The ever turning tide...

It has been a couple of months since my last blog, but life has been very busy.

When Euan was born, it became quite difficult to continue with our life as it was. 3rd floor flats aren't very good when you have to lug a pram up and down the stairs. Paul was always away here there and everywhere and I knew nobody in Glasgow other than one rather flakey pal, so I was pretty much alone. We made the decision to move to the North East, so that I could be nearer my family and have a bit of support while Paul was away working. After all, Paul could do his job from anywhere, or so we thought.

We got a nice wee house in Aberdeen, we moved and the plan was that Paul would just keep doing his job and I would find a new one for when I returned from maternity leave. However, his employers were incensed that he had left Glasgow without their permission and the crux of it was that he was forced in to a position where they had to mutually agree to part company or he would be sacked. Just what we needed with a new baby and a new lease!

Anyway, I managed to get a full time University post again, and i've been back at work for 2 weeks while my son is in nursery full time. And my husband is looking for work, but meanwhile we are living on my wages and the settlement he received from his employers. It has been very hard to leave my son so soon, he is only 6 months old, but unfortunately we have no choice. But he is thriving at nursery. Already he is much more vocal, and his smiles when we drop him off in the morning and pick him at night are huge.

Despite all of the difficulties, I know we have done the right thing in moving. No more spinal injuries from carting baby paraphernalia up and down stairs. We live in a nice quiet safe area, where kids play outside. We have a garden where Euan can play when he is a little older. He sees the family all the time and is used to having crowds of adoring relatives around him. And Paul no longer has to travel here there and everywhere for a company that couldn't give two hoots about his health. That has to be worth something.

Our cats have been on an extended holiday at their Auntie's house while we have moved, and they finally come home tonight. We have missed them like mad and it will be great to have my family complete again.