I’m leaving my current job at the end of this week. I came here 18 months ago for a three week contract, and I’m still here, so they must like me!

As I baked my farewell kitchen offering for my little team last night, I thought about how lucky I am to have worked {at this role, yes, but generally speaking too} with some amazing people during my career. Sure, not everyone became an instant or lifelong friend – although some did and one even became Bubba’s FGM – but on the whole I’ve been lucky. Very lucky.

Then my nerves kicked in. Not my cooking or baking nerves because … well because I don’t get them, cooking is my therapy! I had my Martha on and I was in one of my favourite places: the kitchen. We had music playing and my little sous chef was at my side helping. I had my four-pawed wanna-be sous chefs at my feet, just willing something {anything, please DOG} to fall from the bench into their snouts.

My nerves were about next week, when I start the next chapter in my career. I am going to work with my old CEO who I worked with previously, and we get along really well so I am not nervous about that part of it. But I am going to a new company, a huge global company filled with a phenomenal amount of new people.

I hope the new kids like me.

These thoughts came on the back of a discussion with another life long school friend yesterday afternoon. We talked about my deciding where to live for the next few years to minimise changing Bubba’s daycare, and settling into an area so that she doesn’t end up changing schools more than is absolutely necessary.

I changed schools a lot. For a number of different reasons. Although I am fine and settled in eventually and have some lovely friends from different times during my schooling, I would ideally like for Bubba to only go to one primary and one secondary school. Of course, I’d like for her to be able to spend a few months living in Italy at some stage during her primary school years when we will hopefully have a little time out from our regular lives to do that together. In saying that, when we do, she will embark on that journey know that she is going back to her school, her friends and her routine.

None of us know what life is going to throw at us, and we may end up living somewhere else in the world entirely. But for now, security is the thing I crave for us.

That, and some of the white chocolate key lime slice I made for my work pals last night!