Whenever a road trip begins super early in the morning we stop at McDonalds for breakfast. It's usually a great family friendly stop: food for all of us, coffee, toilets and a play area for the kids. Good Friday, it turns out, is not a good time to stop there. The kids were sick, shooting "snot rockets" (term borrowed from a twin club friend) and so couldn't use the playground, they'd been stuck in the car for 2 hours (alot for a pair of 2.5yr olds) and we were asking them to stay still and sit calmly in a room that was chaotic. To add to it, we waited 45 minutes to an hour for breakfast.... I know it was busy, but it wasn't THAT busy. I think next year we'll pack sandwiches and eat them in the park.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Monday, February 10, 2014
Some anniversay perspective
Yesterday was our wedding anniversary and for a change we put aside all work and projects and we sat on the couch, ate takeaway pizza, drank wine and talked. Shock horror, we actually stopped for a moment and spent it on us!
Anyways, while sitting there talking, I looked around the house at the kids paintings hanging up, the toys, the travel photos and the herbs hanging up to dry, I thought about how the boys went running to the door to greet "Daddy" and the penny dropped. I realised that I am currently living the life I had been dreaming about living from the time I was a child. There are a few differences. I hadn't pictured that I'd also be incredibly busy with volunteering and going back to uni and considering a new small business venture. But I wouldn't change that either, I see that I just adapted my dream to my circumstances which is a good thing because if my dreams ended here I'd be left wondering what I'd do next.
This also means that next time I have a bad day I can't really complain, I created this life, time to live it!
Monday, February 3, 2014
January
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