Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging. Show all posts

Monday, 8 August 2011

Anniversaries

Last month Paul and I celebrated our tenth wedding anniversary.  I know - doesn't time fly...  We celebrated the day with a number of friends and family.  Here we are cutting a cake that I made:




This cake is a copy of the middle tier of our chocolate wedding cake, although the flowers are a slightly less demure colour than they were on the original... 

It's amazing to think that we've been married for a decade.  Apart from the fact that we obviously don't look old enough (well - in our heads anyway... ) it just seems like a decade would feel longer somehow.

Not that we've been idle in the last ten years.  Anything but...  In the decade we have got married, bought our first house, finished my degree, got my first proper job, got pregnant (twice!), given birth (twice!!), bought a bigger house (necessitated by previous activities in list...), given up job...  and that's just the big things.  I think it's the little things that really pass the time.  Somewhere between your first child's first tooth appearing, and it falling out you've passed through five years - but been too busy to notice really.

Still, surely the next decade can't be so eventful...  But who knows?  In my head though - I have entitled the next decade "carry on!"  By that I mean that it probably won't be filled with so many new things (or children!), but it will be carrying on with the ones I have...

Another anniversary crept by without me even noticing.  My one year blogging anniversary passed me by at the start of this month - probably as I've been a bit tardy on the old blogging front recently...  I'm grateful to all of you who have read and commented on my blog over the past year (after all - nobody likes the thought they that are just wittering on to themselves!...)  I was wondering if you had a favourite post over the last year?  Or maybe a type of post you'd like me to write more of...  more Ikea-related poetry perhaps...  I hope the blog will continue to be of interest, maybe funny at times, encouraging etc... 

Anyway...

Carry on!

Sunday, 24 April 2011

Good things, Bad things...

Life is a never ending cycle of good things and bad things...

Sometimes these can be one and the same thing - just viewed a different way...

Take the Easter Holidays for example:

Good Things:
  • No school run (Hooray!)
  • Sunshine
  • Less plans
  • Less rushing
  • Time with family
  • Easter itself

Bad Things:    
  • Less time to myself
  • Less time for blogging (apologies - I know it's been ages)
  • Hay fever
  • Suncream wars (the familiar sequel to the Sunhat wars...)
  • Endless Creepy-crawly evictions due to warm weather, and newly phobic small boy...

I'm sure you could add more to your list...

Maybe life is a lesson in learning to focus on the positive, rather than the negative.
After all, who wants to be miserable?