Another Year Come and Gone

Well, well can you believe that Christmas has already come and gone? It seems like yesterday I was celebrating Christmas with my parents as a child myself and now I have had several Christmas' with my own two beautiful children.

There are two things about the last 4 Christmas' I have missed.

1. My family
2. The Sun

1. Let me elaborate in 2007 my husband and I took the momentous decision to move our young family to the UK. Having been born in South Africa it was not an easy decision to make. Essentially for me it was much harder because I was leaving all my family behind. Family that included my mother, father, sister, brothers a niece and great niece. These are all the people I have loved and have loved me unconditionally my whole life.
We were also leaving all our friends behind. Friends with whom we had spent hundreds of hours drinking and partying and then we all started our families at more or less the same time given a few years here and there.
I was also leaving my support system, friends and family that had carried us through the trauma of loosing our first baby, people who had helped us wet the roof in our home, thrown baby showers for etc, etc. And so I could really go on feeling sorry for myself, but I refuse to be a victim of my circumstances and these circumstances were self made. But it is Christmas and it is this time of year when we are allowed to miss our loved ones. 

2. The Sun
Having been born in the Southern Hemisphere let me tell you that I know what it's like to be so hot you feel that you are melting, and with the snow in January and December this year I can tell you that I know what it's like to be so cold that you can't feel your toes, even with the central heating on. Anyway this year in particular I have missed Christmas lunch by the pool in my Boet's (brother's) garden, which is strange because my family had lunch at my sisters place, only a paddling pool for the kids. I suppose it's just how our memories work.

So here's to another year just round the corner and a toast to the sun, may it forever bring heat and light to this wonderful world of ours.

Cheers.