This is me, I'm rapidly, a bit too rapidly for my liking, approaching the big 3-0. I'm currently a full time Mummy to my two munchkins, R, 2yrs 9 months and T, 7 months. In the not so distant past I was a Marketer. And we have just relocated 150 miles south to the Midlands due to my Husband's new job. This, is the reason for the blog.
I am properly displaced, my friends, family, everyone is back up North. This will be outlet, my sounding board, whatever you want to call it. Maybe I'll even let people read it, maybe I won't. I'll see how it goes.
Anyone who knows me will know, I'm a bit of a home-bird I'm very close to my parents, my parents are very close to my children. I'm close to my best friends. I had a good support network in place, people I could call on for favours, to take me to the doctors, someone to look after the kids if I want my hair cutting etc. My best friend has just had a baby, we had a little weekly baby play date going. Now its all gone. I know no body down here, I have no support system. Last week my daughter got a sticker stuck up her nose and for a split second, I panicked, I had no way of getting her to a hospital, no one to watch the baby etc. This is what I find scary.
I sound a bit depressed, I'm not at all. I'm just daunted by it all. Starting again....making new friends, being away from my parents, it's scary, but not insurmountable. I'm only 2.5 weeks in so all this is to be expected (isn't it?)
The Positives...so far
- We have a new house, a lovely big house. Its a big detatched 5 bed place, with a huge garden. A big improvement on our last 3 bed semi, which we were literally bursting out of
- My Husband is out of his last job, which he hated. Whether this new job is any better is too early to judge yet, but its still a positive he is out of his last one
- We are in a new area, new opportunities for the kids, new places to discover etc
- My husband is starting work later, so gets to see the kids before he goes to work
- I have found a nice new playgroup to go to twice a week
The Negatives...
- I don't have any support system down here
- I don't have any friends here
- I don't have my own car, so getting around is difficult
- My daughter has had to leave her beloved nursery and is missing her friends
- The nursery I want my daughter to go has a 3 year waiting list (for 2 year olds...WTF?)
- I miss people
- My husband is coming home from work much later than he used to, so I'm on my own with the kids much more than I used to be
- The house may cost too much to run
My aim, is to post this list every month, and hopefully the positives will start to outweigh the negatives. Lets see.
That's all for now.
