New Year New Day
The first day of 2006 and I'm up at 7am after only four hours' sleep. This is not unusual for me. Sleep interferes with all the (many) things I want to do, so I'm lucky that I don't need much. In our house, it's a girl thing. My daughter is also a little livewire - didn't sleep through the night for six years, yes six years! It's just as well that she is gorgeous, otherwise I might have sent her back! She is so like me in both looks and temperament (ie quite explosive) that her nickname is 'mini-me'. My Mum thinks it's hilarious as she says it's like having Amanda Mark 2, only blonde, well dark blonde actually (or mousy if you want to wind her up!). I'm very dark, like my Mum, but my sister is fair. I don't look like my Mum or my sister.
The men in our house are very laid back and love to lounge in bed as long as possible! They are both very artistic - my husband was a commercial artist for 20 years, but, sadly, was made obsolete by both his age and his inability to do artwork on the computer. He prefers what he calls 'real' drawing. His artistic genes have been passed on to both children who are wildly creative and very talented. They would rather draw than watch TV which, needless to say, I'm very happy about.
We are a family of four - Amanda (me), Joe (my husband), Calum (my 15 year old son) and Lola (my 12 year old daughter). We have great fun together and laugh a lot which I think is very healthy. We saw the New Year in with our neighbours and several glasses of champagne. There were fireworks in the nearby park which lit up the sky and gave everything a very festive feel. It was a great way to start 2006. 2005 has been quite a hard year for us. Many of our neighbours we don't know, even though we've lived here for 14 years, not because we don't want to but because we all lead such busy lives. The houses are quite far apart (although ours isn't that big) so we tend to know the people next to us very well, as well as those neighbours who have children because we've seen them at the school gate. Now that the children are at senior school, they walk on their own which is great in one way but a little sad in another. It's just another sign of them growing up.
What will we do today? I will cook an enormous Sunday lunch and then we will watch 'It's a Wonderful Life', one of Joe's and my favourite films. In fact I bought it for Joe for Christmas. It will be a relaxing family day which will be lovely. Time together is very precious and we treasure it. Soon it will be back to the routine of school and work but today is a day just for us - fantastic!
The men in our house are very laid back and love to lounge in bed as long as possible! They are both very artistic - my husband was a commercial artist for 20 years, but, sadly, was made obsolete by both his age and his inability to do artwork on the computer. He prefers what he calls 'real' drawing. His artistic genes have been passed on to both children who are wildly creative and very talented. They would rather draw than watch TV which, needless to say, I'm very happy about.
We are a family of four - Amanda (me), Joe (my husband), Calum (my 15 year old son) and Lola (my 12 year old daughter). We have great fun together and laugh a lot which I think is very healthy. We saw the New Year in with our neighbours and several glasses of champagne. There were fireworks in the nearby park which lit up the sky and gave everything a very festive feel. It was a great way to start 2006. 2005 has been quite a hard year for us. Many of our neighbours we don't know, even though we've lived here for 14 years, not because we don't want to but because we all lead such busy lives. The houses are quite far apart (although ours isn't that big) so we tend to know the people next to us very well, as well as those neighbours who have children because we've seen them at the school gate. Now that the children are at senior school, they walk on their own which is great in one way but a little sad in another. It's just another sign of them growing up.
What will we do today? I will cook an enormous Sunday lunch and then we will watch 'It's a Wonderful Life', one of Joe's and my favourite films. In fact I bought it for Joe for Christmas. It will be a relaxing family day which will be lovely. Time together is very precious and we treasure it. Soon it will be back to the routine of school and work but today is a day just for us - fantastic!
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