Just popping in briefly to apologise profusely for abandoning you all several weeks ago. I'm afraid everything just got on top of me, with the separation and the househunting. I was feeling really down, and negative, and I felt like I had nothing positive to contribute to the thread. I just didn't want to spoil all the fun chats with my doom and gloom cloud of misery.
For anyone who wants to know what I've been up to, well we put our house on the market at the start of Feb, and accepted a great offer from a cash buyer three days later! 
We had assumed we would have more time so we only really started looking for our own places to move to at the time we accepted the offer. That's when it started getting stressful, because our buyer wanted to move quickly but neither of us could find anywhere we wanted to move to and nothing new was coming on the market in the right area. Plus with STBXH living with relatives outside of London, co-ordinating looking after Autumn just became a total nightmare and we were arguing constantly. This went on for weeks and weeks and WEEKS. I think after the first month I was probably lower than I've ever been, to be honest.
Well finally, last week, some new properties came on in the right area (just as our buyer was threatening to walk away). So now I've had an offer accepted on an amazing flat that I absolutely love in a perfect location, and STBXH has also had an offer accepted on a great place just 5 minutes (on foot) down the road. We're a stone's throw from two outstanding state primaries so I don't have to worry about Autumn's primary school when the time comes (we have to apply for primary school by the end of 2015, and neither of us will have moved house by then, so it was really important to me to get a place close enough to get Autumn into the good local primaries.)
Getting this far with the move has changed EVERYTHING! STBXH and I are both a million times less stressed, so we're not having pointless arguments anymore and we've been able to work together really well on co-ordinating the moves. We're both looking forward to living close enough together to be able to easily share time with Autumn, and actually help each other out rather than having to do the scary single parent thing on our own. I really love the flat I have under offer as well, I've spent every spare second over the last couple of days mentally decorating it! The location is FANTASTIC as well! I never thought I'd be able to move to this particular spot!
Anyways, it is clearly outrageously rude that I've been gone for so long and I've jumped back in with a stupendously long post all about myself! 
I'm sorry, I just felt I owed you all a proper explanation for being AWOL for so long. I'm finally done talking about all this irrelevant stuff, and I'm ready to return to all the baby chat!
Autumn has been ill ill ill!! Relentlessly constantly ill. Ever since she started nursery in the New Year, it's been one thing after another. Three bouts of D&V so far, numerous coughs, colds, and high temperatures. Her sleep has been all over the place, and from Xmas to March she put on absolutely no weight. (She hasn't been weighed since March so I don't know if she's gained any weight at all this year.)
Luckily the last 2 or 3 weeks have been better (although her runny nose and chesty cough haven't disappeared even for a single day since Jan). She's still a happy, chirpy little soul though. Now that she's slightly healthier she's finally starting to take an interest in walking again. After all her great progress up to Xmas, she totally regressed and didn't even want to walk with her hands held while she was ill. She's just been crawling around and refusing to attempt any steps, until about 2 weeks ago when she went back to using her pushalong walker and she now regularly stands up without holding on to anything just like she used to in December. There are lots of kids who still progress with their walking even when they're ill though, so I've been genuinely wondering if the poor atmosphere in the house the last few months has been affecting her as much if not more than the illness :( It certainly does seem like she's perked up as much as STBXH and I have in the last few days!
So how is everyone else doing? Please forgive my absence, and could some kind soul bring me up to speed? I've picked up that there's been lots of walking in NoBrookerVille!! Congratulations to Dream's S and Jaggy's R!! Is there anyone else I've missed? I also spotted Jen's BFP on FB - eeeeekkkk!!!!!! So exciting!! A thousand congratulations!! I must confess I'm not certain which No Brooker has nc'd to Dino?
What else has been happening ladies? I hope all No Brooking Mamas and Mini No Brookers are well? Happy birthday to all the gorgeous LOs who have been turning 1 recently!
I will finally end this painfully long post! I promise never to write such a monstrosity again! 
I'm still hectically busy with the move and with returning to work at the end of this month, so I won't be able to post the way I used to. I will be lurking though, and posting when I can!