He calls it 'living hell' but he is getting out of the house (thank GOD) for a few days and they are paying him! It is a small enough bakery but they are large producers - so he is spending a lot of time making pie dough for 1,500 apple pies a day, and 600 loaves of brown bread per day. A lot of repetitious work - drives him nuts. He very much likes the people that own the operation though. They liked his Chef history and are looking to expand and grow their company and hopefully will use him for his creativity to help launch a few new products and less of the monotonous stuff. (he has only been there one week!)
He is reluctant to get back into the night time cooking jobs because it means he would not see the kids and would also have to sacrifice precious weekend time too.
The children have really never been so happy. They are blossoming actually. Rory is probably the best student in her class - in every subject. She is quite the little primadonna (I guess she gets this assertiveness from me??) but I love her for it. She is in charge of most situations, is making loads of friends, speaking Irish to beat the band and actually doing a little Irish dancing too! Jack is just a few weeks away from having his 4th birthday and I am madly in love with who he is becoming. He is tall - starting to loose that puppy fat and almost perfectly spoken (I mean that). He is still the most adorable cuddly little pudge that he has always been and overly affectionate too. He prefaces most questions with "excuse me, Mama" because he blathers on so much that I have instructed him to say 'excuse me' when he wants my attention or the answer to a question. He is strong, and funny, and all boy. He wants to be working and doing and building all day and all night and he already does a lot of household chores on a daily basis.
More than anything Rory and Jack LOVE LOVE being so close to Granny. They just love when I pick them up from school and we just pop over to her house for a cup of tea.
So there you have it, an update on our sort of boring existence across the pond on the Emerald Isle.
So there you have it, an update on our sort of boring existence across the pond on the Emerald Isle.
That is all the WiseWords I have for today,
WiseMóna
3 Comments:
I love your photos and your texts, you can really see, smell and sometimes taste Ireland in them.
Please, keep delighting us because me miss Ireland so much!
Your family life doesn't sound very boring to me. You are living life just like us all except you are in Ireland. My wife and I plan on moving to Galway sometime later in the year. We don't know when but we plan on selling our house, putting it on the market in April. I became a citizen through descent in 2005. My grandmother was born in Galway. Sounds very interesting and challenging. We can't wait!!! Glad we found your blog, it will give us an insight in to life in Galway. Thanks, Bill and Shari
Congrats on your 6 months there, and it goes without saying that we miss you terribly!
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