We sat on a Friday night reading an 80 page document that made it sound like our future home might fall down around our heads or suck up all our money trying to stay up. Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket had met, went the legend, in their youth when part of a touring opera company.

However here we are, moving into a big old people house (it was with the previous family for 58 years! On my award-winning book blog, you can find a range of reviews of YA to Adult books and all the topics in-between. I had underestimated how difficult it might be to enjoy what was going on when we were forced to be in direct, hot sun for long periods of time.

I’m often quite slack at filling a school break with daily activities, but I like to have at least a couple of things booked in.

Her writing, reading and maths are all progressing and she still is very happy to go to school everyday (even if she refuses to do work when she’s there!Another one we found in the library, this is more about love and being connected whether we are together or apart (good for anxious school starters). Audrey turns nine in July and she still loves CBeebies (for any non-UK readers, this is a preschoolers TV channel, aimed at babies up to around age six or seven). I tell myself; well, if she was alive you’d still be holding the phone away from your ear when she tells you a long and pointless story and won’t let you speak.

For example, Audrey wasn’t mobile until she was 16 months old (when she bottom shuffled) and once she was able to walk, she wasn’t immediately the sort to wander off or purposefully run away – that came around age 5/6 ish when it made outdoor life much more tense. I often felt like we both made some strange financial decisions to get to this age with no home of our own or assumed that everyone else just had lots of money?Rex is very happy watching most of her choices too, but he rarely asks for them (he has moved onto CBBC shows, but prefers Netflix). The thing is, I stress about Audrey with good cause – she needs reminding to drink water and reminding to go to the toilet. We are not even at the stage where we can trust her out of sight in the park (which is fine for her six year old brother), so getting to a stage where she’s maybe walking to a friend’s house around the corner or making us tea – that’s not even close. I mean, we excitedly read them Harry Potter, getting four or five books in before realising it really gets too old for them and they were bored/not really following what was going on.