Life Lately #5

Life lately…. where to begin? I’ll start at the beginning (as my mum says, it is a very good place to start..). Basically, I have been a proper moany pants the last month and I am not entirely sure how I am going to snap myself out of it. I feel like the only way I’ll feel better is if we win the lottery or something – we would have to start playing first so that isn’t going to happen any time soon!

It always seems to sneak up on me when we have a break, I take time off and then when we get back I just can’t be bothered to do anything. Then when I don’t work my mind starts to wander, then I get fed up with my blog, that spirals out of control and has a negative impact on my whole mental wellbeing. I’ve snapped at Mr F, I’ve snapped at the kids and I have generally just been a bit of a grump to everyone. Thankfully I have some fab friends to chat to and they have really helped to lift my mood.

What I really need is a big old cry I think (or to win the lottery…) to get all of the emotional build up out of my system. A good cry always does wonders doesn’t it? I have tried to write about how I am feeling, to pin it down into a post, but I don’t actually know what I am upset/frustrated with. That would be a good title wouldn’t it? ‘Bit of a rambling moan about nothing in particular…’ – that’s got viral written all over it haha!

I actually did have a post do well on Facebook the other day and I found out today that it made Blog Of The Day over on Mumsnet so that is pretty cool. I wrote about how I am fed up of pretending that I don’t have well behaved kids. I see so many people sharing stories about tantrums or badly behaved kids and I either stay quiet or nod along in agreement. But I shouldn’t be nodding along as my kids just aren’t like that, they never have been. I should just be brave enough to say that a bit more.

I’ve actually got Lils off sick with me today. She’s fast asleep next to me on the sofa (Wills is napping upstairs) and she’s got a bit of a temperature bless her. We were about to head off to pre-school and she burst into tears. I mean she is a bit of a cry-baby at times but it isn’t like her to cry for absolutely no reason at all. We just can’t seem to shift the germs in this house – I don’t think all 5 of us have been well at the same time since September last year. I am thinking we’ll only be free of the germs once the summer holidays roll around – the rest of the year we will be doomed!

Something that has definitely cheered me up this month is leaving BT and switching over to Virgin. We had 9 months of damaged cable and therefore poor internet and nobody would do a thing about it. In the end we were able to break out of our contract and move to Virgin. So far I am one happy bunny as there have been no drop outs and I can actually get on with work!!

We have an exciting blog collaboration coming up – our holiday to Holland. I have never been before have you? I don’t imagine I will be lucky enough to see fields of tulips – I think they have all died now but I am just looking forward to going away somewhere new. We are staying in a lodge so hopefully it will be home from home but I am really worried about the travelling and how I am going to feed Wills. He likes his bottles boiling hot and with a whole day of travelling I just don’t know how we are going to heat up the water. I might go and see if Amazon sells anything – they sell everything, right?

That’s about it for now I think, life is busy but it is also relaxed right now. I am not taking on too much and I am making more time for my marriage and for my children and family as a whole. Because that’s what it is all about isn’t it?