2012 bubbye

whoosh
2012
I hardly knew ye

photo from hannahcurson.blogspot.com

This is the very first year I feel no anticipation of the new year.  This year has been big in many ways. A move. (again) A baby. (so happy) A boy turning 3.  (wha?) A readjustment. (ongoing)

As they say with small children, the days are long and the years are short. 

My Greatest Hits lists feels more like the The Things That Kept Me Sane List. 

• family hugs - especially when requested by the boy

• Words With Friends

 (love/hate)

• iPad

- where've you been all my life

• local in law grandparents - solicitous, cheery, generous, helpful, solid

• Alice - the most cheerful person I know who wakes with a smile and explodes my heart.  My best girl. 

• Derby stores: bagel Thursday, animal crackers and good cheddar

• generosity and connection of siblings

• Newnham - so local, so easy, so friendly, so freaking quaint

• St Mark's playgroup Toddles

• Newnham friendly real-deal mums

• Lewis - my threenager. My mood mirror. My challenge. My golden smarty. My best boy. 

• Cousin's Butchers steak pies

• Mushroom Park - watching Lewis conquer each playground as he gets bigger and bolder

• Mark's great day rate keeping us in organic fruit and taxis

• Lewis dates - babychinos at Bills/Giraffe

• Netflix (in bed)

• The Market - for a destination, for bread, for interesting goods

• Mark- biker commuter, bring home the bacon, dedicated to our small people

• Lewis Glasgow Birthday weekend and reunion with our pals

• Number 18 bus full of Newnham grannies, taking our weary, fully loaded pram + 2 into town for 2 quid

• Becco Butterfly owl sling (where Alice spent the first 6 months of her life)

I guess when I write it all down it underscores for amazing things are. Hard sometimes. Fun usually. But very very lucky girl I am. 

I am realising -- this life is my happy ending.