Sorry

Well hello. Did you miss me?

Why haven't I been blogging? Well I chose not to.

Last year I just felt overwhelmed with stuff to do. My kids were at school full time for the first time ever. I had stuff I wanted to do. I was trying to lose weight and get healthier. I took over leading the Women's committee at my church. I started scrapbooking. Something had to give and it was you.

So how did it go? Okay. Was losing weight, my fitness improved ALOT. But I started getting foot pains until I was struggling to walk let alone exercise. The culprit, Tendinitis in 3 tendons in my foot. I've had to rest it ALOT, for months. I'm finally starting to see an improvement.

No kids at home meant lots of time to clean and declutter. I'm doing pretty good on that front except my sewing pile and recipe pile still need lots of work. We've also repainted most of our house, so it's looking good.

My husband has worked away a lot more so that's been challenging but the kids and I have coped pretty well. I think my new hobby has helped me through.

I tried scrapbooking years ago and enjoyed it, but struggled with time (& enthusiasm) when I had 3 littlies under 5. So when I went along to a friends house to do some just over a year ago, I rediscovered how much I enjoyed it. I really love the story telling (journalling) aspect of it. How you're preserving a photo and the memory of a special moment. So now I'm hooked! I've got my own scrapping room now, go off for scrapbooking evenings and weekends all with my partner in crime S. She's my dear friend who lives around the corner from me, our kids go to the same school, we attend the same church and our hubbies are good mates!

She's probably the biggest thing that has happened in my life in the last year. We've had lots of great friends but I don't think we've had any REALLY close friends since when we were first married. We talk everyday (usually 2 or 3 times a day), see each other everyday and even though we don't have everything in common, we have an awful lot. And she encourages me and makes me feel good about myself. What a great friend!

So I'm going to try blog more (can't make any promises though!), It might have a bit more scrapbooking stuff on it, because I love it! The creative element was missing in my life, I need to do artistic things to be happy!

xx V.