so we brought in the New Year by dancing to disco, watching fireworks, both on the tv from hubby’s home town and from our front garden, where we learned there are advantages of living on a hill, all in all it was a most jolly time.
The messages arrived all evening from friends far and wide, wishing us good fortune for the year ahead. My daughter stopped serving pints long enough to send a text, and my 30 something son also let me know he was home safe and sound and wishing us well.
In the midst of the excitement there was a moment, when dancing with my hubby, I understood how much he means to me. We know this year will be challenging health wise, and we have no clue what is in store, but while he is still tall and strong and dancing all is well. We remembered how we used to love to dance in the kitchen and remarked that we hadn’t done this for a while. Then we laughed as we remembered that we hadn’t actually had a kitchen big enough to dance in for some time.
This year is already bringing exciting changes, one son will start the job of his dreams this week. I am so proud of him, he has taken himself from work he loathed, through hard study and commitment to learning, balancing family life and social life, and is about to start a whole new adventure. My daughter has finally stopped dithering about her future and will move at the end of this week to a city she has called home for at least ten years. She has found a place to live and a job, and the best news of all is that she is staying in the UK. Well at least for now she is, who knows where she will be at the end of the year.
So the blank page is open, we can begin to write our stories fresh and new. Tomorrow I will gain control of my body again, start regular walking and stop eating quite so much, the weight gained in anxious days on the hill needs to be gone. Taking control of that is the least I can do.
Where ever you are and who ever you are with I hope the year has started well, let us try together to make this January one that we will remember. I am going to be choosing to be happy, and working towards being fitter. If they are resolutions then so be it. See you tomorrow and I will tell you how I am getting along.