Barrybran - A Year On

[Barrybran]

Another couple of weeks since the last update. Things must be settling down a bit. I'm on the way home from a visit with my wife, or more accurately, my kids visit with her. My wife wasn't able to make it home this weekend so I met her at a town half way. She asked if there was anything I could do while she spent time with the kids so I took the hint, left them with her and went and did my own thing.

I enjoyed wandering around by myself. I didn't enjoy the drop off so much. My son and eldest daughter broke down again and my son was inconsolable for about fifteen minutes. I hate seeing them like that. It's about six weeks now until school breaks up so hopefully I can find a place, get up there and the kids will be happier. Hopefully my wife jumps off the hate train too but I'm not expecting that :-)

On a positive note, my holiday is in three days and I'm getting excited now. I need to see my family as well as have some proper down time and fun with the kids. There's a lot of potential awkwardness to negotiate with my wife's side of the family but I think I'll be alright. I'm just looking forward to getting over there and getting away from life for a bit. When I come back it'll be a week and a half until D4's birthday and her party will be the weekend after that. Then it's on to the move.

In other news, I got my latest round of uni results back and they were excellent. This trimester was the first whole trimester without my wife around as well as having Christmas, school holidays and back to school. I'm very happy to have been able to negotiate those events and come out with the results I have. I'm one mark shy of averaging a high distinction (perfect GPA in GPA land) so I have a new goal to improve that average.

For now though, roll on Wednesday.