February already and we are still waiting for winter to start! The days are bright and sunny and very warm, the evenings are much cooler. Fortunately, we have the luxury of central heating in our villa, which is unusual for homes in Cyprus, so perhaps that is why we have not felt the cold so much. It is hard to imagine on these sunny warm days, the biting cold of England, the snow storms and the torrential rain and flooding in parts of the UK.. Sometimes I wonder why we are going back, are we mad? I guess time will tell. But right now it's what we have to do. It's time.
Our little dog Herbie will not be ready to fly until the beginning of May so we can't leave before then. However, we have started to plan the move and are looking at places to live. It's exciting and daunting and I can't wait. Patience was never my strong point!
Meanwhile here in Paphos we continue our lives. Days filled with playing, reading, talking, drawing, cooking, gardening and swimming. It's a hard life, I know....
Katie grew a pink crystal. Pretty! 
..and we tried our hands at sewing!
January has been very warm (and dry) even for Cyprus. Katie has been busy as usual. Still bursting with energy though, as demonstrated here_
We have been busy...we grew crystals!
and voila!
We are a family of three living on the island of Cyprus. We relocated to the island thee years ago from the Uk. So much has happened since we arrived here. Lots of lovely times and some not so good times too.
Katie our DD was only three when we left the North East of England and has very few memories of her early years in the UK. We had already decide early on that we were going to home educate Katie and that continued here in Cyprus. Home education has been daunting, amazing, exciting, liberating and has afforded us so much freedom as family.
We plan to return to the UK very soon and we are so excited. We are not sure where we will re-locate to yet but I would like to be fairly near to my eldest daughter Jaime who lives in Essex.
Our family and friends are almost astonished that we would want to return to the England rather than stay here in Cyprus but life here is not as idyllic as it might seem and I feel after three years it's time to move on.
The grass is always greener? Who knows?
