New Caravan!

Yesterday we bought a caravan!  I've been arguing back and forth with my lovely Hubby for years about this and finally relented.  He used to spend lots of weekends and time away in his parents caravan or on his parents boat when he was a child and really enjoyed it, so wanted to do something similar for our family...  But I've never been that keen on going without the luxuries in life and my idea of a holiday tends to involve 5 star accommodation and pampering!  LOL  I know.  I'm a snob!  I can't help it!

Anyway, he bought this thing.  It's OK.  A bit dated, but it has two bunk beds for the kids, a double bed for us, a toilet, shower, kitchen and two seating areas (which convert to the beds obviously)...  We picked it up yesterday and it's currently sat on our driveway awaiting our first trial run/night away in it.  The kids are all super excited and have been in and out of it ever since we got it so that's nice.  We've also got a huge awning (well actually we've got three of varying sizes now) with an annex to attach to it which doubles the space as well.

In other news not a lot has been happening.  I've been looking around for part time jobs.  It suddenly occurred to me that maybe my years of feeling depressed and like life was going nowhere for me, was because all I've done for the past ten years is make babies and give birth.  I love my children but at this point in time I definitely don't want any more and I've been feeling a bit lost recently about the whole thing.  What do I do?  Where do I fit in?  And more recently a lot of Who am I when I'm not pregnant mummy and wife?

I guess I don't know the answer to any of those questions and I've become a bit disillusioned with the housewife thing.  I like making my house a nice place to be, but I started this journal because we were moving and I'd promised to make it possible for my Hubby to earn enough money to service the new house...  And then that never happened and we're still stuck here, going nowhere fast.  Maybe even going backwards - it certainly seems that way recently.  Summer is always a bad time of year business-wise for Hubby...  Nobody cares if their house is leaking heat during the summer after all!  LOL

So yes, I'm looking for just part time work.  I don't want to abandon my family altogether but I do want to be around other people for awhile occasionally...  And who knows?!  I tried doing something similar years ago but didn't enjoy it and came home to be a housewife again, so maybe that'll happen again - but if I don't try it, I'll always wonder if things would have been better different.

For those of you who've messaged me and asked I AM going to put my slow cooker recipes up soon, I promise! I just want to perfect a couple of the pasta ones first!