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Wednesday already?

This is the time of year when I consolodate.  I like this time - the weather is good, the days are just the right length, it's mid year but close enough to the end to feel like I'm on the home stretch.

I want to get down a few notes to self - so I can look back and remember some times dates and events.  I'm not so good with calendars - I tend to have them all over the place and write something here, something there and never check any of them.  I'm a bad record keeper these days.  Long gone are my days on obsession over order and neatness in the "paper" based sphere of my life.  I tend to hang loose with that stuff now - it causes me a great deal less stress - even if I sometimes forget things - I just remember I'm human and not a filing cabinet.

So - August 14, 2007 - Jim and family leave to begin their new life in Malaysia.  Jim came into our life as a family day care kid when he was 3 months old.  For a two year period from when he was 6 months old he was with us 7 days a week from 7am to 7pm.  He's now 5.  He's my little buddy - just like a little brother.  Our birthdays are four days apart - and if you believe in horoscopes we're two Virgos in a pod.  I have such an easy time with him because we are eerily similar.   From day one his Mum said to me, in her frank Chinese way - "You'll be his other Mother, it's ok in our culture, you'll be looking after him, of course you'll be his other Mother.".  This openness and understanding of the dynamic made our relationship easy.  We have become part of each other's lives - friends and extended family.  We have travelled together - to China, to Malaysia, to Singapore, to Melbourne, we've met and spent time with each other's families and a little boy has brought us all together.  It has been a wonderful experience.  Although I'll miss Jim, and Sharon and Peter, I know that the opportunities they have in Malaysia are too amazing to pass up.  And hey - I'll see them in February for Chinese New Year, and they'll be back here with us for my and Jim's birthdays next September.  See ya chops - check your mail box for a parcel!

May 24, 2007 - surgery that has already begun changing my life.

February 6, 2007 - Scott begins a new job - with his old employer working 4 days a week.  His dream job - involves reduced responsibility, 1 day off a week, and the a 5 day a week pay packet.  His suitably happy and settles in to life as a semi-part-time worker.  Having a day off a week suits him, and he's been happier and healthier since.

2007 - I make a concerted effort to get caught up and keep up with my business related paperwork.  It's going along ok.

I've been in a bit of a fug for the past twelve months or so.  But since May I've been slowly emerging.  I'm starting to feel happier, healthier and stronger.  Life is good.  I've started taking photos again, started sewing and making things, and begun going out and enjoying myself again.

posted by: blytheswideshut at August 16, 2007 00:15 | link | comments (2) |

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