched cartoons.
• Demolishing an egg and bacon sandwich for breakfast.
• Luxuriating in the shower.
• Pulling on some comfy clothes for a day of pottering at home.
• Letting the children lounge around in their pyjamas.
• Assembling Ikea furniture in the garage.
• Teasing Carl when I finished my chair first.
• Mixing up the rub for pulled pork. Again. I promise we’ll eat something different next weekend.
• Smothering jacket potatoes in butter and cream cheese and eating them for lunch.
• Listening to the children play while I busied myself in the kitchen.
• Slipping the meat into the oven.
• Slowly preparing a Flourless Chocolate Lime Cake.
• Tidying the living room and vacuuming the hallway.
• Feeding the children their supper and bundling them into the bath.
• Changing into a favourite dress and quickly applying my makeup while they wallowed in the tub.
• Giving goodnight kisses.
• Suspecting Jesse would lie awake until he heard our guests arriving.
• Slicing vegetables for Southern Style Slaw.
• Popping a CD on and watching Carl dish out nibbles.
• Greeting Emma and her husband Nick with an enthusiastic wave as their car pulled into our driveway.
• Spotting Jesse out of bed on the landing upstairs.
• Letting him sit with us for five minutes before tucking him in and demanding he finally go to sleep.
• Sipping mojitos and getting lost in conversation with our friends.
• Pulling the pork and calling everyone to the table.
• Eating too much.
• Laughing a lot.
• Almost certainly drinking too much.
• Laughing some more.
• Not realising it was quite so late.
• Saying our goodbyes at the door.
• Feeling very lucky to have such good friends in my life.
• Selfishly wishing Nick and Emma weren’t on the brink of moving away from Bristol, but also feeling incredibly excited for them as they embark on a new adventure.
• {Drunkenly} collapsing into bed.
• Being vaguely aware of Jesse crawling in beside me a little after 6am.
• Employing the Netflix/older sibling babysitting service so we could stay in bed a little longer.
• Finally dragging ourselves downstairs.
• Treating my hangover with tea and a cooked breakfast.
• Taking a long shower.
• Somehow managing to make myself look human.
• Delivering Izzy to her drama class.
• Enjoying a few hours to myself in town. I wandered aimlessly around the shops, read my book over lunch at Yo Sushi and treated myself to a few goodies in Lush.
• Collecting Izzy and heading home in the rain.
• Feeling cold and wet at the bus stop.
• Longing for a cup of tea and my PJs.
• Arriving home to find Jesse had built the biggest tower of Duplo I’ve ever seen outside of Legoland!
• Loving how proud he was of his handiwork.
• Eating leftovers for supper.
• Putting the children to bed.
• Planning a quiet evening followed by a much needed early night.

Love Audrey xxx