I have been silent here for a few months while focusing on getting back to work after a year's maternity leave and figuring out how life goes on with a little person around.
Well I've done something bold in an attempt to reconnect with who I am (a challenge having spent a year focused almost entirely on little dependent baby) and to make sure I've got life's priorities sorted. What have I done? Gone on a retreat? Cut and died my hair? Taken up boxing? Nope....I've handed in my notice at work, with no other job lined up, and booked a flight to Mexico with the return date some several months after. January 2014 this blog will be relocated to Mexico as my husband, daughter and I embark on an adventure.
This lovely cartoon summarises my feelings about work at the moment. How do you pay the bills while maintaining your integrity? How do you earn enough to live while following your dreams? And what's enough to live off anyway? I think these are some of the most important questions. For some it will be doing a job that pays the bills and then exploring your dreams outside that. For a very lucky few they can combine both. I'm going to feature some inspiring examples over the coming weeks.
Until then I am writing from a very domestic London scene - looking out over the garden while the neighbor mows his lawn and the ice-cream van chimes in the distance. I never thought I would be someone to get so much pleasure out of watching a garden blossom. Admittedly this has mostly taken place from the hammock while Gustavo sweats it out.
