Why hello there my friends; I missed you! I know it just a week but it feels like a lifetime.
The family and I have just had the most wonderful week of long summer Christmas days, seriously blessed am I.
It was chaotic and still all at the same time and I savoured every little moment. There was eating, sleeping, water ski-ing, more eating, laughing tantrums, over tiredness, more laughing more sleeping, laughing and eating. It was just divine and never have I felt so happy and content with my life.
Never. And I don’t want it to end.
I hope your Christmas when ever or where ever it was spent was just as restful and magical
So as the last post of 2012 this is what has happened , what I learnt and what is going on in my head.
Ready? Lets go.
1. Santa was good to me, he got me almost everything that was on my list but what I loved the most was the long restful days spent with my children and husband. I want more of them so many more.
2. I learnt to take nothing personally this year and that someone’s words and behaviour is not a reflection of me and what I have done but of them and themselves. I am not responsible for their actions.
3. I love to write and I have missed sitting here with you. It makes me happy. I don’t like hair on a bathroom floor mine or someone else’s. Its random I know but I wanted to even it up.
4. Husband has taken the boys camping for the night. They have a long drive. I fear long drives. My life is so perfect to me that I wait for the bubble to burst. I hug, kissed and spoke to them like it was the last one for a long time. I’m not a pessimist but I only have two fears in this life the first is to have a dysfunctional family and the second not having one at all.
5. My name is Debbie and I am a control freak. I take care of all the household administration its a running joke between husband and I that he knows nothing and would be lost if I was to go which is why he has a black book with every bill, password, bank account and insurance policy number in it. We go to get a loan do the taxes its me they speak to, he is kind of an obliging mushroom, it works for us. So over the holidays I go to the Boost juice bar. I go to place our order something he has done since we met I have never done for what ever reason and I have no idea what I’m getting for him, the kids or myself. None. I nearly had a melt down at the not knowing; what I needed to order the family. It was horrible. The confusion. The what if I get the wrong one and I can hear you saying its just a juice but its not just the juice. This is a regular running order of almost ten years and I have no idea. I felt lost. It was freaking horrible. The control freak in me was freaking out. Cold sweats where happening. The girl behind the counter was one step from call 000; I was scaring her. I told my husband who smiles and say’s welcome to my world on a much smaller scale.
6. I signed my husbands cousin up to e harmony fingers crossed he meets someone a little more him this time, the last one well she was lovely just not the right fit. Anyone looking for 35 year old ex-ringer with a child whose list the most important things in life to him as his kid, his dogs, his Toyota, his hat and his BBQ need apply. Be prepared not to be swept off your feet, he may even call you girlie but he will love you unconditionally.
7. Wishes I hadn’t eaten so much pork crackle and pavlova. I can feel my skin stretching as I type.
8. Christmas is the best time for a throw out much better than any spring clean. For every new item give one away to someone who needs it more.
9. I don’t believe in New years resolutions but all I want from 2013 is a holiday with just me and the husband. That’s it. A couple of days. I don’t think that’s asking much.
10. Completely random but just heard it on Dr Oz. Having your tubes tied (fallopian tubes) reduces your risk of the deadly ovarian cancer by up to a third. That’s goods news right but still don’t ignore any changes in your body, ever.
So that’s it my friends. I have lots in store. I want to this blog to be more than a FIFO blog, more than a mummy blog. Its going to be a good year. Its not here yet and already its good after all its a great day today.
Have a great New Years eve everyone chat tomorrow.
Stay safe please. I want you here tomorrow,
much love
xx Deb.
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