Change Ready or Not

freeimage.com You know I really don't have a funny story to tell or jokes to relay the fact that I am hacked off that when it suits people my children, aged 12 and 14,  are considered adults. Then in the next breath, when it suits them again, they're no longer adults but children. I am talking specifically about airlines and some holiday companies. Every website that I search on wants to know how old my children will be on their return journey home. What difference does that make? When  I book the holiday is the key isn't it?  How old they are when I book or, at best,  when we begin our travel should be the focus but it's  not. Anyway for them to make money! I guess I should look on the bright side. That being a single parent my 14 year old will entitle me to a 2 adults and 1 child  deal, when they deem my 12 year old is still a child, which should result in some kind of discount. Really? That is short lived espeically  when you get to the hote...

So it's the beginning of 2016 and my 2015's Christmas, birthday and New Year was absolutely wonderful. The difference was really being  surrounded by warmth & love. This year  I decided to  take  care of my needs too.  Mothers  usually sacrifice the opportunity to spend time with the family by hiding in the kitchen preparing food for others to enjoy. We tend to  snatch moments with family members in between stuffing the turkey and preparing the other pieces of a fragmented menu. I bought food this year. Actually some might call it cater out or cater in whatever the saying I got someone else to cook food and all I did was collect it. This year I was not going to spend valuable time in that kitchen sweating like a beast in a tight space.  I was brought up in a home where this was the norm but it felt like too much of a grind this year. I'm fed up doing the thing for the sake of the thing. Also I don't know about you but when you're  cooking...