What? For me? Awwww...

Wow, I am humbled and amazed to receive an award from a fellow bush blogger.

 Thank you to Bush Govo for awarding me the Liebster Award.

I have also shamelessly ripped almost this entire post off from her site.  Which is awesome, by the way.  A very impressive piece of work and a credit to a young lady who is passionate about her job, the bush and her lifestyle.

This award is passed on from blogger to blogger.

The rules for the Liebster Award are:

• Choose 5 up and coming blogs to pass the award onto.
• They must have less than 200 followers.
• Give lots of thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to their sites.
• Post the award on your blog.
• List the bloggers you are giving the award to with links to their sites.

Now the tricky part - awarding the Liebster Award to 5 more up & coming blogs....

I may have to get back to you on that one.

Apologies

Dear Readers, I am so sorry for the huge amount of time that has passed since I last posted.  Almost 2 whole months has gone since I shared something with you and for this - I am deeply apologetic. 

So, you may ask, what hs been happening to keep me away from the computer for so long?  Well, where do I even begin?

Firstly, there was Easter.  A fairly painless event this year - thanks largely to my parents who visited and saved me from the torturous goings-on at the IL's. 

Secondly, I give quite a large amount of my time to a few local community organisations and April/May is always a busy time for us.  I am sure other wives/mothers/girlfriends/govos would appreciate that if something is going to be organised in the bush, it is the women who generally do it.  The menfolk all get together and agree to do something - but the actual doing is done by those who are most capable and that is the ladyfolk. 

And last, but certainly not least - SOMEONE ELSE HAS BEEN USING MY COMPUTER!  My lifeline to the outside world, my sanity, my dear friend, has been sullied by the touch of our grubby English backpacker.  And has he is not what you'd call blessed with brains, I had to log out of all my accounts and clear my cache, lest he stumble onto my secret identity and go shooting his big dumb mouth off to the IL's. 

I am a fairly generous person, and don't mind sharing, but I was a bit nervous about letting anyone use my computer.  I guess it's the modern equivalent of the diary I guess and I don't know that he would have the common sense to keep his mouth shut.  Nice guy, but yeah, not smart.

So, what's new with you all?  I'll try & squeeze a few more posts in, because at the end of the week we are off for a few days R & R.  Just have to survive the drive first. 

All aboard for crazy town!

OK so we had a bit of an incident here today.  Luckily I wasn't involved, because, quite frankly I've had my share of crazy for the moment.

My teenage sister-in-law (my husband's youngest sister) decided that she was leaving home today and heading to the big smoke.  So far so good.  My mother-in-law didn't agree with her decision so ordered my brother-in-law to sabotage her car.  That done, my other brother-in-law saw that the car was disabled and helpfully fixed it (now he is in the MIL bad books but that's not unusual).  MIL then hid the car keys, SIL found them. 

A stand off is continuing as MIL sits in the front seat of the car with her dog, refusing to budge, letting the dog fart and stink out the car for all eternity.  SIL is sulking on the veranda while FIL wonders who will cook his dinner.

All in all, situation normal here in crazy town.

New Year New Me

Wow.  This is it.  Starting my own blog.  My husband suggested that I needed a place to be able to vent, share, get on my high horse and mouth off - without upsetting anyone around me.  Where to do such a thing?  The internet of course!

So, here I am.  Sharing my life and my frustrations with the world.

Why the name 'Just a Wife' you might ask.  Before all you multitasking superwomen out there get your knickers in a knot - the title 'Just a Wife' is meant to be slightly sarcastic, a little tongue-in-cheek and hopefully will speak volumes to all the other women out there just like me.

See, I am in a pretty interesting situation.  Not unique by any means, but it might seem a little odd to many others out there.  I am the wife of an eldest son on a family owned and operated agricultural enterprise.  I live with my parents-in-law, in an isolated part of Australia over 1000km away from my family, more than 400km from the nearest supermarket and the closest person my age who I have anything in common with lives more than 3 hours drive away (on a dirt road).

Before I married, I had a job, hobbies, friends, my own house and I gave it all up for love.  I don't regret it for a moment - my husband is the best, most awesome man alive (better than Hugh Jackman, Brad Pitt & George Clooney all rolled into one!).  But sometimes it is really hard to go from being a real, live person to being Just a Wife.

So this blog is for the others out there like me.  Those who love their husbands and families but get a little crazy sometimes when their life takes turns that are hard to deal with.  Families are complex, dynamic and often unstable things (a bit like old explosives) and it can be hard to live with your in-laws day in and day out, removed from the 'real world' and often miles away from friends and family.

I will share my experiences with you and those of my friends (names & locations changed to protect privacy of course - because at the end of the day we still have to live with these people!).  Some will make you laugh, some will make you cry and some will make you shake your head and wonder why we just didn't pack our bags and go.  But this is my life, and for better or for worse, I chose it.  I just need to bitch about it sometimes!

Feel free to share or comment.  Pass this blog on to anyone who might benefit from it.  All those women out there who are just a wife unite! and share, learn, laugh and love with me as I share my life with you.