Using this Blog kinda like a personal diary as I'm pretty certain nobody is reading it. WOW...how life has changed..... the kids are all growing up... Mia is now 18 Ash nearly 16 and lola 13. Yes we are in the throws of teens and young adulthood. I think the stress of it can often be a little invisible. Older kids you don't tend to get the love and cuddles or the appreciation.... and to top it all off it's hard to feel as useful. It is usually in a fleeting moment of a lift or a small favour and of course the cleaning up after them is always there..... See less of them too as they get their own lives in order.
Both Mia and Asha have jobs now. They both work at the same Pizza Shop and Mia also works at another job as well as juggling university. The world is experiencing a pandemic at the moment. COVID 19. Even typing that down is weird. Life has changed for many and we are the lucky ones to find ourselves quite sheltered from the rest of the world. Still.... no overseas travel - which really doesn't affect us much as we didn't travel much - it did however kill the one trip we did have planned to Thailand with all the girls. Never taken the fam os together so was going to be a trip of a lifetime whilst they are all still home and with us. Ho hum...there has been far more disasters because of it one can barely complain.
On the upside Marnz, Tom and the boys have moved back home. They are in 126 which originally meant we were to move next door to 124. Dad ended up selling and we then made the decision to move to the beach. Mia was forever travelling to and from the Coast and so was Ash. It's where the wanted to be. Shawparth is at a point now where we don't have to be in the office as often so we made the move. Overall it has been a wonderful move...improvement in lifestyle and a change of scene. Still I do miss being closer to the family especially Dad and my brothers. See plenty of Marnz as I visit there and they come down here quite often....which is so awesome.
For now my work is from home doing Accounts for our business and also keeping the home. We have a wonderful little house which suits our needs very well. Just a few minutes walk down the street and your smack bam in the middle of two of my favourite places. Winter is approaching now though and I wonder what we will do during those months. Still walks on the beach no doubt and I know you can still get some pretty warm days. Think I will have to visit the forest more often and perhaps more trips to Brissy. The girls love having the house to themselves anyway. Both Ash and Lols are still playing footy so that also takes up weekends in the winter. Glad they are still both active that way............god knows kids have too much screen time nowadays!!! A modern parenting issue.
So on it goes.... Life changes as we all grow older. Bloody perimenopause is knocking at my door and it's just bloody awful. Some days I feel so far away from who I am I don't even know myself let alone the people that have to live with me. Juan I guess cops the biggest brunt of it all as I can be really short with him and such a short fuse. It's not fair but all I can do is try and control it. Slap myself around a little more and just keep on breathing I guess. I do want to get more into my hobbies which I will attempt to make an effort on this week. Back into my plants and creating things.....that's where my spirit is at. So that's all for now.
