2014 is nearly half gone!

My only plan for the year was to hang in there until I could move closer to work. Mission accomplished. I need a new goal, but I'll figure that out after vacation.

Every year seems to go by crazy fast. I do my best to enjoy them to the fullest!!

Wow, it goes by faster every year!

The year is flying.

These past almost eight months have been full of change in my life, and I look back and I think, "How is it possibly that is is only July?"

My year has flown by.....one day at a time. 

I am seriously hoping July flies by too! My July is packed and well August in Texas means you are closer to September which I love! 

The year has had up's and down's. Lots of what I described as "the was the last thing I thought would happen" kind of moments. Honestly it has been a bit of a tough year in some ways. More ways that I would like. But I am going to be grateful for the good, deal with the not so good and hard and carry on.

I still have some goals to meet and honestly they are going to have to wait until August. My kids don't start school until the end of August so we have about 6 more weeks of summer left. 

We were just saying the other day that this year seems to have gone by awfully fast!  We booked something in July back in January and July seemed a long way away then.......we go to the thing we booked for in a weeks time!!  

I am shocked at how fast the year is going as well.

I have achieved quite a lot  when I think about it though. I had to clear out my loft and purge prior to having a new roof fitted,which is finished and looks great. I won't be holding my breath during heavy snow ( if we get any!) this year and the house should be much warmer this winter. I also had my bathroom ripped out and redone. I absolutely love it, but the mess during the process - I felt like weeping daily and for a good 6 weeks after the bathroom and roof were completed, a black dust settled everywhere every single day. I thought it would never stop! I had some new doors hung downstairs when my bathroom was done ( which is also downstairs so I wanted it all to match) and those took some careful prepping and painting . I am not a natural decorator so I have to prepare very carefully to get any sort of decent result.

I have repainted my office, hallway and door, my son helped me repaint the front of the house last week and I am now in the middle of purging and super-cleaning my kitchen. I have one project left for the house- the gully down the side is being dug up and new drainage pipes put in. Not a pretty project but very necessary as my ex damaged one of the pipes when he was trying to help me with a blockage a couple of years ago ,and all sorts of disgusting stuff has been slowly leaking out since then into the unground area. Yuk! That is due to be done in a couple of weeks and then I can stop bleeding my bank account dry for a while!

Considering I have had awful toothache the last 8 days I am surprised how much I have achieved recently!

Yes, it has flown! My father died very suddenly in February, and the weeks surrounding that seem to have slowed. In contrast, all other time sped up. It feels like I haven't accomplished a thing this year! I will be happy to get this year behind me so we no longer have to deal with all the sad firsts.

now I need to find some motivation and get everything finished that I meant to! 

Oh, how true. Remember when you were a child and summer vacation felt like forever?

Hugs Corinne. 

This has been how our family's year has been as well. My FIL passed of cancer at 57, my MIL's two sisters passed one of stomach cancer she was 52 and one of pneumonia she was 56. On top of that my grandmother has breast cancer, my MIL was just diagnosed with breast cancer and I was diagnosed with Melanoma (It was removed with clear borders a month ago). It feels like this year my husband and I are only able to take one day at a time. Very sad and stressful year.