Crashed

Well on the drive home from picking Marley up from school I had a great topic idea and thought out dialogue for tonight's post... Hoses and Hormones.... I was going to explain the frustration of running out of water mid-shower to have to then in your towel and soapy hair run up the companion way onto the dock to turn the hose on and fill up the tanks when living on a boat.  I was also going to discuss the fact that my baby is ONLY 4 months old.... sometimes it feels like he has been here forever already.  Its hard to remember what life was like before him but then I recall as my body is still recovering from 9 months of creating him and then 6 hours of labour.  I think with your second especially it is very easy to forget that not long ago the latest bundle of joy just arrived! The signs are there though, my hair is still falling out, my body is still stretched and misshaped, overall I still feel and look like I had a baby!
However, tonight is going to be an early one; Jacob has not continued sleeping through the night and with the holidays approaching we are all exhausted!  I promise to revise this site soon; was rejected from Adspace so I need to really examine what is required out of blogging.... night time reading "Mom Blogging for Dummies" however tonight I don't think i'll make it past the introduction!

WELCOME!

Our new home Blew Horizon, Dockyard Bermuda

I have started this blog after a few years of contemplating doing this.  Mark and I first moved onto a boat in 2006.  The Stone Rose may she R.I.P. (at the bottom of the ocean) was an incredible first boat that really threw us into the "roughing it" lifestyle but that's a whole nother blog.  Even though our first boat had its challenges we both fell in love with the lifestyle of living on boats and so when I got pregnant in 2008 we sold the Stone Rose and upgraded to Alibi.  The first year of our daughter Marlena's life was spent on Alibi and then I contemplated writing a blog through that experience however adjusting to parenthood and then going back to work early made it impossible to commit the time.  Within a year we had outgrown Alibi and our tenants in our condo moved out so we opted for land.  Our stay on land lasted longer than we had hoped with the sudden and premature death of Mark's brother Adam and then another baby on the way.  We never stopped talking about our dream to move back onto a boat and with our family growing again we knew it was something we would have to go for.  When a boat we had been looking at a year previous became more financially available to us in 2011 we seized the day and bought her.  We moved on to our new home Blew Horizon shortly after the birth of our son Jacob Adam in the summer of 2011 and here we are.

First family picture on boat with both kids

This blogs intent is to provide a living journal of our experience raising our children on boats.  It would be great if one day it takes itself to a place where it provides a little pocket change but if it never gets there I am excited about the prospect of a record of our lifestyle for my children's children to read one day.
So please ENJOY and SHARE!!!