Small island times

The weather has certainly brightened up the past couple of days, and when the weather improves so do moods but I’m struggling not to become complacent and forget that we want to move!
I suppose people would look and think “how ideal, living on a small picturesque island, how relaxing and beautiful”, well yes and no. Skopelos is certainly beautiful and picturesque and we believed it would be ideal, a perfect place to raise Junior, where she would be happy and safe. Well she is happy but she also sees the limitations of living on an island – even at the tender age of six – and when she gets older, I think she’ll want to do more things, visit places and experience more than a small island can offer.
We want to drive through Europe this summer and junior wants to visit New York, both of which are doable, but factoring in getting over to the mainland first, increases both travelling time and cost. I guess island’s are for people who don’t really want to leave or have enough money for cost not to be a factor.
Whilst we are still here on Skopelos though, junior goes to an art class on Saturday mornings for a couple of hours and tomorrow they’re decorating eggs for Easter. Knowing that I’m vegan they’re weren’t sure how I’d feel about it, especially as junior saw how they blew the eggs out and declared she was not putting her lips on an egg. Sean said he’d blow the eggs out if I made him an omelette! Never having blown an egg, I looked it up on the internet and Sean’s interest was immediately caught when he read he could use a drill to puncture the egg. I gave him a sewing needle to use instead but being a man he insisted on using the drill – much to junior’s delight who shares his love of all things electrical. So now they’re sitting on the table waiting until tomorrow, although how many she manages to bring back in tact is anybody’s guess.