A few weeks back Jamie suggested that if there were something, outside of the house and baby raising, that I would like to do he would gladly look after Norah so that I could go and do that. I instantly said I had nothing else I wanted to do and then felt completely crap. After years of wanting nothing more that marriage and babies, now that I had it there really was nothing else I wanted to pursue. What I had always feared had happened – I had turned into my mother. That meant that I would throw my life into raising my kids and when they were gone I would have nothing left in my life; no friends, hobbies, interests. I can tell you ome major panic ensued.

A few days later I realised there are plenty of things I like to do; I enjoy a swim, sitting down to a good cup of coffe with a book or paper. They’re not highbrow pursuits I grant you, but they are things that are not possible, or not as enjoyable, when you have a baby in tow, who needs feeding, cleaning, attention, etc. So I asked my man if I could have saturday mornings to have a swim or whatever took my fancy. 

And so this morning I arrived at the gym at 9, had a lovely swim, a long soak in the shower and then headed into town for breakfast; scrambled eggs and a LARGE cappucino. Cafe Blue at the Blue Haven in Kinsale do a lovely breakfast and I took my time reading the paper too. 

It may sound silly but I defintely feel invigorated after that (so invigorated in fact that I have now planned to make Sunday lunch for 6 adults and 3 children next week). A break from the norm and time for myself make it very easy to come home to a cranky baby and a tired husband. And I am very grateful for this respite, as I know there are plenty of husbands/boyfriends/partners who don’t offer this to their other halves. So thank you Jamie, I love you

Last night I moved my blog to WordPress. I am happy with it – although I think this theme is going to get changed – but it is the final stage in an ongoing saga.

You see I wanted to put together a page about my crochet. I make alot of thing; blankets, clothes, toys, etc and give almost all of them away. So, a website would serve as a memory of the things I have made. This has been in the back of my mind for a while, but recently, since I seem to have more time being mother to the best baby in the world, I thought I would actually do something about it.

I wanted the site to be connected to my blog as well as have the same look and feel. This is not easy to do with Blogger. So Jamie suggested that I try using a content management system for the crochet site and leave my blog where and as it was. I tried Joomla – REALLY bad idea. They say it’s simple to use; liars! I will admit that despite having a computer science degree, I am about as computer savvy as my mother (there are good reasons for this among which laziness plays a large part). Joomla is a nightmare, but I thought it was just me being dim. I called on Jamie and even he couldn’t figure out how to do the simplest thing. We gave up on Joomla. And unless you are some sort of Prince of Geeks you will stay away from it too.

I also tried CMS Made Simple. These guys have recently won some award for providing a user-friendly CMS. And it is much easier to use, very friendly.  The only reason I gave up on it is that after a quick conversation with MGB, I realised he was right, I should just move my blog to WordPress and then I can have as many pages as I like, all happily connected to and looking like my blog.

So that’s what I did last night and here is my first WordPress post. I was also proud to find out something that Jamie did not know about WordPress. Within your theme you can make custom page templates. This I found very useful and the fact that I taught Jamie something knew made me feel good. It also means I am now a bit of a geek!!

Anyway after all that effort it may be sometime before you see a crochet page here, since making the page prevents Jamie from using that laptop and prevents me from getting actual crochet done. But I will get there…. eventually.