An Update on Our Sea Change

It has been 2 months to the day since we left our little unit in Sydney and headed north to Port Macquarie, in search of a new start and a new place to call home. It has been 20 years since I lived under the same roof as Mum and Dad, and despite my reservations before we moved in, it has been better than expected, so far. Although I am certainly not the same girl I was at 17, causing chaos and constantly keeping my parents on their toes. If anything, it is now my kids causing the chaos (of a different kind) and they are certainly keeping Mum and Dad busy.

Hubby Jas has landed a job already, which is just awesome. We thought it was going to take many months before one of us got some work. The job is in the IT industry, which Jas came from in Sydney. He has gone from working for a company of 900 employees to a job in Port Macquarie that includes just him and the boss. Undoubtedly, he has some adjusting to do here. And, I can't believe this job appointment included a new iPhone. I am now officially the only person in the whole universe who does not have an iPhone yet!

I am attempting to enrol Little Girl in preschool for 3 days a week. She is missing the interaction with her little playmates back in Sydney and I am missing time without kids. I can happily report that Little Girl is wearing undies (or as she calls them unny-pants) every day now and goes to the toilet on her own (insert ridiculous grin of a proud mother here). Our Baby Boy is now 10 months old and crawling super fast. He has 4 teeth and can say da-da, mu-ma and ba-ba. He also waves when I say bye-bye to him - precious times.

I cannot believe that I have moved 400 odd kilometres north of Sydney only to discover that the Sydney Funnel Web Spider is very, very common here in Port Macquarie. In the 37 years I lived in Sydney, I never saw a single Funnel Web and in the 2 months here, I have already seen at least 3 of them in the garden. If you can visualise this, I just did that thing where you stand up quickly and proceed to jump around, brushing off imaginary spiders from your body whilst saying ewwwwwww.

I am missing my Sydney friends and family, dreadfully at times, so we may have to plan a trip there soon. In the meantime though I'll be concentrating on getting to know the locals in Port.

Till next time,

Jode xx