Life goes on

Many of you have probably had enough of my ramblings on history, castles and my visit to churches so I thought I would spend a little bit of time updating you on family life.

Adelaide has settled in well at school and has made lots of new friends. Already her social life is better than mine, as she has been invited to 3 birthday parties, has a new friend a few doors up, goes swimming every week and is doing both tap and jazz ballet. If you have not noticed yet she is doing her own blog which lots of people think is more interesting than mine.

Isabelle and Bethany turn 4 in three weeks. It is amazing how quick they are growing up. Yes – Bethany has started to acquire a slight accent. I am not sure if it is from day care which she attends three days a week or the bad English TV she watches. With the warmer weather (an amazing 20 deg which is a heat-wave for this time of year) it has been great watching them run around in the back yard in their fairy dresses (yes mom they still wear their dresses) and feed the horse over our back fence.

Kathy has decided that she has had enough of the easy life and decided to get a job (the truth is at £100 a beer someone has to bring in more money!). She is working for her old company Sigma doing contract work three days a week. A great experience and is providing an opportunity to get out and be an adult.

And what about me – well work is still going really well and after three months they have decided not to deport me back to Oz. As many of you know the role is varied (from museums to performance management) but I have found that the core skills of good staff management allows any challenge to be tackled. Unusual for this place, but I requested a 360 deg review from my staff to get a sense of how we are travelling and got some great feedback so I must be doing something right…….? Hard to believe that ¼ of the year is over already.

Life at home has its usual ‘ground hog’ feel as we go through the daily routine of getting kids ready in morning, school, home from school, dinner, bath, kids to bed, kids back to bed again…..GO BACK TO BED KIDS! But each weekend we are shaken out of the routine as we plan our next great adventure. Currently planning a week in France, a trip to Wales, and our big three weeks to Scotland so enough to keep the hog away.

So life goes on with the Careys as we step 1 more day closer to coming home with lots of new experiences, new friends and memories that will last for ever.