Another Busy Day

Today’s Schedule: –

0809 Chugging coffee before Simon leaves for the day

0930ish Off to the shops. Adam needs his feet measured for new shoes, we’re out of milk again and I could use a glass of wine tonight. You’ll see why in a minute.

1100ish Back home. Hopefully Adam is asleep in his pram and will continue to be so until about 1300ish.

1200ish Lunch for Mummy

1230ish Laundry folding begins

1300ish Adam up from his nap and has some lunch, milk and a cuddle.

1400 – 1600 At some point in those two hours a removal company is coming to poke around and give me a quote for our move. This will be our third quote and then I’ll make a decision and book movers.

1500 Estate Agent to show up with people to view flat. I will also, at this point, have laundry half folded and be in the middle of putting together a Sheppard’s Pie for dinner.

1600 Still folding laundry. Sheppard’s Pie slow cooking in the oven.

1700 Simon home from work. Put away laundry and cook the rest of dinner.

1800 Eat

1830 Start getting a small boy ready for bed

1930ish Adam asleep.

1935 Wine. And chocolate.

The Application Has Been Filled Out…

the deposit has been paid…we are moving to a house!!

Not just a house, but a perfect house. So perfect I am still half feeling like I dreamed it and it can’t possibly be true or ours. Kind of like the way I felt about this flat when we moved here.

But they’ve taken our money and Simon and I are meeting the Estate Agent again tomorrow so Simon can see it. He couldn’t come today and houses to rent in the area we want are being snatched up in hours, so I took it and he took my word for it.

It’s 4 bedrooms (I get an office!), 1.5 bathrooms, has a huge garden and a garage. Oh and it’s detached, a rarity in our price range in the area we’ve been looking. There’s a living room and a dining room and enough space in the kitchen that there is a table in there as well. The neighbourhood is lovely, quiet and full of families.

There is a public library just down the road and a fairly high ranking primary school as well. Not sure if Adam will go there, but it’s a possibility at least.

It’s a bus ride to nursery rather than a walk, but that’s okay. It is walkable, if we really want to, but is about 2 miles. So will probably take the bus.

There is a train station not too far for Simon to get to work.

It’s walking distance to a shopping area with a Co-Op, butcher, off license and the like.

Still pinching myself and not sure I’ll believe it’s really ours until we sign the lease.

Now to pack!