What will 2023 bring?!!!

 The second that ticks over from midnight to a new year isn't really celebrated here.  What makes that second so special?!  

And every year is what you make of it.  Every moment is likewise....

And here we are one week into the "New Year" already and next weekend I'll be picking my 12 yr old niece up from the airport as she comes down from Auckland for a couple of weeks!  The 3 kids up there clash, at time mightily, and Eila is an absolute animal lover and old enough to come here on her own, so she's coming down for a "holiday" (working holiday BWAHAHAHA) and everyone gets a break from each other and I gain someone of like mind for a short time!  Hopefully she won't want to go home and I'll just keep her! LOL.

Marcus and I finally got the bikes sorted out with new battery for one, after way too long not being ridden, and we gave him his first ride on the bike into town to get new WOF's on them, stopped at Mitre 10 cafe for a celebratory snack and he decided he wanted to go alone to his wee hour long job at Renwick and then home from there on his own too!!!!  THAT wasn't in the plan, he's supposed to need me riding with him a bit longer than one 30km ride to town!!!!

And he was off!!!  Without a backwards glance!  (Just as well, he may have fallen off LOL) and then again the next day from home "can I take the bike into work?"  "Do you want me to come with you?" "No, I'm OK.  See ya!"  LOL

Loving his independence!!!!  Bless my wee man child.

And yesterday was mum's birthday.  Two years since she died, so her 3rd birthday not here, altho I hadn't been able to celebrate anything with her for a while as her brain disintergrated.  I think the last Christmas with her in her own home was about 6 yrs ago now.  

I go thru patches of remembering dreams and I dream of mum a LOT.  I used to dream about her almost every night, and certainly have dreamed about her a bit again lately, 2 nights ago it was a pretty typical dream where she was "OK" again and could talk, and remember and was "normal" again.  I remember asking her in the dream, "mum, you're OK again?  You're healed?  What was it like when you couldn't talk and your brain wasn't working like that???"  and she said "I don't know, I didn't know there was anything wrong with me, I don't remember that at all!"  LOL.  It's always nice to be able to talk to her again, even if it's just in dreams.  Happy Birthday mum, I've missed you for years now, before you even died you left us, so it's nice to visit with you all the time while I'm sleeping.

I wonder if I can rename this blog.... who gives a fig about FB.... This is just my life and I'm always thankful for it and those who have been a part of it, colouring in the picture with different shades and textures and adding depth to the picture with their input.

Welcome 2023, another moment and another string of moments to make my own and colour in as I want to.