... i wish i'd started this blogging caper then...but the move...thousands of miles away with three little kids in tow was just to BIG already...if only i'd got one of the kids to record it all...hee hee
...now, two years later, this big old house & our village life, with the wilds of scotland on our doorstep seem to have become the 'other' part of the five of us....
...the part thats not made up of salt water & shells & surf board wax....& endless sand...
...our kids are two years bigger, older, wiser....two years more travelled & louder...two years more lovely...
...even with the long winters....& i mean really loooong....i wouldn't change the experience for anything in the world....
...we've had hard, really challenging times, i won't lie to you...our first winter here i'm sure i carried the low smothering grey skies on my shoulders for months...it was a little claustrophobic...
...yet this winter has been incredibly exciting- long... but snow filled & exciting...
...waking up to falling snow in your garden...how is that for 'storybook'...heaven...
...when we arrived with our beach towels- well there are beaches in europe!- & high hopes of a great life experience for us all for a bit- we didn't think about the other things that a move brings...
...new friends, new memories, time together....things that make up part of the whole experience...
...we were always going to travel...show the kids this side of the world....& we have...seriously travelled..
...but i don't think we gave much thought to the fact that we would fall in love with the everyday...& we have...big time...
...the everyday involves all things work & child related...as it would anywhere in the world...
...but it also involves all things english...seasons, picnics, summer fairs, vintage china, pub lunches, football, romping walks in wellies,did i say football, seriously gorgeously green countryside & time.....time together...
...so two years into this 'other-side-of-the-world' life we are leading...i find myself happy, busy, challenged, content, & surrounded by the countryside of storybooks, where once it was beaches & sand...
...it won't be our life forever...so at this...our two year mark, i just want to recognise that it is truely an experience to be thankful for...a moment that will shape our family & our kids forever...
...if you're thinking about a change...a move...a new lifestyle...i can't encourage you enough...
...it has it's ups & downs...but thats life...& it is truely the most incredible thing we have, as a family, done so far...
..what d'ya think...for me the kookaburra's will still be waiting...i'll go home to them eventually with a whole other life under my belt...
...two years- thats something to think about....
...don't ya think!...
...see ya....tootles!
