A new year

Happy New Year all! Hoping it is a wonderful one!

I'm a bit unfestively late with the greetings. Christmas and New Year have kept me busy with organising and illness, both of which are not my friends! Seth barely ate for over a week on the run up to Christmas, then began to slowly improve from the most nasty stomach bug. Then swine flu came to visit the family home and is still lingering. I don't feel fluey but I have had the most unusual feeling on my chest, like it's being pressed, like the air isn't quite reaching the depth of my lungs when I breath, sometimes it is worse than others. It's how mum's flu began, so I am being careful, plenty of elderberry syrup, elderflower tincture, manuka honey, lemon, ginger....any little cold/flu/sort throat warding thing. Seth's throat seems to have improved, so fingers cross we have skimmed the nasty bug.

Ok I'm blethering, isn't that what blogs are for though! Talking of blethering, Betty I stole your link to the blog background. I love gorguss, I bought one of her pieces off Etsy last spring. It still hasn't made the wall yet so that can be a thing to do this week!

I hesitated when typing hope it's a wonderful one, I have came into 2010 with such high hopes, it is the first new year I have been single in 11 years. So I felt I needed to reflect alot on making the most of my status, finding my feet and growing. Big changes in themselves. In reality the year has began differently, that snow, beautiful and doing a good job of making the days slow and easy, but how it got me down. I spent too long without someone to chatter to face to face...in an adult way. Plenty of chatter with Seth though, which is always lovely. On a more emotional and personal note two of my dear friends have had losses. The lost of a little baby growing in 1st tremester and of a grandfather who suffered a severe stroke. The heartbreak of Haiti is so unimaginable. So many helpless images, how do we manage to cut ourselves off from that reality and go about our business.
http://crafthope.com/ are selling some gorgeously crafted donations to raise funds for Haiti. I have spotted a few potential buys!

It certianly give me more to think about than what I want for 2010. This should be eveybody's year, a year of community spirit, I get the feeling we may need it and benefit greatly from it. So wishing you all a wonderful new year of community spirit.

xxx