Entering the writing arena

Well, this is my first blog where I am trying to write something profound and worthwhile. Lots of thoughts go through your mind about whether I can write or not. Will I use the right language? What order should I write in, as it all seems to come out at the same time? All my ideas are in my brain now, and it's difficult to order them! Still I guess you just have to start somewhere, and write it all down. The more yu practise the easier it should get, or at least that is the theory!
So, what should I write about? I have ideas about practically everything, but should I specialise? Should I just write what is in my mind at the time? That could be anything! Oh, I don;t know, let's just see where this goes for this one, and worry about that if I continue doing this!
Well, it's raining outside again............feels a bit like being back in England! That's it, I could write a bit about our experience in moving to New Zealand, brilliant!
Ok, well a couple of years ago my partner, Lucy, mentioned that she would really like to go and live in New Zealand. I said that I would not go and live anywhere unless I had been there before. At this time I found that I had a tumour in my spinal canal, and that it would have to be removed and checked to see that it was not benign. Luckliy it wasn't, but it was enough of a shock to me to realise that we need to change our lifestyle and experince something new!
This was a lifechanging decision, because we gave up our jobs, and took to of my children (I have four) out of school and headed off on a 15 month trip to the US, Fiji, New Zealand, Ausralia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia. At the time I had no hesitation in leaving my job, as it felt like the right thing to do, and I don;t have any regrets now.
Anyway, we spen 9 months in NZ, and we loved it. It's a wonderful place, and the people are really down to earth which we like.
We, also, loved the other places we went to (I could write a book about that too......well there you go, another idea!), but to live NZ was the only option sue to age and language barriers (ask me about that separately!).
So when we got hom in Jan 08 we were pretty depressed..........home didn't seem where the heart wanted to be! We felt unsettled, and didn't want to stay. We got back into the same rut as before, as we got jobs at the same places , and the children went to school, albeit a different one up the road. However none of us felt at home.
Then out of the blue in June 08, Lucy got an e:mail inviting her for an interview at Wellington hospital. She had the interview and got the job! Blimey, what do we do now??
It was easy for us to accept that New Zealand was somewhere that we could make our future, so we quickly applied through NZ immigration for residency. Well, I say quickly, but in fact it took 6 months to get accepted, even with a job offer! (Something else to write about sometime!)
In jan 09, we were accepted by the immigration authorities, and we left England in Feb 09.
Since arriving we haven't found it easy. Yes, Lucy is in a job, but a lot of her pay seems to be deducted for tax! I haven't found a job yet, as we haven't been sure whether I should get a part-time or a full-time job, because it depends on whether we feel the children can look after themselves now a bit more or not. I have found this situation recently quite stressful, and feel that I need to find somethinng now to start to pay my way. So I have had lots of ideas as to what to, but so far not found one particular thing that I want to do. I don;t really want to work anymore, but without the rest of the family at home it can be quite lonely.
Well I suppose it's given me a bit of time to think about whether I can write anything or not, so this is my first muse!
Let's see how it goes from here!