Reflections and Intentions

I love January.  The whole year to look forward to.  A new year is like fresh cotton sheets on your bed. Scrumptious arrived last year and fitted into our family like she was always supposed to be here. That’s not to say that our family life didn’t once again return to the messy, clingy and an annoyingly repetitive pattern like bad wall paper. But saying that it was the most wonderful and rewarding time I would go back to in a heartbeat.

On a cold December morning, Truly had her nose scrunched up against the window and blew steamy swirls with her tongue. She pensively exclaimed with a little pointy finger out the window, 'look mummy, the aeroplane scratched the sky.' She amazes me with how unblemished her little mind is, yet so wise and hungry to know and accept all around her. I wish I could see my world in such literal and beautiful terms.

The excitement of Christmas shook up our sleepy bungalow. I bought a nativity set, I never thought I would.  I am not religious, but spiritual and thoughtful. I felt guilty about the general excess of our family life and the need to do something to balance out all of the sparkly parcels that arrived at the door for Truly’s frantic little fingers. Truly soon knew all the figures and the story, which quickly morphed into her own tale complete with magic fairies and play doh.

Baby Jesus was coming to our house for his birthday party. There would be cake and we would all dance the Hokey Cokey with him. TheThree Kings would come too and they would bring different coloured play doh as gifts. Mary, his mummy, would drink tea with the Angel who came down from the sky to look after everybody, and to play with the shepherd’s sheep.

So where am I going this year? Already I feel the days are going by like birds in the sky, but I hope this year I achieve something worthwhile. Truly and I love to sing 'a dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.' Anything is possible in your dreams. This year I start out on a different journey with Truly and Scrumptious by my side, a dream come true. I feel I have begun all over again, in them, and with them and so there is something more to my world than ever before. The possibilities are endless.