I'm alive!

Everyone but me at my house has gone to sleep, and it's only 8.45pm. Is this what married, mommy-hood is going to be like? I am both insanely bored and secretly thrilled at the outlook. Bored because, 8.45pm isn't that still prime time? And secretly thrilled because I'm now thinking of late night spa sessions, online shopping... and all the "me-time" prospects that now avail themselves to me.

So in spite of my absence (My sincerest apologies I know you all missed me dreadfully) I did manage to make it through the last two completely insane months of work my life and managed to make it to my wedding with just enough energy to utter "I do".

I've little to say about work other than I'm still recovering and this year's workload will more than likely be busier, so bring on the vodka challenges. In my job I'm in a constant state of having a split second to celebrate a milestone/ achievement only for it to be completely eclipsed by the amount of work we now have to do to chase it up. It's hard work. One day, when the stress has me popping pills with vodka at the ripe old age of 35, I'll regret it, but for now - what the hell, I live for it.

My daughter continues to be my bottomless source of joy and "silver lining", though she is becoming expensive to maintain having chewed her way through 2 of my smartphones, doing damange to my laptop and breaking my gold bracelets, chain and earrings. Lucky for her, her reserves of cuteness outweigh the costs of these measily material things. For now anyway.

I still love watching her grow. She is quite independent, refuses to eat unless she feeds herself, refuses puree'd baby food - wants grow up food, she is super chatty and especially loves being the center of attention. I already see her fiery Aries qualities. She made a few of her bigger cousins cry because she yanked them by the collar when she tried to kiss them. She obviously had too much lovin' for these poor tots. Do you, baby girl. Do you. Lol

So she is independent, social, bossy and has a penchant for expensive toys. Hmmmm. No, that doesn't remind me of anyone I know.

I'm surprisingly enjoying married life. And I'm not surprised because I was secretl  dreading it (ahem) I'm surprised because I didn't have much of an expectation of change.  We have been living together for (ahem) several years and I thought - well how different could it be? But it in it's own subtle way, it is. There is just something about being in a union that is ordained by God and  Law that brings with it an element of security, love and family, which to be perfectly honest I hadn't quite considered until just leading up to it. However, I'm well aware - we are still fresh in the game. I'm taking a pragmatic approach to marriage, I say today when we're a good 3 weeks into it, all we can really do is throw caution to the wind and pray the future is kind to us.

2011 was one hell of a year for me. I came out of it with more responsibilities at work (I'm now based in two countries) , a baby, and a husband, not to mention 2 stepsons (that's for another blog). Something tells me 2012 is going to be even crazier, and even better.

Happy New Year. Better late than never eh. lol