RTW - week 1 (the struggle)

Our first week in Ireland has come with it’s ups and downs. We are dealing with our first major time change (5 hours ahead), driving manual on the wrong side of the road (don’t even get me started on those narrow roads!) and starting homeschooling the kids.

We have slowly been making the transition to living abroad, and I will be honest, it’s been a lot harder than I expected.

Homeschooling has come with several sets of tears (mostly by mum) and I have been hearing the words “I am bored” more often than I would like.

But I knew it would be a transition, and I am trying to be patient with myself and the family through this next step.

It is hard to make the transition from a busy fast paced life (school, work, extra curricular etc) to one that requires nothing but to spend time together.

What a strange concept! For the next several months, my only job is to be a parent.

Surprisingly, that has been harder than I thought. My other “distractions” that took so much of my time also allowed me breaks from being a parent.

Being a parent is exhausting. Seriously, exhausting.

But change is good, it allows us time to grow and develop. At the end of the day, our entire purpose for this trip was to force us into a state of change.