After the buzz from completing the A-Z challenge this year I have definitely struggled with my blogging. I know that I'm tired - 3 days of Grandsitting a week is exhausting. Lovely, but exhausting. I will be glad when the summer holidays start and I'll be back to 2 days a week. But it's not just that. I seem to have lost a bit of enthusiasm. That coupled with the fatigue and it's been a struggle just to keep up with reading and commenting on your blogs let alone finding inspiration to come up with my own posts.
Of course having a big O birthday coming up doesn't help. I think I'm a bit in denial over that. It's just a number after all. I keep getting asked what I'll be doing. Will there be a party? etc etc.
Well no there will not be a party. We are going away the weekend after with all the kids and Grandkids so I'm looking forward to that but I'm hoping it will be quite low key. I just love spending time with them all, especially watching the interaction between the little ones.
I'm even struggling to come up with suggestions for a family present. Nick's family always collect for big O birthdays and I was asked what I'd like and I'm finding it hard. I have thought of a few things but I really need to sit down and sort out some ideas for the organiser.
I feel a bit in limbo at the moment. There are things I want to be getting on with in the house but our daughter is trying to move and there is a small possibility that if the timing doesn't work well they could have to stay with us for a little while. We are more than happy to help out if we need to but the next job we need to get done in our house will mean a lot of disruption in the kitchen so I'm waiting on that for now.
And now I feel like a moaning minny but I guess I just wanted to explain my absence and lack of visits and comments. Hopefully normal service will be resumed soon and I did manage to count my blessings for a Friday's Fave Five post this week. I definitely have a lot of blessings to be thankful for, especially this lot:
I'm tired.
Keeping up with how the election was going is tiring. Heaven knows how the candidates and all those working around this major event cope. Hopefully my daughter is now catching up on some sleep after working on her local count.
I didn't stay up awake all night but my bedroom TV did! Hubby was away last night so I didn't expect to sleep well, I never do when he's away, especially since all the kids have left home. I didn't go to sleep until really late and I did wake a couple of times and was able to review how things were going.
I'd like to think I'm still dreaming but unfortunately not. Despite what the opinion polls were telling us the conservatives look to have managed to secure a majority to continue governing on their own. (It's not totally decided yet but that's the prediction - as I'm writing they need 6 more seats with 15 still to declare. For anyone who's not familiar with our system there are 650 MPs who sit in parliament so a party needs 326 for a majority.)
There have been major shifts in some areas, notably Scotland. The LibDems who were the minority party of the former coalition have done very badly. Labour just did not do well and several senior MPs have lost their seats. My own constituency remained Labour as expected. (If that had changed I really would have thought I'd woken up in an alternative world!)
Many people will be considering their futures this morning - welcome to my world.
