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How do you think people with a family juggle their lives best?

March 30th 2008 05:43

I've had a busy day, Andrew is up at the farm and I've been preparing for dinner to-night, he'll be here soon, but I'm just about ready. It's no good starting to cook until he arrives. I'm doing a nice stir fry, followed by chocolate meringue pie, which took me ages to do, but it's finished and we'll have it with ice cream, I also cooked a few meals to do me through the week but as I have said, on previous occasions, I really do not know how mothers with families cope if they have a full time job, but so many do.

It must be really exhausting to cope with the daily hassles of work, where one can't truly be yourself and then come home to a crying baby or hungry children or fractious teenagers.

I just could not imagine myself being able to cope with any of those situations at all and their weekends must be awful.

There's the cooking, the cleaning, the washing and ironing, the visiting of parents etc and children's activities and to leave a small baby for others to look after must be heartbreaking.

Of course, not being of a domestic nature, I think staying at home could be quite trying and very boring after a while, and there seems to be no escaping that awful fatigue that many mothers experience.

I just wonder what your circumstances are and if this is not a problem for you, is it for any other people that you know of.

And of course, many staying at home would find they do not have much money to finance interesting activities and no real communication often with the working world.

At this stage I can only speculate what it would be like for me, being short of money is NOT something I would ever expect to experience, in fact I think I would be quite comfortable.

But do let me know how you feel about these things and what parts of your life you've had to compromise with to satisfy another. I know many don't care any more whether they have children or not, but I think the majority of people want them.

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How do you feel about the road toll? Have you ever witnessed an accident?

March 25th 2008 08:59

Andrew and I had such a wonderful weekend. It was a cute but large old house looking out across its own beach and out to the water, at night one could hear the pounding of the waves as they broke on the shore and by morning it was just a soft rising and swelling of the sea.

The air was clean and you could smell the sea and its salty freshness, I can remember how my dear old great granny used to talk about it. She just loved the sea and would walk along its shores even as she grew frail and elderly.

We all awoke early and true to her word mum and dad just came and went without worrying about us at all, it was just so different from being at home with them. They seemed to eat out all the time and Andrew and I had to find our own way around the little local villages but there were plenty of places to choose to eat at very modest prices and the fish was out of this world. It was just so fresh.

We did go to Church as expected and mum and dad were good enough to sit with us, I was beginning to wonder if they were going to desert us altogether. But, obviously, going to Church Friday and Sunday put our stakes up. It was a very small congregation taken by a lay preacher but they had a good pianist and we enjoyed the singing, Andrew having a really good voice which he had not let on about, mine would only just do but as in any good Church everyone is accepted no matter what the quality of the singing. We had the usual Easter messages of course but then the preacher moved on to the current day problems of the young and the poor moral standards and foul language which had become so prevalent. It was a pleasure to hear someone speaking who did not have to resort to such crude expressions as the ones we are regularly bombarded with.

We left each service feeling the richer for it and Andrew and I talked about a lot of things which we had never discussed before.

The rest of the weekend, other than looking for food outlets we spent on the sandy beach and going off into the surrounding bush. I have always loved the bush and the dear natural little tracks to be found.

We met another couple of walkers and teemed up with them a few times as they knew the area better than we did.

Andrew insisted on going swimming, I chickened out as the water was quite cold.

He is a good swimmer and loves surfing the waves which surprised me, I had never thought of him as the athletic type.

One night we lit a fire on the beach with twigs and branches we found lying around, it's probably against the law but we were very careful and cooked some sausages out there and made some billy tea. It was great fun, we'd taken with us some buttered rolls and just popped the sausages straight in.

We sat for the rest of the time watching the fire burn itself out and enjoying its warmth until there were only red embers left and we covered them in sand and waited a while to make sure it was well and truly out before strolling back to the cottage and into the warm comfort of our beds.

Another day we got up early and after breakfast bought ourselves some picnic food and drink and with backpacks on went for a very long stroll along the beach where we had out picnic, Andrew going swimming again and I just paddling at the shore in the shallow water.

It's amazing how well food tastes out in the open like that.

Just like all good things the weekend came to an end and we hit the road for home, getting caught in the traffic and crawling along for about two hours. We went past a traffic accident which looked really bad, the ambulance was there and there were several bodies on the road and we did not know whether they were alive or dead.

Have you ever witnessed a traffic accident and how did it make you feel? It was a rude awakening after such a fantastic weekend.

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Would you go away with your parents for a holiday?

March 20th 2008 06:15

I'm home early and have plenty of time to get ready for the weekend away with my parents.

We're going up the north coast to stay in a cottage on the beach which belongs to friends of the family, they're going elsewhere for Easter so this is a perfect opportunity.

There's plenty of bedrooms so everything will be very proper with us all having our own rooms.

Andrew had been going to spend it up near the farm but I would have gone with my parents on my own so he changed his mind when he was invited along.

It's been a bit of a rush as the decision was only taken at the last minute, I expect Andrew and I will go for long walks along the beach, especially at night and mum and dad will do their own thing. As mum says it's not going to be just like home, she and dad want a break too and they're planning to eat out a lot. The whole thing will be very casual.

Dad will drive mum up there and Andrew wants to take his car and as I'm not all that fond of driving this suits me fine.

Mum and dad have left already and Andrew is still at work but he'll come straight here from work to colect me, go back to his place to change and throw some gear together and we'll be off, I offered to make dinner but Andrew wants to get away as quickly as he can. He says we'll stop for tea somewhere about 10 tonight so I've put together some snacks and a thermos of coffee for Andrew and I'm going to insist he stops for breaks now and again to avoid driver fatigue, the traffic will be so thick and many will speed.

I've got some books to take and at lunch time I bought a couple of books for Andrew which I think he might like to read.

The plan is to make it as restful a stay as possible but I think maybe mum will want us to go to church tomorrow and Sunday and if that's all that is required of us, we'll no doubt go.

I certainly shall and Andrew, easy going as he is, is unlikely to resist.

I don't think I'd go if I were here on my own but I'm sure it will do me no harm and with some music I think I shall probably enjoy it. Singing in Church can be wonderfully uplifting for the spirits and Easter really is a very special occasion for Christians, strong and weak.

I often feel how lucky we are to live in a Christian country even though most are not practising Christians with respect to Church attendance.

I'm not here to preach the gospel I am just telling you how I feel about things.

I'm really well organised, my neighbour is going to look after Tinkerbelle and like the parents of a large family she says what difference does one more make. She has no children, but does have a large family of cats who wander in and out of my garden as it pleases them and always have.

I feel as excited as a school girl which really is rather silly. I am so looking forward to this little break from the usual routine and surroundings.

People at work thought me a bit odd for taking my fairly new boyfriend off for a weekend with my parents but I wonder how you feel.

Do let me know.

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