What is my title

 We walk around life wanting to be tagged. Husband, wife, fiancé, mother, father, teacher, leader, CEO... This can cause a huge crisis when the name tag gets lost. Either transitioning from one job to the next or quitting the one to take up another or when taking on to many name tags. 

I've had a few tags. I really loved my title "teacher in China" the salary that came with the title wasn't bad either. Then we came back to South Africa and suddenly I didn't have any title. I was in a Ice age, didn't feel like doing much and with my baby on the way I was waiting for the "mother" tag. When the tag came I was not impressed. Sleepless nights, baby wanting my attention 24/7. I just couldn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. But soon things changed and we put him in kindergarten so I could have a job title again. Still unmotivated to work, we opened a shop with friends and I got to get a "shop assistant" title but it was more like a co-shop owner title. Which was good for my ego but not our pockets. We didn't make much here for all the hours we put in and it can get pretty boring in here (I'm writing in the shop on a Saturday)

With Corne quitting his extra title as "ice-cream delivery guy", I am free from my shop keeping tag and can now be the "stay at home mom" tag again. Here are some of the activities I have done so far.

First day of "home school"

We woke up to a lovely day. The sun was out the wind was not, perfect day for a walk on the beach. We drove out to le Grand to say hi to friends, then headed down to the Gwaing beach at low tide. The views there are just spectacular. I took a moment to just take in the beauty and remembered again why we wanted to live down here. Especially coming from China the "concrete jungle" to this nature spot, we just fell in love with it. 

After building some sand castles and eating a muffin, it was time to head back so this little one could have his afternoon nap. 

As we stay in a complex of 13 little units all built in a row next to each other, sharing a communal garden, there are no visual boundaries so the kids just mix. Which is something that is nice at times but not so nice when you don't feel like having so many kids in and around you all weekend. This Friday was fun, the kids were riding their scooters up and down. Eckan is still practicing with his. Then all the kids ended up at the neighbor's house, she has 3 kids so 3 more doesn't feel like a big difference to her and she has lost of stuff the kids can play with. Just like that the day was finished.