Virtual Coffee {live}

Virtual Coffee...

With a grin from ear to ear...
Here I sit at last...
where I have, so many times before...

But this time I have had a year elsewhere...
A year finding my feet back by the beaches...

And today I'm making coffee and I'm hoping you all rock up here ready to have me back!

My *fave & best* blogging day has always been the one where we share a virtual virtual coffee...

Yours is the pink chair...as it always was when we sat together in the English countryside.
I'll take the old white one found on the roadside here by the beaches so many years ago, before our adventures abroad...

Let's catch up....

Ridiculous to say really...I've so missed being here...

But...
I also needed some time, good quality time in nothing but reality...real life, real family sorting, real house sorting life...

Moving a family of five 13,000 miles between England and Australia is no simple feat, we've done it a few times backwards and forwards, but this final time they were no longer lovely little munchkins of 9,7 & 2...but very much bigger lovely ones of 14, 11 & 6...

If we were really sharing a coffee in my little beach house, with the rain banging on the roof, I would tell you that children adore travel...they adore life- whatever is thrown at them- don't you agree?

I've watched our kids settle into a new life by the beaches, a life very different to the one that we lived before we moved them all abroad...because they are now very different people- they're now older, confident, more worldly and more accepting- purely through experience....

It's taken me this entire year to catch up with them...
Whilst I've been making our house a home in so many endless ways, the energy to share it all just wasn't there!
As a mother, I think you find time for yourself, and time for your own loves, only when the people you love, and who rely on you, are truly settled.
Only then can you find that important space again that you need...and that you love, that space that makes you tick and makes you smile.

My lovely family are all sorted and seriously ensconced in life back on the beaches- so here I am grinning like a mad woman, back doing what I love at last!

If we were really catching up at long, long last...I'm quite sure I'd just sit and smile at you for a bit...then I'd make you a super strong cup of something hot and toasty...and I'd ask you a box full of questions about your day...your week...your year...and then I'd just grin a little more.

And I know we'd have a giggle at my new *about me* blurb up above...
*Stylist, crafter, photographer and writer at Miss Sew & So*
All the things I've ever wanted to be...and all the things I love are up there...
I figure it's my special space...and I can be all of those things here...
I feel like I'm all of those things...

We'd have a giggle...and I hope you'd welcome me back to all of this...to sharing a weekly coffee together no matter where in the world we are...to sharing thoughts and dreams and day to day life...I hope you'd simply welcome me back to this thing we both love...blogging.

So...as I've done in the English countryside...I will of course do here....
I'll love you for taking the time for a coffee, virtual as it is...
And I'll send you off home with something from my garden and a promise from you to meet same time and same place next week...
The pink chair is always yours...

It is soooo great to be back here!
Thanks for waiting...and YES I'm still grinning like a banchee!

Melissa x

PS- Virtual Coffee, like the old days in Blighty was inspired by the lovely Amy over here