When did it become 2013???

I don’t like New Year’s very much.  It means resolutions that are invariably broken within a week, hangovers, over stretched bank accounts & credit cards & a feeling of getting so much older!

Cripes I can remember when we partied like it was –

·         1988 - Bi Centenary, World Expo

·         1993 - End of Year 12, Schoolies, underage drinking, boys

·         1994 - Why hello Uni & more & more & more alcohol, wild, wild nights clubbing & more & more & more alcohol

·         1995/1996/1997 – All a bit of a blur of assignments, exams, soccer, alcohol, part-time jobs etc

·         1996 – Australia Day Party ... meet future hubby in a drunken mess at Brisbane’s City Rowers at around 2am in the morning

·         1997 – Woot woot I’m a graduate (oh F$#! now I really have to grow up & get a proper job)

·         1998/1999 – Grown up, real job, real money, partying hard with the girls from the Ballarat Women’s Soccer Team (and boy did those girl party hard)

·         2000 – Aaaaahhhhhh the world’s going to end ... better party super hard

·         2001 – Baby No. 1 is born (parties diminish rapidly)

·         2002 – Going to the Chapel & We're Going to get Married ... massive party, massive headache for so many of our guests

·         2003 – Baby No. 2 is born

·         2004 – Baby No. 3 is born (clearly there is something wrong with the water in the Isa?)

·         2006 – Baby No. 4 is born

·         Fast forward to 2013 ... We now party like, well like ... the parents of four children who always rise with the sun! 

So this year I decided not to make any resolutions, but rather to make a few promises to myself & to my family:

1.       Learn to Love & Accept myself more

2.       Learn to accept the things that I can not change

3.       Be a better, more patient, more tolerant mother

4.       Be thankful for the few, very beautiful, very dear, very loyal friends that I have.

5.       Acknowledge that some people come into our live for but a short period of time & can & will teach us the most valuable lessons about ourselves

6.       Eat healthy, clean, unprocessed foods

7.       Take on a new sport – Mountain Biking anyone?  Yoga?

8.       Write letters to my dearest friends, telling them what they mean to me

9.       Sew, cook, garden, embroider, bushwalk, read, swim, play tennis ... enjoy doing & teaching my favourite activities with my children & for myself

10.   Look into finishing those two un finished Graduate Diplomas

I have a sneaking suspicion that 2013 is going to be a year of Love, Acceptance, Patience, Acknowledgment, Growth, Friends & Family.

I'm really looking forward to every little bit!