Good night's sleep

Yehay, I finally got a good night's sleep. It feels like its been a long time where I've had a complete, unbroken and long night's sleep. Mind you I still feel like I could do with a few more. Oh well, I guess you can't have everything.

Rang the local councellor this morning to complain about the youths that insist on congregating behind the house and making all sorts of noise late at night. Actually felt like someone was listening. Mind you, could well just have been politician speak so I'm not holding my breath on any outcomes.

Off to pick Jacqui up and then we are both going to watch a Pilates class prior to joining in next week. Should be interesting and from what I've seen, doesn't require anything like co-ordination which is always good.

Anyway, roll on tomorrow night when I can have a big hug from the much beloved. It feels like its been a long time since I had a cuddle, even though it was only monday morning!

Good life

Life is ticking along nicely, Robin and I and the girls are settling into the family bit nicely.

We had a lovely sunday afternoon the other week all playing games on the lounge floor. Its really nice to just spend time as a family, not only for the girls but for me too. As an only child I can't remember playing many family games and sometimes I feel like I'm catching up on my childhood.

That said, I'm feeling mentally better too, the depression is starting to lift. I had my last councelling session last week and I'm not petrified about the ending of it. I feel more secure in the knowledge of support from family and friends.... and if I feel like I'm slipping down again I know where to go.

We keep looking at houses, but I know that it will be a good year till we move, and to be honest I'm in no hurry to do so. But I do like looking at houses and having a little daydream about living in a larger house where the girls can have a room apiece and I can get the computer out of my bedroom. On the other hand I've still got boxes about from the last move, and I am worried about moving the girls again. So I'm content to stay here and sort things out, so that we have got wardrobes and storage space and a garden the girls can play in.

I've recently started to get a bit interested in my garden - only small steps but at least there is a small part of the wildernesses that are my garden that are now tended... by next summer I might even have got the back garden under some sort of control!


Well I'm off to relax and unwind after another bout of exercise today, the girls are nearly in bed and west wing is on later.

Catching up

Well, the last time I sat to write my Blog my lovely computer decided to crash on me…. After a good kicking it seems to be ok, so I thought I’d give it another go.

It’s been rather a while since I last blogged and much has happened in that time. My relationship with Robin has gone from strength to strength and we have settled into a comfortable routine. The summer holidays have been and gone, one child was late back to school as she developed a nasty ear infection the day before they were due to return and I've put stacks of weight on. I have decided to do something about the latter and have signed up for the Bradford Beep program to help with fitness and exercise.... should be interesting!

Robin is working away at the moment, so he is down near London during the week and then home with the girls and me at the weekend. It is a lot of driving and to be honest I worry about how he is coping with the isolation of being by yourself all the time during the week. I know I find it hard, but at least I can pick up the phone and chat with people or converse with the other mums at school

On a different track I’ve found an MA course that I like the look of at Huddersfield University and I’m really tempted. It is on Religion and Education In Contemporary Society and follows on really well from my degree with an idea of going into teaching at A level or above. The only problem is that it costs more than I have got at the moment. So I need to decide if I think I can scrape enough money together by January and do it a bit out of sync or to wait till next September which is a year away, but by then I should have the money saved and Robin might be working locally which would make the child care issues much easier – or it might be a different night every other fortnight rather than a Wednesday which is choir night as it stands. Decisions decisions… I’m hopeless at them and I hate making them.

Anyway, I’m off to savour my newly discovered pleasure – “Silent Witness” and put my feet up for a bit. Tomorrow is the first session in the beep plan – should be a laugh if nothing else!