Empty Nesting Continued
More Empty Nesting Chat Our eldest daughter, Annie Grace is back with us in Bangkok again. Yippee! When she isn’t with us we always feel the sad pull that comes with being empty nesters. The four of us together makes for a happy household and we can put those ’empty nester’ feelings away – well […]
Small Victories of a Frazzled Fifty-Something
Driving in Thailand Driving in Thailand and exams – a strange link!My daughter has her first IB English exam today so understandably I feel a bit frazzled. My parting advice wasn’t the best. I told her if she didn’t understand the commentary then to write on the prose, or vice versa. She asked what should […]
Anxiously Excited
Chat from an Empty Nester My lovely Annie arrives home in Bangkok today from the UK, having pretty much finished her year’s study. It’s a reprieve from my being an empty nester! Her third term consists of zero lessons, only three exams in late May (she opted for lots of coursework modules this year) and […]
Regrets, I’ve had a few
I was chatting with my mum the other day and we got talking about things that she might have done differently and what advice she might have given to her younger self. She said she and my dad could have maybe spent a little longer choosing their first home, but she couldn’t really think of […]