Happy New Year

I’m a bit superstitious about New Year.  I like to have everything tidy and organised, but it doesn’t often happen.  This year I managed to get quite a bit tidied and organised but didn’t manage to get my essay finished or store away the outgrown kid’s clothes or get the girls room organised or get my hair cut or my eye brows shaped.  But I’m not worried – I’m being very calm about it all.

 … except for the essay … and felling like a hairy monkey … and the girls room … …

DAMN!! – I tried so hard!  If I keep telling myself I am calm will that make me calm eventually?  And at least I can turn some of these tasks in to New Year’s resolutions!

Taking stock of 2011

 I took a few minutes today to think about all the stuff that’s happened this year which makes me proud or grateful.

-          The baby Fairy Princess is over a year old now and doing all the cute, beautiful and funny things a toddler her age should be (I hope!).  She’s walking really confidently and often nods knowingly at us.  She loves ‘posting’ things, passing us her toys or socks and sitting in buckets/ boxes/ laundry baskets/ very small corners.  She chatters a lot and hums and best of all gives the cutest smiles and snuggles.  

-          The eldest Fairy Princess has started school and is sooo grown up.  She is doing really well with her numbers and reading.  She is very good at riding her bike and can finally skip properly.  She is a great big sister and she is just so funny!

-          My husband and I celebrated our 6^th wedding anniversary this year.  Not a hugely long time I know but I really appreciate how fab he is (although I don’t often tell him- I don’t want him to get big headed).  He has been so supportive this year especially of my studying now and also earlier in the year when I had PND and was acting like the wife from hell.  So a massive thank you to him for being so great!

-          The rest of my family are pretty amazing and supportive too.  Always there when I need them and good fun too!

-          I converted to Buddhism

-          I got a great grade on my first assignment of my masters

-          I still enjoy my job

-          Finally I have started on the egg donation journey that I had no idea about this time last year!

So all in all I have had a lot to get excited about over the last year and feel very privileged and proud of my life at the moment.

New Year’s Resolutions

-          To get the girls room tidied, organised and pretty

-          To get good grades on the rest of my uni work

-          To blog at least once a week

-          To do a journal/scrapbook with my Fairy Princesses

-          To meditate once a week

-          To exercise for 15 minutes every day and an hour 3 times a week (and lose two stone in the process)

That all seems manageable – let’s see how many I break before next week!!   

Hope you all have a fabulous and successful 2012!

Fairy Princess Mummy
xx