This Morley Life...

Hello and welcome! You may know me as Karen, Kazzachezza, Morley or even Kaz. I made a smart decision quite a few years ago that I deserved to have fun and that I needed a light at the end of my tunnel, you know something to look forward to, to keep me going every day.

Even when I was a single mother on a pension, living in a housing commission house, I would STILL FIND A WAY to be able to stretch my budget and afford to get away. It might have been just for a few days, but it was still an escape and a necessary escape from reality, that I needed.

I want to share with you a story and a lesson I learnt about the importance of “holidays”, after my Grandad passed away a few years ago.

I had been looking after both he and my mother and they lived in an Aged Care Facility. I was the go to person, the one that fixed all the problems, paid all the bills, and drove them to appointments, the organiser. You know how it goes.

After my Grandad passed away, I feel into a heap, got sick, kept catching things and ended up having to see a counsellor who told me that “I was emotionally depleted”.

I had nothing left because I had looked after everyone else but me!

From a very early age I loved talking and telling stories and as I grew older I somehow became known for being able to tell a story on any subject, at any time! Over the last couple of years I found myself being child-free or you might call me “An Empty Nester”, I tell people with young children: I promise that one day you too will get your life back. I know it doesn’t feel like it right now, but you will and when you do, you will miss these days…..

Of course if you have younger children it sure feels like it is a million years away but hello… before you know it, you too will join that elite group known as the Empty Nester. Can you even fathom what that will be like?

All that time just to be you again, to do things you love, find new adventures to experience. You know what? You don’t need to give yourself permission to wait until your kids have grown for quality time. That’s right my friend, you see there is a method to my madness and I want to share with you all things Morley and exactly how I managed over the years to be able to make the time and look forward to “enjoying life” whatever your circumstances may be.

Perhaps I might even inspire you to take some time out of your own busy life and nurture your soul because let’s face it, you work hard and y