leaving behind... looking forward..

When I started this blog, I wanted to blog about our 'good life' style life, we seemingly had everything you need, we had a nice house in a beautiful area, with plenty of rural open free space for the children to play right by the back door, my children were all happily settled into there local countryside school with just a handful of children per year group.. they had their friends they had grown up with and all was on the most part, blissfully sweet. We had chickens, a little pony a vegetable patch all so very simple and free!

Then just as I started up my blog in the new year, things turned and everything was thrown on its head, although it wasn't a complete shock.. to be honest our 'good life' was never so stable, there was always going to be a thorn in our side and as much as we tried to forget about it, and carry on, that thorn would not budge and it became too uncomfortable to bare, and thus we really did have to make the new year our new start.

I never wanted to move, and it tore my heart out having to leave the place my children had become so familiar, change not only there home, there lifestyle but also leave their friends and their school, it made my heart ache for them because they were entering something unknown, but in the face of it all they took it completely in their stride and never once saw it as a bad thing, something I so wish was easier to do.

So we moved, we had a new home, a new life style, a new school... and are trying hard now to make new friends.

We had to leave so much behind, we had to rehome our pony, as we no longer have fields right outside our door, we no longer have chickens, rope swings or our vegetable patch, and the school has more children per year group than the old school had in total... But we do still have our family, we still have Jackson, our dog and we still are smiling because now the one thing we no longer have is that thorn in our side!

Now we have a new way of life, we have new roads to learn and paths to follow, but whilst we follow this new path I have realized it isn't really a matter of where your house is positioned or being in a situation that is easier to maintain, its about having your own thoughts and points of view and sticking to them, going ahead and following the road you want which is always there even if the route may have changed abit between.

The things we loved so much, we still have, they may have just changed slightly, we may not have vast countryside as soon as we open the door, but its only a 2 minute walk to find the same, we may not have a huge garden with rope swings ponies and hay to hide in and trees to climb, but we do have plants to grow in our border and a trampoline to burn off excess energy, we may have left behind good friends and neighbours, but we are learning new skills to enable us to make new ones.
So as much as I didn't wish to leave our old home, I am happy that what we have now is just about as good :D

New Year!

Well that's it out with the old? in with the new?
2010 is well and truly over, I know a fair few people who will be sighing in relief as we roll in the new year, and I hope that 2011 brings everyone some good fortune.

We're not party people and we don't celebrate new year very much, so we weren't out drinking the night away, waking this morning with a beastly headache, in fact we never drink to celebrate anything, or indeed drink for any other reason, we are completely Tea total... quite literally so we saw in the new year with all three children tucked up in bed, the dog snoring away on the sofa and me and my other half with cups of tea in our hands, jumping up and down like slight loons (as we have just brought a xbox 360 kinect sensor, which is simply amazing!!!) and we woke this morning and although we initially thought we would go over to my parents house for a new years day tea, turkey and chips or something similar, we didn't end up getting that far, as the neighbours came to see us and that was it then, we couldn't tare the kids away from the kinectimals!

My mum is still loving her new laptop tho, and we have now set up skype for her which is always interesting, and enables her and my dad to witness the manic atmosphere of our house from the quiet safety of their armchairs!

What do I think 2011 will hold? who knows, but we'll be there for the ride no matter what it throws at us.

Happy New Year everyone, lets try and make it a good one!