Five years later ...
It's been 5 years since I signed out of my 40's in the midst of Covid. The blog took a well needed pause but life thankfully has continued. GASP, God bless him is still married to me, I am 55, have changed jobs twice, my eldest started college, the youngest 15 and doing his junior cert and Bigfoodiemama is now Bigfoodiemenopause ! For my 50th birthday The Mad One had my entire blog printed into a book, fulfilling my life long dream of writing a book. I might not have an entire book in me but I have enough different chapters for a fullsome publication. If you asked me why I haven't written for 5 years, I guess it was more that the chapters stopped writing themselves in my head for a while. I think " the change" was partly responsible. My creativity took a bit of a nose dive but I took up gardening ( not digging , the potted plant variety!) and that seemed to scratch an itch and many evenings sitting outside in our little " mediterranean" with a glass in h...