About everything and nothing, talking to myself but hoping someone else might be listening…….
Another big change we have been trying to implement as a family, to help the environment (see my previous post) is to eat less meat. Eating meat, especially beef and pork, has a massive impact on our environment and the single biggest way we can help the planet is quite simply to eat less of... Continue Reading →
Many of the choices we make in life are purely due to convenience. We lead such busy lives and we are always on the lookout for things that could make our lives easier, to enable us to do things quicker so we can fit more and more into our day. Unfortunately, our environment is suffering... Continue Reading →
The build-up to our trip to Lake Arrowhead had been difficult for me as my Emetophobia was going into overdrive. No matter how well I feel I have my phobia and anxiety under control, a big family trip always drags me back. The day before my trip I forgot to take my medication, so it... Continue Reading →
Our next adventure took us to Santa Barbara as we had granny over from the UK for three weeks and managed to escape from the children for a night. We decided to leave home at 5.30am to miss the rush hour, so we packed and showered the night before and set our alarms for 5.15am.... Continue Reading →
Moving to California, away from our family, means it can be hard to get some child free time. However, when we do have family to visit, we like to try to escape for a day or two. Right now, my father in law is here so we had booked a trip on Airbnb to stay... Continue Reading →
I really felt compelled to write this post today because of last night’s tragic shooting in a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. One of the reasons I was so apprehensive about moving to the United States was because of the guns. Nothing anyone can ever say to me will convince me that guns need to... Continue Reading →
I wrote some diaries during the first few months in California and have decided to post some extracts of them over the next couple of weeks, (although slightly adapted). Our First Week in Southern California We had booked ourselves into a hotel for the first few nights as the house was only part furnished and... Continue Reading →
On 2nd July 2017 we turned our lives upside down. We packed eight suitcases (four mine, two my husbands and one each for the kids), six packs of travel sickness pills (we wouldn’t want to run out!) and began our journey from Hove to California. I remember when my husband first suggested it, ‘no’ was... Continue Reading →
A change that I feel I needed to share right now, is that after years of feeling hopeless, anxious and down, I have finally taken charge of my emotions.
From the moment I first laid eyes on you I wanted you. I admired you from afar for a while, but I knew that eventually I just had to have you in my life. When you were finally mine, I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. I fell completely in love, I wanted... Continue Reading →
Mostly Talking to Myself 