Should I stay or should I go?

We're staying.

Although work was calling me back, it wasn't shouting loud enough for me to pay it any attention. Although our lovely house with its lovely garden was whispering tenderly, I know that both are being beautifully looked after by our model tenants. Although I find it very hard not to see friends and family in the flesh, I follow a lot of people's life minutiae via other blogs/emails and sometimes it feels like I'm there in the same sitting room with a cup of tea, putting the world to rights.

Here is the deal. We are in Suisse for at least another year. I am letting my UK nursing registration expire and I have no plans to get a job here. Which means I am officially a full-time mum (as opposed to being on a career break.) We did a lot of thinking about all this, and now that the decision has been made it all feels very good.

I'm very grateful that we don't need two incomes to make ends meet. And though a lie-in would be nice, rolling around the bed with my two gorgeous girls at 6am makes me feel like the luckiest person alive.

Another (excellent) reason to stay: if I fall out of bed the right side, I pretty much land in a bakery with dreamiest, flakiest pain au chocolat in the world.

So that means Switzerlady is here to stay, too. (Though for the record, I did consider Tooting Birdway.)