Category: self

This week is Book Week. Juniordwarf’s school is having a Book Week Parade and the kids are all encouraged to dress up as a character from their favourite book. Two years ago he wanted to be The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and I did this. Last year he was a...

After yesterday’s post about how I’m not looking after myself (I’m starting to sound like that frozen meals ad, yeah?) I got a lot of supportive comments from my friends, both real life and online. I felt very touched that people were concerned about me. They all said pretty...

The last few weeks I’ve felt like I’m two different people. I’m very busy at work and the end date is rapidly approaching. Things need to be done yesterday and somehow, the two elements of the project that I’m responsible for have both ended up needing to be finalised...

I’ve decided to do a monthly review post of where I’m up to with my 100 things to do in 2013 list.  This way the list doesn’t just become something I write at the start of the year and shove in the back of a folder never to be...

I’ve been sort-of trying to get my mind and my life back into some sort of order now that I’m back at work. I thought I was making progress in getting things back on track after the disruption of moving house last year, but then along came the festive...

A couple of weeks ago I signed up for the Heart Foundation’s Healthy Heart Challenge, which is part of the “Go Red for Women” campaign to raise awareness about heart disease in women. It’s an online challenge that starts today and runs for six weeks. Participants select an area...

When walking past a shop recently, I glanced into the window and saw a poster with this quote on it: Happiness is not a destination.It is a way of life. It sums up the attitude I’ve been trying to instil in myself. Last year I blogged several times (here,...

Today was Juniordwarf’s last day of daycare. He’s been very excited about it, and had counting down the days to his last day since before school finished last year. On the other hand, I’m feeling a little bit sad and nostalgic about it all. I shed a few tears...

I have a confession to make. I’ve crashed and burned.  It isn’t easy to commit this to writing, since last year I was so proud of myself about finally finding the spark I needed to get up and start exercising and having started to do the work I want...

Tonight I went to my first yoga class since 2006. I’ve done yoga on and off ever since I was at uni. Most recently I did pregnancy yoga classes, but that was more than five years ago. I’d been thinking about starting again for a while. What originally got...