Abi & Izzy - the next 5 years

Last night's sunset - this I do slow down for I'd like to just reflect now on what used to be a busy but organised life, one where we generally had enough time to exercise, see people and even have a bit of down time every so often. Not now though. Between the constant house stuff that we are doing (we could slow down but feels like we need to get on top of the essentials as soon as possible otherwise we'll just accept them), the kids stuff (more on this later) and then of course work, there is quite literally not a moment to spare just now. This weekend is a perfect example. On the one hand I feel like I've wasted it because I've neither ridden, run or even made it to my normal yoga class. On the other hand it's been jam packed with all kinds of variety - here's just a selection: Saturday - lovely dog walk then off to Izzy's school commemoration morning, then home for lunch and to take Abi to local horse shop and then on to Mum and Dads to drop Abi and ...

Full English brunch for these two! Life is VERY busy and I don't feel like we have stopped for weeks (or is that months?) It seems like the 'to-do' list is endless and while I know we don't have to do it all at once, I have taken on the unenviable task of trying to get the Muppet to finish all the work he promised / we have paid for and that has been like pushing a mountain of water up a very steep hill. We've got to the point where I think we have got all of what we are likely to get and the rest we'd rather finish ourselves anyway. The electric gates are clearly a work of his imagination based on the gates / the electric cables he spec'd and the cheapo motor mechanism - there is no way they'll work so we have decided to not bother and source proper gates that do the job and look better as well. Knowing that we are almost at a point where we sever the ties feels very liberating. Looking back this last 6 months has been incredibly stressful and just didn...