With this in mind, we just stayed in Europe, spending ten weeks in Mallorca, with Jim's oldest friend Mark (Raybumbum as Ellie calls him) and his lovely wife Ellen, off to Italy on the ferry trip from hell, Switzerland, France and home. During this time I decided to write a journal, I loved it and hated it all in one. Day in, day out I had to up date it and it's a great record of what we did but it was such a pain. I was pregnant... So sober... So it was a good hobby to have.
Here we are now, 2014, and we're going to finish the trip off. We are flying to Phuket in 6 days, then Sydney two weeks later to see Jim's younger brother who he hasn't seen now in over two years. We'll be in Australia for 7 weeks before we fly to Singapore. After that, we have no plans until a flight out of Phuket on the 9th of April to come home! So being a glutton for punishment, I've decided to become a "blogger!" So I can update my "journal" daily and keep my friends and family up to date. I'm hoping I can attach pictures and make each entry current and more visual.
While we're away I'm going to be missing my bestest friend's third baby arriving which I'm incredibly gutted to be missing but gives me a great thing to look forward to come back to and I can't wait to meet him. Also, it's Boo / Rachel, my baby sister's 30th!!! And I won't see her get that first wrinkle and grey hair:(. Ellie will be leaving nursery and all of her amazing new friends. She/we have had such an amazing term there and it's given her so much confidence (and a little extra attitude with the new information gained from new friends), fingers crossed, when we get back, they'll be able to offer her a space back and she can slot back in.
This trip will obviously be an amazing experience, it's what we love doing. I was telling someone today who was asking if I was married, we aren't bothered about marriage, this is what we do instead, I would far prefer to spend money on this than one day! I am nervous about flights, I'm not a nervous flyer, but I'm nervous that Joey is flipping massive, strong and stubborn and he'll be a nightmare through the flight, especially as he's too young to get his own seat. I'm also nervous that the flight is through the night and if no one sleeps, my whole family will turn against me and against each other... We just have to get there, realise it's just a few hours, let go of any tired strops and get our toes in the sand with a singha! We have several things to get organised, out of the 11 weeks, we only have about four and a half weeks of confirmed accommodation! We have also just clicked tonight that we need a baby back pack thing to put Joey on as we won't be able to have nice beach walks with his stroller. Jim has to get his jabs and naturally, we've got to have a party to celebrate going on a really long holiday! So the family are up this weekend to eat and get us organised.
I feel a bit like my sister Boo did on the day she moved house to a house about 6 doors down the road, she knew loads needed to be done but couldn't quite see where to start. We just opened up the boot in my car in the end, ridiculous as it sounds, and just drove forward and backwards A LOT, I need to just get some plans of what I need to be doing and get on with it, I have started washing clothes and dragging suitcases out of the attic today so it's a start, having completed the far more important purchasing and wrapping three months worth of birthday presents and cards (priorities not quite right!) and everywhere is clean (in the morning before Ellie gets back from nursery and Joey wakes from his nap, Groundhog Day style)
I think I will regret starting this as I can't get out of it now! Happy reading, I hope you enjoy and I hope I, and the kids enjoy looking back in years (I'm pretty sure jim won't read it, maybe in twenty years he'll have a little look).
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