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Happy New Year
I expect great things from 2009.
We plan to see my children's cousins in Cork (we saw three of them in Jan 2008), including the fifth one due in March, and Rob's cousins in Gotland (I haven't seen most of them since Linnea was 3 months old, though as they are all adults they change less than the kids do), and friends in Dublin, and various people all over the UK.
We hope to continue the Great Wellness Campaign - I was badly ill almost constantly in 2004 and 2005 and 2006 and 2007, but in 2008 I was ill in early February and late December and that was it for serious things, though the kids had a sinus infection around Easter which stopped us flying to Sweden, boo hoo - if it had been *just* me who was ill we'd still have gone, so it doesn't count as debilitating. And in fact the December illness only had me in bed a couple of days, which helped accelerate recovery but weren't essential, ie I could have stood up if I'd been alone with the kids. So I'm weller, and as a result everyone else in the family is much weller too.
Rob and I have done a lot of work on our relationship and our joint and individual mental health, and we're facing 2009 both stronger and happier as a couple than most recent years. This means, of course, that the four of us are stronger and happier as a family, too.
Rob has developed his relationship with Linnea and Emer to a level I didn't dare hope for a year ago, and I haven't sabotaged mine unduly, I think. This year I hope to get on better with Linnea, who just isn't interested in the suffocating closeness I'd like to inflict on her, which Emer thrives on and I miss. But it's obviously inflicted and suffocating as far as Linnea is concerned so that's that.
I'm thinner but also fitter, so I don't mind the thinness and am not alarmed by it. I'm pleased my heavy wool skirts fit again, in fact. And my thermal long johns.
I've been forming and developing friendships locally, but haven't been as able to travel for friends slightly further away, which is sad. But as I get used to being well I think that will be easier.
Linnea's overtly educational experiences are getting easier and easier to point to, which helps when we have remarks to deal with.
The local library closed but will reopen soon enough and meanwhile we're learning to deal with the Central one.
My qualification as a Breastfeeding Network "Breastfeeding Supporter" is being worked on, but I'm absolutely lousy at getting assignments done, so really, I dunno dunno dunno. But if I get it I can man the phone support line.
We used airplanes six times in 2008 and expect to use them 4 times in 2009, but might do something else. We'd rather get trains and may yet manage it.
We plan to see my children's cousins in Cork (we saw three of them in Jan 2008), including the fifth one due in March, and Rob's cousins in Gotland (I haven't seen most of them since Linnea was 3 months old, though as they are all adults they change less than the kids do), and friends in Dublin, and various people all over the UK.
We hope to continue the Great Wellness Campaign - I was badly ill almost constantly in 2004 and 2005 and 2006 and 2007, but in 2008 I was ill in early February and late December and that was it for serious things, though the kids had a sinus infection around Easter which stopped us flying to Sweden, boo hoo - if it had been *just* me who was ill we'd still have gone, so it doesn't count as debilitating. And in fact the December illness only had me in bed a couple of days, which helped accelerate recovery but weren't essential, ie I could have stood up if I'd been alone with the kids. So I'm weller, and as a result everyone else in the family is much weller too.
Rob and I have done a lot of work on our relationship and our joint and individual mental health, and we're facing 2009 both stronger and happier as a couple than most recent years. This means, of course, that the four of us are stronger and happier as a family, too.
Rob has developed his relationship with Linnea and Emer to a level I didn't dare hope for a year ago, and I haven't sabotaged mine unduly, I think. This year I hope to get on better with Linnea, who just isn't interested in the suffocating closeness I'd like to inflict on her, which Emer thrives on and I miss. But it's obviously inflicted and suffocating as far as Linnea is concerned so that's that.
I'm thinner but also fitter, so I don't mind the thinness and am not alarmed by it. I'm pleased my heavy wool skirts fit again, in fact. And my thermal long johns.
I've been forming and developing friendships locally, but haven't been as able to travel for friends slightly further away, which is sad. But as I get used to being well I think that will be easier.
Linnea's overtly educational experiences are getting easier and easier to point to, which helps when we have remarks to deal with.
The local library closed but will reopen soon enough and meanwhile we're learning to deal with the Central one.
My qualification as a Breastfeeding Network "Breastfeeding Supporter" is being worked on, but I'm absolutely lousy at getting assignments done, so really, I dunno dunno dunno. But if I get it I can man the phone support line.
We used airplanes six times in 2008 and expect to use them 4 times in 2009, but might do something else. We'd rather get trains and may yet manage it.