This morning Ady and I spent some time coordinating ‘to do’ lists and drawing up more questions and answers for researching. We stopped for Popmaster obviously ;).
I had a whole host of questions pertaining to just living on Rum as a resident – how does shopping work? Vehicles? What will our postcode be? That sort of thing. I emailed Vikki a whole list and she responded with a document entitled ‘new residents guide to Rum’ and a lengthy email too. That was cause for great excitement 🙂 There are many moments of complete ‘wtf are we doing?’ about this whole thing coupled with overwhelming panic and middle of the nights fretting (mostly Ady, but I am having the odd wobble myself) but it is all overshadowed by a huge sense of excitement. I keep reminding myself how I would be feeling if it was anyone else but us about to head off on this next amazing adventure – everything we’ve been hankering after, all ours 🙂
This week has gone really fast, it’s been lovely to have this time with FabBabs and co and has all felt really natural and cooperative with food happening, such interesting chats and all sorts of just getting on with stuff. It reminds me once again that in the right circumstances communal living just works so very well 🙂
Scarlett has had lengthy chats with both Ady and I with regard to reading and writing and our current stance is she is doing a little writing and at least not being so completely obstructive towards reading – I am not getting involved at all (in a totally amicable way, she is bringing me what she has learnt to show me but I am doing none of the actual ‘teaching’) but she is getting lots of support and input from Ady and Davies which all seems to be working. I confess to having to sit on my hands and bite my tongue for fear of screaming ‘that’s not how you do it!!!’ but am very aware that is my issue and no one elses 😉 I often ponder on inherantly incompatible my educational philosophies are with my personality type ;). Despite the ‘strangeness’ of living with another family for a week – and we have been ‘living’ here not just staying – I can feel the subtle shift of things getting back to ‘normal’ for our family dynamic. The stress has ebbed away, we know where we’re going and what is happening next. Throwing ourselves full pelt into the unknown with a bit of a plan is something we have a fair bit of experience in these days – Home Ed, WWOOFing… once we know we are back in control again it all becomes far more reassuring. We are having conversations with some known quantities once more and can talk with a certain confidence about where we’ll be, what we’ll do and so on. We can make proper plans and actually start to think about some constants.
Ady cooked dinner tonight and then I cooked something else for Chris and I as we were not struck on the idea of the fish pie – it went down very well with everyone else though (except Rachael and she ate it all!).
Babs and I spent some time googling ourselves as a spin off of another of our ‘where will the topic go next’ conversations which was interesting.
Are you *still* here?
Comment by Barbara — 25 February 2012 @ 3:56 pm
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Comment by Nic — 25 February 2012 @ 4:00 pm