Into the Suburban housewife....it was only a matter of time that it was going to happen. I have been fighting it for years actually....living out in the boonies on Ile Bizard was just a small deflect of a very large institution. I buried myself under a few rocks and trees....was hoping that the hippie way of life would honestly take me away....but after a few weeks of living in the US (really living, Jersey City was basically just limbo) on this wonderful kid filled and tree lined street I say "why fight it??" Maybe I should just give in to the happy homemaker way....throw away the black nail polish and grey sweaters and start baking apple pies (okay I do do this actually...but you know what I mean) and actually folding the clean laundry that I put away....have a routine....play nice nice with the neighbours (I have been to Friday night Happy Hour twice already) and try to let some of them step throught the threshold of our (sometime) happy home without having on the barky barks scare them off (I know they are only doing the job that I trained them to do when we were living in Canada).
I do like my "little" house....and it is MUCH smaller than our other small house....not enough walls to hang all my crap on....much to my despair.....to hang to family heirloom paintings? or to hang my weird whimsical stuff....fit right in....stand right out??? pro's and cons to all I am sure.....I am going with an eclectic mix of both....so far I have not been able to paint anything chartreuse and I am much upset with this...as it is my colour to let people know that I am slightly off balance...again...trying to fit in? or I haven't got my groove on as of yet??
We have pretty much unpacked most of our things....but not everything has found a place yet :( the flow is not the same and I am missing my house that I left...my sewing space is tiny, but I have one so I am not really complaining (only a little) but I have not felt the need to create anything other than curtains...while bold in colour, blah is style....thought really, the dogs are just going to tear through them in a few months anyways, other than shielding the neighbours from Gavyn's sporadic nakedness I do not even like curtains...
The schools have been great....the boys have yet to ask for a day off, 2 weeks in...that is an all time record. Gavyn is refusing to speak in Spanish class, which I knew would be a problem...he hated French, so the same was going to happen for Spanish I assumed....but everything else is coming along, we have talked to all of his resource teachers and he has been set on a new IEP (for those that do not know, Gavyn has PDD-NOS, on the autism spectrum) and while I do not expect to see miracles right away with the new school...I am happy with the way they so far seem to be on the same page as us...crossing fingers....
Hubby is so far still employed.....and heck that would make anyone excited in the economy. Not to mention that he is liking work...a bonus to all I say...woot....
But for me so far....I am happy to go along with the flow....keep the kitchen clean, vacuum a little, make sure we all have clean underwear (priorities you know)....and occasionally design a new creation....can't ask for much more right???!!!
Time for a new tatoo...
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Aww, I sure do love you! :)
Awww! It takes time to find your niche anytime you start over like you have in the last few months. And who cares if you stand out - you're awesome - they'll love you. Hoping things continue to get easier. If it makes you feel any better one day I was an outspoken, premed, politically involved student and the next day I was married with two kids, on the PTA and working with crazy people. Not what I expected or wanted out of life but now that I am hear, its a nice place :). Love ya!
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