It has been a while between blog posts – 8 months to be exact. I could point my finger at the return to work and constant juggle between motherhood and office life however, truth be told, I’ve had writer’s block. You see, we have left our apartment in Sydney’s East and have now set up home in the sprawling suburbs of Sydney’s inner west.
What could I possibly write about? The purpose of my blog was to share the trials and tribulations of raising a child within the confines of apartment walls and we had done the unforeseeable and actually managed to acquire a house within 10km’s of the CBD. And so I began to ponder alternatives:
- Change the focus of entries to be about my return to work, work-life balance (haha!!) and living the corporate high-life (GFC anyone?);
- Do some soul-searching and host forums on hot topics such as daycare centres vs family daycare or fulltime work vs. part time work;
- Write about the lives of my mum friends still in the East and document their trials and tribulations about raising a bub in an apartment…
Amidst all of this consideration, I had been busily setting up home and adapting to our new suburban lifestyle, when one day, whilst I was cursing the remote control to the garage door, inspiration finally struck. You see, I’d made the assumption that I would settle into the suburbs with ease, given I’d spent my first twenty years amongst it. What I didn’t count on was the recency effect – truth be told, I had become so adept at living my apartment lifestyle, that any trace of my suburban upbringing had been trumped by the past ten years experience. Furthermore, living in the suburbs as a “grown-up” is a much different experience to what you see through the eyes of a child.
So, I have found my focus for blog entries herein – an apartment mum exploring the intricacies of suburban living. Let the journey begin…
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