Helping expat wives transition into a new life, gracefully, successfully, with as few tears as possible. One busy day at a time.
Depending on who you talk to (husband definitely not included!) most of the time I am a calm, rational, normally functioning member of society. That is until I book a holiday that involves airline travel and I unravel at the seams! This summer’s trip back to the UK was no exception. There are several stages …
Right, so there’s one left in the Expat Wives Busy Lives Team that we want you to know more about. Our sparkly, bubbly, skippy (skippy?? read on) Brit, Jill. The one thing you can’t fail to notice about Jilly, is her effervescent, sparkly personality. She is always laughing, (when she’s not saying ‘Shut the front …
Welcome back to Expat Wives Busy Lives Friday blog. It’s been a busy couple of weeks! ‘Schools out’ and the expats are leaving the dusty city to escape the peak of the Summer heat. Our Sassy, classy Kat has hit New Zealand with a bang. She’s had to dig out the Winter woollies for cooler …
For the last few months we have been sharing our musings but, “Who are the girls behind the blogs?!” we hear you shout (or maybe not, but for the purpose of our next blog we are going to pretend you are interested and do give a damn!). What better way to introduce ourselves and lift …
Meet Taco. Taco is a ‘Desert Dog’ aka mongrel, who was dumped in a box at a dog shelter, rescued by volunteers, and we adopted. Today is Taco’s ‘gotcha day’. Let me explain: I only discovered this terminology and all the surrounding, um, madness that goes along with it, after we had adopted Taco. It …
I’m so lucky to have spent over 2 decades in my dream job. Spreading my Hostie sparkle across the Atlantic and beyond, for 21 years to be exact! I have travelled our incredible world in style, embracing everything it has to offer. From visiting ancient Mayan ruins in Mexico, Kung Fu kicks on the Great …
Meet Sox. So named because she looks like she is wearing four little brown socks. She’s the one on the left in the suitcase and is our gorgeous fur baby. Sox joined our family in August 2016 and has just turned three years old (or 28 in dog years). From the moment we picked her …
“But that’s not reality, is it?” Being an expat you get many responses after you answer the question, “What is it like to live there?” And the one above, is pretty common, in it’s many different forms: “Oh, but you’ll come back home and it will be back to normal…” “It sounds like a dream” …
So, it goes a little something like this… We were living a busy, happy, life in the fresh, green Wiltshire countryside. Happy children, the perfect part-time job, a long-serving Army wife of a long-serving soldier of 25 years. ‘Proud’ is an understatement. We’d had our fair share of ups and downs (it’s only normal after …
Recently I had the depressing realisation that I do nothing everyday yet still can’t find the time to do anything… And after wallowing in my self-pity for a short time I had an Epiphany: Busy people get things done. I need to become a busy person. Enter stage left: My 30-Day Challenge! I have to …
