Here We Go Again!

I know I have tried this before, but I really really want to get this blog started again! For the first few years in Ireland I was pretty good at keeping up, and when we moved to Krakow I got the blog printed and bound into two big books and I'm so glad I have it, and that the kids will have it to look back on since they were probably too young to remember it all (we left Ireland Ava was almost 7 but Jack was only 4).  So, now that it has been THREE YEARS since we have been living in Krakow (yikes!), I figure it's time to get started again! I have good intentions and I have lots of things I mean to write about, but sitting down and finding the time has become really difficult. I am surprised, because I have so much more free time than I did in Ireland, so I don't know where the time goes. The kids leave for school in the taxi shuttle van at 8 am, and don't get home until after 4. I usually spend my days out shopping (which takes forever here), at Polish lessons, at the kids' school, at IWAK (the international club) events, at the gym, or oh yeah doing fun household chores like cooking, doing laundry, the dishes, etc etc. So I am going to promise myself to try harder to write this year because I really want to be able to have something to look back on - maybe that means spending a little less time on Facebook, which I guess became a faster and easier way for me to share our family happenings, instead of sitting down to write about everything, then it taking forever to upload pictures to this blog. I saw that there was a Blogger app for my iPhone, so hopefully that will help to make things easier. But I get sucked into all the different crap articles that pop up on my Facebook feed and can't help reading them all!! So, bear with me as I try this again - even if it's only my parents and maybe Aunt Karen who will be reading, I will keep plugging along! : )