Wry Vita - Marion Ryan's personal blog - blog designer, business coach, lawyer of attraction and good-enough mum

Fun and Laughter on the Ski Slopes

I'm just back from a few days skiing and oh what fun I've had.

No, not because of the naked German men who hang out their 'wares' in the hotel spa nor because my prowess on the slopes has noticeably increased.  So what was it made this holiday so delightful?

For a start, I think it is particularly delicious to be a mum who has managed to bequeath five days of packed lunches, grumpy wake-up calls, fruitless sock searches and twice-daily school runs to hapless husbands who phone each other, unsure about their ability to survive so long without the respite of a few nocturnal pints.

And even though between us, we've hidden tiny gifts under pillows, left words of maternal encouragement pinned to kitchen corkboards, cooked chickens, frozen casseroles and stuffed wardrobes full of clean clothes, still - like the pain of childbirth - we have already forgotten our blood, sweat and offspring by the time we hit the N8 and the road to Dublin Airport.

Let There Be Snow

I was going to blog tonight about the 10% of the workforce who changed jobs last year in Ireland (though I imagine that percentage translates to the UK as well) and their reasons for doing so.  It's so not about the money.

But instead I've been loitering with intent on the world wide web, looking up the snow reports for Walchsee ("perfect powder snow" - but they would say that, wouldn't they?), checking out the latest ski goggles and wondering if there is any hotel apartment more perfectly situated than one above an Austrian Konditorei...