Twenty years, on and off, recently more off than on, but still here, still writing.
We’ve been through a lot in the last couple of decades. Added 3 children to the family (Big is older than the blog!), moved house a couple or three times, changed jobs, lost jobs, worked from home, not worked, home educated, school educated, college educated….
Read so many books. Written quite a lot of words. Shed tears (particularly when I lost a sister, and then there were the miscarriages) but also shared smiles. So many smiles. 
There’s a lot of changes going on just now, and I’m not entirely sure how to write about them. Me and the three younger kids have moved – we’re even nearer the sea than before, so there may be sunrise pics from time to time. Big is independent and off in London, finishing up her degree. It means that the family has changed, and some parts of that are still kind of raw and not fully processed, so I won’t be writing about that just yet.
We’re still home educating. Variously neurodivergent – I got put forward for ADHD assessment this morning. Because autism on its own just isn’t enough 😉
I’ve realised that I’m non binary (yes I know, sometimes it takes me a while to figure out the obvious, but there you go). I’m comfortable in that realisation, though increasingly annoyed by forms that insist you have to put in a title. I’m quite happy without one thanks.
Did I mention the EDS diagnosis when it happened? I’m not sure I did. Sorry. But yes, EDS, contributing to the pain in my hands. (The pain isn’t only in my hands by any stretch of the imagination. But the hands are the thing that make life particularly challenging, when you can’t open a bottle, or hold a fork without it hurting. And as for handwriting, that was pretty unintelligible before. It’s beyond dire now. But I have found some fabulous mechanical pencils I can write with. So that’s good.)
I’m feeling my way forward into a new part of life, and I’m not quite sure how it’s all going to pan out, but I’ll figure it out. We’ll figure it out. And go on making it up 😉
Who is still out there reading? Anyone?
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