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Wow time flies!

Well this is a bit scary...I blinked and it's April 2020 and I'm nearly 41!!!  What the actual?!!

Well as you by now will know, I can find it difficult to keep things brief, so encapsulating everything that has happened since I've last posted would be difficult at best, and certainly tricky for me!  But here goes the short-as-I-can-make-it list!  Things that have happened include:

  • I am now over 40 (did I mention that already?!)
  • Baby A is NEARLY TEN
  • Baby A is also one of THREE!
  • They are too old to be called babies anymore so I will need new names :)
  • EDIT: I have new names: Moo, Roar & Cub ;)
  • Mr Big and I are still together and married over 10 years (although believe me we've had our ups and downs but somehow we cling on for another day!)
  • We have a pooch called Rhoboe
  • We moved home around 5 years ago as we needed more space
There have been many ups and downs and sadly we have lost people along the way, however right now, we are in the middle of the Covid-19 Coronavirus and I am currently writing this mid-lockdown in the UK, which puts our own losses into perspective.

So, life continues to be crazy busy.  We did finish our kitchen at our last place and we have since completely refurbished and built a new one in our new place (we have not, however, sorted the 'old kitchen' so currently I have two!  Kitchens were always going to be a theme with me ;)!)

I still have my own business and I have found my side-kick 'K' who is basically a second version of me :). We are two peas in a pod and she is the extra me it takes to hold my life together.  She has a phrase - 'we are not meant to do this parenthood as an island - it takes a whole village' - and despite my stubborn insistence that I can always 'do it all myself', she has most definitely made me see that even if you can 'do it all'  (and often I can't!) life is way better when you share it!  Laughs, tears, lumps and bumps.  Sharing it all is the magic that makes us all and holds us all together :)

I have come to realise that despite my previous 'life' in sales, life is no competition, and certainly three kids in, I am way done competing and mainly concerned with surviving!  But survival can be fun as well as necessary if you let it!  So my overriding theme of now is that it's time to let the joy back in.

And so that is where my priorities lie.  On letting in joy and actively making that choice so as to hopefully encourage more into our everyday lives.  Sounds so easy but it's harder than you might think!

Hopefully the time this pandemic gives us means more of us can stop and reflect on the joy we already have, as well as how, with little changes, we can bring more in :) 

More posts to follow in due course...



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