New Year thoughts

What a wonderful time we had over Christmas. Spending our time together with extended family in the remoteness of the Llyn Peninsula. Once again, trying to work out how we could afford to move there and live there. This wasn't helped by the house we were staying in being up for sale, it has a dairy barn that could easily be turned into a granny flat, an acre of land with an orchard, so space for a veg garden, chooks, and perhaps a pig or goat. Even locals that we spoke to were saying "put a silly offer in, their desperate for the money!" It is a stone's throw from the sea, in fact you can see the sea from nearly every upstairs window. It's about as far west as you can get in North Wales, and Luke would even be in the same class at school as his cousin! You can see I have spent alot of time thinking about it! It's good to have dreams. Stuart doesn't have enough work coming in to maintain us in a working from home set-up, so at the moment it is a no-go, but if the house is still for sale next year, who knows?

What all this dreaming has shown me though, is that our life where we are is not too bad (apart from being so close to other houses!), we have our family around us, we have the allotment, we have the chickens, and the children are able to play out unsupervised. I have to be grateful for what we have, and to enjoy each moment with family, as these times will not last forever. This is my main thought for the New Year, live in the moment with your children and cherish them dearly.

Other goals for the New Year are to be more organised (yeah, yeah, that's always on my list!), learn to crochet, learn to needle felt, and do more down the allotment with more emphasis on preserving produce.

Wishing you all a wonderful new year, full of blessings, joy, friendship and fun.