It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life…

Its been a year of beginnings, and endings.

The biggest beginning – the beginning of a new life – our little Bubby D. I can’t believe she is 17 weeks old already. Every day she does something new and amazing that I’d completely forgotten babies do. Today, she rolled over for the first time, back to front. Well done, Bubby D!

The ending of work for a year (in a paid employment sense). More than enough debate goes on as it is regarding the work of a stay-at-home mother, needless to say I am totally in awe of people who can stay at home full time with their kids and not go totally mental. I love my children and I love spending time with them but the thought of doing it 24/7 for the next 18 years is all a bit mindblowing…although if 2012 leads to the ending of employment through redundancy I may just get to find out what that is indeed like.

The beginning of pre-school for the Wee Man, and an amazing year of watching him grow from a wobbly, monosyllabic toddler into a confident, bouncy (rather too bouncy at times!) little boy.

The beginning of this blog, and forming new friendships on and offline. I’m hoping some of them continue and flourish in 2012. I am fairly rubbish at making friends, being of the socially inept variety of person as I am, but it would be nice to think that at least one or two of them might last!

And there are continuences too – my breastfeeding counsellor training being one of them. I have stalled a little in the last few months due to having a small baby to look after, but I’m really looking forward to getting back into it properly and helping support other women to succeed in their feeding choices, while learning new things myself. I’ve just been reading Gabrielle Palmer’s book ‘Complementary Feeding’ as part of my study and it’s certainly interesting stuff – very relevant to us too as we will be looking at introducing solids into Bubby D’s diet soon. That’s one of the first new beginnings for 2012.

My general body crapness is continuing, but it’s been good in a strange way to find out more about Ehlers Danlos and the reasons why my body is being crap – having a reason for these things somehow makes it a bit better even if there is not much that anyone can do about it all.

Next year – beginning work again, probably. Beginning a new fitness regime to try and get rid of some of the body crapness. And beginning a new chapter of family life with rapidly growing little ones (although, no plans for additional new little ones)…

So…goodbye to 2011. Fingers crossed for a good 2012!