Sitting here in my sunny bedroom I am looking outside to the daffodils on the porch and the buds on the trees and feel weird about how summer turned into spring...like life in reverse.
We have been in Melbourne over a week now and things are starting to feel less strange. The kids still seem to get up early but then I remember with the opposite of fondness that they were early risers at home too so it's not shocking that has continued.
On Monday we went into the city and got bank cards and cell phone plans and other mundane "life" things. We happened upon a band called Woodlock busking when we were walking down Bourke Street - check them out on YouTube, they were pretty good and all four of us liked their stuff. The kids were spent by the time we got to Target but we did pick up a couple things there (and I am happy to be in a city with Target even though I went halfway around the world to do it).
We have been doing a lot of "life set-up" stuff so in that way it does feel a bit like spring. We're looking at enrolling the kids in swimming lessons at the Rec Centre down the street. We've almost finalized Emily's music lessons for October and looking at kindergarten for Cian in January. Right now they seem to be doing a lot of "adjusting" to life in Melbourne which has translated to some pretty bad behaviour so hopefully that all settles out before these classes start. It is nice to spend more time with them though and I can still feel the vestiges of this past year in how clingy they are to mom. I haven't been around for them so in some ways they are also adjusting to having their mom back. I have no regrets about that I just think it's the other cost of board exams on top of what the Royal College took from our bank account. In that way it's nice to have this new Spring together. A fresh start full of new experiences and possibilities.
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