There is something about knowing you have two more days off all together, that makes a lazy Sunday morning even better. Incredibly, small boy slept until 8am (the latest he has slept in his whole 11 months) and big boy woke up at 8.45am.

So breakfast became brunch and after a quick trip to Tesco Express, my husband came home with a variety of naughty but delicious goodies!

I managed to get the boys dressed in their Jubilee red, white and blue but please excuse my lack of make up and glasses! It was technically first thing, even though it was 10am!

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The very beautiful Brooke at Covered in Grace posted a lovely comment on one of my posts which linked me to her brilliant Look Back series! My all about me page has a photo from when we lived in Abu Dhabi and I had a little sister and a baby brother on the way! My father worked for Gulf Air and we came back to England just before my brother was born. Can you imagine?! My mum travelled alone, 7 months pregnant with a 16 month old and a 3 year old, on a 5 hour flight! Ghastly! She says she remembers squeezing into the toilet on the plane and slapping on full makeup, so that when my grandparents greeted her at Heathrow, she looked like she was coping! As soon as she saw them, she burst into floods of tears!

I really have only one strong memory from this time, which was getting on the school bus (yes we went to proper school, on a proper bus, all alone, at 3!) and it being so hot that my legs stuck to the faux leather seats!

I think living out there, for my first almost 4 years, is where my love of the sun must come from!

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I used the CameraBag 1983 filter! Only a year out!

Forget swooning over Matt Damon in We bought a Zoo. When we drove back from Blagdon Lake last week, we saw a few for sale signs up, advertising areas of woodland.

Ever since then I have been dreaming of owning our own piece of wooded bliss.

It does't need to be a lot. Just under an acre would be marvellous!

Not quite sure our treats money will stretch to it this year but next year, or maybe the year after that .....

There are lots advertised on the internet on sites like Woodlands and they seem to go for around £5 - £10,000 an acre! Phew! Who knew woodland land was so steamy! (I used to be a Land Buyer, and have worked for a few of the major UK house builders, but when it comes to woodland land prices, clearly I am not your girl!)

It might seem like a pipe dream at the moment, it might always be our pipe dream, but it's a dream my husband and I share.

His dream is a clearing within walking distance of our house and as we are surrounded by countryside, I might take up stalking of the local farm and land owners as my new hobby!

Our dogs would love it, our boys would love it, we would adore it.

I love the idea of a family wood, where we could build tree houses, have amazing nights by a camp fire and build wigwams out of anything that gets blown to the ground, after a stormy night.

Imagine the boys birthday parties growing up.... toasting marshmallows, real hide and seek and endless adventure trails.

When you think of the cost of a weeks family holiday to Disney Land it doesn't seem so ridiculous after all! Somewhere you would go almost every weekend as a family.

So, on my ultimate wish list, is a woodland, all of our very own!