I have been taking Yoga now for three months. I started out in the hot place where the rooms were kept at a healthy 98.6. In Texas this is a little redundant as it regularly reaches ...
Dinner club tomorrow and this month we are off to Italy. I know what I am wearing, it is a beautiful Laura Ashley that I bought twenty some odd years ago, very chic with the look of a ...
Not only do I find myself double, but triple booked! This is unforgivable and the second calendar must go… I tell my son I have to be able to take my “moving man” hat ...
The story behind the second diary is not because I kept filling up my kitchen one, it’s because I now have a study of my very own, for the first time ever. Empty nest does have ...
At the moment I am in a flap. I haven’t really settled in to the New Year yet. That happens to me and I always tell myself, “everything will be all right once we get into ...
Today we finished our Christmas cards. On checking my super organised spreadsheet from last year, it appears that we sent out 52 carefully crafted cards and received… a whopping ...
While on retreat we wrote our goals for the week. In the evenings and on walks we talked about positive thinking, faith, the Law of Attraction, beliefs, and a new book called, ” ...
Last week I had a rare experience. I managed to get away from it all, without a member of my family for a whole week. Now, I’ve gone away before but it’s usually one of ...
I had never heard of homeschooling while I was growing up and if I had I would have ignored the concept or cringed at the very idea of staying at home all day. Now I think of it, I ...
Well hello there! My name is Vivienne McNeny.
I am an empty nester exploring life as a Boomer…you could say I'm happily Boomering along!
As a homeschooling Mum I have finally quit the job of role model and mentor to my four children. I do what I want to do, eat when I feel like it, enjoy life with my blue eyed cowboy and clean my house once a month or so whether it needs it or not!
In true English form I write about the emergence of my true identity now that I can no longer hide behind my children as their Mum.