A New Decade is Approaching

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A New Decade is Approaching

I don’t know where this post is coming from or what I am trying to achieve. I’m running on no gas, I’m super tired and scared of what the immediate future holds. I may look ok on the outside but the inside is not dissimilar to a bomb waiting to explode. I know this is all cryptic, it’s not intentionally a cryptic style Facebook post.

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British Discipline Kids

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British Discipline Kids

We have stickers instead of a Star Chart and we have a Naughty Chair instead of a Naughty Step but the principles are all the same. I love my little darlings to the moon and back but my goodness they test my patience on a daily basis. I guess that is what parenting is all about, eh?

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Dads and Postpartum depression!

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Dads and Postpartum depression!

The biggest myth about Postnatal depression and Postpartum depression (PPD) -in my opinion is- that it doesn’t effect men, let’s just clarify this, it does. It doesn’t discriminate at all; it can effect Mum or Dad. it doesn’t matter. So what is it? I’m never going to be able to explain…

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Christmas: A bitter sweet time of year!

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Christmas as expats can be a funny thing. Some years you go home and other years you stay in your adopted home.

I find staying in Switzerland can be lonely as a lot of time, expats being expats, leave to go home. Most of our friends are expats which doesn’t help. Don’t get me wrong we always have a fantastic day with amazing friends but it’s not the same as going home!

I personally would always go home but sometimes life just doesn’t allow it. Christmas for me is not only about being with Greg and the twins but also being with Mum, Dad, Kelly, Callum, Lachie and Ollie and of course Greg’s parents, Darryl and Fizz. Then there’s my lifelong friends who I want to see over this period and can’t. It’s what Christmas is all about to me; spending time with people I love, the most important people in the world to me. 

So it’s bitter sweet. I enjoy Christmas in Zurich and it has the advantages of not spending 30 hours on a plane but I miss my family so incredibly much that it almost destroys the holiday season especially Christmas Day. All I want to do is be with them.

It’s such a hard call. Bitter sweet.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.  Hard to believe it’s 2019 soon!!

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