Notes from suburbia

Here's a question for you:  If indeed you believe there is such a thing as the mid life crisis, would a person know if they were having one"? What are the signs that someone such as my good self - soon to be staring the grand old age of 42 in the face, and contemplating the future - be looking out for?  On typing 'mid life crisis' in to Google, I am presented with these top 5 results: Midlife Crisis Wikipedia Male Midlife Crisis - Live Well - NHS Choices Top 40 Signs of a Midlife Crisis Revealed: Telepgraph, article based on an unreferenced study Midlife Crisis - Depression or normal transition? WebMD What is a midlife crisis? - Divorce Support - About.com The combination of these results would suggest  a number of interesting things.  Firstly, I am too young to be experiencing midlife crisis.  Afterall, according to Wikipedia, 46 is the average age of onset and the good new for...

The Nine Year Old:  "I can do a burp anytime I want. It's easy"

It's been a while. Around six months since I last blogged.  I've missed it.  So I'm gonna start writing again. Simple as. Where did the last six months go?  They were mainly spent (in no particular order): making the conscious decision and effort to be less busy going on holiday seeing friends spending time with family celebrating our second wedding anniversary seeing my Dad being poorly and getting better selling a house trying to regain control of our overgrown allotment thinking about what I really want from life getting my priorities in order wondering if I'm heading for a mid-life crisis (!) continuing with my frustrating battle with chronic sinusitis and daily pain from what is currently being referred to as 'atypical facial pain' seeing The Husband complete the second year of his Radiography Degree seeing The One Year old become The Two Year Old and (finally!) hearing him become more vocal seeing The Nine Year Old become: increasing...