I’m not the best at change – I can talk a good game but in reality I quite like things to stay as they are so I know where I am.
Trouble is that at the moment so many things are changing that I feel as if I’m trying to navigate through a continuously shifting landscape and it is hugely unsettling.
As of this week Mr Muddling is having a break from working – I’ve never been someone who has fantasised about being a kept woman but the reality of being the only one getting up and out in the mornings is a little daunting. Not least because I want to be at home playing with the rest of them. I suspect that I am going to feel quite sad over the coming months as Mr Muddling and the girls get to have fun whilst I’m working away in the office.
It’s been exaggerated by work being busy and I have been getting up earlier and earlier and staying later and later. Bottom line is that I miss them all and feel a bit left out.
It also means an adjustments on the home front – will I be coming home to cooked dinners (unlikely), the washing done (possible) and the such like. We’ve got ourselves into a good routine that hasn’t really involved Mr Muddling over the last few weeks and now we’ve gone to the other extreme of having him around all the time. Feast and famine as it were.
I’m sure we’ll get it all sorted out, there’s just a part of me that wishes that we didn’t have to.
In other wonderful news I have a new nephew! Can’t wait until Friday when I get to go and have my first cuddle with him (must get around to finishing his present – it’s 90% there but should probably attach arms and legs before handing it over!)
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I hope you manage to adjust OK to the new family routine, hopefully your husband will get used to keeping a good house and will cook you lovely meals with the kids to make up for you being out at work!
Sadly dinner wasn’t on the table but the IT Help Husband has fixed the DVD player today – win some, lose some!
It is funny isn’t it, how familiar routines are comforting and change can be so unsettling? At the same time, i know from experience that unexpected bonuses can come along when things are shaken up a bit – really hope that is the case for you.
I’m hoping that it brings benefits – great thing about my 4 days is we might start getting 3 day weekends as a family!
I am sure you will all adjust and I agree that sometimes a change is as good as a rest. Much love
Thank you – amusingly dinner wasn’t on the table when I came in!
You’re right change can be hard (personally I hate it) but I’m sure you’ll look back in a few months time and all will be fine – failing that, eat chocolate :D
Yup – eat chocolate, drink wine – nuff said
Similar to you I’m not a lover of change but like your blog namesake, you’ll muddle through as you have done before and you’ll find re-find your balance, hopefully an even better one for you all.
Thank you
I don’t like change either; I think routine is very comforting when you have a family, and it’s all about muddling through. So I can sympathise. But my husband would always tell me that change brings opportunity, and he’s usually right – it often turns out for the best!
You husband is quite right – but isn’t change a mare to deal with at first