• Waking up to the news that we had run out of tea bags. Fuming.
• Being sufficiently grumpy that the husband felt an early morning trip to the local Spar shop was necessary.
• Wishing Mr. LA didn’t have to work.
• Mourning the loss of my trusty point and shoot camera {hence the lack of photos in this post}.
• Picking out a shiny new DSLR for my birthday this Friday. So excited to get to grips with my new camera when it arrives.
• Watching Peter Pan with the children. Disney always makes for a good start to the weekend.
• Eating porridge and sipping tea.
• {Still} loving Lush’s Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner.
• Wearing one of my favourite full skirts. Great for twirling in.
• Accidentally giving Jesse a black eye. Before you call the NSPCC, let me explain. I flung a thick playing card towards the play room. He got caught in the crossfire. The corner hit him just underneath his left eye and it bruised immediately. I cried. He cried. There was much cuddling.
• Running errands in town.
• Treating Izzy to a new pair of sunglasses.
• Buying gifts for our nieces and nephews. I picked books. Naturally.
• Braving the supermarket for a food shop.
• Making pesto, mozzarella and tomato wraps for our lunch.
• Taking the rest of our picnic to the park.
• Nibbling olives, reading Living Etc and daydreaming about decorating our new home {that we haven’t bought yet} while the children played.
• Marvelling at how many blueberries Jesse can cram in his mouth at once.
• Wandering home in the sunshine.
• Watching the children lounge sleepily on the sofa.
• Feeling inordinately proud of myself when I made mayonnaise from scratch.
• Frying eggs for the children’s supper.
• Preparing Californian Grilled Fish for us grown-ups. It was delicious, even if I do say so myself.
• Drinking wine and watching ‘Vertigo’ with Mr. LA. We adore Hitchcock and wanted to rewatch this favourite in light of it winning the top spot in Sight & Sound’s Greatest Film Poll recently. Kim Novac and James Stewart are perfection. I’m desperate to find a way to get to the BFI’s Hitchcock retrospective later this month.
• Lazily removing my makeup with La Roche Posay Micellar Solution before tumbling into bed.
• Listening and watching thunder and lightening from our bedroom window.
• Wishing Jesse had slept past 6.45am.
• Enjoying long cuddles in bed.
• Packing everyone off to the cinema so I could catch up on work.
• Having a PJs and perfume kinda day. I might have looked like a slob, but I smelt good.
• Eating a huge plate of pesto pasta and salad for lunch.
• Trying to catch up on the washing. Always an impossible task.
• Eating cupcakes and buttered popcorn while watching a movie with children.
• Cooking Sunday dinner for what felt like the first time in ages. Oh how I’d missed roast potatoes and gravy!
• Bathing the children.
• Reading Cave Baby to my sleepy little boy.
• Settling down for an evening of Olympic celebrations with Izzy and the Mr.
• Loving every minute of the closing ceremony.
• Singing and dancing along to the Spice Girls.
• Laughing when my daughter told me to calm down and stop embarrassing her. Oh Izzy, you haven’t seen anything yet! 😉
• Staying up far too late and drinking too much wine.
• Asking Izzy if she felt inspired by the Olympics as I tucked her into bed. ‘Oh YES, Mummy. I’m going to be a ‘lympic swimmer you know’.
• Finally collapsing into bed.

Loveaudrey xxx