A new year begins…

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to those of you that I missed. :)

Fredrik returned to work today and tomorrow Leia will return to daycare (for her few hours a week). So things are quieter and getting back to normal. I hope that (and I’m certain they did) my parents had a nice visit with us. :) It was very, very sad for them to leave us. We had a fantastic 5 weeks with them here. A couple of trips to IKEA, a couple of trips to Töcksfors, a trip to Havets Hus (aquarium on the coast), and a stop at the mall in Uddevalla. And lots of shopping. :) Fun evenings with games and movies and lots of yummy holiday food.

And I’ve had Fredrik home for 3 weeks, so I miss him lots. The house is very quiet now with just me and Leia. And it will be even quieter after she returns to daycare. The house has been full of people for the last 6 weeks, and now it is empty and quiet. (Did I say that it was quiet?) Which is nice, too, I suppose.. I’d rather have quiet than a screaming child… ;)

New Year’s Resolutions?

Fredrik had one: Cut the Coke addiction.

Mine:

- Post on the blog more. Try to keep up with it better, and try to backtrack and post things that I’ve missed over the past 3-4 months. Including the remainder of the beautiful pictures from Norway. A big reason why I haven’t posted much is because I haven’t opened my old computer since Fredrik gave me the new one for my birthday. I’ve procrastinated with cleaning it off and transferring everything to the new one. And of course all of my pictures are on the old one. (Still haven’t put my Canon picture program on the new computer.) Starting in October I started going through all the pictures on the computer, to make back-ups on an external harddrive that we trust, but I haven’t looked at the computer since Fredrik got me the new one.

- Continue fighting, hopefully with success, my life-long battle with my illness (PCOS). Ever since I gave birth, the symptoms have been worse and worse, and I really want to fight my illness with all my might because I know it will make me happier, healthier and give me my life back. Fredrik bought us a Wii for Christmas, so I want to get the Wii Fitness now and start with that to help. Unfortunately I don’t have the time anymore to workout or prepare food like I did before Leia showed up, but I’m hoping to get things back on track like things were before I got pregnant.. and if my illness fights me all the way and doesn’t give in — at least I know that I tried.

- And finally, to keep in better contact with friends and family. We are lucky to have some fantastic people that care about us and we need to make sure we take the time to keep in contact with everyone. It can be difficult at times, because everyone has their own busy life to tend to, but it is definitely something that I need to commit more time to.

And I did get Leia her Lussekatt shirt.. ;)

~ by Hillary Molin on January 10, 2011.