There are about to be a lot of changes around here. I hesitate to say that things are returning to normal, because our general concept of normality has permanently changed. But things are at least about to appear more normal, because this time next week, after 16 months at home, Jim will finally be starting a new job.
To celebrate Jim and I spent a day in London last week.
Throughout everything, the thing that keeps Jim and I together is the fact that when we are able to leave all the day to day crap behind, we instantly revert back to who we were, before kids and stress and miscarriages and redundancy and cancer, and we relax and have...
The run up to Jim going back to work is a busy one. In the next 7 days we have the 3 day Saltaire Makers Fair, Lily starting nursery, our 10th wedding anniversary, seeing my big brother (who we rarely get to see), half term and work.
Which is why it was a good thing that we got to relax and spend the day in London, eating lunch, drinking wine, fabric shopping (Jim really is the best husband) and sitting on the Embankment people watching.
Bella asked what we spent the day doing and we told her we spent it holding hands. Which is both true and a great way to make your 6 year old daughter cringe in embarrasment. Although not as much as when we confirmed that yes, we had kissed too. She may never recover from that admission.
The last year has been hard and Jim and I have struggled at times to cope with it all and with eachother. And I don't doubt that the transition back to Jim working full time and me juggling the girls, school runs, nursery runs and work, will again present more challenges.
But if nothing else, we've learnt two major things in the last year. That we can survive the tough times and given the chance, we can still always find our way back to eachother.
