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New Year

Happy New Year everyone, none of us mommies can believe that another year has passed. There is a saying that goes: nowhere else is the marking of time so evident as in the life of a child... you've just found out you're pregnant and before the excitement of the actual pregnancy has worn off, birth day arrives and you bring your tiny precious bundle back home, then they start sitting, crawling, walking, then they're off to nursery school and then comes big school - and then the next thing you know, you're watching your kids bring their babies home from hospital! Its a neverending cycle and the trick is to enjoy it and never wish any time away, even the bad times, they all help shape who we are and its they way you handle things that counts. So here's to a wonderful year, whatever it may bring, may we all get to know ourselves a lot better and to remember to spend those few seconds listening to your toddler go on and on about the tiny ladybird she saw - In her life it is an huge event and maybe if we start living life like a child we will enjoy it more, relax a lot more and be a lot happier. There really is more to life than being the perfect woman...

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  1. JustineJanuary 4, 2011 at 3:42 PM

    Thank you for a lovely message and a happy new year to you too.

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