Friday, 31 December 2021

This year

 I do love to have a round up of the year, our biggest news was the birth of Molly, our last grandchild and only granddaughter, we have 8 grandsons. Here Molly is wearing the Christmas dress I made her, the first of many makes. 


George is now standing and walking around furniture and with his walker, he's not far off going solo, Molly is rolling everywhere and moving around the carpet. Will loves school, it been a wonderful year for this little family. Our older grandsons are all doing well, growing up strong, hopefully we will get to see more of them in 2022, we have seen our Taunton boys this year, but none of the others, distance and virus is keeping us apart. The last 2 years at this time we thought we were facing challenges with our babies, supporting youngest daughter whilst battling our own thoughts, this year, it's all good.

Both hubby and I have kept well as have most of our siblings, my older sister had surgery in November, but is healing well, getting older is no fun at all. 

It's definitely been another strange year, I am beginning to believe our old normal will not be back with us, and this is now how we will be living our lives. Being so global any infections can spread so quickly and like the Omicron variant it's here before we know it, so it's case if living and managing the risk. 

On the whole, we had a good year, we are healthy, loved and have a comfortable lifestyle, what more can we ask for. Our mad neighbour is leaving us alone, we have not had any issues since the early summer, we can hope it last for many months.

I hope your new year celebrations are what you want, it's just the 2 of us and I expect we will be in bed by 10 past midnight, we have family for a huge roast dinner on New Year's day. 

See you in 2022, with new adventures, Happy New Year, hope its healthy and happy.  

16 comments:

  1. And a happy and healthy 2022 to you, too!

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  2. Happy new year to you and yours, Marlene, and thank you for your thoughtful cards xx

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  3. Happy New Year Marlene to you and yours. I feel much the same about this year. It's had it's challenges but we made it through. Looking forward to a new one though, but not getting too excited in case it's more of the same. Here's to 2022.

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  4. Wonderful photo and Molly is so cute in her lovely Christmas dress. All the best for the New Year. Amanda x

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  5. A lovely roundup of your year and may 2022 be as good to you all.
    Briony
    x

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  6. It's been another strange year with lockdowns and restrictions in place but we still have much to be grateful for. Wishing you and your family a happy, healthy and peaceful 2022.

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  7. Happy New Year to you and your family. I feel the same as you, that this is now our new normal and we won't return to life as it was pre-pandemic, but that doesn't mean that life won't be good and that's what I'm holding on to. xx

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  8. Such a happy photo of you and hubby with Molly :)
    Wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful and healthy New Year xx

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  9. Wishing you and your family a very happy, healthy new year Marlene. I love the photo of you two with Molly 😍x

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  10. Wishing you and your family a very happy and healthy New Year.

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  11. Een heel fijn en liefdevol 2022,vanuit The Netherlands...

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  12. Wishing you and your family a Happy New Year.

    All the best Jan

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  13. I wish you a very Happy New Year.

    God bless.

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  14. Happy New Year to you and your family.

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  15. Wishing you and hubby a great 2022, Marlene :) xx

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