At the pools. Well the kids did – they had their very first swimming carnival today. Very strange, I thought – I don’t ever remember having swim carnivals when I was primary school age. Especially the way that they do lessons where the kids are all at different levels. My kids are only 7 and 6, so not really there yet with swimming but they did a few ‘games’ in the shallow toddler pool and that was about it. It was pretty much all over by noon for my 6 year old and my 7 year old got to do a game in the afternoon. We spent all day there, even though my kids were pretty much done at lunch time because that “had” to stay for the awards presentation.
I did notice my arm was a bit red, but we had a spot in the shade and moved when the shade moved. Not so bad. It wasn’t until after I’d been home a while that I started feeling sleeping and just plain blah. Hubby suggested a shower and when I took my top off I noticed my other arm was also kinda red and my chest was like a tomato above some lily white boobies! No wonder I was feeling so crappy, I think I have a touch of heatstroke.
Other than that, I’ve pretty much been chained to my computer fixing our paperwork(and it’s all numbers and stuff. Argh! Maths is so not my strong point). I think I’m almost done with it but I’ve been dreaming numbers and calculators for a few nights now. I could never be an accountant, my mind is not cut out for numbers.
I’ve also been thinking about what I’ll do when we eventually move on from here, while it’s all fine and dandy for the time being(and I’ll talk about the issues that I have with this place another time) we will move on from this place unless the unthinkable happens and the owner decides to sell the property within the next 2 years. Whilst we’re here though, it’s ok for me to mostly be a parent and do the kitchen/accounting/other little jobs, hubby does more of the front of house thing. If we leave here – well, we’re not going to be able to afford for one of us to stay at home. I want to be able to do a little something now so that it’s easier for me to do something that I really want to do instead of taking any job just to get by.
So, I’m going to enrol to become a breastfeeding counsellor/community educator with the ABA which in a few years means I can train to be a lactation consultant. I’ve been thinking about it a lot and there are no support groups for breastfeeding out here, which is sad. My most successful breastfeeding relationships with my babies were so great because of the breastfeeding network I had. Plus it’s something that I would be able to do where ever we go after here. I’d also like to do some doula training and antenatal teacher training too someday in the future. There is no market out here for doula’s because the nearest hospital that does births is 2-3 hours away and no-one around here has home births because the hospital is too far to transfer to in case of emergency.
It’s nice to have a direction and I’m really excited about it. Hopefully I can get the ball rolling soon(but I heard that the application for ABA is about a million pages long).
