It's been quite a while since I blogged on here and mostly that's because I've been incredibly busy with my growing family. My children are now aged 12, 9, 7 and almost 1!
Actually, I cannot quite believe that my baby will be 1 year old next week and how quickly she is growing. She's still breastfed and I'm pleased to say has got through her first twelve months without so much as a sip of formula. Hooray! She still feeds frequently but most of her feeding is during the night which is not so good. I realised this during the week when she slept for a solid two hours during the previous night without waking and couldn't believe how good I felt the next day! Normally she only goes 90 minutes between night feeds but all my others were the same despite everything I tried. On the positive side, she doesn't really ever cry at night and since birth we've only had one night where she woke the family - and that was during this past week when she kept biting me so I put her in her cot next to my bed whereupon she went bonkers...
Anyway, you can maybe understand why my blogging life has been somewhat sparse of late with all the little people in my life taking up all my days and nights.
At the moment, during most waking hours, I'm contemplating what the future holds for me. Having put my teaching career on hold since my second baby was born, it now looks like unlikely I'll be returning any time soon and I'm not sure how I feel about that. On the one hand, it's absolutely wonderful being able to stay at home to bring up my children and to do all the school runs and to be there when they're off for holidays or due to illness. On the other hand, I sometimes fret that my life is sort of on hold and by the time my youngest is older no-one will want to employ me. In fact, I often consider retraining in other areas of interest but just feel very confused about the next steps to take. Do I want to teach or do I want to have to spend even more time out training for something else? I have so many interests that it's hard to choose just one that I'd like to follow and the easy option would be to do what I know but then again teaching is an extremely challenging, albeit very rewarding, career and I'm not sure I'm even cut out for it anymore.
I'm also constantly trying to figure out ways to earn more money from my website and blog. Although I'm priviliged that my husband works full-time in a good job thus allowing me to stay at home, I like to contribute to the finances as much as I can. I'm happy that my website brings in some additional income but I feel so irritated by my lack of entrepreneurial skill. I have personally composed and recorded several relaxation style cds and am in the process of making more but getting the word out, the sales and then some feedback is proving to be very challenging. I also do the odd product review but would love to be able to review more products for which there would be sales potential afterwards in order to get some financial reward for the time spent reviewing. But it's never that easy and although I don't expect it to be, I would just love to be more astute when it comes to the whole selling and making a profit side of things!
Anyway, that's enough rambling on from me for now. I have four children and one hubby waiting for me to get back to them and probably wondering where on earth I've been for the last half an hour! So until next time, I bid you goodbye :)
