As you can see, things are looking a little different here,.. and very messy and erm.. just wrong ;). I’m playing with things right now and my blog will look a little disjointed with odd looking for a while with strange looking links/titles/categories and so on. I’ve also upgraded wordpress to the latest version but in the process, I can see that a few posts have gone strange with the entire post becoming a link etc…. and I’m sure there will be more anomalies found as I get into it more.
I hope to have everything all configured nicely transformed in a few days time…. but it could take a little longer,.. having done this before with wordpress… it’s fiddly and time consuming.
Hope you will like the new look and more regular updates,…. I’ve been busy over the past 12months,.. but I hope to have time this year to blog a bit.
Hi Remy,
Fantastic to read your new blog this year.
I bought all your tutes and have made some pieces of jewellery that get some lovely compliments- so thank you.
I can certainly relate to you. I have a full time job as a teacher in primary school, two children one in high school and one in primary and I’m married to a good bloke.
Juggling is hard and you always feel guilty no matter what. Sometimes you just have to say no and prioritise. Lovely to have you back.
Awe thanks so much Samantha,. it’s taken me a while (like years) to say no when it comes to the kids. I’m mainly referring to their constant requests to drive them everywhere. Some days I go to school to pick them up and come home empty handed
because I have to drive them all around town to dance classes, basketball, work or they have made arrangements to go to a friend’s houses and of course everyday I’m taking one or two friends home or up to the local mall on the way. Then,. an hour or so later,..I’m doing it all again to pick up two of them,.. and another four hours later usually,.I’m out again picking up the last one from her after school job.
I worked it out last year, that I spend just over 2hrs in the car everyday just driving the kids around and waiting for them etc. It has gotten so bad some times (usually when it’s late and I’m still running around after them)that I’ve actually hated getting into my car again,.and sometimes I just feel like crying because it’s so non-relenting some days and I’ve already gone to pick them up or take the somewhere so many times that day/night already. So,..I have recently put a ‘distance/drive time’ limit on driving them anywhere,lol and “no,.. I am not driving you 50mins to your friend’s house on Friday night for you to sleepover,. and 50mins back,.. just to do it all again the next day to bring you home”, and “nope your dance school will not be any further than 20mins drive away”. Some sad faces,.. but a much happier me, to be rid of these time consuming drives,. not to forget it was easily costing me approx $85AUD every 3-4days in petrol.
I don’t know how you do it,.. all day as a primary school teacher,.. then to come home and do all the regular stuff required with a young family. I couldn’t do it,.. I can barely keep my head above water now,. and that’s without an out-of-home job and no responsibility for all those students every day.
At the moment we have moved our family to a small country town, (800 people), for three years. My husband is a teacher too. We found ourselves spending a great deal of time driving every where. Now we live about a minute from work, much better! We didn’t know if we would be okay but it turns out it was probably one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. I was very apprehensive at first.I’m loving it now.
You’re such a lovely mum,Remy, to do all this for the kids, but it is important to take care of those creative urges too!!For me, it’s therapy!
Cheers,
Sam