Hunting for bugs

Doing what they do best.

Playing Dentis

Being stuck at home after having her surgery, Anna has kept herself very busy tending to her dolly's teeth.

Marshmallows

How silly of me to think that marshmallows would simply be eaten.

Tonsils and Adenoids - Gone!

Anna had her adenotonsillectomy this week. It has been a rough week to say the least. She was so brave, even though she put up a good fight - she kicked and punched a few doctors and nurses, but was otherwise an absolute trooper.

Anna's first day of primary school

2015 Goals

It has been too long since I last updated this blog. Life for me has been a challenge over the past 24 months, and I'm finally on the other side of the mountain, this year is looking up. I seriously feel like I've come out of the woods and seeing sunshine for the first time. Which makes me a better mum, and the kids seem happier for it; they have their mum back.

So, in light of my new found health, I have some goals for 2015 - for me, for the girls and for my extended family. I know how much pressure they had been under over the past 12 months in particular, so I'm hoping this year they might get their lives back too.

I'm keeping these goals fairly simple, because let's face it, I'm still a single mother doing law.

1. Update this blog once weekly. That's fairly manageable.

2. Try to avoid winding up in hospital this year. I lost count how many times I've been admitted to hospital over the past 24 months, but from memory I would say it's a lot (my 6 monthly Botox endoscopy doesn't count, for the record!)

3. Get Anna to school on time, every day. I can't let her down.

4. I was going to set myself a goal to attend uni every day and keep up with the readings, don't leave assignments to the last minute, but all I'm going to set for myself is to commit. I am in a better position now than I was this time last year, so it couldn't possibly be as bad  this time round. The one thing that I need to promise myself is to make uni a priority. For so many reasons, I had put uni last on my priority list, and it just causes extra anxiety as a result.  If I'm going to do this, then I need to commit to it and do it right.

2015 will be a better year for us all. It won't be the perfect that I unrealistically imagine it will be, I've had a big dose of reality, so I know it will , at the very least, be better, and that's all I can hope for.