To note or not to note...

Do you find yourself brooding every once in a while? What sets you off? Could it be a microbit like the drudgery of routine - cook, clean, change nappies, feed, eat, sleep and whoosh where's the day gone? Or could it be a macrobit like the state of the world and where it is all heading?

Far more important, how do you get back to being your sunny self?

Each one of us has our own triggers - things that cheer us up when the day or mood is all gloom and doom. The trick is to identify what works for you - these triggers can turn out to be our best friends through life. It's all so easy when we are young and carefree. But then we grow up, forge careers, get married, have children and get oh so busy - so lost in our buzzing busy-ness that we sometimes lose track of the little things that act as our "sunshine".

The thing is that we all have our share of not so good days, so here's what I am going to do as a treat to me. Make a list called "My favourite things" and carry it with me everywhere. The next time I feel blue, I will draw out this post-it-note from the back pocket of my jeans and announce loudly "I have the POWER". With great confidence I will look down at the note and will probably end up in splits of laughter.

Yes, I did it. I sent my jeans spinning through the vortex of the washing machine and along with it my mood-lifting list.

Life's like that heehaw heehaw. So forget the list and just go with it - do the hokey pokey, do the hokey pokey, that's what it's all about!

Life redefined

Life settled, the inital marriage sharing-space-with-another-person-on-a-full-time-basis niggles resolved, we decided to follow the natural progression and have a baby. When it was all just an idea, I had no inkling that life-changing really meant LIFE CHANGING.

Baby Kee came into our world nine and a half months ago and each day since then has been new. We went through the regular sleepless nights, colicky times et al. And then all of a sudden, one fine day she smiled and hasn't stopped since. When she giggles, however bad a yike moment I may be having, its suddenly yipee yipee yipee as I join her in a fit of girlie giggles.

Naively through it all, I have been making plans - plans to exercise, to start my own business, to decorate the house we moved into a month before Kee was born, to see if I can possible develop green fingers now that we have a garden. Clap clap clap well done me.

It is slowly dawning on me that at this moment in time, my life IS being Kee's ma/mommy/mamma. I accept that and it's all chill. Kee's baby days are flying by so quickly and I love witnessing every new thing she does. The house and garden can wait. It's funtime in Kee-land. Yipeeeee!!