Today was my 37th birthday. We started the day with a landlord's inspection of our house and it seems we are getting off pretty lightly with the efforts required to get the place back up to scratch for new tenants. We shall have to paint at least the living room and pay for the usual carpet and window cleaning services, but thankfully we have been spared too much gardening! There will be an ongoing cleaning effort, which will actually get easier as our various possessions leave the house in one way or another. The Squash and a Squeeze theory will be complete when we are suddenly standing in a very spacious three bedroomed semi and wondering why the walls occasionally felt a little close. We shall no doubt still be tip-toeing over toys until the day we hand back the keys, but hopefully we are easing Dylan gently towards the last day. It is not as easy task to reason with a nearly 3-year-old about identifying which are his favourite toys and letting go some of the things he no longer wants to play with. Some small, long forgotten items are starting to disappear when he's not looking, but we want to provide some security in continuity for him and take plenty of his favourite toys along with us.
It was nice to spend my birthday just pottering around the house with the family. We had a lovely morning baking a cake and demolishing half of it for lunch before poor Jeremy succumbed to the man-flu and collapsed into the couch.
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