I've been trying to update my blog for the past two weeks but every time I get time to write something, something comes up and I usually find by the time I return the information is in need of updating. Apologies. I can only blame two small individuals who seem to be devouring my free time at the moment.
As usual I've been running around like a blue ass fly (I'm not quite sure where that saying comes from) but if blue ass flies never sit still, are constantly badgered from two smaller blue ass flies and occasionally feel more like headless chickens than blue ass flies, then thats me.
I can't think of another time in my life I have felt more stressed than I have been these past few days. Having babies is easier than this. Give me twins. Everything seems such a challenge and the days, although full of activity seem to last FOREVER. Despite the kids running amok in our house for hours and being taking to play gyms its 8.03pm and they're both still awake?! What happened to my 'in bed by 7pm in Singapore time children?' Please tell me!!!
Our move over here hasn't exactly gone to plan. We had hoped our furniture could be in place before moving into our new house to make the transition as easy as possible for the kids but sadly not. All our worldly goods have been stuck somewhere off the coast of Florida and only arrived in New York a couple days ago. I thought living in serviced accommodation was challenging until I moved into a house with nothing in it.
Living in an empty apartment has it's advantages. Its roomy for sure; the kids are loving the space to run around; its easy to maintain; with nothing in it, there's nothing to clean and I'm not constantly finding myself asking William to 'put it back'; there isn't anything to fiddle with, but it also brings a lot of chaos, confusion and boy does it echo. Creaky wooden floor boards can sound incredibly loud when there is nothing else to absorb the noise. Oh, and hardwood floors are so uncomfortable to sit on.
The kids cots were airfreighted over to our serviced apartment so when we arrived in Hoboken on Wednesday they were put up in the house in their now shared bedroom- which they love. We went to Ikea the weekend before to buy a sofa bed (hoping it would be delivered the day we moved in) to see us through till our bed arrives but annoyingly got a call Tuesday afternoon to say that it wasn't going to be delivered till Thursday or Friday (and if there's extreme weather- which I'm only hoping refers to snow and not rain) it wouldn't be till the following Tuesday. So, at 4pm Wednesday afternoon with nothing to sleep on that night we traipsed around Hoboken and Jersey City looking for a cheap alternative to save us from 8 hours in the bath with the three pillows we have.
To cut a very long story short we ended up finding a 'spare' bed, but that wasn't delivered in time either, so after a few stressful hours- and a lot of wine- we managed to locate a Sears store in Newport and luckily a rather inexpensive air bed. So, we now have space in our house for 7 adults and 5 kids. Please come visit!!
The first few days in our house have been great. I have to admit that occasionally I find myself in a corner, eyes closed counting to ten, holding my breath so not to scream at William or Emma for the 100th time, but apart from what I'm going to put down as 'teething problems', everything is seeming a lot better. Sometimes I wonder why we left the comforts of our privileged life in Singapore, but on other days I couldn't picture living anywhere else. It's amazing that you can bath your kids and not sweat. We can run to the park down the road and enjoy 2 hours extreme sliding and come back and wear the same clothes all day and the next if we like. Amazing.
I'm not sure what Pete thinks. I know for one his job isn't exactly what he signed up for. He seems to be at work ALL the time so not only have I had to get used to looking after the kids on my own, I've had to get used to being on my own. I can only say that I've learnt a lot these past few weeks.
For one - I never thought I'd have a playlist on my iphone titled 'cleaning songs'; I never thought I'd be able to drink two bottles of wine on my own on two successive nights and still wake up at 7am the next morning fully function-able; I never thought I'd actually want to send Emma off to nursery school and I never thought I'd actually find supermarket aisles fascinating. I also never thought I'd one day be left to find my new BFF on an online 'friendship dating' website. I knew when leaving Singapore I'd have to go through this whole palaver again of meeting friends, hoping people like me, building up the courage to ask someone out for coffee etc, but I forgot how wierd it is. 'Hi I'm Caroline, I'm a mother of two, I like painting, wine, cheesecake and hate humming, untuned radio stations, whistling and gherkins. Please be my friend'
I joined the website Meet Up and next Monday have 9 strange woman and their children descending on our house for playtime. Wish me luck!
Tomorrow is the kid's first day at nursery. I've managed to get them into a local playgroup for 3 days a week to give me time to clean our house and look for work so I'm hoping it all goes smoothly. If Emma cries I bet I will.
Sorry this update has taken so long. The next one will be coming soon with pics of our new place.;-)
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