Parent blogger time capsule

15 Jun 2011 3 Comments

by hannah1981 in Meme, Photos

I’ve been tagged by Suburban Mum to complete a meme. The challenge is to choose three things that sum up 2011 so far, and bury them in a time capsule.

So what are the three things I’d put in there?

Sleep!

The boychild will go down to sleep very well and has been sleeping through the night since 4/5 months, however this year he has developed a new and highly frustrating habit… He wakes most mornings between 4:50 and 5:15. Mr H and I don’t manage to eat dinner until ~8 due to the children’s bedtimes and Mr H getting home from work. By the time we’ve relaxed and let dinner settle we’re not heading upstairs until 10 or later. I’m someone who needs 7.5+ hours of sleep a night in order to function properly, regularly getting 6 or less means I’m finding things tough going.

Church!

For the past 9 months we’ve been worshipping in the hall while we had building work done in the church building. Mr H has been very involved in the technical PA/AV side of this and this has taken a lot of his time and energy. It has really meant that there has sometimes been little time for the family inbetween this and work. Don’t get me wrong, I love what has been happening in church, I just wish it hadn’t taken so much out of Mr H. He’s exhausted, and now he’s got some big projects on with work that are taking him out of the country more frequently. The first service back in church last Sunday was amazing. The building was packed, not just with regulars, there were quite a lot of new faces too. The worship was awesome, many of us really felt like God was affirming to us that the work we had done was the right thing to do.

Family!

Much as family time has been lacking this year, we’ve had some good times. We’ve got more into board games with the girlchild, we’re playing with lots of cars with the boychild, we’ve been out for some good walks and had lots of fun despite the tiredness. My family bring so much joy (yes, frustration as well, we’re all human!), I simply cannot imagine my life at 30 without Mr H and our amazing children.

I tag anyone who reads this who hasn’t yet done it! Most people that I know read this have either already done it, or I know have been tagged by others.

And to finish this post off I just want to share a photo of my little monsters from a day out in London in half term. We headed to the Science and Natural History museums with friends before dinner at Pizza Express where this was taken.

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