Remember Me?

I'm Back.
Yes back to the land of the living and back to blogging....
It's been a while I know. Why is that I haven't blogged? I have asked myself that numerous times and it's not that I haven't had anything to blog about, there have been many times I have sat down and started composing something in my head, once at a cafe I even got pen to paper and started penning my thoughts .....but as life has it, sometimes you just need a brake from reality, and I think my escape from blogging gave me that time I needed.

Returning to India marks the start of our second year here. And with new starts come new resolutions. Like this year I am going to use my free time here more productively, as when we get home it will back to work and back to not having a lot of free time. So my plans for the year are,

• Take a online photography course,
• dust off the golf clubs have some golf lessons and try to take off from where I left off 13 years ago, before kids..
• get my photos of India all up to date and scrapped, now that's a big ask but I am going to try
• I am going to use that treadmill more and stop it from being our clothes horse.
• And the biggest challenge ......Having many long hours to think, particularly on our trip home, all that time on the plane to toss stuff around in my head about how when I get back to Chennai I am going to try to be more tolerant of alot of things here (mostly the rude males we encounter) but 10 mins into the flight from Bangkok to Chennai and my tolerance was at an all time low... Perhaps the 16 hour lay over in Bangkok, no sleep for 24 hours and 3 tired kids didn't help, but how many rude inconsiderate males can they fit on one plane do you think? MANY...

Going home to Aus took us back to a familiar life and we all enjoyed our 9 weeks there, but all good things must come to an end and here we are back in Chennai, filling in time till school starts on the 10th Aug. Oh, and I can't wait. 15 weeks holidays is way too much for any Mother to have to cope with, especially when 6 weeks of it is in a foreign country with not a great deal to do. The kids are as bored as can be and are arguing heaps. They need to get back to school just as much as I need them to.

It has been lovely to come back to Chennai and see Margaret and Victor and I think they were also glad to see us... "Madame, very boring here with no kids and no Madame" I have been told that many times and my response has been, "I hope you enjoyed the break because now it's back to 2-3 loads of washing a day and cleaning up after my lazy kids." Whom I might add have got very used to being treated like royalty and think Margaret will do everything for them, the problem is, she does, and she says to me,"OH Madame, just children's, I do for them". I try to get them to dry the dishes and take the rubbish downstairs and she thinks I am the worst Mother on earth. Boy have they got a rude awakening coming to them when we get home to reality one day. Mind you, so have I. Wink ;)